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A screenshot from the linked article titled "Reflection in C++26", showing reflection as one of the bullet points listed in the "Core Language" section
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2024
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It's good the core language now has to have a reason before it deletes shit. Speaking of, when do they add full garbage collection and call it c+++?
Garbage collection was at some point part of the spec but was removed in 23.
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/gc/declare_reachable
If wasn't full garbage collection in the spec. It was some infrastructure support in the spec that would make it easier to write garbage collectors in C++.
This, however, is about diagnostics, i. e. annotating delete with a reason (message) to express developer intent when deleting a function, not about memory management.
There’s C++/CLI if you want to combine garbage collection with the pain of C++