Thanks for the link, interesting skim-read. I thought passing template instantiations over an ABI boundary was generally discouraged and thought to be asking f

Thanks for the link, interesting skim-read. I thought passing template instantiations over an ABI boundary was generally discouraged and thought to be asking for trouble. I guess this isn't really at odds with what the paper is saying though - it could still be that a lot of people are doing so. edit Thinking about Hyrum's Law, [0] mentioned in the article, makes me think perhaps there was an upside to Java firmly refusing to support any kind of ahead-of-time compilation for so long. It fully closed the door on any funny business distributing Java packages as brittle precompiled native-code blobs, ensuring the bytecode format remained the way that Java packages were distributed, presumably avoiding some fraction of the issues C++ now faces. Of course, Java still has backward-compatibility obligations, but unlike in C++ they align pretty well with API compatibility, if I understand things correctly. [0] https://www.hyrumslaw.com/ https://www.hyrumslaw.com/