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Re:Soursop and Ponies in Kona: A C++ Committee Trip Report by xiphias2 on Sunday November 27, 2022 @02:30PM (#33765876)
Not really, we as a community know already that the best way to significantly change a language by keeping full compatibility is to write a preprocessor (CppFront way).

Carbon is DOA as it hacks a compiler, and Circle isn't even in active development (again if it would compile to C++ that would be a better direction).

At the same time putting ideas from Carbon to CppFront is possible (I wish Carbon developers would also think about going the preprocessing direction).

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Re:Soursop and Ponies in Kona: A C++ Committee Trip Report by pjmlp on Sunday November 27, 2022 @02:59PM (#33766173)
Circle is the only one that is in active development, and available today, need to improve your fact checking.

https://twitter.com/seanbax

CppFront is just like Carbon and Val, CppFront compiling to C++ is an implementation detail, C++ and Objective-C aren't C, just as CppFront isn't C++, regardless of the sales pitch.

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