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> But you can deprecate and remove old features without causing a decade of misery like Python did. You just need good language support for knowing which version of the language a given file is targeting, good static typing support, and good automated migration tooling. None of those is rocket science.

That's way easier to do in a naturally statically-typed language though.




Yes, which C++ is.




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