Meeting 1 August 2019

Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Cologne, July 2019

Botond Ballo

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Contracts were pulled from C++20 because the consensus for their current design has disappeared [1]

Guy Davidson

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The big news though was the withdrawal of Contracts from the working draft. The consensus is that it simply isn’t ready yet <...>
[1]https://botondballo.wordpress.com/2019/07/26/trip-report-c-standards-meeting-in-cologne-july-2019/#contracts

Survey results: Your “top five” ISO C++ feature proposals

https://herbsutter.com/2019/07/25/survey-results-your-top-five-iso-c-feature-proposals/

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Indeed, the results are incredibly biased, in favor of:

  • Your own proposals.
  • Your own interests.
  • Proposals made recently or which have gone through part of the adoption pipeline.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/ci0uz6/survey_results_your_top_five_iso_c_feature/

Game developer's C++ rant

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Meeting Bjarne Stroustrup this Monday, any questions you would like asked?

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/chwncp/meeting_bjarne_stroustrup_creator_of_c_this/

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