Home » Blog » Categories » News

News

CLion 2021.2: CMake Presets, GNU Autotools Projects, Debugger Updates, Lifetimes Analysis

By Anastasia Kazakova | Jul 28, 2021 08:36 AM | Tags: None

CLion 2021.2 is here, helping you keep up with the changing C++ ecosystem!

CLion 2021.2: CMake Presets, GNU Autotools Projects, Debugger Updates, New Static Analysis, and More

by Anastasia Kazakova

From the article:

The C++ ecosystem is evolving, and so too is our cross-platform C/C++ IDE. CLion 2021.2 can help you by protecting your code from typical C++ memory safety issues, simplifying your build configurations, and making debugging easier and more effective.

  • Project models
    • Initial support for CMake Presets
    • CMake New Project templates
    • Support for GNU Autotools projects and Make preconfiguration steps
  • Debugger
    • Relaxed breakpoints, and breakpoints in disassembly view
    • Preview tab for the debugger
    • Remote LLDB and bundled LLDB 12
    • Better Natvis support and support for minidumps on Windows
    • FreeRTOS thread view
  • Lifetimes analysis, for catching common issues like dangling pointers and escaping from a local scope
  • Integration with Cling, an interactive C++ interpreter
  • Profiling in remote mode and on WSL
  • Easier Docker and WSL configuration
  • Text search in Local History and many VCS updates
  • Localized CLion UI in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese

Join the review and voting session for Meeting C++ 2021

By Meeting C++ | Jul 28, 2021 04:06 AM | Tags: meetingcpp events community

Until next week Tuesday you can start your voting session and give feedback on the talks for Meeting C++ 2021.

Starting the review and feedback session for Meeting C++ 2021

by Jens Weller

From the article:

Like every year, Meeting C++ gives the C++ community the chance to review the talks and give feedback on them for a short period. You'll be able to leave a comment on each talk and vote between 0 - 5, where 5 is best.

C++ Ecosystem in 2021, JetBrains research

By Anastasia Kazakova | Jul 27, 2021 09:19 AM | Tags: None

Every year we ask thousands of developers, with various backgrounds from all around the globe, dozens of questions, which we have localized into many different languages. We then clean, weigh, and process the data carefully, and validate it against other data sources. Our goal is to extract the key trends, which we will present through infographics to the public. This data is used across JetBrains to help our team make the right decisions on both global and product-levels. We are happy to share this data with the community so we can all thrive together!

C++ Ecosystem in 2021

by Anastasia Kazakova

The article shares the recent findings and the comments from Matt Godbolt (creator of Compiler Explorer) and Andreas Kling (creator of SerenityOS):

  • In 2021, 1 in 5 C++ developers are using the latest officially signed C++20 standard even though it’s not yet fully supported in all major compilers!
  • Top-3 C++20 big features and how many developers plan to adopt them soon: 48% for Modules, 46% for Concepts, and 33% for Coroutines.
  • The majority of C++ developers prefer code analysis tools bundled into their IDEs.
  • Top-3 most popular build systems in C++ through the last 5 years is CMake, Makefile, msbuild.
  • A third of developers not writing any unit tests at all.

C++ is awesome, here's why...--Vinit Jogani

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 27, 2021 08:00 AM | Tags: community

What do you think?

C++ is awesome, here's why...

by Vinit Jogani

From the article:

C++ is, hands down, one of the most misunderstood languages in software developer pop culture today. People often compare it to C because it is a "low-level" language. Consequently, it has received a reputation of being an esoteric language that only the performance paranoid care about. This is far from true. I have been programming in C++ as my primary language for a while now and the developer experience is actually really good -- much better than I had imagined it would be.

In this article, I want to debunk some common myths about C++ that I heard before I started using it. Then, I want to talk about the actual superpowers that C++ provides you that most other languages do not...

Four more days for CppCon Early Bird discount -- EB ends July 31

By Blog Staff | Jul 26, 2021 02:54 PM | Tags: None

cppcon-004.pngIf you've been thinking about registering for CppCon 2021 in person or online, this week is a great time -- you have a few days left to get the Early Bird discount!

Early Bird Deadline is This Week

by Jon Kalb

The article:

If you’ve been thinking about registering for CppCon 2021 onsite or online, now is the time — EarlyBird discount ends this week!

