Does Pants 2 support C/C++ for now?

[evan0greenup]

According to https://www.pantsbuild.org/page/language-support, It seems C/C++ is not in the list.

Is it supported by Pants 2?

[kaos]

That list is correct, there is no support for C/C++ in Pants at this time.

[huonw]

There is the beginnings of C/C++ support courtesy of @tdyas and @sureshjoshi: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/tree/main/src/python/pants/backend/cc

This appears to mostly support dependency inference and clang-format at the moment. Pants is community driven, and support for languages (etc.) relies on interested volunteers diving in. Please feel free to ask for guidance if you're interested in contributing. (A good way is #general or #development on slack, but here is fine too.)

[sureshjoshi]

As a heads up, I was working on it - until I got completely de-railed with... well, Life, for lack of a better word.

This was the original first pass, but it's just too large and unwieldy.
#16424

I started to split it out, but then got distracted. I really want to land this at some point, because I use C/C++ in a lot of repos (embedded dev), so it would be nice to finally clean up my build system.
https://github.com/sureshjoshi/pants/tree/cc-check-goal

Here is the related discussion:

#15499