CppCon 2017: Herb Sutter “Meta: Thoughts on generative C++”

— Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: — Two years ago, I started to focus on exploring ways that we might evolve the C language itself to make C programming both more powerful and simpler. The only way to accomplish both of those goals at the same time is by adding abstractions that let programmers directly express their intent—to elevate comments and documentation to testable code, and elevate coding patterns and idioms into compiler-checkable declarations. The work came up with several potential candidate features where judiciously adding some power to the language could simplify code dramatically, while staying true to C ’s core values of efficient abstraction, closeness to hardware, and the zero-overhead principle. The first two potential candidate features from that work to be further developed and proposed for ISO C are the ＜=＞ unified comparison operator (minor) and what I’ve provisionally