Because of the health and travel situation, we know that many who want to attend onsite don’t know for certain yet if they can make it onsite. Here are some things to help ease your mind about registering:

  • Any Online Early Bird registration can be upgraded later (even after the Early Bird deadline) to an Early Bird rate onsite registration. So if you get an Online Early Bird registration now, you will lock in the Early Bird rate if you later convert it to any of our onsite registration options.
  • Any onsite registration can be converted to an online registration with full refund of the difference in rate, no questions asked.
  • Any registration can be cancelled for a full refund with no questions asked until the day before the conference (October 23rd). So if you plan to attend onsite and get an Early Bird onsite registration now, you can get your money back in full if it turns out international travel restrictions or any other issues get in the way.
  • The Gaylord Rockies‘ refund policy for hotel room reservations is a complete refund with notice that is three working days prior to arrival date.

These registration/refund policies and the low price on Online Early Bird registration make that a no-brainer. Online registration gives you exclusive early access to all the videos that we’ll be adding to the CppCon YouTube channel, but it is easy to justify the cost of Online Early Bird registration even if you are only able to spend one day (or even just a couple of evenings) watching sessions and engaging online with CppCon attendees in our awesome virtual venue. Early access to session videos is just an amazing bonus.

Don’t let COVID deprive you of the opportunity to engage with the C++ community in 2021!

In any case, you can register now to lock in the Early Bird rate. We look forward to seeing many of you in person or online at CppCon 2021 for what will surely be one of the most memorable CppCons ever.

CppCon 2020 Practical Memory Pool Based Allocators For Modern C++--Misha Shalem

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 26, 2021 08:20 AM | Tags: community

Registration is now open for CppCon 2021, which starts on October 24 and will be held both in person and online. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting videos of some of the top-rated talks from our most recent in-person conference in 2019 and our online conference in 2020. Here’s another CppCon talk video we hope you will enjoy – and why not register today for CppCon 2021 to attend in person, online, or both!

Practical Memory Pool Based Allocators For Modern C++

by Misha Shalem

Summary of the talk:

Runtime-deterministic memory allocations are a crucial aspect of any safety-critical real-time system. One of the simplest and widely adopted allocation mechanisms used in such systems is a memory pool with fixed block sizes. Unfortunately, the need to know the exact sizes of the memory blocks makes any practical usage of memory pools with standard C++ allocator-based approach rather problematic since users often “hide” real properties of allocations which are made under the hood. For example: STL’s node-based containers like 'std::map' as well as other standard mechanisms like 'std::promise' or 'std::allocate_shared'.

Being a company which focuses on real-time safety-critical applications, we still see a significant value in keeping compatibility with the standard allocator model as well as in following common conventions which are familiar to every C++ developer.

This talk presents an approach which uses a combination of a memory allocator implementation which instruments the code, and an external LLVM-based tool which extracts the instrumentation information and generates static memory pool definitions, allowing the allocator to switch from the heap to a memory pool without any further changes to the code. The presentation will walk through a simplest possible implementation of this approach.

Migrating VAST to C++20 - A Field Report--Benno Evers

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 26, 2021 08:00 AM | Tags: c++20

Does it help you?

Migrating VAST to C++20 - A Field Report

by Benno Evers

From the article:

Recently, the VAST developers had a reason to celebrate. No, not the latest release—finally all our supported platforms have a working C++20 compiler available. Given that VAST is still comparatively moderate in size at around 70,000 lines of code and already uses C++17 extensively, we did not expect too much hassle. So we seized the chance, rolled up our sleeves and started converting.

The process was indeed mostly painless, but some errors still had us stumped for a while. Below we describe our experiences, in the hopes that they might be useful to others who attempt the same.

Software Architecture with C++, Book Review--Bartlomiej Filipek

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 23, 2021 01:09 PM | Tags: community

Will you read it?

Software Architecture with C++, Book Review

by Bartlomiej Filipek

From the article:

In April, we got a new book - from two Polish authors - Piotr and Adrian - on C++ Software Architecture. This one is fascinating and refreshing. While it won’t teach you all the latest C++ features or low-level tricks in our favorite language, it will move you to a higher level with architecture, building, patterns, design, and development for the cloud.

Let’s see what’s inside.