Hi everyone, My blog post about the C++ standards meeting that took place earlier this month is now published:
https://botondballo.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/trip-report-c-standards-meeting-in-san-diego-november-2018/ Cheers, Botond On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 5:52 PM Botond Ballo <bba...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > The next meeting of the C++ Standards Committee will be November 5-10 > in San Diego, California. > > This is promising to be the Committee's largest meeting to date, both > in terms of attendees (expected over 150), and submitted proposals > (over 250 in the pre-meeting mailing). This is encouraging, as it > reflects a heightened level of interest in the language and its > standardization. At the same time, the committee is undertaking some > procedural changes to stay afloat this sea of proposals, notably > spinning up new Incubator subgroups to process / filter through > proposals for new extensions before the main Evolution and Library > Evolution groups look at them. > > Meanwhile, work continues on C++20, with Ranges and "natural syntax" > Concepts on the brink of consensus, Modules making really good > progress with the committee working extra hard to get them into C++20, > and Coroutines continuing to be under debate with two competing > proposals. 2D Graphics is dead for now, though it may yet rise from > the ashes [1]. Reflection, Executors, and several other features are > moving forward in the form of Technical Specifications. > > If you're curious about the state of C++ standardization, I encourage > you to check out my blog posts where I summarize each meeting in > detail (most recent one here [2]), and the list of proposals being > considered by the committee (new ones since the last meeting can be > found here [3] and here [4]). > > I will be attending this meeting, likely splitting my time between > Evolution Working Group (where new language features are discussed at > the design level), and the EWG Incubator group (where proposals bound > for Evolution undergo a preliminary round of feedback). As always, if > there's anything you'd like me to find out for you at the meeting, or > any feedback you'd like me to communicate, please let me know! > > Finally, I encourage you to reach out to me if you're thinking of > submitting a proposal to the committee. I'm always happy to help with > formulating and, if necessary, presenting a proposal. > > Cheers, > Botond > > > [1] http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2018/p1200r0.pdf > [2] > https://botondballo.wordpress.com/2018/06/20/trip-report-c-standards-meeting-in-rapperswil-june-2018/ > [3] http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2018/#mailing2018-06 > [4] http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2018/#mailing2018-10 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
