3 ms·
If modules ever happen, wow, C++ is going to feel like a whole new language. I remember large Pascal codebases compiling in as little time as it took to press t
by astrodust 9y ago
If modules ever happen, wow, C++ is going to feel like a whole new language. I remember large Pascal codebases compiling in as little time as it took to press the key, and this was in the era of computers with mere megabytes of memory.
Turbo C++ was never as "turbo" as Turbo Pascal.
- pjmlp 9y agoThey already happened, kind of. You can get Visual C++ with support for them. clang has support, but the old style ones Currently they are already a TS targeted for C++20.
- fasquoika 9y agoThat's probably not just modules though. Pascal, being one of Niklaus Wirth's languages, was specifically designed to be easy to compile, generally not even requiring building an AST (though a particular compiler still might, especially of it added extensions to the language).