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Stroustrup said he was disappointed with C++17 as it didn't introduce anything massive. You can see him mentioning this widely and openly at cppcon last year.

It'll be interesting to see what gets in next.

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Well concepts and modules, arguably the most important features C++ desperately needs, are still missing from this release.

Yeah, i was hoping for the long overdue death of header files.

eh, check that modules is what you think it is/should be:

https://izzys.casa/posts/millennials-are-killing-the-modules...

Modules without buy-in from build tools (or a fresh build tool) will probably be DoA as Isabella says.

There is a fresh build tool that supports modules in the big three (GCC, Clang, and VC):

https://build2.org

Concepts were merged into the C++20 draft, at least.

Herb Sutter's metaclasses proposal is what I'm most looking forward to which would go a long way towards addressing C++'s template craziness.

Never heard of that. I'll look into it.

Herb Sutter's talk about it is by far the best talk I've seen from from CppCon17.

"Meta: Thoughts on generative C++" - https://youtu.be/4AfRAVcThyA

Maybe there were not any big things in C++17 but I do think they added smaller features that have a big impact. In ways such as we can begin to replace our parameters (where appropriate) with `std::string_view` and things of that nature. Moreover there are many libraries and packages that could see a lot of benefit from a sort of "C++17" refactor.

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