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It's a statement of opinion. I think attempting to use a language without a standard causes problems that can be avoided by using one with a standard. As evidenced in this exact post, the author spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out if the nightly, devel or production versions of the complier were implicated.

He wasn't even able to fully test a theory because he relied on a feature that wasn't even available in older compilers in a completely unrelated system.

So, if you want to ignore these costs, that's fine, I'm not prescribing your actions for you, just sharing an opinion. Do you follow?




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