points by charcircuit 4 days ago | 0 comments
Who cares about the ABI when the current ABI has a bunch of bad issues with it. For any backwards compatibility thing there is always AI that can rewrite old code.
[–] bluGill 4 days ago
[–] charcircuit 4 days ago
You can make linking against different abi not allowed. And all the stuff you are complaining about can be handled in <24h by an AI agent (swarm).
It's just bureaucracy preventing it, not the actual work needed by people.
[–] NekkoDroid 4 days ago
The compiler vendors care. It is also the reason why C++ never actually had a GC, even if the standard had it specified (and removed it with C++23).
It is a huge pain, and quite honestly, most of the reasons I have to maintain ABI are political and thus not up for a technical discussion, but I still have to do it.