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Alt text:A screenshot from the linked article titled "Reflection in C++26", showing reflection as one of the bullet points listed in the "Core Language" section

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Garbage collection was at some point part of the spec but was removed in 23.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/gc/declare_reachable

[โ€“] mkwt 6 points 2 months ago

If wasn't full garbage collection in the spec. It was some infrastructure support in the spec that would make it easier to write garbage collectors in C++.