+1 (non-binding)

Best,
Xuwei Fu

Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> 于2025年5月20日周二 00:14写道:

>
> Hello,
>
> I am proposing that we switch Arrow C++ to require C++20.
>
> C++20 will offer support for more C++ language and standard library
> features, such as:
>
> - concepts
> - generic lambdas with explicit type parameters
> - designated initializers
> - calendar and timezone functions (currently, our Windows users need to
> download the timezone database separately; this would not be required
> anymore with C++20, IIUC)
> - std::span (we currently use a backport)
> - coroutines (not sure they are usable enough, though)
> - various smaller improvements and additions
>
> A decent level of C++20 support is available with these compiler
> versions (see https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support#cpp20
> for details):
>
> - gcc 10
> - clang 10 to 19
> - MSVC 19.28 (Visual Studio 2019) or 19.30 (Visual Studio 2022)
>
> Switching to C++20 will happen in any case, the question is whether we
> can do it now or we need to wait for a year or two.
>
> There is an experimental PR to switch to C++20 and it shows that there
> is no blocker for switching (a couple odd issues will have to be fixed:
> https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/45445
>
> A more general issue has been opened separately:
> https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/45885
>
> Are there any opinions on this?
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>

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