We're back with another round of updates from the most recent ISOC++ standards meeting at Jacksonville, where some..."interesting" turns of events took place.

Timeline

[0:30] Interview portion begins

[1:35] The Jacksonville Controversy

[3:07] Why should I care about TS's?

[5:55] New TS's

[6:00] Modules (Try it out [VS] | Learn more | Send feedback)

[6:27] Coroutines (Try it out [VS] | Learn more | Send feedback)

[7:59] Concepts (Try it out [GCC] [6.0 changes] | Send feedback)

[10:11] Ranges (Try it out [GCC] [6.0 changes] | Send feedback)

[11:33] Direct-into-Standard items

[11:40] constexpr v3

[12:16] New attributes (fallthrough, nodiscard, maybe_unused)

[14:24] Extended aggregating initializers

[15:34] Sentinel iterators

[16:14] Hex floats

[16:27] TS-into-Standard items

[16:38] Parallelism TS (Learn more)

[17:30] Library fundamentals v1 TS (Try it out [Boost] [GCC] [6.0 changes])

[19:19] File system TS

[20:01] "Special" math IS [International Standard] (Try it out [Boost] [GCC] [6.0 changes])

[22:21] What's next for the committee?

[22:27] And how exactly does one pronounce "Oulu?"

[23:01] Call to action: Get involved with the committee, try out the TS's!

Download the latest versions of GCC [6.0], Boost [1.60], and/or Visual Studio [2015 Update 2 RC]

Other Useful Links

Herb Sutter's Jacksonville trip report

https://isocpp.org/std/status

http://gcc.gnu.org/ [6.0 changes]

http://www.boost.org/

