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sukovanej
sukovanej

Reputation: 688

Will the standard library of C++ contains networking, string algorithms,... in future?

I had to start using C++ in my work and actually, I started to like it. And thanks to Scott Meyers's books it is not that hard to get into it. But I hate the lack of features (not) contained in the standard library. Will there be a similar set of functions like (for example) in the D's Phobos library (https://dlang.org/phobos/) in future?

Why there are no methods for working with strings, JSON, TCP/IP, features for dealing with arrays? I already found some papers about networking and so on, http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental. But will these features actually get into the STL standard library? If so - when?

Note: I'm aware of Boost framework. Are there any discussions about merging it into the standard library?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4610

Answers (1)

Piotr G
Piotr G

Reputation: 1028

C++ standard library has introduced some features that originally started in Boost, like shared pointers for instance, so there is chance that this transfer will continue in future.

C++11 already introduced some string manipulation methods. As for C++17, it is planned to introduce, among others, filesystem and variant (now both part of boost). C++20 may contain networking extensions: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/n4656.pdf

Upvotes: 5

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