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CppCon 2016 Call for Volunteers

By Jon Kalb | Aug 28, 2016 10:42 AM | Tags: community

CppCon is recuiting volunteers.

Call for Volunteers

for CppCon 2016

From the call:

We need people to help assemble registration packets and badges, register attendees, assist speakers with Audio/Video, and in general be on hand to make things run smoothly. In exchange, we’ll see to it that you’ll spend at least half of your time in sessions.

 

CppCon 2015 Programming with less effort C++: Measuring the programming effort...--Sylvain Jubertie

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 26, 2016 02:09 PM | Tags: intermediate efficiency c++14

Have you registered for CppCon 2016 in September? Don’t delay – Registration is open now.

While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2015 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:

Programming with less effort C++: Measuring the programming effort with metrics

by Sylvain Jubertie

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

The C++ language and libraries propose different ways to implement codes. For example, using explicit loops or STL algorithms to traverse containers and process data. C++11&14 bring also new features to the C++ language aimed at simplifying the writing of codes. But what is the gain we can expect in term of development effort when using these different possibilities and features ? or, as a developer may ask himself: Is it viable for me to spend some time learning new C++ libraries or standards to provide less effort/spend less time on my future codes ?

Before answering these questions, we must give a definition of the development effort, and define a way to measure it. Thus, we first propose to describe existing software metrics, from the simple Single Line Of Code (SLOC) to the more complex Halstead metrics, then to implement them in an automatic tool based on Clang tools, and finally to apply them on several codes to compare their respective development efforts.

First results show that using modern C++ features like auto, decltype and lambdas help to dramatically reduce the development effort. These results may help to convince developers to use new C++ features, or to port their codes from old standards to new ones, or even switch from other languages to C++ !

[C++17] Structured Bindings - Convert struct to a tuple (simple reflection)

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 24, 2016 02:16 PM | Tags: intermediate experimental

An interesting piece of code!

[C++17] Structured Bindings - Convert struct to a tuple (simple reflection)

From the article:

Very simple approach to convert any struct (up to N members) to a tuple using C++17 structured bindings and the idea from Boost.DI (http://boost-experimental.github.io/di/cppnow-2016/#/7/11) used to detect type constructor traits.

CppCon 2015 `for_each_argument` explained and expanded--Vittorio Romeo

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 24, 2016 02:13 PM | Tags: efficiency advanced

Have you registered for CppCon 2016 in September? Don’t delay – Registration is open now.

While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2015 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:

`for_each_argument` explained and expanded

by Vittorio Romeo

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

During January 2015, Sean Parent posted a very interesting short piece of code on Twitter. The code iteratively iterates at compile-time over any number of function arguments, forwarding them one by one to a callable object.

How does this code work? What are the possible use cases? Can we make it even more generic and useful?

My talk answers all of the questions above, using independently compiled chronologically sequential code segments that show the audience the analysis and improvement process of `for_each_argument`.

Range-v3 on MSVC -- Eric Mittelette

By Felix Petriconi | Aug 24, 2016 01:45 AM | Tags: experimental c++14

The Visual C++ Team is delighted to announce that they just published a range-v3 implementation.

Range-v3 on MSVC is Available on GitHub

by Eric Mittelette

From the article:

This contribution comes hot on the heels of our recent work to improve expression SFINAE on our Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 VC++ compiler . This is the first implementation of the Range TS running in MSVC. In “Ranges for the Standard Library, Revision 1” (N4128) Ranges are defined like this: “A range is an object that refers to a sequence of elements, conceptually similar to a pair of iterators. One prime motivation for ranges is to give users a simpler syntax for calling algorithms.

The Lightweight Visual Studio “15” Installer--Adam Welch

By Marco Arena | Aug 23, 2016 01:26 AM | Tags: visual studio

The Visual Studio Team has introduced five workloads for different C++ development scenarios, whether you are targeting Windows Desktop, Windows Store, or a non-Microsoft platform like Android or Linux:

The Lightweight Visual Studio “15” Installer

From the article:

Visual Studio now uses a small standalone application called the Microsoft Visual Studio Installer that manages all installations of Visual Studio 15...