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It was breaking enough for the Linux kernel, and the money Google sponsored to the effort remove them,

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kills-The-VLA

Breaking changes are breaking changes, even if it is only fixing a comma, someone has to spend part of their time making it compile again, which many times maps to actual money for people working at a company, their salary mapped into hours.



> Breaking changes are breaking changes,

No disagreement there, but the context ITT was specifically about huge breaking changes. I consider those breaking changes, but not necessarily huge ones.




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