Oh no, it really is that bad. You haven't lived until you've root-caused a ref cycle 3 libraries deep in a 200kloc+ codebase. This problem also isn't exclusiv

Oh no, it really is that bad. You haven't lived until you've root-caused a ref cycle 3 libraries deep in a 200kloc+ codebase. This problem also isn't exclusive to C++, I've had nasty libraries in Java add things to the root set silently to the same effect.