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	P3874R1	Should C++ be a memory-safe language?	Jon Bauman J. Bauman , Timur Doumler T. Doumler , Nevin Liber N. Liber , Ryan McDougall R. McDougall , Pablo Halpern P. Halpern , Jeff Garland J. Garland , Jonathan Müller J. Müller	EWG	2026-02
Intent Proposal Mailing Date 2026-02 Pre-Croydon Author(s) Jon Bauman, Timur Doumler, Nevin Liber, Ryan McDougall, Pablo Halpern, Jeff Garland, Jonathan Müller Target Audience EWG Tracking issue View on GitHub Abstract In recent years there have been numerous recommendations from industry, academia and government to prefer “memory-safe languages”1. Rust is consistently described as a memory-safe language while C++ is not — despite the fact that both can exhibit undefined behavior violating many of the commonly understood memory safety guarantees such as protection against buffer overflows and dangling pointers.
	P3970R0	Profiles and Safety: a call to action	David Vandevoorde D. Vandevoorde , Jeff Garland J. Garland , Paul E. McKenney P. McKenney , Roger Orr R. Orr , Bjarne Stroustrup B. Stroustrup , Michael Wong M. Wong	EWG SG12 SG20 SG23	2026-02
Intent Proposal Mailing Date 2026-02 Pre-Croydon Author(s) David Vandevoorde, Jeff Garland, Paul E. McKenney, Roger Orr, Bjarne Stroustrup, Michael Wong Target Audience EWG SG12 SG20 SG23 Tracking issue View on GitHub
	P4023R0	Strategic Direction for AI in C++: Governance, and Ecosystem	Michael Wong M. Wong , Jeff Garland J. Garland , Paul E. McKenney P. McKenney , Roger Orr R. Orr , Bjarne Stroustrup B. Stroustrup , David Vandevoorde D. Vandevoorde , Michael Wong M. Wong	WG21	2026-02
Intent Proposal Mailing Date 2026-02 Pre-Croydon Author(s) Michael Wong, Jeff Garland, Paul E. McKenney, Roger Orr, Bjarne Stroustrup, David Vandevoorde, Michael Wong Target Audience WG21 Tracking issue View on GitHub Abstract Purpose: To update the C++ Directions Paper (P2000) with a unified strategy for AI, focusing on governance and ecosystem encouragement.
	P4024R0	Guidance on Building Consensus and Converging Proposals	Michael Wong M. Wong , Jeff Garland J. Garland , Paul E. McKenney P. McKenney , Roger Orr R. Orr , Bjarne Stroustrup B. Stroustrup , David Vandevoorde D. Vandevoorde , Michael Wong M. Wong	WG21	2026-02
Intent Proposal Mailing Date 2026-02 Pre-Croydon Author(s) Michael Wong, Jeff Garland, Paul E. McKenney, Roger Orr, Bjarne Stroustrup, David Vandevoorde, Michael Wong Target Audience WG21 Tracking issue View on GitHub

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