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I feel so sad for hours now...well, from the time I saw the original post on reddit and then here. For the past few days all I can see in HN is the announcemen

I feel so sad for hours now...well, from the time I saw the original post on reddit and then here. For the past few days all I can see in HN is the announcement of new languages and research projects that relate to C++: * Carbon (https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang) * Val (https://www.val-lang.dev/) * Jakt (https://github.com/serenityos/jakt) * now Cppfront... Is everything alright within ANSI / ISO committee?

ncmncm 4y ago
There is no voice of the committee. A breakaway group, including Google and Microsoft, has sought to break backward link-compatibilty, and has failed. So they are pursuing other avenues. Probably the single most valuable improvement possible while retaining C++'s strengths would be to fix initialization syntax and semantics. Second would be to simplify and limit implicit conversion and promotion for base types.