170. WG21 Feb '24 Mailing, C++ Successors, Reflection, Pattern Matching

An office meeting pretending to be a podcast. With Gianluca Delfino, Frances Buontempo, Dmitry Kuzminov, Jody Hagins et al.

Notes: https://cppclub.uk/meetings/2024/170/

Podcast: https://redcircle.com/shows/0835997e-...

00:00 - Intro
00:14 - C++ successor languages
01:19 - Circle, Carbon etc.
07:55 - WG21 Feb ’24 mailing
08:51 - Reflection, CppCast, Daveed Vandevoorde
19:41 - Pattern Matching
29:06 - std::optional⟨T&⟩
31:02 - Principled Design for WG21
37:30 - indirect and polymorphic Types
38:43 - Quantities and Units Library
39:58 - std::basic_fixed_string
41:45 - constexpr throw
42:36 - std::execution Introduction
43:48 - std::execution Plan for C++26
44:15 - C++ Async Parallel Algorithms
45:05 - Graph Library
45:27 - Contract Violation Enumerations
46:30 - Printing Blank Lines with println
47:37 - Mastodon