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Should C++ be deprecated?

Should C++ be deprecated?

Posted Sep 23, 2025 8:18 UTC (Tue) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Should C++ be deprecated? by marcH
Parent article: Comparing Rust to Carbon

For some regulated processes, the compliance process does not care about the supplier at all. Instead, we have to show that every line of code available to the build system is (a) approved by a named employee of the company using the code, and (b) that there is a process to ensure that no changes are made to that code without a named employee of the company using the code approving it. This implies that when we update a dependency, we're having to take a diff between the two versions, and audit the changes line-by-line as well as in context, just as you do for new code from within the company.

And 100 small libraries does not have to imply 100 suppliers - Qt, for example, is 59 libraries from one supplier. And because it's 59 libraries, instead of having to review all of Qt if we pull it into the regulated system, we only have to review the Qt libraries we use - maybe 2 or 3, instead of 59.


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