As we head into the end of year holidays, it is a good time to start thinking about our collective wishes for the next year. Please share your thoughts on what you would most like to see SG16 focus on and/or accomplish next year. Don't be afraid to dream big!

I think it is worth noting that C++23 makes it possible, for the first time, to write a proper version of hello world in C++. The following is now standard, portable, C++! https://godbolt.org/z/PYr184q6v

#include <print>
int main() {
  std::println("👋 🌍");
}

With a little luck, that Compiler Explorer link will demonstrate a working implementation for gcc in the not too distant future! Perhaps 2024 will also bring back the ability to execute code compiled by the Microsoft compiler on godbolt.org (I said to dream big!) I did verify locally that the Microsoft implementation behaves as expected (when the resulting executable is run inside Microsoft's new terminal).

When SG16 was first formed back in 2018, I was asked to contribute a brief bio to add to the WG21 committee members hosted on isocpp.org. A request for a favorite code fragment was included and I decided to go with the following forward looking example.

#include <program_arguments>
#include <environment>
#include <print>
int main() {
  std::print(u8"👋 🌍\n"); // Hello world in the universal language of emoji!
  std::print(u8"Hello {}!\n", environment["USER"].as_u8string());
  std::print(u8"This program is {}\n", program_arguments[0].as_path());
}

We're making progress! My personal wish list for 2024 includes getting the rest of this (or something quite like it) working as standard C++.

Thank you all for the contributions you bring to SG16 and WG21!

Tom.

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