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posting about surprising behavior in C++ really does fill your mentions with the full gamut from the sympathetic "wow yeah that's cursed as hell" all the way to the self-righteous "this is the logical outcome of the moving parts involved, why on earth would you expect anything different?" as though i'm the one at fault somehow
@luna the other big group is the "I'm going to cite an obscure technical reason why this broken feature made sense in an obsolete computing environment, as if things like this must never change"
@cliffle my kingdom for epochs allowing them to cut some of the baggage loose, but alas
@luna yeah, I really feel like that would give the languages significant room to breathe and reflect.
@luna @cliffle You've probably read it, but this blog post that advances the thesis that Carbon is an attempt at "What if C++, but you're not philosophically prohibited from making it better" makes it seem pretty interesting.
@RAOF @luna I'm more of a Circle fan but any progress is great. (https://www.circle-lang.org/)
@jfbastien @luna at least we can agree that we're probably on a base-2 machine!
