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Y'all should try D! D compiles really fast-- the D reference compiler can compile itself, the standard library, and the codegen backend in less than 5 seconds, on a single laptop core. It uses a streaming architecture to achieve this. It runs fast because it is supported by both GCC and LLVM. One of its guiding principles is the thing that looks like C works like C-- all members of a file public by default, for example.

Some experimental compiler builds (Calypso) can compile D for use with C++ libraries as complex as Qt.

You can start porting your D project to C by using DPP- it allows you to #include C headers within D- and use macros. Putting "extern(C):" at the top of your file let's you interoperate between C and D.

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote Modern C++ Design, and is the co-captain of D. The captain of D created the first end-to-end C++ compiler.