OVERLOAD JOURNAL 168 - APRIL 2022

By Adrien Hamelin | Apr 25, 2022 12:39 PM | Tags: community

The new Overload is out.

OVERLOAD JOURNAL 168 - APRIL 2022

In the journal:

On Becoming Unstuck
By Frances Buontempo
The horsemen of the apocalypse may be on the horizon. Frances Buontempo attempts to stop doom-scrolling and solve problems instead.

Taming Wordle with the Command Line
By James Handley
Could static analysis provide a generic way to approach Wordle? James Handley uses simple command line tools in order to (hopefully) name that Wordle in four!

C++20: A Coroutine Based Stream Parser
By Andreas Fertig
Stream parsing code can be very complicated. Andreas Fertig uses coroutines to make stream parsing code clearer.

Structured Concurrency in C++
By Lucian Radu Teodorescu
Raw threads tend to be unstructured. Lucian Radu Teodorescu applies principles from Structured Programming to concurrency.

The Vector Refactored
By Teedy Deigh
Finding the right level of abstraction can be challenging. Teedy Deigh razes the level of abstraction.

Type Erasure--Rainer Grimm

By Adrien Hamelin | Apr 25, 2022 12:36 PM | Tags: None

The series continue.

Type Erasure

by Rainer Grimm

From the article:

Type erasure based on templates is a pretty sophisticated technique. It allows you to bridge dynamic polymorphism (object orientation) with static polymorphism (templates).

Define Concepts--Rainer Grimm

By Adrien Hamelin | Apr 25, 2022 12:35 PM | Tags: None

The series continue.

Define Concepts

by Rainer Grimm

From the article:

There are two ways to define a concept: You can combine existing concepts and compile-time predicates, or you can apply a requires expression in four different ways...

Meeting C++ is looking for employers for the job fair in May

By Meeting C++ | Apr 11, 2022 01:37 AM | Tags: recruiting meetingcpp community

The second C++ online job fair will be on May 3rd/4th organized by Meeting C++.

Meeting C++ is looking for employers for the job fair in May

by Jens Weller

From the article:

A call for employer participation in the online C++ job fair in beginning of May.

If you have open positions to fill and/or are looking for C++ talent, don't miss the chance to hire through Meeting C++ events! Sponsors of the event will be listed in the CV Sharing form at Meeting C++ and receive CVs submitted by candidates directly through Meeting C++. This brings the advantage that you reach the many candidates that could not make it to the event. Further your logo and a paragraph or two about your company are listed on the website and advertised on social media. Free tables have 4 instead of 8 seats and will be listed below the sponsors. The free option is limited to the time of the event and companies can only participate twice with the free option. The last event had 71 candidates apply to the various sponsors of the event.

Adventures with string_view -- Giovanni Dicanio

By Giovanni Dicanio | Apr 10, 2022 12:28 PM | Tags: None

Thinking of introducing std::string_view in your existing ATL/MFC C++ code base?

Adventures with string_view: Making string_view Play Well with ATL/MFC CString

by Giovanni Dicanio

From the blog post:

So, problem solved? Nope. Don’t forget that this is C++! And things can get more “interesting” when you apparently solved one problem.

Annoucing Meeting C++ 2022

By Meeting C++ | Apr 7, 2022 06:07 AM | Tags: meetingcpp event conference community

The dates and more has been announced for Meeting C++ 2022:

Announcing Meeting C++ 2022

by Jens Weller

From the article:

Meeting C++ 2022 (17th - 19th November) will be a hybrid event, returning to Berlin while also being an online event for all that can't make it to the Andels in Berlin.

After two years, this years conference will be the first hosted on site again. For 3 days Meeting C++ will offer the best of C++ in talks and 3 keynotes. Keynotes will be announced later, there is a long list of folks I'd like to keynote, but I haven't decided on this at the moment...

More about Dynamic and Static Polymorphism--Rainer Grimm

By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 21, 2022 12:24 PM | Tags: None

The series continue.

More about Dynamic and Static Polymorphism

by Rainer Grimm

From the article:

In my last post "Dynamic and Static Polymorphism", I introduced dynamic polymorphism. Today, I continue with static polymorphism and present are very interesting idiom in C++: curiously recurring template pattern (CRTP).

Zero-cost exceptions aren’t actually zero cost--Raymond Chen

By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 21, 2022 12:19 PM | Tags: advanced

The devil is in the details.

Zero-cost exceptions aren’t actually zero cost

by Raymond Chen

From the article:

There are two common models for exception handling in C++. One is by updating some program state whenever there is a change to the list of things that need to be done when an exception occurs, say, because a new exception handler is in scope or has exited scope, or to add or remove a destructor from the list of things to execute during unwinding. Another model is to use metadata to describe what to do if an exception occurs. There is no explicit management of the state changes at runtime; instead, the exception machinery infers the state by looking at the program counter and consulting the metadata...

WinReg: Simplify Windows Registry Programming in C++ -- Giovanni Dicanio

By Giovanni Dicanio | Mar 20, 2022 11:53 AM | Tags: None

Windows Registry programming using the native C API is cumbersome and bug-prone. Fortunately, you can simplify that using a modern C++ library like WinReg.

Simplifying Windows Registry Programming with the C++ WinReg Library

by Giovanni Dicanio

From the blog post:

WinReg is a modern C++ library that exposes a high-level public interface to simplify the access to the Windows Registry.

Why not to use the STL?--Jeremy Ong

By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 17, 2022 01:56 PM | Tags: community

Why do you think?

Twitter thread

by Jeremy Ong

From the thread:

With all the discussion on the STL, I wanted to make a quick thread to summarize the main reasons why many AAA studios (correctly) opt out of the STL. This isn't to say the STL isn't for *anyone*, but the reasons to avoid using it aren't unfounded either...