trenki(16:02:00)
hi Accidental, is it already that time?
trenki(16:01:26)
i agree it would help if things were compulsory to call your compiler C25 compatible.. on the otherside noone will deny u to use an old version, so no loosers there
zoner(15:49:44)
for example you could make a C25 next year that makes all those optional things compulsory. BAM, C25 will become an actually usable standard
zoner(15:45:48)
and then, once everyone is using that mega-thing, you only need to worry about targetting mega-thing.
zoner(15:45:17)
but the trick is that those winning things basically merged all the competing standards into one package so everything is backward compat
zoner(15:44:48)
that is a classic and funny XKCD, but in some cases, an all-encompassing standard has actually worked to fix the problem of disparate competing things