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by pjmlp 813 days ago
The whole story about what cpp2 tries to be, distancing itself from other C++ wannabe replacements is only due to be coming from WG21 chair, which naturally can't talk about a C++ replacement as per conflict of interests.

Cpp2 isn't an alternative syntax to C++, as much as C++ and Objective-C aren't alternative syntaxes for C, even though they support a subset of it, and were born exactly the same way, code translators into C.

C didn't evolve into them, they became their own ecosystem, tainted by the underlying C compatibility.

The only alternative that is really a Typescript for C++, is Circle.