cppfront
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
1warn against
Nov 22, 2025first mention
Jul 16, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I hope we're getting it for C++ with CppFront”
“I enjoy the syntax and the defaults he picked, and it matches the way I use C++.”
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“I played around with cppfront over Christmas and it was a lot more ergonomic than my distant memories of C++11”
developer who doesn't really write C++ codeon “Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old…”
“should look into Herb Sutter's experiments with cppfront”
“this exists: https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront”
Caveats and dissent
“Don't expect it to "become a standard".”
Who recommends it in their own words
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All comments 8
“I hope we're getting it for C++ with CppFront”
“I enjoy the syntax and the defaults he picked, and it matches the way I use C++.”
“Don't expect it to "become a standard".”
“I played around with cppfront over Christmas and it was a lot more ergonomic than my distant memories of C++11”
“is writing an compiler for an alternative c++ syntax”
“should look into Herb Sutter's experiments with cppfront”
“Is the proposed solution really more practicable than "typescript for c++" [0]?”
“this exists: https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront”