> Realizing the spec for C++23 is about two-and-some-change-times the length of the King James Bible has really reframed my thinking on this language.
I wonder how much shorter the spec for a radically simplified version of C++ -- say, one that zero-initializes everything, and has no default constructors ("not writing a constructor raises an error" or something) -- would be? 5% 50? 95...?
I wonder how much shorter the spec for a radically simplified version of C++ -- say, one that zero-initializes everything, and has no default constructors ("not writing a constructor raises an error" or something) -- would be? 5% 50? 95...?