Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax

Re:Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax by SubjectToChange on Saturday September 17, 2022 @05:32PM (#32881797)

> The stigma alone is enough to turn people off.

C++ has been hated for decades now. The reason it's used is often because you have to.

> C++ runs a real risk of surviving only in the embedded/realtime space in the next 10 years.

Ten years from now C++ will still be the language underpinning LLVM, web browsers, geometric modeling, machine learning, etc

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Re:Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax by lallysingh on Sunday September 18, 2022 @12:21AM (#32884398)

Rust means you don't have to anymore. While the old software codebases will keep using it, the new ones won't.

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