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The two factions of C++

The dream of a single dialect-free C++ has probably been dead for many years, anyway.

The infamous Prague ABI-vote happened (tl;dr: “C++23 will not break ABI, it’s unclear if it ever will.”), Google supposedly significantly lowered its participation in the C++ development process, and instead started to work on their own C++ successor language. I don’t know about you, but if I were to look at all of this as an outsider, it sure would look as if C++ is basically falling apart, and as if a vast amount of people lost faith in the ability of C++’s committee to somehow stay on top of this. Any C++ that sits deployed on pet-type servers, to the point that spinning it up anywhere else would take an engineer a full month just to figure out all of the implicit dependencies, configs, and environment variables.

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