Interesting, thanks. The idea that Chrome is moving to garbage collected C++ is... a bit surprising to me, though I suppose it makes some sense given their focus on security.
I can see why you'd want to get away from C++'s compile times, though they're a lot more manageable if you can avoid templates like the plague. Have you considered a coroutine library for C or C++? I'm using libco right now for my hobby game project and much like "goroutines" would, it's significantly improving the clarity of a lot of systems (though of course I don't get the "free" parallelism because it doesn't handle scheduling across threads or anything like that).
I can see why you'd want to get away from C++'s compile times, though they're a lot more manageable if you can avoid templates like the plague. Have you considered a coroutine library for C or C++? I'm using libco right now for my hobby game project and much like "goroutines" would, it's significantly improving the clarity of a lot of systems (though of course I don't get the "free" parallelism because it doesn't handle scheduling across threads or anything like that).