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Re:C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report by armchairhacker on Monday March 30, 2026 @05:44AM (#47572317)
I wonder if C++ already has so much complexity, that it would actually be a good idea to ignore feature creep, and implement any feature with even the most remote use-case.

It sounds (and probably is) insane. But if a feature breaks backwards compatibility, or can't be implemented in a way that non-negligibly affects compiler/IDE performance for codebases that ignore it, what's the issue? Specifically, what significant new issues would it cause that C++’s existing bloat hasn’t?

C++20 isn't fully implemented in any one compiler (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support.html#C.2B...).

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Re:C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report by cemdervis on Monday March 30, 2026 @05:54AM (#47572372)
GCC and MSVC are pretty close. fyi, the tables on cppreference are rather outdated at this point. I made a more up-to-date, community-maintained site: https://cppstat.dev/?conformance=cpp20
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Re:C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report by uecker on Monday March 30, 2026 @08:12AM (#47573263)
Why does this need to access to all my repository just for generating a PR?
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Re:C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report by cemdervis on Monday March 30, 2026 @01:07PM (#47576944)
I am not aware of such a thing. Is GitHub itself requesting that when you create a PR, or is it because of the site's editor?
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Re:C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report by uecker on Monday March 30, 2026 @02:30PM (#47577930)
The editor. Otherwise, the site looks great!
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Re:C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report by KeplerBoy on Monday March 30, 2026 @06:04AM (#47572433)
wow, that's weird. One would think that updating the reference table is something a team or individual - who just spent a lot of time and effort on implementing a feature - would also do.
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Re:C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report by tialaramex on Monday March 30, 2026 @06:22AM (#47572536)
For a while now cppreference.com has been in "temporary read-only mode" in which it isn't updated. Eventually I expect a "temporary" replacement will dominate and eventually it won't be "temporary" after all. Remember when some of Britain's North American colonies announced they were declaring independence? Yeah me either, but at the time I expect some people figured hey, we send a bunch of troops, burn down some stuff, by Xmas we'll have our colonies back.
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Re:C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report by skelpmargyar on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @05:32AM (#47598697)
On the main page, it took me a minute after laughing at "std::byte arithmetic" to realize it was April 1st. All of those C++29 "features" are on point, very funny. Though surely there's somewhere SFINAE can be mentioned...
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