Working from a freely available draft of the C++ 2017 spec: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/n4659.pdf http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/

Working from a freely available draft of the C++ 2017 spec: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/n4659.pdf http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/n465... In total, it's 1622 pages. Without the cross-references and the index it's only 1486 pages. Also excluding the standard library, it's 520 pages. There, the fair comparison is: Go: 105 pages C++17: 520 pages