Citing cpp2 / cppfront

[Alex Dutka]

Hi! I was wondering how can I cite your work on Cpp2 / Cppfront in research papers and technical reports. I could not find any reference article presenting this work...
Anyway, thanks for the amazing work!
Best regards,
Alex

[Herb Sutter]

Thanks for the kind words. There's no reference article, but you could reference the documentation and the repo, something like:

• [cppfront] H. Sutter. Cppfront (GitHub)

• [cppfront-docs] H. Sutter. "Cpp2 and cppfront — An experimental 'C++ syntax 2' and its first compiler" (GitHub)

or the first talk describing it which is:

• [CppCon-2022] H. Sutter. "Can C++ be 10x Simpler & Safer?" (YouTube, 2022)

Does that give you what you need?

[Alex Dutka]

Yes perfect thanks! If I write a clean BibTex citation entry, would you be interested in a small PR to add this to the README?

[Alex Dutka]

Or maybe add a CITATION.cff file?

cff-version: 1.2.0
message: >-
  If you use this software, please cite it using the
  metadata from this file.
type: software
title: cppfront
authors:
  - given-names: Herb
    family-names: Sutter
repository-code: 'https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront'
abstract: A personal experimental C++ Syntax 2 -> Syntax 1 compiler
license: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

[Herb Sutter]

Sure, that sounds reasonable. TIL .cff. Thanks!

[Alex Dutka]

Ok perfect! Opened PR #1044 for this purpose. Closing this issue.