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C++ User Group Meetings in March

By Meeting C++ | Mar 1, 2019 06:16 AM | Tags: user groups meetingcpp community

The monthly overview on upcoming C++ User Group meetings by Meeting C++

C++ USer Group Meetings in March 2019

by Jens Weller

From the article

The monthly overview of upcoming C++ User Group meetings! Lots of groups already announced their meetings, if your group is not in the list, they might announce later.

Want to speak at a User Group? Use the contact form to reach out to several User Groups that you'd be able to visit for a talk!

There are 4 new C++ User Groups...

Overload 149 is now available

By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 25, 2019 12:35 PM | Tags: community

ACCU’s Overload journal of February 2019 is out. It contains the following C++ related articles.

Overload 149 is now available

From the journal:

Rip It Up and Start Again.
Some things can be resurrected, others cannot. Frances Buontempo wonders when we need to repent and start over.

5 Big Fat Reasons Why Mutexes Suck Big Time.
Mutable shared state in multithreaded code is often protected by mutexes. Sergey Ignatchenko reminds us that Re-Actors can avoid many of the problems.

A Small Universe.
Writing a programming language is a hot topic. Deák Ferenc shows us how he wrote a compiler for bytecode callable from C++.

QM Bites: Understand Windows Operating-System Identification Preprocessor Macros.
Quality matters and bite sized articles help. Matthew Wilson returns with a QM Bites.

A Thorough Introduction to Distributed Systems.
What is a distributed system, and why is it so complicated? Stanislav Kozlovski explains.

Don’t Use std::endl.
How do you add a new line in C++? Chris Sharpe suggests std::endl is a tiny utility that’s more trouble than it’s worth.

Trip report: Winter ISO C++ standards meeting (Kona) -- Herb Sutter

By Blog Staff | Feb 24, 2019 11:10 AM | Tags: None

From the just-concluded ISO C++ meeting:

Trip report: Winter ISO C++ standards meeting (Kona)

by Herb Sutter

From the article:

Per our official C++20 schedule, this was the last meeting to approve features for C++20...

So we now know most of the final feature set of C++20! At our next meeting in July, we expect to formally adopt a few additional features that were design-approved at this meeting but didn’t complete full wording specification review this week, and then at the end of the July meeting we will launch the primary international comment ballot (aka CD ballot) for C++20....

CopperSpice: Evolution of Graphics Technology

By Ansel Sermersheim | Feb 24, 2019 11:09 AM | Tags: None

New video on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:

Evolution of Graphics Technology

by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim

About the video:

In this video, we cover the complex history of modern graphics technoloy. We look at the various graphics standards and explain how some of the differences came about between OpenGL, Vulkan, Mantle and Metal.

Please take a look and remember to subscribe!

Cpp On Sea 2019 Trip Report--Arne Mertz

By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 20, 2019 01:12 PM | Tags: community

Were you there?

Cpp On Sea 2019 Trip Report

by Arne Mertz

From the article:

From February 3rd through February 6th I have been in Folkestone, UK, to visit the first C++ On Sea conference.

There must be something in the water on that island that enables them to organize fantastic conferences like ACCUConf and, since this year, C++ On Sea.
C++ On Sea is definitely the best conference I have ever been to, and here’s a little glimpse why I think so...