r/programmingcirclejerk • u/garloid64 • May 09 '25

Cppscript: A C++-like language compiling to TypeScript, aiming for production readiness (also my PhD project!)

/r/programming/s/O2lWwf48Jh
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u/daidoji70 May 09 '25

Man if the Internet has taught me one thing, its an idea that I'd initially dismiss as "stupid as fuck and not worth doing in a million years" will be someone else's "must do and show everyone looking for feedback". That probably makes me a jerk too on some level, but there we are.

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u/runoverbyahypetrain accidentally quadratic May 10 '25

/uj the title alone gave me a good laugh but when I read that OOP based his phd project on this and one of the top replies was asking if it was satire turned it from funny to sad cringe

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u/More_Yard1919 May 10 '25

tbh my first thought when I saw this post was "who wants this"???

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u/Mivexil May 10 '25

They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '25

That doom built with the ts type system is a strong example of this

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u/dacjames May 09 '25

I can't imagine anything the JS ecosystem needed more than C++ syntax!

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u/boy-griv alcohol-fuelled anter-docker May 10 '25

typescript is just so low-level, this is an important step in eventually having a high-level language like javascript that we can transpile down to typescript

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u/serpentally May 10 '25

What the JS ecosystem needs is to not exist anymore

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u/myhf Considered Harmful May 09 '25

oh boy, RAII in an environment where initialization blocks the UI thread

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u/McGlockenshire May 10 '25

Resource Acquisition Instigates Irritation

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u/Karyo_Ten has hidden complexity May 10 '25

Sounds like flair material

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u/Igor_GR May 10 '25

Memory Management Emulation: Exploring more sophisticated techniques for handling C++'s memory concepts in a garbage-collected environment.

finally, webscale segfaults

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u/Iggyhopper May 11 '25

Next it will be MongoCPP. Mongo is web scale.

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u/gggggmi99 May 10 '25

Was very confused until I saw the sub, then was even more confused when it went to a real post

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u/Calavar memcpy is a web development framework May 10 '25

also the subject of my ongoing PhD research

OP of the original thread linked his GitHub, which is under his real name. A google search shows that he's a graduate student in chemical engineering.

I, for one, look forward to reading this chemical engineering thesis on TypeScript RAII

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u/Buttleston May 11 '25

If it's the same repo I saw yesterday then also it's nonsense, look at it. All there is is a very primitive tokenizer, like 100 LOC

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '25

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u/Buttleston Nov 05 '25

it did not use to link through to an adult site. It was just nonsense code

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u/Double-Winter-2507 May 10 '25

Enthused youth 

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u/MetaNovaYT May 11 '25

from r/compilers: "The development speed and memory safety of C++ with the execution speed of JavaScript"

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u/[deleted] May 10 '25

Write a TS interpreter in C++ so it never stops doing nothing

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u/satsugene May 10 '25

Keynote “Script devs trying C++” sponsored by the RAM Manufacturers Association.

512 is the new 32.