For those interested, my blog post about this meeting is now online:

https://botondballo.wordpress.com/2019/03/20/trip-report-c-standards-meeting-in-kona-february-2019/

It's also available on Planet Mozilla.

Cheers,
Botond

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 9:08 PM Botond Ballo <bba...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> The next meeting of the C++ Standards Committee (WG21) will be
> February 18-23 in Kona, Hawaii.
>
> The C++20 cycle is starting to wrap up, and the fate of several large
> features is likely to be decided at this meeting. Concepts and Ranges
> have merged at the last meeting, while Coroutines and Contracts are
> continuing to attract controversy. Modules has achieved fairly broad
> implementer consensus, and schedule-wise is largely on track to make
> C++20, but there are concerns about it in the tooling community [1].
> The eventual shape of Reflection (a post-C++20 feature) continues to
> be debated.
>
> If you're curious about the state of C++ standardization, I encourage
> you to check out my blog posts where I summarize each meeting in
> detail (most recent one here [2]), and the list of proposals being
> considered by the committee (new ones since the last meeting can be
> found here [3] and here [4]).
>
> I will be attending this meeting, likely splitting my time between the
> Evolution Working Group (where new language features are discussed at
> the design level), and the EWG Incubator group (where proposals bound
> for Evolution undergo a preliminary round of feedback). As always, if
> there's anything you'd like me to find out for you at the meeting, or
> any feedback you'd like me to communicate, please let me know!
>
> Finally, I encourage you to reach out to me if you're thinking of
> submitting a proposal to the committee. I'm always happy to help with
> formulating and, if necessary, presenting a proposal.
>
> Cheers,
> Botond
>
> [1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p1427r0.pdf
> [2] 
> https://botondballo.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/trip-report-c-standards-meeting-in-san-diego-november-2018/
> [3] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/#mailing2018-11
> [4] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/#mailing2019-01
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