CppCon 2022 endnote video posted: "Can C++ be 10x simpler and safer ... ?" -- Herb Sutter

By Blog Staff | Sep 19, 2022 11:22 AM | Tags: None

The second video from CppCon 2022 has now been posted:

CppCon 2022 talk is online: “Can C++ be 10x simpler & safer ... ?”

by Herb Sutter

From the post:

It was great to see many of you at CppCon, in person and online! It was a really fun conference this year, and the exhibitor hall felt crowded again which was a good feeling as we all start traveling more again.

The talk I gave on Friday is now on YouTube. In it I describe my experimental work on a potential alternate syntax for C++ (aka ‘syntax 2’ or Cpp2 for short) and my cppfront compiler that I’ve begun writing to implement it...

CppCon 2022 opening keynote: Bjarne Stroustrup, prerelease

By Blog Staff | Sep 16, 2022 09:30 AM | Tags: None

The first CppCon 2022 video is now available.

Opening 2022 Keynote: Bjarne Stroustrup, prerelease

From the article:

CppCon 2022 is in midweek and so much has happened thus far in Aurora, Colorado!

Along with great talks from C++ experts, we’ve had social events and panels, including our annual Committee Fireside Chat where attendees had the opportunity to hear directly from C++ standard committee members.

CppCon wouldn’t be the same though without an opening keynote from C++’s creator, Bjarne Stroustrup. This year Bjarne’s focus was on using C++ in Constrained Environments.

This video is in “prerelease” and cannot be found directly on our YouTube channel, instead we are providing a direct link here only! Feel free to share this with colleagues and friends and impress them with your insider access ��

CppCon 2022 Online Keynote: Principia Mathematica by Lisa Lippincott Live, In Person

By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 5, 2022 11:24 AM | Tags: community

Will you attend?

CppCon 2022 Online Keynote: Principia Mathematica

by Lisa Lippincot

From the article:

Lisa Lippincott will be online for a talk that takes its title from Bertrand Russell’s and Alfred North Whitehead’s logicist tour de force, Principia Mathematica.

Lisa LippincottHere is the abstract for her talk:

The C++ integral arithmetic operations present a challenge in formal interface design. Their preconditions are nontrivial, their postconditions are exacting, and they are deeply interconnected by mathematical theorems. I will address this challenge, presenting interfaces, theorems, and proofs in a lightly extended C++.

This talk takes its title from Bertrand Russell’s and Alfred North Whitehead’s logicist tour de force, Principia Mathematica. It echoes that work in developing arithmetic from first principles, but starts from procedural first principles: stability of objects, substitutability of values, and repeatability of operations.

In sum, this talk is one part formal interface design, one part tour of C++ integral arithmetic, one part foundations of arithmetic, and one part writing mathematical proofs procedurally.

CppCon 2022 Keynote: Timur Doumler, "How C++23 changes the way we write code"

By Blog Staff | Sep 1, 2022 04:43 AM | Tags: None

Another keynote for CppCon which starts in just 9 days... register today!

CppCon 2022 Keynote: How C++23 Changes the Way We Write Code by Timur Doumler Live, In Person

From the announcement:

We’re happy to announce: Timur Doumler will be in Aurora live, in person to deliver key insights on C++23 best practices.

Here is the abstract for Timur’s talk:

C++20 was a huge release: coroutines, concepts, ranges, and modules profoundly changed the way we write code and think about C++. In comparison, C++23 is a lot smaller in scope: its primary mission is to complete C++20, to fill holes, and to fix issues. Nevertheless, some great new features made the cut this time around, both in the standard library and in the core language. This is even more remarkable considering that the entire feature design phase of C++23 took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, challenging the ISO C++ committee to completely reinvent how we work together.

This is not a firehose talk about C++23 that tries to cram as many additions and improvements as possible into one hour. Instead, we deliberately focus on just a handful of new features that are going to noticeably change and improve the experience of the everyday C++ programmer. We will talk about how `std::expected` improves error handling, the huge impact that `std::mdspan` will have on scientific computing, how deducing `this` greatly simplifies longstanding C++ idioms such as CRTP, and how `std::print` will forever change how we write “Hello, World”.

