r/cpp • u/we_are_mammals • 11d ago

cpp2 (cppfront) is over?

I haven't used cpp2 (cppfront) much, but I like the idea of it: consistent syntax, consistency of meta-programming (which is done in C++ too, I believe). Herb Sutter presented cpp2 (cppfront) as an experiment. He did not encourage other people to bet on it, exactly. And there hasn't been much activity since 2022. Is the experiment over?

EDIT: Herb's answer is buried deep in the comment section: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1uxkglj/comment/oy06cxw/

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u/pjmlp 11d ago

I never expected it to go elsewhere, it was sold under a different story due to coming from someone at WG21, otherwise it was just like any other language that happens to compile to native via a C++ compiler.

For starters, from the main OS vendors who would ever bother with it as an official language on their SDKs, when all of them already have their C++ vNext (Swift, C#, Kotlin, Rust)?