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Non-goals Section of "P2137R0 Goals and priorities for C++"
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2. Non-goals

There are common or expected goals of many programming languages that we explicitly call out as non-goals for the C++ language from our perspective. That doesn’t make these things bad in any way, but reflects the fact that they do not provide meaningful value to us and come with serious costs and/or risks.

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2.1 Stable language and library ABI

2.2 Backwards or forwards compatibility

2.3 Legacy compiled libraries without source code or ability to rebuild

2.4 Support for existing compilation and linking models

via: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p2137r0.html#non-goals

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