This appears to be a out of season April Fool's joke.
Am I the only one who thinks the this sacrifices the readability?
Am I the only one who thinks the this sacrifices the readability?
If the name Sean Baxter doesn't ring a bell, he's creating the Circle compiler which one step after another fixes the problems of C++ (while not trailing off into a completely new language):
Somehow, multiple groups of people have recently decided they want to "fix the problem": Carbon, Circle, CppFront2. But apparently, it's different fixes, and the formulation of the "the problem" is different.
I am wary of rushing to do this, considering the fate of the D, a previous attempt to "fix the problem" with C++.
I don't care much either way tbh, just watching from the sidelines while happily churning out C and Zig code ;)
But IMHO Sean Baxter does more for C++ than the entire committee ever did in the last three decades - if C++ would have moved into a similar direction I probably wouldn't have dropped it as my main language).
Now with @live, even when GC is on, they are ahead of Rust.
I love it.