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I think he has this about right. The project I contribute to (and no, I'm not a massive contributor) is LibreOffice and it is a C++ codebase. It has a decent build system that is easy for anyone to run out of the box. It uses modern C++17+ code, and though it has a lot of legacy code, it is being constantly modified by people like Noel Grandin via clang plugins (along with a lot of manual effort).

This code was originally developed in the late 1980s.

A good packaging tool would have helped a lot.

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umanwizard 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm stoked to hear they're on C++17 now.

When I contributed to LibreOffice (GSoC 2012) they were still on C++03 !

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badmintonbaseba 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, can't really blame them in 2012. Especially that C++11 did bring an ABI break. Looks like they keep it fresh, although C++17 is getting a bit dated. Migration from C++17 to 20 or even 23 is probably a breeze though compared to migrating 03 to 11.

	▲	umanwizard an hour ago \| parent [-]
		IIRC it wasn't just the ABI break that was a problem, it was the fact that they wanted to build on systems that didn't have a C++11-compliant compiler available yet.