Hi folks! If you're interested in some more details about what happened at last week's meeting, my blog post about it is now available (also on Planet):
https://botondballo.wordpress.com/2019/07/26/trip-report-c-standards-meeting-in-cologne-july-2019/ Cheers, Botond On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 12:25 AM Botond Ballo <bba...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > 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
