Heterogeneous Computing and C++ Language Evolution

Erich Keane joins Timur and Phil. Erich chats about the recent WG21 meeting in Tokyo, his roles as chair and co-chair of the Language Evolution and Language Evolution Incubator working groups, respectively, as well as heterogeneous computing and his work at NVidia.
News

• CppCon - Call for Speakers (cppcon.org/cfs2024)

• ACCU 2024 Online (accuconference.org/news/attend-accu-2024-online)

• Bjarne Stroustrup responds to White House warning against C++ (infoworld.com/article/3714401/c-plus-plus-crea…)

• David Sankel's post on Boost split (lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2024/04/256403.…)

Links

• New C++ meetup in Vienna, Austria (meetup.com/cpp-usergroup-vienna)

• Tokyo ISO C++ Committee Trip Reports:
• In-depth status report (reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1bloatw/202403_tokyo…)

• Herb Sutter's report (herbsutter.com/2024/03/22/trip-report-winter-i…)

• Think-Cell's trip report (Jonathan Müller) (think-cell.com/en/career/devblog/trip-report-s…)

• Papers discussed:
• P2900R6 - "Contracts for C++" (isocpp.org/files/papers/P2900R6.pdf)

• P2996R2 - "Reflection for C++26" (open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p…)

• P2688R1 - "Pattern Matching: match Expression" (open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p…)

• P2830R1 - "Standardized Type Ordering" (open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p…)