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by pjmlp 1298 days ago
If anything, Circle would be it.

CppFront is just like Carbon and Val, with a completly different syntax, translating to C++ is just an implementation detail, he just markets in a different way given his position at ISO, most likely not to raise too many waves.
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xiphias2 1298 days ago
Not really, we as a community know already that the best way to significantly change a language by keeping full compatibility is to write a preprocessor (CppFront way).

Carbon is DOA as it hacks a compiler, and Circle isn't even in active development (again if it would compile to C++ that would be a better direction).

At the same time putting ideas from Carbon to CppFront is possible (I wish Carbon developers would also think about going the preprocessing direction).

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pjmlp 1298 days ago
Circle is the only one that is in active development, and available today, need to improve your fact checking.

https://twitter.com/seanbax

CppFront is just like Carbon and Val, CppFront compiling to C++ is an implementation detail, C++ and Objective-C aren't C, just as CppFront isn't C++, regardless of the sales pitch.

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