alt Hacker News"Breaking ABI" isn't an issue unless you can't compile your code anymore. It's pathetic that C++ has been so hamstrung over ABI that we're willing to stop improving.
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knorker • today at 12:51 PM
Not everyone works at Google and builds all binaries from scratch from a monorepo every time. And even then, maybe even Google doesn't rebuild libstdc++ as part of this.
GNURadio consistently uses pimpl for blocks, as I understand it mainly for ABI.
> willing to stop improving.
I think that dismissing it like that shows a naive understanding of execution environments, binary interface design, and in general systems software engineering.
Unfortunately I have some customers of my library that won't recompile. Hard to blame them because it is safety critical and needs recertification. In just glad the certification process is willing to not recertify my code when I change it