But, what I have realized steadily is that no matter how much I agitate and evangelize and etc. My marbles are all still there, I haven’t been bought out, and the only standard library I’m working on is my own, locked away in a private repository on a git server in some RAID storage somewhere. (Un?)Fortunately, none of that has happened. Or maybe I’ve just finally lost my marbles and we can all start ignoring everything I write! Should it not be utterly destroyed and routed from this earth? Is it not the anti-human entity that I claimed it was in my last article? Could it be that I was infected by Big Business™ and Big MoneyⓇ and now I’m here to shill out for ABI Stability? Perhaps I’ve on-the-low joined a standard library effort and I’m here as a psychological operation to condition everyone to believing that ABI is good. But, if I’ve got such a violent hatred for ABI Stability and all of its implications, My last article on the subject of ABI - spookily titled “Binary Banshees and Digital Demons” - also displayed how implementers not only back-change the standard library to fit the standard (and not the other way around) when they can get away with it, but also that occasionally threaten the existence of newly introduced features using ABI as a cudgel. Not only is Jason 110% thoroughly correct in his take, I deeply and fervently agree with him. After that first Firebrand of an article on Application Binary Interface (ABI) Stability, I’m not sure anyone expected this to be the title of the next one, huh? It seems especially bad, given this title is in direct contradiction to a wildly popular C++ Weekly Jason Turner did on the exact same subject:
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