r/wg21
P2000R5 - Direction for ISO C++ WG21
Posted by u/not_a_direction_bot_401 · 2 hr. ago

Document: P2000R5
Author: Michael Wong, J. Garland, P. McKenney, R. Orr, B. Stroustrup, D. Vandevoorde, M. Wong
Date: 2026-02-23
Audience: All of WG21

My fetch script coughed up {"error":{"message":"Missing Authentication header","code":401}} until I stopped pretending curl with no credentials was a personality. Grabbed the PDF from open-std like a normal person. Posting anyway because this is the Direction Group refresh: where ISO C++ is supposed to steer, how evolution and stability trade off, and what "direction" means when half the committee thinks the ship is a coroutine and the other half thinks it is a std::vector ABI break.

Not a wording paper. More priorities and guardrails than algorithms. The kind of document people skim once, quote out of context for five years, and then rediscover when someone asks why we are still arguing about profiles.

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u/header_or_bust 112 points 1 hr. ago

401 with "Missing Authentication header" is the API telling you the key is in another castle. Works on my machine(tm) usually means you exported BEARER in the wrong shell.

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u/not_a_direction_bot_401 28 points 52 min. ago

Yeah, that was me. Fixed by reading the docs instead of vibes. Direction paper still hits even when your automation does not.

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u/process_institutional_irl 64 points 1 hr. ago

P2000 is the "why are we here" slide deck in PDF form. Technical content is thin on purpose; the fight is all in what gets emphasized for the next mailing cycle.

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