Interview: On simplifying C++

I was also interviewed recently by Anastasia Kazakova for the CLion blog, and that interview is now live:

Toward a more powerful and simpler C++ with Herb Sutter

Topics include:

Concepts and modules (and coroutines) as the true hot topics right now
How my work on metaclasses was motivated and developed
Obligatory aside on operator which grew out of the same work
Good and bad ways to learn from other languages and their experience
What are the next questions to be answered for metaclasses proposal
What has been the committee’s feedback so far
How can we expect to see reflection, compile-time code, injection, and metaclasses both progress in committee and get built into production compilers
How toolable are today’s C++11/14/17 features, and what about toolability for metaclasses

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