A new O'Reilly book from two well-known C++ community experts, freely available courtesy of the makers of CLion:

C++ Today: The Beast Is Back

by Jon Kalb and Gašper Ažman

From the announcement:

Now that software development is shifting primarily toward mobile and cloud computing, the venerable C++ programming language is returning to the dominant position it held during the object-oriented boom of the 1990s. In this O′Reilly report, you′ll learn why C++ is once again the preferred choice across several diverse industries...

Table of contents:

Preface

1. The Nature of the Beast

C++: What’s It Good For?

2. The Origin Story

C: Portable Assembler

C with High-Level Abstractions

The ’90s: The OOP Boom, and a Beast Is Born

The 2000s: Java, the Web, and the Beast Nods Off

3. The Beast Wakes

Technology Evolution: Performance Still Matters

Language Evolution: Modernizing C++

Tools Evolution: The Clang Toolkit

Library Evolution: The Open Source Advantage

4. The Beast Roars Back

WG21

Tools

Standard C++ Foundation

Boost: A Library and Organization

Q&A

Conferences and Groups

Videos

CppCast

Books

5. Digging Deep on Modern C++

Type Inference: Auto and Decltype

How Move Semantics Support Value-Semantic and Functional Programming

No More Output Parameters

Inner Functions with Lambdas

Lambdas as a Scope with a Return Value

6. The Future of C++

Setting the Standard

Never Make Predictions, Especially About the Future

Bibliography