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Wasn’t C++ the typescript for C ? The title strikes me as ironic that it’s talking about a typescript on top of a typescript.
by MR4D 3y ago
Wasn’t C++ the typescript for C ?
The title strikes me as ironic that it’s talking about a typescript on top of a typescript.
- Andoryuuta 3y agoYep. I don't believe it's mentioned in the linked article, but Herb has mentioned in other articles/talks that cppfront is intentionally named after / following the same model as C++, which originally had a C++ to C transpiler named cfront[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront
- skrebbel 3y agoMaybe every couple decades you just need a new typescript on top of the previous typescript.
- fooker 3y agoIt's ~~turtles~~ typescripts all the way down.
- scriptproof 3y agoC++ adds class and other features to C++, and this is like TypeScript to Javascript, but what he supports is simplicity and safety thank to a TypeScript approach. Not what C++ brings to C !
- IAmLiterallyAB 3y agoPrecisely. He mentions that in the full talk in the video