October 25, Pavia, Italy
November 6-8, Berlin, Germany
November 3-8, Kona, HI, USA
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 22, 2018 01:20 PM | Tags: community
What do you think?
“Modern C++” != “New(est) Standard”
by Arne Mertz
From the article:
The term “Modern C++” is often used interchangeably with “Code using the new C++ standard”. Here, “new” may be anything from C++11 to C++17 or even whatever is available of C++20 right now. I think that modern C++ is more and something different than just adding that -std=c++17 flag.
By Marco Arena | Aug 22, 2018 03:21 AM | Tags: visual studio intermediate c++17
One of the most important features of C++17:
std::string_view: The Duct Tape of String Types
by Billy O'Neal
From the article:
Visual Studio 2017 contains support for std::string_view, a type added in C++17 to serve some of the roles previously served by const char * and const std::string& parameters...
By Meeting C++ | Aug 22, 2018 01:58 AM | Tags: performance embedded efficiency community
Meeting Embedded is a new conference with a focus on embedded, hosting lots of talks connected to embedded & C++, plus a keynote by Dan Saks!
Meeting Embedded 2018
Schedule
Organized by Jens Weller
From the article:
Meeting Embedded 2018 is a one day event focused on hard and software development for embedded and the IoT. Meeting Embedded will be at Vienna House Andel's Berlin Hotel on the 14th of November, right in front of Meeting C++!
By Felix Petriconi | Aug 21, 2018 04:05 AM | Tags: community
The new, upcoming C++ conference "C++ on Sea" offers a free ticket.
Win a free ticket for C++ on Sea!
by C++ on Sea
About the competition:
For a brand new conference the interest in C++ on Sea already has been phenomenal!
Early Bird tickets are available and are already starting to sell - which is really exciting for us (and a little bit nerve wracking - especially after a technical hitch early on).
Amongst those that have heard of us the interest is definitely there, for which we are very grateful.
But we want to reach even more people - and that's where you come in. We'd like you to tweet about the conference.
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 20, 2018 01:26 PM | Tags: community
Have you registered for CppCon 2018 in September? 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:
Tools from the C++ eco-system to save a leg
by Anastasia Kazakova
Summary of the talk:
C++ gives you enough rope to shoot your leg off. Readable (and thus easy to maintain, easy to support) and error-free code in C++ is often hard to achieve. And while modern C++ standards bring lots of fantastic opportunities and improvements to the language, sometimes they make the task of writing high quality code even harder. Or can’t we just cook them right? Can the tools help?
In this talk I’ll highlight the main trickiness of C++, including readability problems, some real-world issues, problems that grow out of C++ context-dependent parsing. I’ll then try to guide you in how to eliminate them using tools from the C++ eco-system. This will cover code styles and supportive tools, code generation snippets, code analysis (including CLion’s inspections and Data Flow Analysis, C++ Code Guidelines and clang-tidy checks), refactorings. I will also pay some attention to unit testing frameworks and dependency managers as tools that are essential for the high quality code development.
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 20, 2018 01:10 PM | Tags: performance c++17
Did you know it?
Speeding up Pattern Searches with Boyer-Moore Algorithm from C++17
by Bartlomiej Filipek
From the article:
With C++17 you can now use more sophisticated algorithms for pattern searches! Now, you’ll have more control and a promising performance boost for many use cases...
By Hans Klabbers | Aug 20, 2018 07:57 AM | Tags: None
Although I didn’t post anything lately, don’t worry – I’m still working on a proposal for dependency management.
Dependency Management for C++ (2)
by Hans Klabbers
From the article:
I arrived at the conclusion that not only dependency management needs to be taken into account and standardised. Also building software with the defined dependencies need to be taken into account when creating a standard for dependency management.
By robwirving | Aug 18, 2018 12:30 PM | Tags: None
Episode 163 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Eberhard Gräther to discuss his work on Sourcetrail, a cross-platform source explorer for C++ code.
CppCast Episode 163: Sourcetrail with Eberhard Gräther
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
Eberhard Gräther is software developer, user experience designer and founder at Coati Software. He started programming C++ during his undergraduate CS degree at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, majoring in game development. During multiple internships in the Google Chrome Team he worked on tools for rendering performance analysis. He then specialized in Human Computer Interaction and developer tooling during a Master's degree, where he started working on Sourcetrail, a cross-platform source explorer for faster understanding of unfamiliar source code.
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 17, 2018 01:22 PM | Tags: community
Have you registered for CppCon 2018 in September? 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:
C++ atomics, from basic to advanced. What do they really do?
by Fedor Pikus
Summary of the talk:
C++11 introduced atomic operations. They allowed C++ programmers to express a lot of control over how memory is used in concurrent programs and made portable lock-free concurrency possible. They also allowed programmers to ask a lot of questions about how memory is used in concurrent programs and made a lot of subtle bugs possible.
This talk analyzes C++ atomic features from two distinct points of view: what do they allow the programmer to express? what do they really do? The programmer always has two audiences: the people who will read the code, and the compilers and machines which will execute it. This distinction is, unfortunately, often missed. For lock-free programming, the difference between the two viewpoints is of particular importance: every time an explicit atomic operation is present, the programmer is saying to the reader of the program "pay attention, something very unusual is going on here." Do we have the tools in the language to precisely describe what is going on and in what way it is unusual? At the same time, the programmer is saying to the compiler and the hardware "this needs to be done exactly as I say, and with maximum efficiency since I went to all this trouble."
This talk starts from the basics, inasmuch as this term can be applied to lock-free programming. We then explore how the C++ lock-free constructs are used to express programmer's intent clearly (and when they get in the way of clarity). Of course, there will be code to look at and to be confused by. At the same time, we never lose track of the fact that the atomics are one of the last resorts of efficiency, and the question of what happens in hardware and how fast does it happen is of paramount importance. Of course, the first rule of performance — "never guess about performance!" — applies, and any claim about speed must be supported by benchmarks.
If you never used C++ atomics but want to learn, this is the talk for you. If you think you know C++ atomics but are unclear on few details, come to fill these few gaps in your knowledge. If you really do know C++ atomics, come to feel good (or to be surprised, and then feel even better).
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 17, 2018 01:19 PM | Tags: community
It's here!
CppCon 2018 Poster Program Announced
From the article:
We’re pleased to announce that the 2018 Poster Program is now available! We have sixteen outstanding entries this year, and would like to encourage you to stop by and read all of them.
