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Overload 152 is now available

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 19, 2019 09:46 AM | Tags: community

ACCU’s Overload journal of August 2019 is out. It contains the following C++ related articles.

Overload 152 is now available

From the journal:

Reactive or Proactive.
Reactive systems are all the rage. Frances Buontempo compares them with a proactive approach.

A Low-Latency Logging Framework.
Logging can be a bottleneck in systems. Wesley Maness and Richard Reich demonstrate a low-latency logging framework that avoids common problems.

Empty Scoped Enums as Strong Aliases for Integral Types.
Scoped enums have many advantages. Lukas Böger demonstrates their use as strong types of numbers.

C++ Reflection for Python Binding.
There are various approaches to generating Python bindings in C++. Russell Standish shows how Classdesc can be used to achieve this.

Trip Report: Italian C++ 2019.
Milan held Italy’s largest C++ conference. Hans Vredeveld reports back.

Afterwood.
Many people are risk-averse. Chris Oldwood considers this position – in verse.

Cppcon-2019 Poster Program Announced--Bob Steagall

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 15, 2019 10:56 AM | Tags: community

Check it out!

2019 Poster Program Announced

by Bob Steagall

From the article:

We’re pleased to announce that the 2019 Poster Program is now available! We have twelve outstanding entries this year, and encourage you to stop by and read all of them...

Quick Q: C++11 lambdas can access my private members. Why?

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 15, 2019 10:54 AM | Tags: advanced

Quick A: initialisers can access private members.

Recently on SO:

C++11 lambdas can access my private members. Why?

The initializer expression in the deﬁnition of a static data member is in the scope of its class...

Cppcon-Lightning Talks and Lightning Challenge--Phil Nash

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 15, 2019 10:50 AM | Tags: community

Up for it?

Lightning Talks and Lightning Challenge

by Phil Nash

From the article:

Whilst many of the main conference talks go deep, Lightning Talks are, well, lighter. That doesn’t mean you won’t gain deep insights from some. Many, however, are humorous, entertaining – and often high-energy...

C++ Core Guidelines: Non-Rules and Myths--Rainer Grimm

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 14, 2019 11:19 AM | Tags: community

Do you do that?

C++ Core Guidelines: Non-Rules and Myths

by Rainer Grimm

From the article:

Of course, you already know many non-rules and myths to C++. Non-rules and myths which we have to argument against when we use modern C++. The supporting section of the C++ core guidelines addresses the most resistant once but also provides alternatives...

17 Smaller but Handy C++17 Features--Bartlomiej Filipek

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 14, 2019 11:04 AM | Tags: c++17

It's not all about the big things.

17 Smaller but Handy C++17 Features

by Bartlomiej Filipek

From the article:

When you see an article about new C++ features, most of the time you’ll see a description of major elements. Looking at C++17, there are a lot of posts (including articles from this blog) about structured bindings, filesystem, parallel algorithms, if constexpr, std::optional, std::variant… and other prominent C++17 additions.

But how about those smaller parts? Library or language improvements that didn’t require decades to standardise or violent “battles” at the ISO meetings.

In this article, I’ll show you 17 smaller C++17 things that will improve your code...