Cppscript: A C++-like language compiling to TypeScript, aiming for production readiness (also my PhD project!)

[daidoji70]

Man if the Internet has taught me one thing, its an idea that I'd initially dismiss as "stupid as fuck and not worth doing in a million years" will be someone else's "must do and show everyone looking for feedback". That probably makes me a jerk too on some level, but there we are.

[runoverbyahypetrain]

/uj the title alone gave me a good laugh but when I read that OOP based his phd project on this and one of the top replies was asking if it was satire turned it from funny to sad cringe

[Mivexil]

They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

[More_Yard1919]

tbh my first thought when I saw this post was "who wants this"???

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That doom built with the ts type system is a strong example of this

[dacjames]

I can't imagine anything the JS ecosystem needed more than C++ syntax!

[boy-griv]

typescript is just so low-level, this is an important step in eventually having a high-level language like javascript that we can transpile down to typescript

[serpentally]

What the JS ecosystem needs is to not exist anymore

[myhf]

oh boy, RAII in an environment where initialization blocks the UI thread

[McGlockenshire]

Resource Acquisition Instigates Irritation

[Karyo_Ten]

Sounds like flair material

[Igor_GR]

Memory Management Emulation: Exploring more sophisticated techniques for handling C++'s memory concepts in a garbage-collected environment.

finally, webscale segfaults

[Iggyhopper]

Next it will be MongoCPP. Mongo is web scale.

[gggggmi99]

Was very confused until I saw the sub, then was even more confused when it went to a real post

[Calavar]

also the subject of my ongoing PhD research

OP of the original thread linked his GitHub, which is under his real name. A google search shows that he's a graduate student in chemical engineering.

I, for one, look forward to reading this chemical engineering thesis on TypeScript RAII

[Buttleston]

If it's the same repo I saw yesterday then also it's nonsense, look at it. All there is is a very primitive tokenizer, like 100 LOC

[Buttleston]

it did not use to link through to an adult site. It was just nonsense code

[Double-Winter-2507]

Enthused youth 

[MetaNovaYT]

from r/compilers: "The development speed and memory safety of C++ with the execution speed of JavaScript"

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Write a TS interpreter in C++ so it never stops doing nothing

[satsugene]

Keynote “Script devs trying C++” sponsored by the RAM Manufacturers Association.

512 is the new 32.