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C++ is only backwards compatible within the standardised versions. Before then, the library story was particularly unpleasant. Try building something written be

by mathw 9y ago

C++ is only backwards compatible within the standardised versions. Before then, the library story was particularly unpleasant. Try building something written before C++98 on a modern compiler... Of course, C++98 was 20 years ago so that's probably okay!

fnl 9y ago
Good point - there we have our margin for exceptional language stability: ~20 years, set by both Java and C++. I guess Go v1 still needs a few more years to even be half that old... :-)