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by steveklabnik 1883 days ago
I don’t know what specifically you mean by “it does” but if you mean “goes as far as Rust,” that’s simply not true. It’s never even been a goal of the project.
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Indeed, the goal has been to be as close as possible to Rust, given the constraints of C++ semantics.

Note I mean the work being done by Microsoft and Google on top of Core Guidelines on their syntac analysers, which on Microsoft's case are active by default as background process that validate your code as you type.

It will never be as good as Rust is able to, but in some domains a "worse is better" solution will already be better than nothing, because they aren't going to port their code to something else.