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C++ has major flaws that cannot be rectified without serious breaking changes. With that said, Herb has been experimenting with a new cpp frontend with sane def

C++ has major flaws that cannot be rectified without serious breaking changes. With that said, Herb has been experimenting with a new cpp frontend with sane defaults [1]. In my opinion, the world is on standby until Anders Hejlsberg feels like tackling a modern, next generation systems language. [1] https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront

HarHarVeryFunny 3y ago
Herb Sutters' proposal is absolutely the right direction to go to reign C++ back into being a sane simpler language from the mess it has grown into. I doubt it'll ever happen though. It seems that in the eyes of most of corporate America's management, C++ is a legacy language, and should be replaced with Java (which tbh makes sense in many cases given that Java's tooling and libaries are better than those of C++). Other companies are looking at Rust as a successor to C++. Even if Herbs's work was completed and implemented by major compilers, it's hard to see much uptake - who's going to be approving porting legacy C++ code to a new modern C++, yet alone approving C++ for new projects? Maybe if there is a Sutter C++ successor, it should drop the "C++" name which carries legacy associations, and call itself something new. Present itself as C++ successor, even if it comes from a starting point of being 99% backwards compatible with modern (say C++11 or later) C++. Sounds superficial, but I bet it'd make a difference in perception!