Cppfront : A new syntax for C++

[Paulo Pinto]

On Saturday, 17 September 2022 at 22:27:32 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> 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.

Clang catching up, that is news to me, specially in what concerns 
modules.

Herb Sutter clearly address the issues the need to fix C and C++ 
due to US  new cyber security bill where it explicitly calls out 
for software no longer being written in C and C++, unless there 
is no other option.

Eventually using unsafe languages will require clearance from a 
cyber security government agency.