Cppfront : A new syntax for C++

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Saturday, 17 September 2022 at 14:57:40 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> With Val, Carbon and now Cppfront coming out of the C++ 
> community itself, we are at an inflection point, I bet C++26 
> might be the latest big revision.

I don't know. I think C++ has become fairly well-rounded now that 
clang is catching up on C++20. At this point it will take a while 
for the C++ community to make good use of C++'s take on 
coroutines and concepts. It would probably be a bad idea to 
continue to push in more big features. Some smaller ones like 
SIMD are missing still. But in the longer term I think we will 
see more standardized hardware oriented features related to 
parallelism, co-processors etc. I suspect Intel and AMD will have 
to do something to ensure their own relevance in the long term, 
and C/C++ is where they can make software "hardware dependent". 
So in that sense C/C++ has a guaranteed long life span. System 
programming isn't just market driven, it is also hardware driven.