Grill the C++ Committee
summary
A live panel walks through how ISO C++ actually changes: the committee is split into evolution/core/library working groups plus study groups like SG1 (concurrency) and SG14 (games/low‑latency); nothing lands without a paper so write a paper that specifies behavior and expect many revisions and consensus rather than majority votes; recent wins cited are parallel STL yields big speedups and Concepts cutting overload boilerplate; expect long meetings, prioritised agendas, and hard problems like undefined or signed/unsigned overflow.
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chapters (40)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:18Louie Teon
- 2:15Roger All
- 3:40Structure of the committee
- 6:34Lisa Lippincott
- 8:21Library Working Group
- 9:34Alistair Meredith
- 10:47Jon Kalb
- 14:41Most common misconception
- 17:09Common misconception
- 20:09Decisionmaking process
- 21:35Why do we leave so many undefined
- 22:44Why cant we fix X
- 23:55Dont feel intimidated
- 27:07Parallel STL
- 28:48Audience QA
- 29:46Sponsors
- 33:49How has the committee made me a better C programmer
- 34:57Networking
- 36:04Have you learnt anything
- 36:42The best education born on
- 39:00A better engineer
- 40:20C has sharp edges
- 43:02UB unsigned overflow
- 44:20Hiding bugs
- 45:03Implementation defined
- 45:49Modulo behavior
- 46:51Big numbers
- 47:20No perfect answer
- 47:51Arguments against simple change
- 49:02Optimizations
- 49:52Spec benchmarks
- 51:10Mixedsigned unsigned operations
- 51:45Out of scope
- 54:14Beyond the pale
- 54:55The direction
- 56:55Will C die
- 57:39Pattern matching
- 58:40ISO quality control
- 59:24Implementation divergence
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