December 2019

CopperSpice: CsPaint - Rendering with Vulkan

New video on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:

CsPaint - Rendering with Vulkan

by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim

About the video:

In this video, we discuss the CsPaint library and why vector graphics rendered on the GPU are going to become more important as high DPI monitors become more common. We also explain why Vulkan can provide better performance than OpenGL.

Please take a look and remember to subscribe!

CLion 2019.3: Concepts, Coverage, Ninja, Clang-based completion -- Anastasia Kazakova

Interested in giving a try?

CLion 2019.3: A Quality-Targeted Release Focused on Performance and Some Long-Awaited Enhancements

by Anastasia Kazakova

From the article:

Improving the IDE performance and fixing major bugs are always a top priority for our team. In this update we have been focusing especially on improving the performance in specific areas, eliminating UI freezes (not all, but many of them have been melted away!), and enhancing the editor and the integrations for our users:

  • Clangd-based code completion
  • Debugger updates
  • Ninja and other CMake generators
  • Switching between Header/Source files
  • Code Coverage
  • C++20’s Concepts