Lightning Talk: Embrace Leaky Abstractions in C++
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Claim: all abstractions are leaky and that reality shows it — numbers evolve over millennia (zero, division, imaginary numbers appear centuries later), so even core abstractions betray edges. C++ itself is an abstraction that can leak. Advice: invest effort to make global abstractions as watertight as practical, but for code-owned, local layers keep local abstractions shallow, accept leakage, and prefer simple, debuggable interfaces rather than deep opaque stacks.
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