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Installed Linux on a new laptop yesterday, and needed to find a USB stick in a dusty drawer. The stick previously had Arch Linux Installer 2021 on it! I can't think of any other uses for the device these days.

Is there any relationship between language adoption and the size of its standard library? These days it seems completely orthogonal, but early Java adopters spoke highly of the collections library compared with C++. Maybe it's the widespread availability of package managers?

C++ no longer considers trivial infinite loops to be undefined behaviour! https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p2809r3.html Spotted in the release notes for the latest clang.