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CppCast Episode 164: SYCL with Gordon Brown

By robwirving | Aug 24, 2018 11:22 AM | Tags: None

Episode 164 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Gordon Brown to discuss his work on SYCL the OpenCL abstraction layer for C++.

CppCast Episode 164: SYCL with Gordon Brown

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Gordon is a senior software engineer at Codeplay Software in Edinburgh, specialising in designing and implementing heterogeneous programming models for C++. Gordon spends his days working on ComputeCpp; Codeplay's implementation of SYCL and contributing to various standards bodies including the Khronos group and ISO C++. Gordon also co-organises the Edinburgh C++ user group and occasionally blogs about C++. In his spare time, Gordon enjoys dabbling in game development, board games and walking with his two dogs.

Doctest 2 released! Moved to C++11 -- Viktor Kirilov

By onqtam | Aug 23, 2018 01:00 PM | Tags: c++11

Writing unit tests in C++ has never been easier and faster.

    Doctest 2 released! C++11, thread-safety, stand-alone assertions and more!

by Viktor Kirilov

From the article:

The main 4 developments are:

  • moved to C++11 => greatly simplified the codebase
  • thread-safety => asserts and logging utilities can be used in multiple threads spawned from a single test case without race conditions (thread sanitizer tested) - see example
  • given that doctest is extremely light on compile times and is meant to be used for tests side-by-side with the production code - added the ability for asserts to be used outside of a testing context (as a general purpose assert library) - example
  • a complete overhaul of the internals of the framework (moving from printf-style logging to streams and changing internal structures) to allow for easier future development (including a reporter interface - work in progress)

A major update to Meeting C++ recruiting

By Meeting C++ | Aug 23, 2018 02:45 AM | Tags: recruiting meetingcpp community

The job section of Meeting C++ received an important update: you can now share your resume with selected companies via a webform. Also you can share your open positions on the Meeting C++ job board or apply to become listed in the job section as a C++ employer.

A major update for Meeting C++ Recruiting

by Jens Weller

From the article:

Today I can announce a new offering in the recruiting area of Meeting C++: the CV upload form.

The mission of Meeting C++ is to support the C++ community and to build and maintain a worldwide network for C++. And with Meeting C++ recruiting, the goal is to integrate companies into this network, to make them visible as employers, and help people find the right jobs. With this service, I want to bring together companies, who have open positions for C++ Developers and those developers who are looking for a new challenging position!

CppCon 2017: Designing A Feature That Doesn't Fit--Patrice Roy

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 22, 2018 01:25 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:

Designing A Feature That Doesn't Fit

by Patrice Roy

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

C++ is a wonderful and expressive language, that gives programmers a lot of freedom even though it actively seeks to let programmers obtain the maximal performance from their hardware. It so happens that sometimes, operating systems can make it easy to do things that are absolutely not natural for a C++ program, but that some C++ programmers consider essential to their practice.

This talk will explore the problem of adding functionality to the language, more specifically to the standard threading library, where said functionality is not a natural fit for the C++ language specification. Expressed otherwise: how can we find ways to meet the needs of users without corrupting the language we all love?

This talk will be more interesting to you if you have met situations where you wanted to do something in "pure C++" but found you had to resort to operating system-specific features to meet your objectives. We will discuss the design space that has been explored for the problem under study, and will try to make emerge the strengths and weaknesses of the various alternatives.

“Modern C++” != “New(est) Standard”--Arne Mertz

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.

First Meeting Embedded Conference Schedule available

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++!

Win a free ticket for C++ on Sea!

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.

CppCon 2017: Tools from the C++ eco-system to save a leg--Anastasia Kazakova

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

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

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.