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Episode 65: We Almost Always Get the Default Wrong

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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?" Special Guest: Vittorio Romeo. Links: Vittorio's CppCon talk on epochsp1881 - The Epochs Proposal — Epochs: a backward-compatible language evolution mechanismp1863 - ABI Break — Titus Winters' paper on the ABI compatibility issueSPECS — A Modest Proposal: C++ Resyntaxed

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