[Python-Dev] Re: How about using modern C++ in development of CPython ?

On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 19:45:49 +0300 Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev python-dev@python.org wrote:

How does C++ fare in binary compatibility? Last time I checked it out (about 10 years ago), there was completely none, every compiler's ABI was a black box without any guarantees whatsoever. For any software that's going to dynamically link and exchange binary types with other independently produced software, that's a deal breaker.

That depends if you use C++ internally or expose C++ bits in the public API. If you only use C++ internally, binary compatibility is presumably less of an issue.

Regards

Antoine.