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I thought modules would be modern C++ now? Am I missing something?

It's so modern (C++20), it's not actually implemented fully by all compilers yet.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support#cpp20

It is already good enough on Visual C++.

Such is the price for an ISO language with multiple implementations.

I tried but couldn't get modules working, personally. The various sites online I found differed in how they work in the first place.

I couldn't find what the actual state of modules are in Clang.

Here, https://blog.ecosta.dev/en/tech/cpp-modules-with-clang

That lengthy blog post is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with C++. Using modules should be a trivial part of the language. Instead, we have to take a detour via historical Objective-C (a language already superseded) and there are enough caveats to make a lawyer blush.

Some languages care to keep 30 years of code compiling, regardless of the new shinny features.

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