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2026-02 pre-Croydon Mailing Mailing
Stickied by u/AutoModerator · February 2026
The pre-Croydon mailing is out. Papers for the March 23-28 meeting in Croydon, UK. Full paper list on open-std.org.
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P4003R1 - Ask: IoAwaitable for Coroutine-Native Byte-Oriented I/O WG21
Posted by u/modern_cpp_news · 44 comments
New paper proposing the IoAwaitable protocol as the standard vocabulary for coroutine-native byte-oriented I/O. Positions itself as a "third way" distinct from both the Networking TS and sender/receiver.
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P3874R1 - Should C++ be a memory-safe language? WG21
Posted by u/cpp_papers_bot · 83 comments
The paper asks whether C++ should commit to becoming a memory-safe language. Core argument: "memory-safe" means systematically preventing all UB, not just reducing memory bugs. Proposes a subset-of-superset approach.
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P3655R3 - std::cstring_view WG21
Posted by u/standard_committee_watcher · 42 comments
Proposes std::cstring_view - a non-owning view of a null-terminated string. Like string_view but with a guaranteed '\0' at the end, so you can safely pass .c_str() to C APIs.
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P2900R14 - Contracts for C++ WG21
Posted by u/standards_watcher_2024 · 87 comments
Contracts are in C++26. After the infamous removal from C++20, five years of work in SG21, fourteen revisions, and a plenary vote, the committee approved P2900R14.