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C++ coming back into the mainstream with more specs, more often -- Peter Bright

By Blog Staff | Nov 2, 2012 04:48 PM | Tags: None

Peter Bright at Ars Technica:

C++ coming back into the mainstream with more specs, more often

Visual Studio 2012 standard conformance updates on the way.

At BUILD in Redmond today, Microsoft announced its plans to improve C++ standards conformance in its Visual Studio development environment, and talked about ways in which C++ would become a better, regularly updated, modern programming language. Microsoft developer and C++ standard committee secretary Herb Sutter introduced work being done by the C++ community to make the language better, and also discussed the work being done by Microsoft to make its own compiler better...

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Boost 1.52.0 expected on Monday, November 5

By Blog Staff | Nov 1, 2012 10:59 AM | Tags: None

Release 1.52.0 of the Boost C++ Libraries is expected on Monday, November 5.

These open-source libraries work well with the C++ Standard Library, and are usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use.

Releases 1.51.0 and 1.52.0 contain one new library (Boost.Context, by Oliver Kowalke) and numerous enhancements and bug fixes for existing libraries.

Here are some useful links for 1.51.0. We expect these to be updated on Monday.

Many thanks to the Boost release team:

    Beman Dawes
    Daniel James
    Eric Niebler
    Marshall Clow
    Rene Rivera
    Vladimir Prus

We very much appreciate their continued hard work.

TC++PL4e: Coming soon, and preview cover shot

By Blog Staff | Oct 28, 2012 01:05 PM | Tags: None

TC++PL43 cover - click to enlarge

Great news for C++ fans: Bjarne Stroustrup's authoritative book The C++ Programming Language has always been the book describing Standard C++. The latest news is that Bjarne is well along revising it for a new Fourth Edition that thoroughly covers the new C++11 standard.

There's no firm ship date at this time (sorry), but we hear that it's almost done and coming in a matter of months.

For now, here's a sneak peek at the near-final cover — enjoy.

Reminder: Bjarne Stroustrup live tomorrow in Austin, TX

By Blog Staff | Sep 18, 2012 10:45 AM | Tags: None

Reminder: Bjarne Stroustrup is appearing live tomorrow in Austin, TX.

C++11 Style: A Touch of Class (Bjarne Stroustrup)

September 19, Austin, TX, USA

What principles, techniques, and idioms can we exploit to make it easier to produce quality code? This presentation reflects my thoughts on what “Modern C++” should mean in the 2010s: a language for programming based on light-weight abstraction with a direct and efficient mapping to hardware, suitable for infrastructure code. I will make an argument for type-rich interfaces, compact data structures, integrated resource management and error handling, and highly-structured algorithmic code. I will illustrate my ideas and motivate my guidelines with a few idiomatic code examples. I will use C++11 freely. Examples include auto, general constant expressions, uniform initialization, type aliases, type safe threading, and user-defined literals. C++ features are only just starting to appear in production compilers, so some of my suggestions have the nature of conjecture. However, developing a “modern style” is essential if we don’t want to maintain newly-written 1970s and 1980s style code in 2020.

Free two-day event: Silicon Valley codecamp_12 for C++11

By Blog Staff | Sep 14, 2012 04:33 PM | Tags: None

The page's own intro says it all:


C++ is Hot!

Mobile and cloud technologies are re-energizing interest in the uncompromising performance that C++ delivers and the new ISO/ANSI standard (C++11) introduces features that allow programmers to achieve that performance with ever greater expressiveness.

Join us as we discuss how to get the most out of Classic C++ and discover the new features of C++11 that are being delivered now by the latest compilers.

Sessions in this track are being given by award winning presenters. We will go beyond Procedural and Object-Oriented Paradigms to explore Generic Programming and Logic Paradigms. We will teach you how to write code in both Classic C++ and C++11 that you can be confident is performant, maintainable, and 100% robust in the face of exceptions. We will cover new C++11 features, including the new standard for threading and what Scott Meyer’s calls “the marquee feature of C++11,” move semantics. We will also introduce you to some powerful new tool sets, one from Microsoft and the other Open Source (Clang), for use with both Classic C++ and C++11.

Fall WG21 meeting: Register by Fri Sep 14 (this week)

By Herb Sutter | Sep 12, 2012 02:04 PM | Tags: None

Via Clark Nelson:

Final reminder: The registration page for the Portland meeting (Oct 15-19, 2012) closes after this Friday, September 14. If you're planning to come and haven't made your reservation yet, don't delay to get the discount room rate.

Registration page for Portland meeting

A few people have asked about reserving a room at the DoubleTree outside the range of dates acceptable to the web site. Just reserve what you can, and make your request for additional days in the "Special Requirements" box. Be advised that the DoubleTree is already all booked up for both Saturday nights, October 13 and 20.

More information about the Portland meeting:

VC++ 2012 Desktop Express (free)

By Blog Staff | Sep 12, 2012 11:42 AM | Tags: None

Today Microsoft released another free Express version of Visual C++ 2012. In addition to the free Express Visual C++ compiler for building tablet applications, Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop directly supports traditional Windows and command-line applications in C++.

This a great free C++ compiler on Windows for everything from hobby development to using and contributing to open source projects. Besides additional C++11 standards conformance with range-for, override and final on the language side (with more to come in the coming months; watch this space) and a complete C++11 standard library implementation, the free compiler also includes unit testing framework for C++, code analysis for C++ (try /analyze today if you haven't already, as John Carmack says so well), C++ AMP for GPGPU programming, and much more.

See also the longer announcement here.

just::thread 1.8.0 released

By Blog Staff | Aug 30, 2012 10:32 AM | Tags: None

Version 1.8.0 of just::thread was released today. just::thread is Just Software Solutions' C++11 Thread Library.

What's new:

  • The big news with this release is the new support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, so you can continue to take advantage of just::thread when upgrading your compiler.
  • A fix for using just::thread in a DLL on Windows XP.
  • Minor fixes and improvements to the generated code across all platforms.

Boost 1.51.0 released

By Blog Staff | Aug 20, 2012 05:27 PM | Tags: None

Release 1.51.0 of the Boost C++ Libraries is now available.

These open-source libraries work well with the C++ Standard Library, and are usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use.

This release contains 1 new library (Boost.Context, by Oliver Kowalke) and numerous enhancements and bug fixes for existing libraries.

Thanks,

--The Boost release team

    Beman Dawes
    Daniel James
    Eric Niebler
    Marshall Clow
    Rene Rivera
    Vladimir Prus