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jonstewart 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Type resolution redesign, with language changes to...

The C++ standards committee’s antiquated reliance on compiler “vendors” holds it back. They should adopt maintenance of clang and bless it as the reference compiler.

pjmlp 4 months ago [–]

And you will be the one telling the losers that their compiler, operating systems and OS doesn't count?

By the way this applies to the C language so beloved on this corner as well.

As it does to COBOL, Fortran, Ada and JS (ECMA is not much different from ISO).

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