# Explicitly spelling out the lack of stability for the C++ API in the Developer Policy?

**URL:** <https://discourse.llvm.org/t/explicitly-spelling-out-the-lack-of-stability-for-the-c-api-in-the-developer-policy/55952>\
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**Created:** [July 22, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://discourse.llvm.org/t/explicitly-spelling-out-the-lack-of-stability-for-the-c-api-in-the-developer-policy/55952 "2020-07-22T00:16:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Varun\_Gandhi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Varun\_Gandhi](https://discourse.llvm.org/u/Varun_Gandhi)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://discourse.llvm.org/t/explicitly-spelling-out-the-lack-of-stability-for-the-c-api-in-the-developer-policy/55952/1 "2020-07-22T00:16:37Z")

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The Developer Policy document ([https://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html](https://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html)) contains a Section “C API Changes”. There is no corresponding section for C++ API Changes. LLVM is somewhat different from most libraries in that the main language is C++ but the C++ API is not guaranteed to be stable in any shape or form from what I understand.

I think it would be useful to have a “C++ API Changes” section to Developer Policy spelling this out. Copying the style of the C API Changes section, it could look something like:

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