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Bringing back the Meeting C++ employer listing

By Meeting C++ | Aug 17, 2021 06:27 AM | Tags: meetingcpp jobs hiring community

Relaunching another part of Meeting C++ recruiting: the employer listing.

Bringing back the Meeting C++ employer listing

by Jens Weller

From the article

Meeting C++ brings back the listing of C++ employers to its website as part of Meeting C++ recruiting. The companies will be visible in the listing it self, but also have their logos displayed in the job section next to every job advert posted to Meeting C++! Additionally, the companies are also listed in the CV/resume sharing form of Meeting C++.

CppCon 2020 Dealing with Embedded Limitations--Panel Discussion hosted by Ben Saks

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 16, 2021 11:32 AM | Tags: community

Registration is now open for CppCon 2021, which starts on October 24 and will be held both in person and online. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting videos of some of the top-rated talks from our most recent in-person conference in 2019 and our online conference in 2020. Here’s another CppCon talk video we hope you will enjoy – and why not register today for CppCon 2021 to attend in person, online, or both!

Dealing with Embedded Limitations

Panel Discussion hosted by Ben Saks

Summary of the talk:

Many embedded systems have requirements on latency, memory usage, and resource consumption. This is especially true of safety-critical and security-related systems. Many programmers and organizations worry that using C++ features will prevent them from meeting these requirements. Some avoid using specific features such as exception handling, while others avoid using C++ entirely.

This panel will discuss the challenges and benefits of using C++ in embedded contexts. We will explore ways that embedded systems can leverage the power of Modern C++ features to meet their guarantees. We will discuss which concerns are based in fact and which concerns are based on misconceptions.
Feel free to bring your own questions about anything that you believe inhibits your use of modern C++ on an embedded system. We will discuss pre-selected questions as well as audience submissions.

Boost Version 1.77.0 released

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 16, 2021 11:30 AM | Tags: community

Are you going to update?

Boost Version 1.77.0 released

From the release:

New Libraries
A C++14 reflection library, from Peter Dimov. Provides macros for describing enumerators and struct/class members, and primitives for querying this information.
Lambda2:
A C++14, dependency-free, single header lambda library, from Peter Dimov. Allows simple function objects to be constructed via expressions such as _1 + 5, _1 % 2 == 0, _1 > _2, or _1 == ' ' || _1 == '\t'...

CppCon 2019 Some Programming Myths Revisited--Patrice Roy

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 13, 2021 12:45 PM | Tags: community

Some Programming Myths Revisited

by Patrice Roy

Summary of the talk:

We have been taught, or we ourselves have taught, things that we took for granted as being "good practice" in programming. Such things often stem from the "wisdom of the ancients" (although computer science being young as sciences come, some of the "ancients" are still among us and thriving today, and we're so lucky to have them!), and are in effect part of our "myths".

However, being as grounded in the science-that-there-was as these recommendations are, our ideas have evolved, so have our programming languages, and it can be interesting to revisit some of these taken-for-granted ideas.

In C++, particularly in what some call "modern C++", we find a language that is different enough from its forebears to make revisiting our "myths" interesting. How do such things as "goto considered harmful" or "only one return per function", for example, hold as "wisdom" with respect to modern C++? Do they still help us write better programs or should be rethink them under the light of modern languages and practice?

The aim of this talk is to examine what some commonly heard recommendations or advices with respect to programming practice mean in the context of "modern" C++. We will take a small set of such advices, present them in context, show how well (or how badly) they suit today's C++, and try to rephrase them if this seems advantageous.

Adding a book section to Meeting C++

By Meeting C++ | Aug 11, 2021 12:59 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community c++20 c++17 books

Meeting C++ has now its own C++ book section:

Adding a book section to Meeting C++

by Jens Weller

From the article:

The section offers a listing of current C++ books, currently 14 books by various authors such as Bjarne Stroustrup or Rainer Grimm! More books will be listed in the future, as not all authors had yet time to list their books. July/August is a holiday month after all, though that might give you the time to read a book!

