March 23-28, London, UK
By Jordi Mon Companys | Mar 30, 2018 02:21 AM | Tags: community
As part of the Conan ecosystem JFrog is extending it's long living Artifactory
Artifactory Community Edition for C/C++ announcement
From the article:
This product provides all the power and flexibility of the Artifactory repository for Conan and generic binaries to the entirety of the Conan community for any team’s needs.
By Jordi Mon Companys | Mar 30, 2018 02:15 AM | Tags: community c++11
This product initially developed by Lyft is now an open source project in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Envoy Proxy's website
From the docs:
The network should be transparent to applications. When network and application problems do occur it should be easy to determine the source of the problem.
By Meeting C++ | Mar 30, 2018 02:03 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community
Meeting C++ launched a new community on Patreon:
Starting a new Community at Patreon
by Jens Weller
From the article:
Something new: you can now support Meeting C++ through Patreon!
This will go mostly into videos & video interviews and the Meeting C++ blog. I started doing my own videos and video interviews on YouTube last year, and to compliment that, I decided to also start a community of supporters on patreon. You'll be able to know guests of Meeting C++ & friends ahead of time and be able to suggest potential questions to ask...
By Anastasia Kazakova | Mar 29, 2018 06:52 AM | Tags: None
A new release is here!
CLion 2018.1 is released: more C++17, WSL, CMake Install, Fortran and Rust plugins
by Anastasia Kazakova
From the article:
With this year’s first update, CLion 2018.1, you get enhanced C++17 support (including structured bindings and if/switch with initializers), new CMake actions (like CMake Install), various editor improvements (breadcrumbs and more), and a more responsive editor.
Windows users can benefit from support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which makes it possible to compile, run, and debug Linux-compatible binaries while working on Windows, and even run them with Valgrind Memcheck.
2018.1 version also comes with the bundled support for Objective-C and Objective-C++, Fortran and Rust plugins. Rust comes with Cargo build system and the debugger.
By Andrey Karpov | Mar 28, 2018 05:16 AM | Tags: xnu kernel static code analysis pvs-studio macos bugs
A new version of the PVS-Studio analyzer 6.23 is working under macOS, which allows you to check the projects written in C and C++. Our team decided to perform a XNU Kernel check to coincide it with this event.
PVS-Studio is now available on macOS: 64 weaknesses in the Apple's XNU Kernel
by Andrey Karpov
From the article:
Although the XNU Kernel is relatively small, it's a challenge to study the analyzer warnings alone, which takes much time. False positives make the check more complicated, since I haven't performed the preliminary analyzer configuration. I just quickly looked through the warnings, writing out code fragments that, in my opinion, represent interest. This is more than enough for writing a quite large article. PVS-Studio analyzer easily finds a large number of interesting bugs.
By fj | Mar 25, 2018 11:36 PM | Tags: None
Embedding and recovering the type information in generic lambda expressions.
Emulating templated generic lambda expressions
by Krzysztof Ostrowski
From the article:
One of the greatest advantages of lambda expressions is their locality. It is really comfortable to reason about the code if the most of its parts are in the "near" scope, and the inversion of control is limited. On the other hand, optimiser's life is much easier with lambdas (they are just syntactic sugar, thus their actual structure is defined by the compiler). Moreover, lambdas' opaque mangled names can drastically reduce compile times. Parametrically polymorphic (generic) lambda expressions introduce additional flexibility in algorithm implementation and minimise maintenance work.
Paradoxically, generic lambda expressions in C++17 are somewhat too generic. That characteristic announces itself in inability to fix the lambda parameters in advance. Unlike in function templates, we cannot specify the parameter types explicitly to effectively disable template argument deduction from the passed function arguments.
Some steps towards templated generic lambdas are going to be taken in C++20. For the time being, a simple technique that emulates templated generic lambdas proposed in this article may be reused.
By Hartmut Kaiser | Mar 24, 2018 07:20 AM | Tags: performance parallelism heterogeneous computing distributed computing c++17 c++14 c++11
The STE||AR Group has released V1.0 of HPX -- A C++ Standard library for parallelism and concurrency.
HPX V1.1 Released
The newest version of HPX (V1.1) is now available for download! Please see here for the release notes.
HPX exposes an API fully conforming to the concurrency related parts of the C++11/C++14/C++17 standards, extended and applied to distributed and heterogeneous computing, and aligned with the ongoing standardization discussions.
HPX is a general purpose parallel C++ runtime system for applications of any scale. It implements all of the related facilities as defined by the C++ Standard. As of this writing, HPX provides the only widely available open-source implementation of the new C++17 parallel algorithms. Additionally, HPX implements functionalities proposed as part of the ongoing C++ standardization process, such as large parts of the C++ Concurrency TS, task blocks, data-parallel algorithms, executors, index-based parallel for loops, and many more. It also extends the existing C++ Standard APIs to the distributed case (e.g. compute clusters) and for heterogeneous systems (e.g. GPUs).
HPX seamlessly enables a new asynchronous C++ Standard Programming Model which tends to improve the parallel efficiency of our applications and helps reduce complexities usually associated with concurrency
By Marco Arena | Mar 22, 2018 09:29 AM | Tags: visual studio
Today Microsoft released the second preview of the next update: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7:
Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 2
by Christine Ruana
C++ Standards Conformance Highlights (detailed C++ release notes here):
Implemented Template argument deduction for class templates:
pair p{2, 2.5};
Full implementation of Expression SFINAE
Expand the using declaration to support pack expansion semantics for variadic base class members
Implemented parallel algorithms conforming to the ISO C++17 standard
By Danny Scott | Mar 19, 2018 09:51 AM | Tags: None
The wxWidgets team is pleased to announce a new release of our open source framework for the development of native cross-platform applications in C++.
wxWidgets Release 3.0.4
by the wxWidgets team
About the release:
wxWidgets 3.0.4 is a stable bug fix release in 3.0 branch.
More information is available at wxWidgets home page and in the online documentation.
By Meeting C++ | Mar 16, 2018 02:51 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community
News from Meeting C++: the job section features now a listing of C++ employers, which support Meeting C++. Also you can post your own jobs now at Meeting C++!
The Meeting C++ employer listing is online
by Jens Weller
From the article:
With this week, a feature of the old website returns: the Meeting C++ employer listing. So companies with open C++ positions get a permanent representation at Meeting C++ with their profile and contact information.
