C++17 Standard Published
Do any of the standard's people read HN, or is there a way of submitting requests?  The STL could seriously use some improvements.  std::string doesn't do most of the stuff you want with a string;  updating it to an interface like Python's string would be nice.  Having a std::vector::append() would be really nice, so I don't have to remember that C++ uses something completely different from every other language.  Convenience things like std::set::contains() would be nice because s.find() != s.end() is not very readable compared to contains().<p>I'm really impressed at what the standards committee has done, but I'm wondering if we ought to start thinking about a C++2.0 where we can write the C++ that we've learned we want.  The poor young-uns learning C++ still have to learn all the old stuff, because otherwise it will bite them sooner or later.