diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 085a62ec..b05611c2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Yoga is an embeddable and performant flexbox layout engine with bindings for mul
 
 
 ## Building
-Yoga's main implementation targets C++ 14 with accompanying build logic in CMake. A wrapper is provided to build the main library and run unit tests.
+Yoga's main implementation targets C++ 17 with accompanying build logic in CMake. A wrapper is provided to build the main library and run unit tests.
 
 ```sh
 ./unit_tests <Debug|Release>
diff --git a/Yoga.podspec b/Yoga.podspec
index f5d27beb..bd050ade 100644
--- a/Yoga.podspec
+++ b/Yoga.podspec
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Pod::Spec.new do |spec|
       '-Wall',
       '-Werror',
       '-Wextra',
-      '-std=c++14',
+      '-std=c++17',
       '-fPIC'
   ]
   spec.source_files = 'yoga/**/*.{h,cpp}'
diff --git a/cmake/project-defaults.cmake b/cmake/project-defaults.cmake
index b6b37bcc..d02a2836 100644
--- a/cmake/project-defaults.cmake
+++ b/cmake/project-defaults.cmake
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
 # LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
-set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 14)
+set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
 set(CMAKE_CXX_VISIBILITY_PRESET hidden)
 set(CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
 
diff --git a/javascript/CMakeLists.txt b/javascript/CMakeLists.txt
index 3feeb548..1fe28c16 100644
--- a/javascript/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/javascript/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ file(GLOB SOURCES CONFIGURE_DEPENDS
 
 include_directories(..)
 
-set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 14)
+set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
 
 add_compile_definitions(
     EMSCRIPTEN_HAS_UNBOUND_TYPE_NAMES=0)