Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:47:01 +0100
For your last question, i really don't know the answer. That's why i started this thread, in hope that i gather some motivated people for the task of rebooting C++.I will be back here again, for some updates.Thanks All for your contribution. Sent from my Galaxy
-------- Original message --------From: Bo Persson via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> Date: 11/22/25 7:26 PM (GMT+01:00) To: std-proposals_at_[hidden] Cc: Bo Persson <bo_at_[hidden]> Subject: Re: [std-proposals] The most fair rant on C++ On 2025-11-22 at 18:56, organicoman via Std-Proposals wrote:> Anything i touch for proposal imposes an ABI break.> I'm think about starting a brand new C++ from scratch, as a true > successor of the actual C++.We already have cpp2 https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront which borrows much of the correct defaults from Ada. Ada has been available for 40 years, with government backing from the DoD. And it didn't replace C++ in that time. Still 14 places behind on the Tiobe index.> How bad is that?How long will it take this new proposal to take off, with all projects starting from scratch? Without government backing?-- Std-Proposals mailing listStd-Proposals_at_[hidden]://lists.isocpp.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/std-proposals
-------- Original message --------From: Bo Persson via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> Date: 11/22/25 7:26 PM (GMT+01:00) To: std-proposals_at_[hidden] Cc: Bo Persson <bo_at_[hidden]> Subject: Re: [std-proposals] The most fair rant on C++ On 2025-11-22 at 18:56, organicoman via Std-Proposals wrote:> Anything i touch for proposal imposes an ABI break.> I'm think about starting a brand new C++ from scratch, as a true > successor of the actual C++.We already have cpp2 https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront which borrows much of the correct defaults from Ada. Ada has been available for 40 years, with government backing from the DoD. And it didn't replace C++ in that time. Still 14 places behind on the Tiobe index.> How bad is that?How long will it take this new proposal to take off, with all projects starting from scratch? Without government backing?-- Std-Proposals mailing listStd-Proposals_at_[hidden]://lists.isocpp.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/std-proposals
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