alt Hacker NewsI think Rust has shown a way to remove deprecated interfaces while retaining back compat - automated tooling to migrate to the next version and give a few versions for a deprecated interfaces to stick around at the source level.
I think Rust has shown a way to remove deprecated interfaces while retaining back compat - automated tooling to migrate to the next version and give a few versions for a deprecated interfaces to stick around at the source level.
C++ almost never removes features because of the ABI compatibility guarantees. Programs compiled with older versions of the standard can be linked against newer versions.
This is allegedly because in the 80s companies would write software, fire the programmers, and throw the source code away once it compiled.