September 13-19, Aurora, CO, USA
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November 3-8, Kona, HI, USA
By Jens Maurer | Jan 14, 2022 11:40 AM | Tags: c++11 basics
Smart pointers
Improving Stability with Modern C++, Part 4 — Memory Management
by Ralph Kootker
From the article
When we started learning C++, we were all taught that every
newneeds a correspondingdelete. But sometimes we'd forget, or some code might throw an exception we weren't ready for, and then we'd leak memory. [...] With rare exceptions, C++ programmers should not have to writenewordeleteever again.
By bfilipek | Jan 13, 2022 11:56 AM | Tags: None
10th edition of “C++ at the end”!
C++ at the end of 2021 @C++ Stories
by Bartlomiej Filipek
About the blog
See what happened this year in the C++ World!
New features, plans for the language, updated tools and compilers, conferences, books, and more!
What was the most important event this year? The pandemic? C++20 adoption? Ongoing work for C++23 or something else?
By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 12, 2022 02:51 PM | Tags: community
Will you use it?
Outcome enters sustaining phase, goes ABI stable
by Niall Douglas
From the article:
After three years of maturing, I am pleased to announce that the Spring release of Outcome, an alternative error handling framework, will enter its sustaining phase and thus it will be able to formally guarantee ABI stability going forth. ABI stability is tested per commit by CI and the specifics of the guarantees is documented here...
By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 12, 2022 02:44 PM | Tags: c++20 c++17 c++14 c++11
Usage evolves.
The Interesting Evolution of std::equal_range
by Jonathan Boccara
From the article:
The good old std::equal_range STL algorithm, which has been in the STL since C++98, has evolved along with the versions of C++.
Starting from a poor interface and now a much better one, its story is an interesting example of how to improve the abstraction of an interface...
By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 12, 2022 02:42 PM | Tags: community
Did you follow?
2021 C++ Standardization Highlights
by Botond Ballo
From the article:
The ISO C++ Standards Committee (also known as WG21) has not met in person since its February 2020 meeting in Prague, which I wrote about here.
However, the committee and its subgroups have continued their work through remote collaboration, and a number of notable proposals have been adopted into C++23, the next language version, in this way, with many others in the pipeline.
In this post, I will outline some of the highlights of the committee’s work in 2021. (The post will also cover some material from the latter part of 2020, a period when remote collaboration was already underway but which I have not covered in any previous post.) I’ve been less involved in the committee than before, so this post will not be as comprehensive as my previous trip reports, but I hope to share the proposals I’ve found most notable...
By philsquared | Dec 25, 2021 12:04 PM | Tags: None
Announcing dates and keynote speakers for C++ on Sea 2022!
C++ on Sea 2022
by Phil Nash
From the article:
Yes, C++ on Sea is back by the sea! Or at least that is the current plan. We have booked the Leas Cliff Hall, once again, for July 4th-7th 2022. We're now busy, behind the scenes, working out all the details. We'll have updates first thing in the new year when we'll also open the call for speakers.
By Lesley Lai | Dec 25, 2021 12:03 PM | Tags: None
An introduction of std::align with the arena allocator as motivational example
Little C++ Standard Library Utility: std::align
by Lesley Lai
From the article:
Recently, I learned about std::align, which is one of the lesser-known functions in the C++ standard library because of its limited use cases. Since it is hard to describe without a specific use case, I will use a simple implementation of an arena allocator as a motivational example.
By Adrien Hamelin | Dec 20, 2021 03:58 PM | Tags: c++20
The series continue.
C++20 Concepts: Part 5 (Advanced use cases)
by Gajendra Gulgulia
From the article:
In this article, I’ll explain and demonstrate how to define concepts that constrain multiple template parameters and more importantly how to use them in a generic function. As promised in the part 3 of the series, I’ll explain this using a function comparing for equality of two different types T and U
By Adrien Hamelin | Dec 20, 2021 03:57 PM | Tags: intermediate
The series continue.
The Type-Traits Library: Correctness
by Rainer Grimm
From the article:
The two main goals of the type-traits library are very convincing: correctness and optimization. Today, I write about correctness...
By Adrien Hamelin | Dec 20, 2021 03:55 PM | Tags: c++20 c++17 c++14
Are you using them?
The Evolutions of Lambdas in C++14, C++17 and C++20
by Jonathan Boccara
From the article:
Lambdas are one of the most popular features of Modern C++. Since their introduction in C++11, they’ve become ubiquitous in C++ code.
But since their appearance in C++11, they have evolved and gained significant features. Some of those features help write more expressive code, and since using lambdas is so common now, it is worth it to spend time learning what we can do with them.
Our goal here is to cover the major evolutions of lambdas, but not all the little details. A comprehensive coverage of lambdas would be more suited for a book than an article. If you want to dig more, I recommend Bartek’s book C++ Lambda Story, that will tell you everything.
The general evolution of lambdas is to give them able the capabilities of function objects manually defined.
This articles assumes you know the basics of lambdas in C++11. Let’s take it from C++14...
