Comment by dillon

My naive opinion is a commitment to not break the ABI is a good thing not just for everyone else but for C++ as well. Languages like C#, Swift and Python (maybe even Rust?) have tools to integrate with C++ fairly deeply and cleanly. If C++ commits to being stable enough then there won’t be a reason to rewrite some amount of C++ into something else. It’s not a surprise that big tech is trying to move away from C++ and that’s not necessarily bad and remaining stable means the transition isn’t rushed. In the meantime people who enjoy and excel at writing C++ still can. Just seems like an overall positive thing to commit to.