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2 posts tagged #abseil.
Boost and Abseil start deleting their C++14 shims
Two release notes nine days apart point the same way. Boost 1.92 tells Heap and Lockfree users that C++14 support ends here, and Abseil's August LTS deprecates absl::void_t in favour of the standard one. Both are removing code that only ever existed because C++17 was not yet safe to assume.
Could C++ handle an ABI break? The 2026 case
Two pieces dropped in the same week: Luis Caro Campos' CppCon 2025 talk arguing package managers make ABI breaks manageable, and an HFT University article claiming a 58x P99 latency gap between Rust's and C++'s stdlib. The ABI debate is back. Here is what both sides are saying, and what C++26 shipped despite the constraint.