C++ committee

From the 4th to the 9th of June 2018, Phil Nash and I attended the ISO C++ Committee meeting in beautiful Rapperswil, Switzerland, representing JetBrains. We are continuing our active involvement in developing and standardizing C++ (please read the last trip report for details). We are now past the middle of the release cycle for C++20. The next meeting in San Diego in November 2018 will mark the feature freeze for new language features – there is not much time left. A lot has happened in this meeting, so let me (with some help from Phil) update you on the most important bits: Modules

This trip report is provided by Timur Doumler, who joined the CLion team in fall 2017. You might know him from his work on the JUCE framework, the Audio Developer Conference (ADC) organization, and dozens of talks about modern C++ at various conferences. Now working at JetBrains, Timur continues to be active on the C++ Committee. He is now mostly involved in the Evolution Working Group (EWG), the subgroup of the committee that reviews and approves the design of new core language features. This fits well into our strategy at JetBrains: we would like to be actively involved in the committee and