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I'm not saying it's a bug. I'm saying that backwards compatibility means that you still have to deal with all of the historic flaws of the language today. The

I'm not saying it's a bug. I'm saying that backwards compatibility means that you still have to deal with all of the historic flaws of the language today. The article is indeed still relevant.

UncleMeat 7y ago
But that’s true for literally everything. If you have a cpp code base and are building new stuff in rust to interop then you still have legacy cpp code even though rust has fewer problems.
- KptMarchewa 7y ago
  Not really. Legacy stuff can be contained. For example, you could specify language version level in file and it would disable removed/deprecated stuff.
  - UncleMeat 7y ago
    Linters can prevent you from using outdated C++ constructs with ease.