Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 Released
The Visual Studio Team just released Visual Studio 2015 Update 2.
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March 2016
GoingNative 48: ISO C++ @Jacksonville Debriefing -- Gabriel Ha
Just posted on C9:
GoingNative 48: ISO C++ @Jacksonville Debriefing
by Gabriel Ha
From the post:
We're back with another round of updates from the most recent ISO C++ standards meeting at Jacksonville, where some..."interesting" turns of events took place.
Timeline
[0:30] Interview portion begins
[1:35] The Jacksonville Controversy
[3:07] Why should I care about TS's?
[5:55] New TS's
[6:00] Modules (Try it out [VS] | Learn more | Send feedback)
[6:27] Coroutines (Try it out [VS] | Learn more | Send feedback)
[7:59] Concepts (Try it out [GCC] [6.0 changes] | Send feedback)
[10:11] Ranges (Try it out [GCC] [6.0 changes] | Send feedback)
[11:33] Direct-into-Standard items
[11:40] constexpr v3
[12:16] New attributes (fallthrough, nodiscard, maybe_unused)
[14:24] Extended aggregating initializers
[15:34] Sentinel iterators
[16:14] Hex floats
[16:27] TS-into-Standard items
[16:38] Parallelism TS (Learn more)
[17:30] Library fundamentals v1 TS (Try it out [Boost] [GCC] [6.0 changes])
[19:19] File system TS
[20:01] "Special" math IS [International Standard] (Try it out [Boost] [GCC] [6.0 changes])
[22:21] What's next for the committee?
[22:27] And how exactly does one pronounce "Oulu?"[23:01] Call to action: Get involved with the committee, try out the TS's!
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C++ Weekly Episode 4: Variadic Template Refactor
Episode 4 of C++ Weekly with Jason Turner. In this video Jason refactors some code templated code to use variadic templates to be smaller and more maintainable.
Variadic Template Refactor
by Jason Turner
C++ Weekly Episode 3: Intro to clang-tidy
Episode 3 of C++ Weekly with Jason Turner. In this video Jason looks at some basic usage of clang-tidy and using it to apply automatic code fixes.
Intro to clang-tidy
by Jason Turner
C++Now 2016 program is online
The C++Now 2016 program is online.
C++Now 2016 program
From the program:
The this years C++Now keynote will be held by the conference's first ever keynote speaker, Sean Parent. He is returning for the tenth annual conference to deliver this year's keynote, "Better Code."
STL Algorithms in Action -- Haitham Gad
Use of STL Algorithm as building block to implement various high level algorithms.
STL Algorithms in Action
by Haitham Gad
From the article:
We saw variations of three common sorting algorithms implemented generically and compactly using STL algorithms. In general, STL algorithms are more applicable than they look. The key to utilizing them is to always ask whether the raw loop I’m about to write (or the one I’m reading) can be replaced by a packaged STL algorithm. You’d be surprised how many times this question can be answered affirmatively.
CppCast Episode 50: Stream Processing with Jonathan Beard
Episode 50 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Jonathan Beard to discuss Stream Processing with his Raft Library.
CppCast Episode 50: Stream Processing with Jonathan Beard
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
Jonathan Beard received a BS (Biology) and BA (International Studies) in 2005 from the Louisiana State University, MS (Bioinformatics) in 2010 from The Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015. Jonathan served as a U.S. Army Officer through 2010 where he served in roles ranging from medical administrator to acting director of the medical informatics department for the U.S. Army in Europe. Jonathan's research interests include online modeling, stream parallel systems, streaming architectures, compute near data, and massively parallel processing. He is currently a Senior Research Engineer with ARM Research in Austin, Texas.
Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Jacksonville, February 2016--Botond Ballo
ANother trip report:
Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Jacksonville, February 2016
by Botond Ballo
From the article:
Last week I attended a meeting of the ISO C++ Standards Committee in Jacksonville, Florida. This was the first committee meeting in 2016; you can find my reports on the 2015 meetings here (May 2015, Lenexa) and here (October 2015, Kona). These reports, particularly the Kona one, provide useful context for this post...
Concepts without Concepts--Andrzej KrzemieĊski
Concetps are good, but how can we get them?
Concepts without Concepts
by Andrzej Krzemieński
From the article:
“Concept” can mean two things in the context of C++ generic libraries:
- Something informal: something we know about template parameters, and can tell to other human programmers, e.g. in documentation.
- A language feature.
This post is about concepts in the first sense. It claims that we had concepts for quite a while already, and shows how we can use them to make generic libraries easier to use...
Guidelines Support Library Review: string_span--Marius Bancila
What is a string_span?
Guidelines Support Library Review: string_span<T>
by Marius Bancila
From the article:
In a previous post I have introduced the
span<T>type from the Guidelines Support Library. This is a non-owning range of contiguous memory recommended to be used instead of pointers (and size counter) or standard containers (such asvectororarray).span<T>can be used withstrings, but the Guidelines Support Library provides a different span implementation for various types of strings. These string span types are available in thestring_span.hheader.