Comment by perching_aix
1 year ago
sure, i get the joke, i just don't like it. it's the same story as browsers. proprietary extensions in the name of progress because technically it's allowed, but also unimplemented standardized features galore, necessitating polyfill libraries and frequent checking of support matrices.
it's just sprawl with popular support.
It is very different. A web browser is a (almost) fully self contained environment. Same with something like JAVA. On the other hand a standard C or C++ compiler+runtime has (by design) very little features. Anything beyond trivial programs has to reach to platform specific features. Even POSIX is often not enough.
not sure i'm following? i was referring exactly to those "few" language features, e.g.: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support