C++17 Formally Approved, Just Waiting On ISO Publication

[phoronix]

Phoronix: C++17 Formally Approved, Just Waiting On ISO Publication

C++17 (formerly C++1z) is ready for its debut. C++17 has been formally approved by its committee and is just waiting on ISO publishing...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Cpp17-Formal-Go

[cj.wijtmans]

-1 for not linking the drafts/documents

[davidbepo]

good, now programmers can start making use of these features
i hope c++20 to have all the changes rejected for c++17

[usta]

good, now programmers can start making use of these features

Actually it doesnt work like that in real world, most of companies even indie developers couldnt start to use it because of
lack of support in all compilers, And even worse linux distros always use older compilers and linux projects have to
follow them ( ei. KDE . ,,, )

[ogait87]

Actually it doesnt work like that in real world, most of companies even indie developers couldnt start to use it because of
lack of support in all compilers, And even worse linux distros always use older compilers and linux projects have to
follow them ( ei. KDE . ,,, )

More or less. C++14 is available is most distros if not all of then. It took 3 years so in 2020 we should be able to easily use c++17 (if the project allows that).

[bug77]

Ah, and this brings us a problem I was hoping to avoid. Where do we go after 1z?

[kaprikawn]

I'm learning C++ at the minute. I had issues using C++11 features using compilers with the not-very-old Mint 17.3. I ended up upgrading to Mint 18 to fix the issue. Nothing in this spec will be relevant for a while.

[davidbepo]

Ah, and this brings us a problem I was hoping to avoid. Where do we go after 1z?

i guess 2a

[bug77]

I'm learning C++ at the minute. I had issues using C++11 features using compilers with the not-very-old Mint 17.3. I ended up upgrading to Mint 18 to fix the issue. Nothing in this spec will be relevant for a while.

Get used to it

[fabdiznec]

Actually it doesnt work like that in real world, most of companies even indie developers couldnt start to use it because of
lack of support in all compilers, And even worse linux distros always use older compilers and linux projects have to
follow them ( ei. KDE . ,,, )

You're not wrong about old compilers in distros, but current clang and gcc already support a large subset of the most important bits of C++17: See https://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html and https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html

(Though I'm actually much more excited about C++20... the metaclasses + static reflection thing looks kind of amazing. That and concepts. Hopefully, these things'll make it in...)