A superset of C++ would be unwise: same issues as those C++ inherited from C! I imagine something similar to CPY could be created for different domains like: -

A superset of C++ would be unwise: same issues as those C++ inherited from C! I imagine something similar to CPY could be created for different domains like: - Pure functional style (Haskell subset that is usable from C++) - GC'd higher level gluing code (calls C++ but maybe not necessarily callable from it) Am sure others are more qualified for suggestions, but I imagine other subsets like some for interfacing with representing relational data querying, different concurrency models (like Go, Erlang...) Is this a sane suggestion?