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I think so? Modern c++ (c++11) came 13 years after c++98. Rust has been released for close to or longer than that depending on your definition of released.

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Note that while C++98, the first standard came out in 1998, the first public release of C++ was in 1985, so it's more like 26 years

Yeah, I remember looking at C++ sometime in the 80s. If memory does not evade me I think it was preprocessor back then.

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