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Re:Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ by pjmlp on Friday August 01, 2025 @07:18AM (#44755317)
I can write C++98 or C++11 code that will fail in a C++23 compiler, because C++ also isn't 100% backwards compatible.
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Re:Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ by justcuriousab on Friday August 01, 2025 @09:39AM (#44756672)
But the changes required are generally significantly smaller and less frequent, right?
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Re:Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ by pjmlp on Friday August 01, 2025 @11:06AM (#44757909)
If the build breaks when changing the value of -std= (or equivalent), it hardly matters how big it is.
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