C++17

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 29 January 2016 at 10:43:08 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/41uflq/bjarne_stroustrup_doing_an_ama/
>
> Mentions D.

Since it is in danish, let me quickly translate the informative 
sections:

Bjarne Stroustrup (translated from danish): The safety rules is 
part of the more extensive guidelines 
(https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines ) and supported by a 
small library (https://github.com/microsoft/gsl ) .  We have 
"annotations" which can be used to neutralize the rules (as an 
"unsafe" annotation). We minimize their usage. Our goal is 100% 
safety and I assume that we will get as close to that goals as 
any language that can work directly with hardware. We already 
have 100% resource safety, and that is better than languages like 
Java and C#. I think all languages will become better in these 
areas.»


On garbage collection:

Bjarne Stroustrup (translated from danish): Yes, programming 
language creators and researchers have always been fascinated by 
garbage collection. I think that is a mistake: GC is not general 
- it cannot deal with non-memory resources - and is not ideal - 
it introduces a central facility in (otherwise) distributed 
systems. The good solution is to not produce garbage: 
http://www.stroustrup.com/resource-model.pdf . RAII is central in 
my ideas about programming.


He also acknowledges scandinavian contributions to programming 
languages, the OO languages Simula and Beta.