New C++ Features Voted In By C++17 Standards Committee (reddit.com)

New submitter lefticus writes: The upcoming C++17 standard has reached Committee Draft stage, having been voted on in the standards committee meeting in Oulu, Finland this Saturday. This makes C++17 now feature complete, with many new interesting features such as if initializers and structured bindings having been voted in at this meeting.

An [audio] interview with the C++ committee chair, Herb Sutter, about the status of C++17 has also been posted.

Comments

Sweet

[Kohath]

C++ needed more features. Some C++ books aren't even 1000 pages long.

Re: c++ is now the world's most complex language

[110010001000]

C++ is actually used in real programs for a large amount of software you use every day. Go, Swift and Rust aren't even used in the flagship products written by the organizations that created the languages. That should tell you what the difference is.