Use the official Boost.Hana with MSVC 2017 Update 8 compiler--Bat-Ulzii Luvsanbat

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 31, 2018 02:27 PM | Tags: community

Getting more conforming!

Use the official Boost.Hana with MSVC 2017 Update 8 compiler

by Bat-Ulzii Luvsanbat

From the article:

We would like to share a progress update to our previous announcement regarding enabling Boost.Hana with MSVC compiler. Just as a quick background, Louis Dionne, the Boost.Hana author, and us have jointly agreed to provide a version of Boost.Hana in vcpkg to promote usage of the library among more C++ users from the Visual C++ community. We’ve identified a set of blocking bugs and workarounds and called them out in our previous blog, and stated that as we fix the remaining bugs, we will gradually update the version of Boost.Hana in vcpkg, ultimately removing it and replacing it with master repo. We can conduct this development publicly in vcpkg without hindering new users who take a dependency on the library...

Use the official Boost.Hana with MSVC 2017 Update 8 compiler--Ulzii Luvsanbat

By Marco Arena | Aug 30, 2018 11:37 PM | Tags: visual studio

The vcpkg version of Boost.Hana now just points to the official master repo, instead of VC++ Team fork:

Use the official Boost.Hana with MSVC 2017 Update 8 compiler

by Ulzii Luvsanbat

From the article:

We would like to share a progress update to our previous announcement regarding enabling Boost.Hana with MSVC compiler. Just as a quick background, Louis Dionne, the Boost.Hana author, and us have jointly agreed...

C++17 in Detail by Bartłomiej Filipek--Marc Gregoire

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 28, 2018 12:04 PM | Tags: c++17

Interested?

C++17 in Detail by Bartłomiej Filipek

by Marc Gregoire

From the article:

C++17 provides developers with a nice selection of new features to write better, more expressive code.

Bartłomiej Filipek has released a book titled “C++17 in Detail” that describes all significant changes in the language and the Standard Library. What’s more, it provides a lot of practical examples so you can quickly apply the knowledge to your code. The book brings you exclusive content about C++17. Additionally, the book provides insight into the current implementation status, compiler support, performance issues and other relevant knowledge to boost your current projects...

Codeplay Announces World's First Fully-Conformant SYCL 1.2.1 Solution

By rodburns | Aug 28, 2018 06:50 AM | Tags: None

SYCL is an open standard developed by the Khronos™ Group that enables developers to write code for heterogeneous systems using standard C++.  Developers are looking at how they can accelerate their applications without having to write optimized processor specific code. SYCL is the industry standard for C++ acceleration, giving developers a platform to write high-performance code in standard C++, unlocking the performance of accelerators and specialized processors from companies such as AMD™, Intel™, Renesas™ and Arm®.

Codeplay Announces World's First Fully-Conformant SYCL 1.2.1 Solution

by Codeplay

About the release:

Codeplay's ComputeCpp 1.0 enables SYCL and provides C++ developers with huge benefits:
    High Performance Computing: Supercomputers are playing an important role in computationally intensive tasks in the fields of science, finance, and many others to provide complex calculations and simulations. SYCL offers a standard way for HPC developers to write portable, efficient, accelerated code using standard C++ that can be deployed to GPUs, FPGAs and other accelerators
    Computer Vision: Complex image processing operations can be accelerated using parallel computing. ComputeCpp and SYCL provide high-level programmability for custom vision processors, enabling additional custom features on top of existing optimized hardware functions
    Artificial Intelligence: Linear algebra is increasingly being used in artificial intelligence applications and benefits from parallel architectures. The Eigen linear algebra library, SYCLBLAS and TensorFlow frameworks can be accelerated using ComputeCpp for a wide variety of heterogeneous hardware

Doctest 2 released! Moved to C++11 -- Viktor Kirilov

By onqtam | Aug 23, 2018 01:00 PM | Tags: c++11

Writing unit tests in C++ has never been easier and faster.

    Doctest 2 released! C++11, thread-safety, stand-alone assertions and more!

by Viktor Kirilov

From the article:

The main 4 developments are:

• moved to C++11 => greatly simplified the codebase
• thread-safety => asserts and logging utilities can be used in multiple threads spawned from a single test case without race conditions (thread sanitizer tested) - see example
• given that doctest is extremely light on compile times and is meant to be used for tests side-by-side with the production code - added the ability for asserts to be used outside of a testing context (as a general purpose assert library) - example
• a complete overhaul of the internals of the framework (moving from printf-style logging to streams and changing internal structures) to allow for easier future development (including a reporter interface - work in progress)

A major update to Meeting C++ recruiting

By Meeting C++ | Aug 23, 2018 02:45 AM | Tags: recruiting meetingcpp community

The job section of Meeting C++ received an important update: you can now share your resume with selected companies via a webform. Also you can share your open positions on the Meeting C++ job board or apply to become listed in the job section as a C++ employer.

A major update for Meeting C++ Recruiting

by Jens Weller

From the article:

Today I can announce a new offering in the recruiting area of Meeting C++: the CV upload form.

The mission of Meeting C++ is to support the C++ community and to build and maintain a worldwide network for C++. And with Meeting C++ recruiting, the goal is to integrate companies into this network, to make them visible as employers, and help people find the right jobs. With this service, I want to bring together companies, who have open positions for C++ Developers and those developers who are looking for a new challenging position!

C++17 In Detail - new book on C++ -- Bartlomiej Filipek

By bfilipek | Aug 14, 2018 01:34 PM | Tags: c++17

Learn the Exciting Features of The New C++ Standard with a new Book on C++

C++17 in Detail

by Bartlomiej Filipek

From the introduction:

C++17 was officially standardised in December 2017, giving us - developers - a wealth of new features to write better code.

This book describes all significant changes in the language and the Standard Library. What's more, it provides a lot of practical examples so you can quickly apply the knowledge to your code.

C++17 In Detail Book!--Bartlomiej Filipek

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 13, 2018 11:31 AM | Tags: community

Interested?

C++17 In Detail Book!

by Bartlomiej Filipek

From the article:

I’m happy to present my first ebook on C++!

Here’s the short story and the description of what you can find inside.

Plus, read on and see how to get a free copy

Working with Makefiles in CLion using Compilation DB -- Phil Nash

By Anastasia Kazakova | Aug 11, 2018 05:17 AM | Tags: None

CLion 2018.2 brought compilation database project format support. And it's more useful already than you may realize, as nowadays an increasing number of build systems allows generating comp db out of them. Typical example is Makefiles!

Working with Makefiles in CLion using Compilation DB

by Phil Nash

From the article:

Now that CLion can open Compilation DB JSON files it means it can effectively understand projects from many more build systems. This gives CLion full code-completion, static analysis, navigation and even refactoring on such projects. For 2018.2 we don’t yet have build (except for individual files) or debug capabilities – but these are planned for an upcoming release. To see just how useful this is, we’ll work through a couple of examples.

Sourcetrail 2018.3 released -- Eberhard Gräther

By egraether | Aug 11, 2018 05:14 AM | Tags: None

Sourcetrail is a cross-platform visual source explorer based on Clang libTooling

Sourcetrail 2018.3 released

by Eberhard Gräther

From the article:

Sourcetrail 2018.3 brings new usability features for faster source code exploration. Users can continue to browse while reindexing in the background. A graph legend and new node actions have been added to the graph visualization. The code view was extended with a local reference navigation. Project setup now supports Sonargraph and Code::Blocks project import.