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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:293854 Archived-At: >> (Not that that's necessarily a deal breaker.) > Exactly. GCC already needs a C++ compiler to build, and so does GDB. > I see no problem requiring that for Emacs I think that would be a Good Thing, independent of Qt. At least from my experience, using C++ can make it a lot easier to structure large code bases, and thus make them more easily comprehendable. Independently of what one thinks about the language itself :-). But maybe I'm biased because I've been using C++ in commercial settings a lot, in large projects, and for a very long time. I'd be interested to hear what other contributors think about this.