C++ as a Live-at-Head Language

Recommended whenever versioning, semver, monorepos and backward compatibility are debated, for its nuanced treatment of dependencies.

Titus Winters' CppCon 2017 talk argues for C++ and Google's Abseil to be maintained as a live at head language, relying on testing and automated tooling rather than never changing or promising no compatibility. It covers Hyrum's law and the limits of semantic versioning.