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andyg_blogtoday at 2:50 PM1 replyview on HN

It doesn't, and FWIW the article says that. A meta note: ABI stability is a holy war inside the C++ community. Those against it argue that it's holding back real language evolution. Herb Sutter is even working on his own C++ offshoot that shows what could be.


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Mond_today at 2:57 PM

Afaik Herb Sutter largely stopped working on Cppfront a few months ago, and was never quite supposed to be a real thing, just a personal playground (or so Sutter claims at this point, anyway).

Afaik Carbon is at this point the only attempt at a successor language that's still going?

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