Cppfront : A new syntax for C++

[Paulo Pinto]

On Monday, 19 September 2022 at 06:44:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 September 2022 at 15:16:20 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
>> Then I skimmed through Sutters CppFront presentation and 
>> quickly realized that it doesn't help much at all.
>
> It is just an experiment in the initial stage, clearly quite 
> personal at this point.
>
> If he gets arenas right then that could be a significant 
> improvement. Enough to get  some adoption.
>
>> All this time spent on trying "fix" C++, think what you could 
>> have done with a new language or an existing sane one.
>
> People create new languages all the time, most die off, 
> stagnates and simply fail to reach critical mass.
>
>> What's good is that the world has moved on and there are 
>> plenty of alternatives and more a popping up all the time.
>
> The alternatives are most likely competing with each other and 
> to a lesser extent affecting C++ in the short term.
>
> Many alternatives make it harder to build a competing 
> eco-system. So it isn’t obvious that this is a disadvantage for 
> C++. If there was a single strong contender for 
> hardware-oriented programming then it might hurt C++, but right 
> now there is none.

Other than C that is.

And eventually everyone sending patches to the Linux kernel, 
might as well brush up their Rust skills.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-rust-may-make-it-into-the-next-linux-kernel-after-all/