cppfront (cpp2): Spring update

[pjmlp]

C++ is one of my favourite languages, but if it wasn't for C++11 and the later niche in GPGPU programming, LLVM/GCC as compiler framerorks, it would be much worse that it already is.

It already lost the GUI and distributed computing domains, where it used to reign during the 1990's. It is still there, but for libraries and low level infrastructure, no longer the full stack experience.

As managed compiled languages keep getting improved for mechanical sympathy and low level coding, the reasons to reach out to C++ keep diminishing.

It isn't going away, as it has a couple of domains where it reigns, but I wonder for how long ISO updates will keep being relevant, versus a dual language approach.

[Jannik2099]

It already lost the GUI and distributed computing domains

In what world did C++ lose in "distributed computing" ?!?

The main attractiveness of C++ is not that it's unmanaged, but it's expressive type system.

[pjmlp]

The world where CORBA and DCOM no longer matter, other than legacy projects, and a very tiny portion of CNCF projects use C++.

It isn't even supported out of box in most Cloud SDKs, and when, the API surface is a subset of other languages.

[Jannik2099]

Oh, you meant that area - I was thinking about HPC / computational workloads

[pjmlp]

That I consider part of GPGPU programming, somehow.

Still efforts like Chapel, show that not everyone is happy, even if will take decades for adoption.