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March 23-28, Croydon, London, UK
May 4-8, Aspen, CO, USA
May 4-8, Toronto, Canada
June 8 to 13, Brno, Czechia
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By Marco Arena | Oct 27, 2016 03:56 AM | Tags: visual studio
This post discusses features, techniques and tools you can use to reduce build time for C++ projects:
Recommendations to speed C++ builds in Visual Studio
by Sridhar Madhugiri
From the article:
Developers invoke build frequently while writing and debugging code, so improvements here can have a large impact on productivity. Many of the recommendations focus on this stage...
By Jason Turner | Oct 26, 2016 11:03 AM | Tags: intermediate
Episode 34 of C++ Weekly.
Reading Assembly Language - Part 1
by Jason Turner
About the show:
In this episode Jason gives a brief introduction to reading the assembly language output that your compiler can generate.
By Meeting C++ | Oct 25, 2016 07:59 AM | Tags: community
Something new at Meeting C++ this year: a track dedicated to meetups!
Announcing the Lounge Track
by Jens Weller
From the Article:
If you look at the schedule, you might notice two changes. Most visible is that there is now a floor plan for the conference. The other one is very subtle: the breaks now have a hint for a 6th track.
By Marco Arena | Oct 25, 2016 01:20 AM | Tags: visual studio
This post is going to demonstrate how to call different C++ compilers from Visual Studio Code:
Building your C++ application with Visual Studio Code
by Ankit Asthana
From the article:
Over the last few months, we have heard a lot of requests with respect to adding capability to Visual Studio Code to allow developers to build their C/C++ application...
By Felix Petriconi | Oct 24, 2016 02:53 AM | Tags: community
The ACCU 2017 is now putting together its program, and they want you to speak on C++. The ACCU has a strong C++ track, though it is not a C++-only conference. If you have something to share, check out their
Call for Sessions
by the ACCU
From the article:
We have a long tradition of high quality sessions covering many aspects of software development, from programming languages (e.g. C, C++, D, C#, Go, Rust, Clojure, Erlang, Groovy, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, ECMAScript, Python, Ruby, Scala, etc.), and technologies (libraries, frameworks, databases, etc.) to subjects about the wider development environment such as testing, architecture and design, development process, analysis, patterns, project management, and softer aspects such as team building, communication and leadership. See the 2016 schedule for examples.
The Call for Sessions lasts 7 weeks and will close at midnight Friday 2016-12-02.
By robwirving | Oct 21, 2016 06:57 AM | Tags: None
Episode 75 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Jackie Kay from Marble to discuss the use of C++ in the Robotics industry and some of the unique challenges in Robotics development.
CppCast Episode 75: Robotics with Jackie Kay
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
After spending her childhood wanting to become a novelist, Jackie switched over from writing stories to writing code during college. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2014 with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and went on to work at the Open Source Robotics Foundation for two years, supporting Gazebo, a physics simulator for robotics R&D, and ROS, an open source application framework for robotics development. She recently started as an early employee at Marble in San Francisco, a startup working on autonomous delivery.
Jackie was a speaker at CppCon 2015 and 2016 and a volunteer at C++ Now 2016 and frequently attends the Bay Area ACCU meetups. Her hobbies include rock climbing, travelling, and reading (books, not just blog posts).
By Vittorio Romeo | Oct 21, 2016 03:30 AM | Tags: c++17
The article addresses the problem of lambda-based `std::variant` and `boost::variant` recursive visitation. Starting from the definition of a "recursive variant", it shows the concept and implementation behind a `make_recursive_visitor` variadic function that can be used to create "local" visitors by using lambdas.
visiting variants using lambdas - part 2
By Vittorio Romeo
From the article:
A "recursive" variant is a variant which can contain itself, and can be used to represent recursive structures. [...] Bringing algebraic data types from the functional programming world into C++ isn't enough - we're also going to adopt another powerful construct: the Y Combinator. [...] Now we can put everything together to finally visit a recursive variant using lambdas!
By Meeting C++ | Oct 21, 2016 03:08 AM | Tags: conference community
Finally all talks for Meeting C++ 2016 are published!
Meeting C++ 2016 Schedule
by Jens Weller
From the article:
Meeting C++ conference in this year: 2 Keynotes (Bjarne Stroustrup & Louis Dionne), 33 Talks & 2 lightning talk sessions.
By Adrien Hamelin | Oct 20, 2016 12:36 PM | Tags: intermediate community
Who would like this feature?
Tutorial: Emulating strong/opaque typedefs in C++
by Jonathan Müller
From the article:
Last week, I’ve released my type_safe library. I described it’s features in the corresponding blog post but because the blog post got rather long, I couldn’t cover one feature: strong typedefs.
Strong or opaque typedefs are a very powerful feature if you want to prevent errors with the type system - and as I’ve been advocating for, you want that. Unlike “normal” typedefs, they are a true type definition: they create a new type and allow stuff like overloading on them and/or prevent implicit conversions.
By Adrien Hamelin | Oct 20, 2016 12:13 PM | Tags: intermediate
Friends are nice, but not in C++.
Passkey Idiom: More Useful Empty Classes
by Arne Mertz
From the article:
After last week’s post about tag dispatch let’s have a look at another example for useful empty classes: The passkey idiom can help us regain control that we would give up by simply making classes friends.
