Am Freitag, dem 08.05.2026 um 20:06 +0200 schrieb Arsen Arsenović via Gcc: > Christopher Bazley <[email protected]> writes: > ... > > > Lastly, some C programmers are put off contributing to C++ > > codebases. I don't know how common the converse is. > > Given that gcc is already in C++, it seems that that bridge was burned.
Sadly this is true, once you add complexity, it is much more difficult to get rid of it again. Entropy... Luckily, a large part of gcc is still quite C-like, but I also wonder sometimes whether I should focus my time elsewhere given the trends. Best, Martin
