This article is from my old blog at kacperkolodziej.com.

I'm trying to follow proposals for new C++ standards. There is a lot of documents informing C++ enthusiasts about features which will make our code cleaner, more comprehensible, but sometimes we can see propositions of improvements which will let us to resign from external libraries in favour of standard library. One of such improvements is std::embed -- implementation defined function that will embed some data at compile time.

Proposal P1040R0 has been published about a month ago. Its author is JeanHeyd Meneide. This revision asks about possibility of embedding text and binary files, ways of making out if loaded file should be interpreted as text or binary, null termination of loaded data. For me there is one thing that should be taken for granted -- std::embed and all related functions should be constexpr. I'm going to keep track of this proposal and inform you about it.