cpp.chat
auto this_episode = episode<65> {
.title =
"We Almost Always Get the Default Wrong",
/*
This week we chat with Vittorio Romeo about the pros and cons of backwards compatibility in C++, and his proposal to get the best of both worlds: Epochs.
As well as language compatibility, we also discuss ABI compatibility - why breaking these things is such a problem, but how not breaking them is increasingly becoming a problem.
We also, finally, get an answer to the age of question of, "how many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?"
*/
.links = {
"Vittorio's CppCon talk on epochs",
"p1881 - The Epochs Proposal", /* Epochs: a backward-compatible language evolution mechanism */
"p1863 - ABI Break", /* Titus Winters' paper on the ABI compatibility issue */
"SPECS" /* A Modest Proposal: C++ Resyntaxed */
},
.tags = { "C++", "C++23", "Epochs", "Rust" }
};
