Comment by mcdeltat
9 hours ago
Half-serious reason: because with each C++ version, we seem to get less and less what we want and more and more inefficiency. In terms of language design and compiler implementation. Are we even at feature-completeness for C++20 on major compilers yet? (In an actually usable bug-free way, not an on-paper "completion".)
gcc seems to have full C++20, almost everything in 23 and and implemented reflection for 26 which is probably the only thing anyone cares about in 26.
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support.html
Funny how gcc seems to be the top dog now, what happened to clang? Thought their codebase was supposed to be easier and more pleasant to work with? Or maybe just more hardcore compiler devs work on gcc?
The compiler design is definitely becoming more complicated but the language design has become progressively more efficient and nicer to use. I’ve been using C++20 for a long time in production; it has been problem-free for years at this point. It is not strictly complete, e.g. modules still aren’t usable, but you don’t need to wait for that to use it.
Even C++23 is largely usable at this point, though there are still gaps for some features.