How about thin C++ wrapper? The language with the same features, but more human friendly. It should be easily directly translated to C++. Preferably both ways.
How about thin C++ wrapper? The language with the same features, but more human friendly. It should be easily directly translated to C++. Preferably both ways.
There are languages like D and Carbon that attempt this. But there are too many existing large C++ code bases to not continue evolving C++ itself as well.
I didn't say replace, but complexity is the biggest barrier for newcomers. A lot of typing comparing to other languages. I use professionally since 90th, the more popular it gets the better. And complexity is the major problem, not memory management like some argue.
That's what Herb Sutter's cppfront/cpp2 is meant to do. Same semantics, sane defaults, nicer syntax (IMO).
C++'s semantics are also broken in interesting ways: UB, implicit conversions, arrays, exceptions, exceptions from destructors, etc. Papering over them won't help all that much. It's more efficient to just swallow the bullet and switch to Rust (or maybe Zig).
Many of these inadvisable semantics are fixable in practice, they are just a default that requires additional effort to minimize or eliminate.
That aside, it isn't that easy to switch languages because C++ is more expressive in a systems context in important ways. Porting existing modern systems C++ to e.g. Rust makes this pretty obvious. (I think porting to Zig would likely be a bit easier but I've never actually tried.)