Timur is the Developer Advocate for C++ tools at JetBrains and an active member of the ISO C++ standard committee. As a developer, he worked many years in the audio and music technology industry and co-founded the music tech startup Cradle. Timur is passionate about building inclusive communities, clean code, good tools, low latency, and the evolution of the C++ language.

Registration is now open. Tickets are now available for both online attendees and in-person attendees.

Lightning talks and 2 years of Meeting C++ online

By Meeting C++ | Aug 27, 2022 03:58 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community

Meeting C++ online celebrates its 2 years anniversary with lightning talks!

Lightning talks and 2 years of Meeting C++ online

by Jens Weller

From the article

Next week Meeting C++ online will host its first lightning talk session to celebrate its 2 year anniversary!

There are still some open spots, so if you want to submit your lightning talk, you still can! But yesterdays deadline already has given us enough talks to fill one hour easily. So join the event if you have time to attend next week wednesday!

CppCon 2022 program is available

By Blog Staff | Aug 18, 2022 01:11 PM | Tags: None

The Main Program for CppCon 2022 is now live:

CppCon 2022 Program Announced

Register now to attend on-site or on-line!

From the announcement:

This year, CppCon is a hybrid format, so we are presenting four tracks for onsite attendees and five tracks for online attendees.

Online attendees will be able to participate in onsite sessions via “simul-cast” for most sessions. (Online attendees with On-Demand Session Access will have the ability to view recorded versions of all sessions–onsite and online–shortly after they happen.)

We’ll have over seventy breakout sessions delivered onsite and fifty additional remote sessions by the best C++ presenters in the industry, many returning from previous years as well as some exciting new voices, some of whom are able to present only because we are offering a remote presenting possibility. In addition, we’ll present our traditional onsite plenary session every day and an online opening keynote. We’ve already announced our onsite Opening Keynote and three other plenary talks and will be announcing our other two headline talks here in coming days.

This year’s Main Program features five special tracks including the Back to Basics Track, the Embedded Track, the Software Design Track, and the band new Scientific Computing Track and Tooling Track.

In addition to the Main Program, we’ll have the panels, lightning talks, Open Content talks, BOFs, exhibitors, social events, and classes that attendees have enjoyed in past years.

Most of the program is published, but we are still working a few surprises, so keep checking back.

We’d like to thank the Program Committee, our speakers, and the many professionals who proposed talks which we, unfortunately, just couldn’t squeeze in this year. Thank you for your hard work and enthusiastic support for this year’s program!

We hope to see you all in less than a month so register now.

CppCon 2022 Diversity Dinner - Call for mini-talk proposals

By Blog Staff | Aug 11, 2022 03:37 PM | Tags: None

CppCon 2022 is just a month away! Here's an update on the Diversity Dinner and workshop, with a CfP for mini-talks:

CppCon 2022 Call For Proposals Diversity Dinner

by Timur Doumler

From the announcement:

We’re happy to announce the Call For Proposals for our Diversity Dinner Event at CppCon 2022!

This year, CppCon’s Diversity Dinner, which will be held on-site at the Gaylord Rockies in Aurora on Wednesday, September 14th, will be expanded to include a workshop to discuss processes, experiences, and paths forward for improving diversity and inclusion in the C++ community.

We are planning a series of 10-minute mini-talks, and we would like you to present at the event! Please submit your mini-talk proposal here by 28 August 2022. You will be notified about the acceptance decision soon afterwards.

The 10-minute mini-talks should be relevant to our audience. While any proposals on the topic of diversity and inclusion in the C++ community are welcome, this year we would like to focus particularly on the empowerment of our attendees. For example, great topics would be anything from “What did I learn from my experience as a deaf software developer” to “How to negotiate to get a 30% raise” or “What’s the best way to get everyone’s input in a diverse team”. Feel free to share your experience, thoughts, and tips!

Whether you’d like to be a presenter, or just attend the Diversity Dinner, listen, and participate in the discussion, please make sure you register for CppCon and book your ticket for the Diversity Dinner. We look forward to seeing many of you there!

