C++ 14 has been ratified.

Anonymous Coward

in code on 2014-08-18 22:05 (#3Z2)

Herb Sutter reports that the ballot closed on Friday. From the
announcement: "We will perform some final editorial tweaks, on the
order of fixing a few spelling typos and accidentally dropped words,
and then transmit the document to ISO for publication this year as the
brand new International Standard ISO/IEC 14882:2014(E) Programming
Language C++, a.k.a. C++14."

https://isocpp.org/blog/2014/08/we-have-cpp14

Re: Simpler? (Score: 2, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-20 15:17 (#3ZS)

Yes, except that they actually did.

The language as a whole gets bigger because it maintains backwards compatibility. This is good.

The part of the language that you actually use on a daily basis gets smaller. This is also good.

The code you write today is simpler. The code you wrote 10 years ago still works. That looks like success to me.