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CppCon 2017: Web | C++--Lukas Bergdoll

By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 19, 2018 12:57 PM | Tags: community

Have you registered for CppCon 2018 in September? Late registration is open now.

While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2017 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:

Web | C++

by Lukas Bergdoll

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

Have you ever tried writing a web application with C++? Can opening a file and serving it via HTTP be as simple as writing 20 lines of python? With the undeniable importance of web development, C++ can not allow itself to ignore such an important field, especially with the rising competition in the field of system programming languages, coming from Rust, D and Go.

Join us as we explore modern approaches to asynchronous IO, socket communication the advantages and disadvantages of using a unikernel and their respective performance implications.

We'll also take a look at how future iterations of the C++ standard library, could solve some of those problems.

How to Remove Elements from a Sequence Container in C++--Jonathan Boccara

By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 18, 2018 12:31 PM | Tags: basics

Using the std to remove.

How to Remove Elements from a Sequence Container in C++

by Jonathan Boccara

From the article:

As part of the STL Learning Resource, we’re tackling today the STL algorithms that remove elements from a collection.

Removing an element from a C++ collection can’t be that complicated, can it?

Well, how can I put it… It has a rich complexity, let’s say.

Ok, maybe it’s a little complicated.

We will cover this topic in a series of four articles:

  • How to Remove Elements from a Sequence Container (vector, string, deque, list)
  • How to Remove Pointers from a Vector in C++ (co-written with Gaurav Sehgal)
  • How to Remove Elements from an Associative Container (maps and sets)
  • How to Remove Duplicates from an Associative Container

C++ Links #2--Bartlomiej Filipek

By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 18, 2018 12:30 PM | Tags: community

New links to check out!

C++ Links #2

by Bartlomiej Filipek

From the article:

Welcome to new C++ Links - most important and useful articles, podcasts and videos that happened between 8th and 14th of September. Today you will find a link to a post about the C++ quality of life features, a video with an explanation of the difference between const and constexpr, an article that describes some of SFINAE problems and many others.

Modern C++ Features – Quality-of-Life Features--Arne Mertz

By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 18, 2018 12:24 PM | Tags: intermediate c++17

Some to help, some to enable.

Modern C++ Features – Quality-of-Life Features

by Arne Mertz

From the article:

With the new C++ standards, we got a lot of features that feel like “quality-of-life” features. They make things easier for the programmer but do not add functionality that wasn’t already there. Except, some of those features do add functionality we couldn’t implement manually.

Some of those quality-of-life features are really exactly that. The standard often describes them as being equivalent to some alternative code we can actually type. Others are mostly quality-of-life, but there are edge cases where we can not get the effect by hand, or the feature is slightly superior to the manual implementation.

I will concentrate on core language features here, since most library features are implementable using regular C++. Only a few library features use compiler intrinsics...

CppCon 2017: Class Template Argument Deduction: A New Abstraction--Zhihao Yuan

By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 17, 2018 11:59 AM | Tags: community

Have you registered for CppCon 2018 in September? Late registration is open now.

While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2017 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:

Class Template Argument Deduction: A New Abstraction

by Zhihao Yuan

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

C++17 is often quoted as “just a better C++14”, suggesting that nothing is new, nothing is changing the way we program. This talk presents class template argument deduction as a counterexample, a hidden gem in the new standard.

Saves typing? A replacement for the `make` functions? If that’s your frame, then you should come to this talk. The true power of class template argument deduction is underestimated. It’s a new point of abstraction but requiring creativity, insights, and understanding about the language details to manage.

This talk will start by introducing all matters about this feature to build up sufficient background knowledge, followed by teaching how to write deduction guides by examples, and finally explain how to build abstractions using the whole feature in a top-down approach, with patterns categorized.