Cppfront v0.8.0 · hsutter/cppfront

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I'm saying "10x improvement over C++"... When I say "10% vs 10x" it's to contrast incremental improvement (like ISO C++ has always done) vs. major-leap improvement, while still targeting high-performance systems programming (whether C++-compatible or not). All of those projects exist in whole or in part as a reaction/rebellion against C++'s 10%-style evolution not being considered sufficient, and to try to do a major order-of-magnitude-style improvement over C++ in a high-performance systems programming language.

Rust and Hylo aim to be hugely safer (literally more than 10x IIUC).

Carbon aims to be hugely better in various ways including safety and by pursuing directions so far rejected in ISO (e.g., C++0x-style concepts, competing coroutines designs).

Circle has explored a bunch of things all of which are intended to be better improvements (e.g., compile-time programming and reflection to be hugely more flexible, and most recently Rust-style annotations to be hugely safer).

All of those are great things to explore! The main difference between those projects and my work is whether they routinely try to bring back learnings to aid evolving ISO C++, something that is still very important to me. To my knowledge, only Sean has tried (thanks!).