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"What's new in C++11/14?" Training in Berlin, 04-06 April 2017

By Giuseppe D'Angelo | Mar 9, 2017 12:49 PM | Tags: None

Join us in the upcoming C++11/14 training in Berlin, 04-06 April 2017.

What's new in C++11/14?

Training course by KDAB

About the training

C++11 is a new major version of the C++ standard, released in 2011, and brings many new features to C++ that make the language safer, faster as well as easier and more fun to use. Every professional C++ developer will sooner or later come into contact with C++11/C++14 and introducing its advantages early can only be beneficial.

In this hands-on C++11 and C++14 training for professional C++ developers, you will learn the language changes and the standard library changes introduced in C++11 as well as the changes from C++14.

In class, C++11 and C++14 will be demonstrated with the aid of many examples, and you will get the opportunity to use C++11 and C++14 right away in our lab projects.

The full table of contents for the course is available here.

Heaptrack v1.0.0 Release -- Milian Wolff

By Giuseppe D'Angelo | Mar 9, 2017 12:48 PM | Tags: None

Milian Wolff announces the first stable release of Heaptrack, a fast heap memory profiler for C and C++ software running on Linux.

Heaptrack v1.0.0 Release

by Milian Wolff

From the article:

Heaptrack is a fast heap memory profiler that runs on Linux. It allows you to track all heap memory allocations at run-time.

Afterwards, the accompanying GUI tool can be used to find optimization opportunities in your code by analyzing the recorded profiling data. It allows you to:

  • Inspect peak heap memory consumption
  • Find memory leaks
  • Count overall number of memory allocations and find temporary allocations
  • Find small allocations with large overhead

Zapcc 1.0 - A Much Faster C++ Compiler

By herbsto | Mar 8, 2017 06:00 AM | Tags: performance

We are happy to announce Zapcc, a Clang/LLVM based C++ compiler, with much faster compilations.

Zapcc

by the Zapcc team

About the compiler:

Typically, Zapcc accelerate full C++ builds by x2-x5, and incremental builds by x10 and more.

Zapcc is available for evaluation on the companies website.

Feel free to try it out!

CppCast Episode 92: Visual Studio 2017 for C++ Developers with Daniel Moth

By robwirving | Mar 7, 2017 04:32 PM | Tags: None

Episode 92 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Daniel Moth from Microsoft to talk about all of the new C++ features in today's release of Visual Studio 2017.

CppCast Episode 92: Visual Studio 2017 for C++ Developers with Daniel Moth

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Daniel Moth joined Microsoft in the UK in 2006, before transitioning to Redmond in 2008 to work as a Program Manager on Visual Studio, which is where he is still working today. Before Microsoft he worked as a software developer in the industry for almost a decade, most of that time building mobile apps.

Visual Studio 2017 for C++ developers

By Marco Arena | Mar 7, 2017 03:06 PM | Tags: visual studio

The following Visual Studio 2017 launch day articles have gone live on the VCBlog:

Visual Studio 2017 for C++ developers – you will love it

C++ Code Analysis improvements in Visual Studio 2017 RTM

Check for const correctness with the C++ Core Guidelines Checker

Binary Compatibility and Pain-free Upgrade: Why Moving to Visual Studio 2017 is almost “too easy”

MSVC: The best choice for Windows

Use any C++ Compiler with Visual Studio

C++ game development workload in Visual Studio 2017

Completed UserVoice Suggestions in Visual Studio 2017

C++ Standards Conformance from Microsoft

Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension March 2017 Update

C++14 conformance improvements: constexpr and aggregate initialization

Finding installed Visual C++ tools for Visual Studio 2017

CppCast Episode 91: emBO++ with Odin Holmes

By robwirving | Mar 3, 2017 09:07 AM | Tags: None

Episode 91 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Odin Holmes to talk about the recent Embedded C++ development conference emBO++.

CppCast Episode 91: emBO++ with Odin Holmes

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner:

About the interviewee:

Odin Holmes has been programming bare metal embedded systems for 15+ years and as any honest nerd admits most of that time was spent debugging his stupid mistakes. With the advent of the 100x speed up of template metaprogramming provided by C++11 his current mission began: teach the compiler to find his stupid mistakes at compile time so he has more free time for even more template metaprogramming. Odin Holmes is the author of the Kvasir.io library, a DSL which wraps bare metal special function register interactions allowing full static checking and a considerable efficiency gain over common practice. He is also active in building and refining the tools need for this task such as the brigand MPL library, a replacement candidate for boost.parameter and a better public API for boost.MSM-lite.

ACCU 2017 Early Bird Ends Soon

By Felix Petriconi | Mar 3, 2017 06:45 AM | Tags: community

The early bird rates for the upcomming ACCU 2017 conference in Bristol, UK ends midnight on Monday 6th March 2017.

ACCU 2017 Conference Registration

by the ACCU conference

About the conference:

ACCU 2017 is set to be bigger and better than ever, with keynotes from Herb Sutter, Frances Buontempo, Brad Chamberlain and Russ Miles. There are also Pre-Conference Tutorials available on Tuesday 24th April, and 5 parallel streams of informative presentations/discussions throughout the course of the week. With origins in the C User Group UK and the European C++ User Group, ACCU remains proud of its C and C++ heritage and is arguably the premier UK and European conference covering these languages. Whilst celebrating its C origins, ACCU also offers its polyglot programmers insight and new trends on native and other programming languages. It’s one not to be missed!

Reflections on the reflection proposals

By Meeting C++ | Mar 2, 2017 07:09 AM | Tags: reflection intermediate experimental c++20 basics advanced

Since the overview on the current papers for Kona, I wanted to know more about reflection...

Reflections on the reflection proposals

by Jens Weller

From the article

A few weeks ago I wrote a short overview over the most interesting papers for the current C++ Committee meeting in Kona, Hawaii. The big surprise was that there were many papers on reflection, while there already is a very detailed proposal for reflection.

With the C++ committee currently in Kona discussing lots of proposals, there will be some changes to the on going effort for reflection, but the current proposals are detailed enough to give an overview.