Features You Should Be Able To Find In C++14

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Features You Should Be Able To Find In C++14

The ISO C++ committee has reached the point of possibly having the final draft of C++14 as a minor update to the widely-used programming language. For those curious about the likely changes to find with C++14, here's an article to checkout...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTY0MTQ

[mark45]

Still no usable solution on unicode strings.

[mirza]

Get rid of header files

First thing they shoud do, is get rid of header and lib files (soooo '70 hippie style), ane move to something sane, like AT LEAST package / .JAR files in java. Actually no, it is already too late. Vast majority of developers followed Android and Java away from C. C/C++ is now language for kernel, and system things sitting next to kernel. And for enthusiasts. World moved on in the meantime.

[Ericg]

First thing they shoud do, is get rid of header and lib files (soooo '70 hippie style), ane move to something sane, like AT LEAST package / .JAR files in java. Actually no, it is already too late. Vast majority of developers followed Android and Java away from C. C/C++ is now language for kernel, and system things sitting next to kernel. And for enthusiasts. World moved on in the meantime.

Read the blogpost before you comment. Modules were tried to get ready for C++14 but they didn't make the deadline. They've been pushed back to C++17, which the developers think is more than enough time.

[zanny]

Still no usable solution on unicode strings.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

int main() {
  std::string str { u8"Unicode characters: ◧ ◬ ☎ ♾ ⚠ ☔\n" };
  std::cout << str << std::endl;
}

Compile with -std=c++11 or -std=c++14.

What is the problem?

First thing they shoud do, is get rid of header and lib files (soooo '70 hippie style), ane move to something sane, like AT LEAST package / .JAR files in java. Actually no, it is already too late. Vast majority of developers followed Android and Java away from C. C/C++ is now language for kernel, and system things sitting next to kernel. And for enthusiasts. World moved on in the meantime.

Uh, who the hell writes and uses Java based applications anywhere but on Android? Besides Eclipse and Netbeans, meant for Java development, and even those usually look like ass and both attempt to use native toolkit themeing to look less bad. The enterprise has always used Java since it came out, that is what it was designed for and why it is such a bloated mess.

GTK is C, Qt is C++. And even then I'll write most applications in either python or qml/js and just use language bindings unless I need native performance.

But Java isn't native. At all. It has terrible memory overhead and 2 - 3x slowdown over binaries, which in many circumstances is unacceptable. I much prefer writing everything in python and putting my critical sections in C++ than to use one of the interpreted static typing languages.

[mark45]

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

int main() {
  std::string str { u8"Unicode characters: ◧ ◬ ☎ ♾ ⚠ ☔\n" };
  std::cout << str << std::endl;
}

Compile with -std=c++11 or -std=c++14.

What is the problem?

Your example has nothing to do with what I said.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17103925/how-well-is-unicode-supported-in-c11
http://cppwhispers.blogspot.com/2012/11/unicode-and-your-application-3-of-n.html

[carewolf]

Your example has nothing to do with what I said.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17103925/how-well-is-unicode-supported-in-c11

http://cppwhispers.blogspot.com/2012...on-3-of-n.html

He is complaining about Windows, and apparently doesn't know u16string and u32string (aka basic_string<char16_t> and basic_string<char32_t>).

[zoomblab]

Read the blogpost before you comment. Modules were tried to get ready for C++14 but they didn't make the deadline. They've been pushed back to C++17, which the developers think is more than enough time.

Modules are not going to make header files to go away. Unlike Java the C compiler can not read the declarations from the binary (that would require a portable binary standard) or the implementation files.

[Ericg]

Modules are not going to make header files to go away. Unlike Java the C compiler can not read the declarations from the binary (that would require a portable binary standard) or the implementation files.

Oh I know, but THAT is a whole separate issue all together than simply "bringing modules to C++"

[wizard69]

Still no usable solution on unicode strings.

Does anybody have a usable solution? Unicode was one of those designed by committee things that will always be a struggle to implement and more importantly put into use.