Re:Current Proposals for C++17
by mattkrause on Friday February 26, 2016 @12:46AM
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Agreed. Auto looks like a useless bit of syntatic sugar, but it can make working with the standard library (and its impenetrable iterator classes) a whole lot simpler. On top of that, boost has some nice features that make easy-but-annoying tasks like walking a file system and parsing program options easy.
If your last exposure to C++ featured nothing but raw pointers, you should really give it a second look.
Language features that ease your daily working with C++11/14:
- Lambdas, especially when working with <algorithm>
- ranged for loop
- auto instead of typing long types
- variadic templates increase compilation speed over the previous macro based simulation of this feature.
- the basic support for multithreading which std::thread & co offer.
And also, as always in C++: you only pay for what you use. You still can write code in old styles pretty well with C++14, same will be true for coming standards.