Hi everyone! The next meeting of the C++ Standards Committee (WG21) will be July 15-20 in Cologne, Germany.
(Apologies for not sending this announcement sooner!) This is a particularly important meeting because the committee aims to publish the C++20 Committee Draft, a feature-complete draft of C++20 that will be sent out for balloting and comment from national standards bodies, at the end of this meeting. C++20 is probably going to be the language's largest release since C++11, containing an extensive lineup of significant new features (Concepts, Modules, Coroutines, Contracts, Ranges, and default comparisons (<=>), among others). Modules has just merged into the working draft at the last meeting, and continues to be under active discussion due to tooling impacts. Contracts are at risk of being pulled due to controversy. Even for uncontroversial features, technical issues that we can't fix in time are sometimes discovered and result in the feature being bumped to the next release. All in all, this is going to be a busy and eventful meeting. 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 [1]), and the list of proposals being considered by the committee (new ones since the last meeting can be found here [2] and here [3]). I will be attending this meeting, likely splitting my time between the Evolution Working Group (where new language features are discussed at the design level) and interesting Study Groups such as SG7 (Reflection) and SG15 (Tooling). 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] https://botondballo.wordpress.com/2019/03/20/trip-report-c-standards-meeting-in-kona-february-2019/ [2] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/#mailing2019-03 [3] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/#mailing2019-06 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
