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Five Awesome C++ Papers for San Diego--Bartlomiej Filipek

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Five Awesome C++ Papers for San Diego

By Bartlomiej Filipek

From the article:

In two weeks there will be a next C++ Committee meeting. This time the group of C++ experts will travel to San Diego, and they will discuss the shape of the upcoming C++ Standards. As far as I know, the meeting will hold a record in the number of submissions (276 proposals!) So it seems that the session will be quite exhausting smile

Here’s my list of five exciting papers that will be discussed during the meeting. I tried to pick something less popular, and usually smaller than significant features like modules, concepts or ranges...

Exploring Clang Tooling Part 2: Examining the Clang AST with clang-query--Stephen Kelly

The series continue.

Exploring Clang Tooling Part 2: Examining the Clang AST with clang-query

by Stephen Kelly

From the article:

In the last post, we created a new clang-tidy check following documented steps and encountered the first limitation in our own knowledge – how can we change both declarations and expressions such as function calls?

In order to create an effective refactoring tool, we need to understand the code generated by the create_new_check.py script and learn how to extend it.

Exploring Clang Tooling Part 1: Extending Clang-Tidy--Stephen Kelly

A very useful tool.

Exploring Clang Tooling Part 1: Extending Clang-Tidy

by Stephen Kelly

From the article:

This post is part of a three-part series about using the Clang AST Matchers to mechanically refactor C++ code. In the last post, we ensured that the code is at least buildable with Clang. While that part was only interesting to those whose code was not yet building with Clang, the rest of the series appeals to a general C++ audience.

There are many other resources on the internet covering use of existing clang-tidy checks and their motivation, such as my previous employer. There is very little information online about the developer workflow and tools to use when creating custom extensions for source to source transformations with clang-tidy. This blog series aims to fill that gap.

C++ Links #7—Bartlomiej Filipek and Wojciech Razik

The next episode of the 'most useful C++ links' is now available:

C++ Links #7

by Bartlomiej Filipek and Wojciech Razik

From the article:

Welcome to new C++ Links - most important and useful articles, podcasts and videos that happen between 13th and 19th of October.

Today you will find links to all proposals that will be discussed in the upcoming Standard Committee meeting in San Diego, a video explaining why C++ is not an object-oriented programming language and many more!

Conversions, Searchers and C++17 In Detail Updates -- Bartlomiej Filipek

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C++17 In Detail Book Update!

Conversions, Searchers and C++17 In Detail Updates

by Bartlomiej Filipek

From the article:

I’m happy to announce that I updated the book! “C++17 In Detail” grew by 31 pages (up to 250), includes two new chapters and lots of “bug” fixes and better explanations.

See the 2 new chapters about low-level String Conversion Routines and Searchers.

C++ Annotated: June - September 2018 -- Anastasia Kazakova

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C++ Annotated: June - September 2018

by Anastasia Kazakova

From the article:

... a hot C++ conference season kicked off again with CppCon. Pacific++, C++ CoreHard, Meeting C++, ADC, code::dive, and the C++ Committee meeting in San Diego, California, are coming up later this year...

... Today we are starting a new section in our regular C++ Annotated. In each issue, we will cover a selection of C++ proposals and initiatives you definitely should learn about while developing in C++. This time we unveil static exceptions, constexpr new, and lifetime checks. See details below...

Milestone | New Home | Trip Reports--Jon Kalb

The conclusion of this year cppcon.

Milestone | New Home | Trip Reports

by Jon Kalb

From the article:

At the formal closing of CppCon 2018, we took a moment to consider how far we’ve come in the first five years of the conference. Those years have seen us grow in so many ways. Since our first conference, we’ve added classes, field trips, author signings, exhibitor tables and booths, Tool Time, and the SG14 co-located ISO meeting. The number of main program sessions has grown by about fifty percent to almost one hundred fifty.  The number of Open Content sessions has doubled to about two dozen. The number of conference days (including classes)  has doubled from four and a half to nine and the number of attendees has doubled from about six hundred to over twelve hundred.

Trip report - CppCon 2018--Jean Guegant

A new one!

Trip report - CppCon 2018

by Jean Guegant

From the article:

New year, new conference! This time, my employer, King, helped me to organize a first pilgrimage to CppCon for me and another colleague. You cannot fathom how enthusiastic I was to finally making it there! Although I might be a bit late on the "trip-report-race", I think that it is still worth to relate my overall experience of the event and then move onto a list of recommended talks you should watch-out on Youtube...