CppCon 2019 The Dawn of a New Error--Phil Nash

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 9, 2021 01:17 PM | Tags: community

The Dawn of a New Error

by Phil Nash

Summary of the talk:

As a community we've tried many different ways to express, propagate and handle error conditions in our code over the years. Each seem to have different trade-offs, with none being perfect in all cases.

This presentation is the follow-up to my earlier talk, "Option(al) Is Not a Failure", where I surveyed existing error-handling approaches and score them against each other, leading up to the new proposal, p0709, "Zero-overhead deterministic exceptions".

We'll summarise some of that background so we're all on the same page, but in this talk we're going to dig into the proposal in more depth - and look at the supporting proposals, p1028 (std::error) and p1029 ([[move relocates]]) and others. We'll also comment similar mechanisms in other languages, notably Swift, to get an idea of how it might work out in practice.

Voting results and the Top 10 talks for Meeting C++ 2021

By Meeting C++ | Aug 5, 2021 04:54 AM | Tags: meetingcpp events community

The results from the voting for this years Meeting C++ conference are in, and published together with the Top10 of talks!

Voting results and the top 10 Talks for Meeting C++ 2021

by Jens Weller

From the article

The Meeting C++ hive mind has spoken, and given the feedback of the C++ community to the submissions of Meeting C++ 2021.

Like in the previous years, one could vote from 0-5 for each talk and leave a comment if you'd like on each talk. The talks are randomized in Order, and not every voting session has finished the full stack of talks to vote on. The result below is then achieved by weighing the votes from 0-5 as {-3,-2,-1,1,3,4}, this gives the talks that folks want to see a bit of an edge, while the negative numbers help to keep the range of the end result a bit closer. Having bought a ticket before the voting starts does give you a higher voting weight, as you'll be attending the conference.

C++ developers conference C++ Russia is looking for speakers

By Anna Kurilo | Aug 2, 2021 01:02 PM | Tags: community

If you think that you have nothing to share with the audience, you might be wrong. Your professional experience could prove useful to colleagues from all over the world.

Call for papers for conference C++ Russia

by C++ Russia

About the call:

Feel free to share your ideas with us. We will help to prepare your performance.

Plus, as a speaker, you’ll get Full Pass, one ticket to all season’s conferences.

Call for papers is on up to the 13d September.

CppCon 2020 Test Driven C++--Phil Nash

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 2, 2021 12:56 PM | Tags: community

Test Driven C++

by Phil Nash

Summary of the talk:

We know that testing is important, but writing tests is hard and takes time - and can be demotivating when you want to hack out features.

But what if we flipped the whole thing around? It turns out that by writing tests _first_ the dynamic changes in unexpected ways. Testing becomes easier. Adding features becomes easier. The dopamine hit you get from seeing something work becomes more frequent. Time lost to bugs and regressions virtually disappears. You start to get invited to bigger and better parties!

Ok, one of those statements is not guaranteed - but the rest are! If you've never tried TDD (perhaps you have heard of it but been skeptical), or maybe had a bad experience in the past, this talk will give you a sound intro to how it work, how you can get started, and what you can expect to achieve.

Visual Studio Code C++ July 2021 Update: Disassembly View, Macro Expansion and...--Julia Reid

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 2, 2021 12:51 PM | Tags: community

Are you going to use it?

Visual Studio Code C++ July 2021 Update: Disassembly View, Macro Expansion and Windows ARM64 Debugging

by Julia Reid

From the article:

The July 2021 update of the C++ extension for Visual Studio Code is here, bringing you brand new features— such as a Disassembly View while debugging, inline macro expansions, and debug support for Windows ARM64 architecture—along with a bunch of enhancements and bug fixes. To find out more about all the enhancements, check out our release notes on GitHub...