Help, I've learned entirely too much about the C and C++ specs today: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/129mz8z/comment/jepm6px
Apparently practically nobody writes standards-conforming C/C++? After years of seeing arguments about standards, and how important they are -- I now learn that virtually every C/C++ compiler in existence just doesn't conform to the standards?
Doesn't that just mean that *practically* there isn't really a thing as a singular “C or C++ language”? There are different C/C++ *dialects*, each of which does things differently in different places? I don't like thisssssss.
@yosh It's a consequence of the language being like a billion years old.
The LISP compilers have this too, but a dev notices less because LISP itself is such a flexible language that if your compiler's weird, you can usually macro your way into it working however you want.
