I absolutely agree! And I hope that a module system will help C++ in improving its compilation times too: templates slow gcc a lot.
Just an example. In the previous months I had to re-write a medium-sized project (~5000 lines of C++), and I chose to use Free Pascal instead of C++. The old C++ code took ~1 min to compile, while Free Pascal only requires ~1 sec! It is so fast that my makefile uses the "rebuild all" switch every times it calls "fpc". In this way, at each recompilation all the hints/warnings are printed again and again, and there is no risk that I miss any of them.
Another thing that C++14 lacks is a decent set of features in the standard library. How can it be possible that the STL includes esoteric features (see "partition", "is_permutation"...), but not a printf-like formatting facility à la "boost::format"? I cannot stand the usage of ios::setw et similia!
Just an example. In the previous months I had to re-write a medium-sized project (~5000 lines of C++), and I chose to use Free Pascal instead of C++. The old C++ code took ~1 min to compile, while Free Pascal only requires ~1 sec! It is so fast that my makefile uses the "rebuild all" switch every times it calls "fpc". In this way, at each recompilation all the hints/warnings are printed again and again, and there is no risk that I miss any of them.
Another thing that C++14 lacks is a decent set of features in the standard library. How can it be possible that the STL includes esoteric features (see "partition", "is_permutation"...), but not a printf-like formatting facility à la "boost::format"? I cannot stand the usage of ios::setw et similia!