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By Adrien Hamelin | Apr 8, 2016 12:43 PM | Tags: intermediate efficiency
What are the advantages?
Strings vs. Enumerators
by Arne Mertz
From the article:
Sometimes, a fixed set of string values is allowed as input. Often these string values are then stored, used for control flow etc. Enumerators are a better alternative...
By robwirving | Apr 8, 2016 06:34 AM | Tags: None
Episode 52 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Günter Obiltschnig to discuss the macchina.io library for IoT C++ development.
CppCast Episode 52: Macchina.io with Günter Obiltschnig
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
Günter is the founder of the POCO C++ Libraries and macchina.io open source projects. He has been programming computers since age 12. In his career he has programmed everything from 8-bit home computers (C64, MSX) to IBM big iron systems (COBOL and JCL, VM/CMS and CICS), various Unix systems, OpenVMS, Windows NT in its various incarnations, the Mac (classic Mac OS and OS X), to embedded devices and iPhone/iPad. He has a diploma (MSc. equivalent) in Computer Science from the University of Linz, Austria.
His current main interests are embedded systems, cross-platform C++ development, JavaScript and, foremost, the Internet of Things. When not working, he spends time with his family or enjoys one of his hobbies — sailing, running, swimming, skiing, listening to or making music, and reading.
By Meeting C++ | Apr 7, 2016 03:50 AM | Tags: intermediate conference community boost basics advanced
I announced Meeting C++ 2016 last week, and added a few more details this week:
Announcing Meeting C++ 2016
by Jens Weller
Further reading:
Call for Papers runs until May 27th
By Jon Kalb | Apr 7, 2016 03:30 AM | Tags: community
CppCon has announced its call for submission for 2016.
Call for Submission
The deadline for submissions is May 22nd and the conference face gathering for the entire C++ community. The conference is organized by the C++ community for the community and so we invite you to present.
By Marco Arena | Apr 5, 2016 05:28 AM | Tags: visual studio intermediate experimental
The async pattern needed to write UWP apps (or simply "Universal apps") is not so easy to grasp, especially in C++. Eric from the Visual C++ team explains how the experimental Coroutines feature available in Visual Studio 2015 helps simplify async UWP code:
Using C++ Coroutines to simplify async UWP code
From the article:
C++ Coroutines can simplify your async code, and make the code easy to understand, write, and maintain...
By Jason Turner | Apr 5, 2016 04:58 AM | Tags: None
Episode 5 of C++ Weekly with Jason Turner.
Intro To ChaiScript
by Jason Turner
About the show:
In this episode Jason shows some basic getting started with ChaiScript code and goes over some of the more interesting features of the language.
By Jon Kalb | Apr 3, 2016 11:40 AM | Tags: None
The C++ Now 2016 conference has a number of highlights this year.
C++ Now 2016 Hightlights
From the program:
C++17 is almost here and C++Now 2016 is offering sessions focused on specific C++17 features. Hear David Sankel on Variants, Nathan Myers on contracts support, and Alisdair Meredith on implementing tuple in C++17.
By robwirving | Apr 1, 2016 11:58 AM | Tags: None
Episode 51 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Jens Weller to discuss the MeetingC++ conference and user group community.
CppCast Episode 51: Meeting C++ with Jens Weller
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
Jens Weller is the organizer and founder of Meeting C++. Doing C++ since 1998, he is an active member of the C++ Community. From being a moderator at c-plusplus.de and organizer of his own C++ User Group since 2011 in Düsseldorf, his roots are in the C++ Community. Today his main work is running the Meeting C++ Platform (conference, website, social media and recruiting). His main role has become being a C++ evangelist, as this he speaks and travels to other conferences and user groups around the world.
By Blog Staff | Apr 1, 2016 09:18 AM | Tags: None
A new WG21 paper is available. If you are not a committee member, please use the comments section below or the std-proposals forum for public discussion.
Document number: PO3OOrO
Date: 2016-04-01
Enhancing the C++ Basic Character Set with Standard Character Mappings
by Robert Douglas, Faisal Vali, Nate Wilson, Nevin Liber
Excerpt:
Languages evolve, as the means by which people best express their ideas. As this is the
domain of programming languages, it is up to us to make sure that C++ evolves in conjunction
with how people can best communicate their intents to machines and co-workers. Current
language has begun a transition to new forms of language.The world is additionally becoming far more social. In this new world, a competitive language
must be ready to embrace modern social forums with better support for the social paradigms of
the day. Unfortunately, C++ has a rather heavy syntax for expressing ideas. This is less of a
problem when armed with a keyboard and large monitors, but most devices these days are
smaller with shrinking keyboards, if any physical keyboard at all. This problem must be
mitigated, if C++ is to be an appealing language with the newest generation of developers.
By Blog Staff | Apr 1, 2016 02:00 AM | Tags: None
A new WG21 paper is available. If you are not a committee member, please use the comments section below or the std-proposals forum for public discussion.
Document number: PO4116r0
Date: 2016-04-01
Completing support for emotive programming in C++
by Pablo Halpern
Excerpt:
There can be no doubt that C++ is an unusually expressive language. A significant part of that expressiveness comes from the ability to use emoticons, not just in comments and string literals, but in the code itself. For example the following (do-nothing) program compiles, links, and runs in all versions of C++: ...
