Thread: Any transpilers for alternative C/C++ syntax?

Originally Posted by thetinman

What I mean is a language with equivalent functionality, but different syntax.

You would need to define equivalent functionality. You probably don't mean Turing completeness, but perhaps you mean language features, but does that mean that the language in question must have the exact same feature set? Seems unlikely to me.

Originally Posted by thetinman

Basically, something that transpiles into C/C++.

There is no language called "C/C++". This odoes not matter if it is understood by context that you are talking about both C and C++, e.g., in terms of the shared heritage, cross referenced standards, community, compatibility, etc, but here it is unclear: do you want the result to be C, C++, either one, compilable as both, or what?

Originally Posted by thetinman

Are there any that are ready for production code?

A quick search brings up Nuitka, if you would be satisfied with C rather than C++.

Originally Posted by thetinman

I've been using Python recently. It uses indentation instead of curly brackets, and there is no ";" at the end of lines. It makes it easier to type, and a C/C++ transpiler to handle such syntactic feature should be relatively easy to implement.

Python is so much more than the use of indentation to denote scope and other minor differences in syntax.