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Scott Myers, author of the extremely popular Effective C++ explainers, gave up on the language because of its churn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWA1DuvCnQ




C++ has issues with becoming more bloated and complicated but it does not have issues with having existing code breaking due to these changes (aside perhaps some very edgy edge cases).


This video is eleven years old. Contemporary C++ is very nice language, the only thing that I miss is a standalone REPL.

But, I think, current code editors can be viewed as same thing.




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