cppfront (Herb Sutter's idea in CppCon)

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On Sunday, 13 November 2022 at 17:14:15 UTC, XavierAP wrote:
> Anyone watched it already? What do you think?
>
> https://youtu.be/ELeZAKCN4tY?t=22m05s
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> https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront
>
> Quite an origial idea, while at the same time it looks 
> partially self-defeating in terms of defending C++ (against 
> competition from Rust, which seems to be the motivation).
>
> I'm particularly surprised (to be honest, put off) by Herb's 
> choice to make declarations in this new language of his 
> unnecessarily different from C++ in order to make them look 
> like Rust.

and the Rust marketing machine cogs turn once more...Rust did not 
invent that syntax yet people now see it and think of Rust.

I think this approach can work for C++. I really like C++ (post 
C++17) and want to see it improve, same as I really like D and 
would love to see it take off.