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The C++ Standard Library Has Been Walking Itself Back for Fifteen Years, and the Receipts Are Public

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-06-04 Cached

A detailed catalogue of C++ standard library features that have been formally deprecated, informally discouraged, or are effectively broken but cannot be fixed due to ABI constraints, spanning from C++11 to C++26. The article argues a consistent pattern of the C++ committee shipping replacements for its own features, including a benchmark showing 58x P99 latency difference between Rust and C++ standard library containers.

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