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Steve Klabnik
@steveklabnik.com

Holy shit! lnkd.in/p/g3r98kNM

lnkd.inBalloting has completed for C++26. Unfortunately it was Disapproved P-Members voting: 12 in favor out of 20 = 60 % (requirement >= 66.66%) (P-Members having abstained are not counted in th...Balloting has completed for C++26. Unfortunately it was Disapproved P-Members voting: 12 in favor out of 20 = 60 % (requirement >= 66.66%) (P-Members having abstained are not counted in this vote.) M...

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doych
@doych.bsky.social

I was looking into this out of curiosity, and I'm not sure I'm understanding this right - C++ holds binding votes on whether to include sets of features, *before* those features have an implementation? There's no "test out this experimental feature" phase? That can't be a good idea

arachnocapitalist
@arachno.capital

I mean "C++26" should probably be "hey Fable, rewrite this in rust" (context: C++ was my first language and I spent an aggregate decade writing it in anger, mostly C++98 and C++11)

Steve Klabnik
@steveklabnik.com

Yes, contracts finally made it in after like a decade of back and forth. And then Bjarne regretted it and was threatening this veto. We haven’t gotten an official reason yet but this situation is my guess

MrCheeze
@mrcheeze.github.io

I don't follow. Are you saying that Bjarne personally said he disliked contracts and the national bodies voted against the standard because he said that?

Aki the Conqueror 🦓
@akiro.se

I don’t suppose you can give me or link me to an ELI5 that provides enough context that I can talk about this at the ISO-IEC/JTC 1 plenary in Dublin starting 09 November?

John Feminella
@jxf.me

If this is helpful, this is an extremely high-level overview of my understanding: bsky.app/profile/jxf....

John Feminella@jxf.me

Here's a brief explainer thread for what just happened around C++ 26. C++ contains two new features designed (in part) to improve safety. There's been increasing pressure from governments and cybersecurity organizations for the adoption of languages that are memory safe by default.

lnkd.inBalloting has completed for C++26. Unfortunately it was Disapproved P-Members voting: 12 in favor out of 20 = 60 % (requirement >= 66.66%) (P-Members having abstained are not counted in th...Balloting has completed for C++26. Unfortunately it was Disapproved P-Members voting: 12 in favor out of 20 = 60 % (requirement >= 66.66%) (P-Members having abstained are not counted in this vote.) M...