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Compiling Chromium, the biggest C++ project I know, takes on the order of 8 hours with a somewhat old but quite powerful server. Linking Chromium on my laptop, with 8GB of RAM, required me to increase my swap space from 8GB to 16GB.

Going away from C's linker and header file-model, which really doesn't work well for C++, to something based on a proper module system, would be amazing.

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What I'd like to have is someone to devise a plan on how to seamlessly progress from C++ to a language with a wholly new and cleaned up syntax. A way to slowly break out of the shell given by current backward compatibility. But at the same time being able to seamlessly interact with the old C and C++ world. Maybe something like "unsafe" in Rust.

Having modules in C++ smells like the connector we're missing in order to accomplish something like that.

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