You are right. The article does acknowledge this, though. https://thephd.dev/to-save-c-we-must-save-abi-fixing-c-function-abi#what-i%E2%80%99ve-proposed-here-d

You are right. The article does acknowledge this, though. https://thephd.dev/to-save-c-we-must-save-abi-fixing-c-function-abi#what-i%E2%80%99ve-proposed-here-does-not-fix-all-scenarios-some-of-them https://thephd.dev/to-save-c-we-must-save-abi-fixing-c-funct... The author then argues that it is at least a step forward: > For those of us in large ecosystems who have to write plugins or play nice with other applications and system libraries, we’re generally the last to get the benefits. But, at least we’ll finally have the chance to have that discussion with our communities, rather than just being outright denied the opportunity before Day 0.