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A better date and time C++ library--Marius Bancila

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 2, 2016 01:11 PM | Tags: community c++11

Did you know that library?

A better date and time C++ library

by Marius Bancila

From the article:

C++11 added a date and time utility library called chrono, available in namespace std::chrono and header <chrono>. The problem with it is that the library is a general purpose one and therefore lacks many useful features, such as working with dates, weeks, calendars, timezones and other related features. Fortunately, a rich date and time library based on chrono has been created by Howard Hinnant and is available on github...

Recommendations to speed C++ builds in Visual Studio--Sridhar Madhugiri

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...

PVS-Studio C/C++ static code analyzer for Linux

By Andrey Karpov | Oct 26, 2016 04:54 AM | Tags: static code analysis pvs-studio linux bugs

We released the first version of PVS-Studio analyzer for Linux. Now Linux developers are getting a new powerful tool to fight bugs in the code.

PVS-Studio for Linux

From the news:

Starting with the 6.10 version, PVS-Studio analyzer supports not only Windows, but the Linux too.

PVS-Studio performs static code analysis and generates a report that helps a programmer find and fix bugs. PVS-Studio performs a wide range of code checks, it is also useful to search for misprints and Copy-Paste errors. Demonstrative examples of such errors: V501, V517, V522, V523, V571, V611.

The new Linux version (.deb, .rpm, .tgz) is available for download on the page: http://www.viva64.com/en/pvs-studio-download-linux/

C++ Core Check code analysis is included with VS “15”--Andrew Pardoe

By Adrien Hamelin | Oct 12, 2016 10:45 AM | Tags: efficiency community

Following the core guidelines is becoming easier.

C++ Core Check code analysis is included with VS “15”

by Andrew Pardoe

From the article:

Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 now includes the C++ Core Guidelines Checkers. This means you no longer have to install the C++ Core Check package from NuGet to check your code against rules and profiles in the C++ Core Guidelines. Just configure Code Analysis to include the C++ Core Check extensions.

rest_rpc released the first official version

By qicosmos | Oct 12, 2016 02:18 AM | Tags: None

The C++ open source community released (purecpp.org) released theit first official version.

rest_rpc website

by purecpp,org

From the website:

rest_rpc is developed using modern c++. The first version was released after several iterations and refactoring. rest_rpc is an easy to use, flexible, high-performance, cross-platform RPC framework.

Features of rest_rpc

  • RPC call just like local function call
  • Easy to use: developers only need to focus on business
  • Flexible: the serialization method can be freely customized, default support json，msgpack
  • Supports synchronous and asynchronous calls

build2 0.4.0 released

By Boris Kolpackov | Oct 4, 2016 08:03 AM | Tags: package build

build2 is an open source, cross-platform toolchain for building and packaging C++ code. It includes a build system, package manager, and repository web interface. There is also cppget.org, a public repository of open source C++ packages.

build2 0.4.0 Release Notes

From the announcement:

This release includes a number of major new features in the build system (support for Windows/MSVC, C compilation, pkg-config integration, library versioning and export model, as well as the uninstall operation) and packag manager (support for repository authentication and system packages).

This version has been tested on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and FreeBSD with GCC, Clang (both vanilla and Apple's), MinGW GCC, MSVC, and Intel icc.

Metashell 3.0.0 is available

By Ábel Sinkovics | Oct 4, 2016 05:37 AM | Tags: advanced

Metashell provides a compile-time debugger for debugging template instantiations and macro usage.

Metashell 3.0.0 is available

From the website:

Some of the major new features in 3.0.0:

  • Profiling template instantiations
  • Debugging template instantiations in expressions involving SFINAE
  • Displaying preprocessed expressions

Commands for exploring the available headers (similar to the which and ls commands).
The full list of changes can be found here.

An online demo can be found at http://metashell.org/about/demo/

Installers can be downloaded from http://metashell.org/getting_metashell/installers#version-300

 

Chobo Single-Header Libraries Released

By ibob | Sep 25, 2016 11:41 PM | Tags: None

Chobo SHL is a collection of five small single-header libraries with no external dependencies by Chobolabs.

Chobo SHL Released

by Chobolabs

From the release:

The list of libraries is:

  • optional - A value wrapper with an optional invalid state (similar to boost::optional)
  • static_vector - A std::vector-like class with fixed capacity (similar to boost::static_vector)
  • flat_map - A std::map-like class with linear storage and optional storage container (similar to boost::flat_map)
  • vector_ptr - A non-owning std::vector pointer to be used in generic code
  • vector_view - A view of a std::vector<T> which makes it look as a vector of another type

doctest—the lightest feature rich C++ single header testing framework released! -- Viktor Kirilov

By onqtam | Sep 22, 2016 11:37 PM | Tags: test

The lightest feature--rich C++ single--header testing framework for unit tests and TDD

doctest 1.1.0 released!

by Viktor Kirilov

From the release:

The reddit thread might be of interest as well.

The project is looking for sponsors and publicity!