C++26: Reflection, Memory Safety, Contracts, and a New Async Model



Posted on Fri Apr 17 2026 | 8:30 pm


The C++26 standard draft is now complete, reports Herb Sutter, long-time C++ expert and former chair of the ISO C++ standards committee. The finalized draft introduces reflection, enhances memory safety without requiring code rewrites, adds contracts with preconditions and postconditions alongside a new assertion statement, and establishes a unified framework for concurrency and parallelism.




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