Facebook Open-Sources Warp Preprocessor For C, C++

The Facebook open-sourcing train continued to roll on with Friday’s announcement that Warp, a preprocessor for the C and C++ languages, has been open-sourced.

CodeOrange650The Facebook open-sourcing train continued to roll on with Friday’s announcement that Warp, a preprocessor for the C and C++ languages, has been open-sourced.

Warp was written by Walter Bright in a joint project with Facebook, and Andrei Alexandrescu, a research scientist with the social network, said in a post on its engineering blog announcing its open-sourcing:

Companies that work with large C++ code bases pay close attention to build times, as they have a major impact on engineers’ productivity.

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