CppCon 2022 keynote: Erik Rainey, "Using C++14 in an Embedded 'SuperLoop' Firmware"

By Blog Staff | Jul 28, 2022 05:09 PM | Tags: None

Flying Amazon drones on C++:

Erik Rainey live in person at CppCon 2022

From the announcement:

Using C++14 in an Embedded “SuperLoop” Firmware

This presentation covers what the execution environment of an embedded “superloop” firmware is in order to describe later why certain C++14 language and library features are used and others are not. This environment lacks many basic features and capabilities that traditional C++ programmers may think are common place but is able to be programmed in C++14 (and later) with a specific design paradigms and guidelines. Programmers with deeply embedded C experience will be familiar with some of the limitations of the environment but may find the C++ solutions quite refreshing! The talk will conclude with some comments on C++17 / C++20 features which will be quite valuable to embedded environments of all types.

CppCon 2022 registration is now open so don’t miss out this September 11-16. Register today! Tickets are now available for both online attendees and in-person attendees.

CppCon 2022 Keynote: Contemporary C++ in Action -- Daniela Engert

By Blog Staff | Jul 21, 2022 03:51 PM | Tags: None

The third CppCon 2022 keynote has been announced! Daniela Engert is the world's top guru on C++ modules who isn't one of the compiler implementers, and will speaking about modules and so much more:

Daniela Engert live in person at CppCon 2022

Daniela Engert will be in Aurora, live in person to deliver a keynote that takes us on a journey through modern C++.

Daniela has been building computers and creating software for over forty years, with thirty years in the field of applied digital signal processing. Her recent focus has been on modules and helping developers best understand them and their application in C++20.

Here is her talk description:

Contemporary C++ in Action

This talk is different from typical conference presentations. Instead of focussing on one particular topic I want to take you with me on a journey where I put various pieces from the C++ landscape together into a small application and show how they fit together beautifully. My goal is to debunk the myth that the committee is looking to please experts and library developers instead of making life easier for the many developers in the trenches. This is not slideware, at the end of our tour the code will compile and run with some entertaining result.

On this journey, I will be visiting modules (using modularized popular libraries and others that constitute the app), do some network programming with coroutines (based on ASIO executors, as there are no C++ standard executors yet), slip in one or two of the flagship C++23 features, like explicit object parameters or some of the new library stuff, and season the stew with items from recent C++ standards. It’s a tiny application using techniques that an average programmer in the embedded or industrial world (like me) might find useful. The code I’ll show also contains very tiny fragments of condensed or simplified sources in active development taken from our in-house codebase – old and trusted, but thrust into the modern age.

Registration is now open so don’t miss out on CppCon 2022 this September 11-16. Register today! Tickets are now available for both online attendees and in-person attendees.

CppCon 2022 opening keynote: Bjarne Stroustrup, live in person

By Blog Staff | Jul 19, 2022 09:23 AM | Tags: None

CppCon 2022 will kick off on Monday, September 11 with Bjarne Stroustrup delivering the traditional opening keynote live in person in Aurora. Bjarne’s annual opening keynote for CppCon is one of the most anticipated and most watch talks in C++, and among the most viewed presentations on the CppCon YouTube Channel. Registration is open attend in person to be in the room for this keynote, to watch and submit questions live online, or do both...

Opening 2022 Keynote: C++ in Constrained Environments

Bjarne Stroustrup, live in person

C++ is widely used in constrained and/or critical applications and infrastructure components. How do we manage to use a large multi-purpose language in such environments? How can we better use facilities and techniques from modern C++ (C++11, C++14, C++17, C++20, and beyond)? The best answer is not “use only facilities available in C and C++ in 1985.”

This talk focuses on a top-down approach to achieve simplicity, maintainability, performance, and various forms of safety. It touches upon the C++ Core Guidelines, compile-time computation, type-and-resource safety, type deduction, the span and chrono standard libraries, and error handling.

Every year, Bjarne Stroustrup gives an important C++ talk in his CppCon opening keynote. Be at CppCon again this year, on-site or on-line, as Bjarne Stroustrup flies us above this complex landscape of issues and shines a spotlight on the most important things to know, and to think about, in C++ in 2022. This year we aim to leave extra extended time for real-time questions and answers with the live audience. Come to the talk, bring your questions, and don’t miss out!

Registration is now open for both online and in-person attendees so don’t miss out on CppCon 2022 this September 11-16. Register today!