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Re:GCC 14.1 Release by emidln on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @09:19AM (#40285109)
It's great seeing progress made here. C/C++ will never be truly safe languages, but every little bit the compiler can help with is appreciated, esp by those maintaining established codebases.
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Re:GCC 14.1 Release by ho_schi on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @10:16AM (#40285733)
CPP2/cppfront:

https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront

I hope we see this in C++26 as optional mode i.e. #safe and #unsafe and same for #impdef or so.

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Re:GCC 14.1 Release by pjmlp on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @11:07AM (#40286544)
It is only yet another wannabe C++ replacement, regardless how it is sold as not being one.
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Re:GCC 14.1 Release by ho_schi on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @03:39PM (#40290567)
A wannabe replacement by…Herb Sutter. I dare to differ.
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Re:GCC 14.1 Release by pjmlp on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @03:59PM (#40290798)
Which is exactly why he pretends to not be a wannabe replacement, as it is politically incorrect to have the chair of ISO C++ to also propose a C++ replacement.

CFront wasn't C, nor Objective-C was C, even though both originally started as macro preprocessors targeting C code generation, and were like Typescript for C.

They became their own thing, after enough user based was won, and nowadays all major C compilers and standard libraries are written in C++, not C.

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