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Does the Circle compiler see any real-world use? I keep hearing about it, but it seems like it is a one-person project which hasn't seen significant activity in
by crote 2y ago
Does the Circle compiler see any real-world use? I keep hearing about it, but it seems like it is a one-person project which hasn't seen significant activity in about a year.
On paper it does sound quite promising, but looking at the Github repo I can't help but shake the feeling that it is more talk than action. It seems to have basically been abandoned before it ever saw any adoption?
- pjmlp 2y agoAt least Circle is real, something that one can download, validate its ideas, what works, what does not. Most of the profiles being argued for C++ only exist in PDF form, there isn't a single C++ compiler where you can validate those ideas, but trust the authors, the ideas will certainly work once implemented.
- steveklabnik 2y agoIt’s not open source. The GitHub activity is purely for documentation. I don’t know about real world adoption, nor do I think it’s really about what I’m saying. The proposal was made public a few weeks ago. There hasn’t been much time for real world projects to adopt it, if that were even the goal. The point is that it does exist today, and you can try it out. It’s more than just a design on paper.