BetterC++ is a framework that brings together the goodness of JavaScript (doesn't complain about obvious bugs) with all the best of C++ (can put braces on the next line)! You'll never be forced to think about boring things like types, safety or semantics anymore. And all of this at the negligible cost of a tiny bit of undefined behavior!

• No more silly type checking!
• Numbers and strings have value semantics, while everything else has reference semantics!
• Arbitrary design decisions like:
  • The plus-operator:
    • on numbers: calculate the sum!
    • on strings: concatenate them!
    • on arrays: insert into the array!
    • on objects: merge two objects!
  • The minus-operator:
    • on numbers: subtract them!
    • on strings: fail miserably!
    • on arrays: remove the nth item. Or the item equals to rhs!
    • on objects: erase the nth item, even though you don't know which one that is! Or the item where key equals rhs!

In short: BetterC++ does its best to shift nasty compile-time errors to run-time where they should be! Simply better™!

Just link against the header-only library, then use the new and better™ syntax provided by BetterC++.

Variables are introduced with either the const or var keyword.

const i = 3;
var str = "foobar";

Objects have to be created using the new function.

var obj = new({"member1", 3}, {"member2", "str"});
println(obj["member1"]); // prints "3"

Arrays are introduced with braces.

var arr = {"first", 2, new()};
println(arr[0]); // prints "first"

Functions are introduced with the keyword def. Why def and not function, you ask? Well, having to type 8 letters on every function definition has always been JavaScripts greatest weakness, so we've fixed it!

def fibonacci(const num) {
    if (num == 0) return 0;
    if (num == 1) return 1;
    return fibonacci(num - 1) + fibonacci(num - 2);
}

The main entry point is called "start" and needs to return a number.

def start() {
    return 0;
} EOP

Note: the EOP stands for "End Of Program" and needs to be added because C++ is stupid!

For more examples, check the examples/ subdirectory.