C++ roadmap

[Samuel Audet]

Could you at least define "soon", please? Panama been teasing with C++ 
support with nothing concrete for over 5 years now, and look, Swift has 
actually started doing something about it, and not only that but support 
for GPUs as well:
https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1154974115893149696
https://forums.fast.ai/t/lesson-13-2019-discussion-and-wiki/44414/167
https://groups.google.com/a/tensorflow.org/forum/#!topic/swift/F8DDQBxi7yE
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12AeCyY7pjRrzuQFWK0QLpjjDHkNInUfvHCwtEgF4lEM

If you cannot actually do something, at least let others do it, even if 
you don't like their ideas!

Samuel

On 8/12/19 6:34 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> 
> On 12/08/2019 01:26, Samuel Audet wrote:
>> Hi, Maurizio,
>>
>> I'm happy to hear that progress is happening, but would it be possible 
>> to make more information about this public? Or if not, could you 
>> explain why it needs to be kept secret?
>>
> Hi Samuel,
> there's no desire on our part to keep secrets (as I'm sure you've seen 
> with other parts of this project as well); we've informally agreed on a 
> way forward and then were all very busy with conferences and other 
> deliverables, so we don't feel like we're comfortable enough with what 
> we've discussed before doing some due diligence first.
> 
> Since our plan is to put together some writeups which describe the 
> approach, I think it would be better to wait for those to have a more 
> focussed discussion, rather than having an abstract discussion over email.
> 
> Maurizio
> 
> 
>> Samuel
>>
>> On 8/12/19 6:48 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>>> Hi Luke,
>>> C++ is not supported at the moment, we will make the download page 
>>> clearer next time around.
>>>
>>> We are starting to experimenting a bit with the C++ support as we 
>>> speak, so hopefully we will have some news to share on that front soon.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Maurizio
>>>
>>> On 11/08/2019 13:52, Luke Hutchison wrote:
>>>> I tried the most recent Panama JDK 14 build with a C++ header file, and got
>>>> the following error message (in the form of a RuntimeException):
>>>>
>>>> "Unknown type name 'namespace'"
>>>>
>>>> I couldn't find a switch in the jextract commandline tool for enabling C++
>>>> support, so assume this means that C++ is not currently supported. I don't
>>>> see any mention of the lack of C++ support on the Panama "homepage" or
>>>> documentation, but I saw a claim somewhere online that Panama only supports
>>>> C, and has no real immediate plans to support C++. However, discussion in
>>>> the panama-dev archives seems to indicate that C++ support was always
>>>> planned.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any experimental switch that will enable the use of C++ header
>>>> files right now in Panama? If not, what is the roadmap for C++?