Map to hardware = LOL
That little line-item in their roadmap is going to present some unresolvable problems - the root cause being that hardware is inherently concurrent, and C++ is inherently sequential. No amount of hacks like threads, templates, or bolt-on frameworks like OpenCL will ever make that fact go away.
It is time to recognize that C++ is a dead branch in the language tree - any further hacks will only make the language even more obtuse.
Ask yourself why hardware engineers are able to design devices with billions of components that all operate in unison in a highly reliable and performant way - it's because they use this old language called VHDL which has concurrency at its roots.
It is time to put these computer 'scientists' out to pasture, recognize that they have failed to capture reality, and start thinking about languages beyond von Neumann, using concurrency from the bottom up. There are cool new tools like Cryptol that can be used to try out ideas that would be impossible in C/C++.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
