Yep. I don't believe it's mentioned in the linked article, but Herb has mentioned in other articles/talks that cppfront is intentionally named after / following

Yep. I don't believe it's mentioned in the linked article, but Herb has mentioned in other articles/talks that cppfront is intentionally named after / following the same model as C++, which originally had a C++ to C transpiler named cfront[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront