> A lot of the "We're ABI stable" claims in C and C++ are "We daren't change anything or stuff breaks" which isn't so much an ABI as it is paralysis For the C+

> A lot of the "We're ABI stable" claims in C and C++ are "We daren't change anything or stuff breaks" which isn't so much an ABI as it is paralysis For the C++ standary library maybe, but for pretty much all others which provide ABI compatibility it's a concious and properly followed decision.