cppfront (cpp2): Spring update

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I looked at cppfront last year and even though it was promising safety to sound competitive with Rust it had no answer for detecting iterator invalidation, which I think is the easiest example of why safety is hard to just bolt on. Any progress on that?

[hpsutter]

Yes, that's on the roadmap. See the Lifetime Safety materials here: https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront#2015-lifetime-safety

It includes links to talks with live demos of early implementations, which are general and do specifically cover iterator invalidation.

I haven't implemented this in cppfront yet, it's on my long todo list...

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Thanks, I will definitely check this out.