By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 7, 2021 10:00 AM | Tags: community
What are you waiting for?
CppCon 2021 Call for Volunteers and Volunteer Grant Program
From the article:
Be a part of making CppCon 2021 an exciting event. Please join us as a volunteer...
By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 5, 2021 01:34 PM | Tags: community
All is in the title.
Be Wise, Sanitize - Keeping Your C++ Code Free From Bugs
by Marin Peko
From the article:
For all of the losses it has inflicted, this pandemic has at least made us more conscious about our personal hygiene.
We’re spraying spaces, surfaces and our hands way more often, so why not sanitize our code while we’re at it? After all, software runs the world, and bugs that cause programs to malfunction can cause serious damage – much like their viral counterparts.
If you’re developing in C and C++, you know this all too well. It’s easy to allocate a piece of memory and forget to free it later, or accidentally write past the memory buffer. These issues are extremely hard to find without proper tools and often cause sporadic, sudden crashes.
Using sanitizers as you’re building and testing your program can help you catch a great deal of issues in your source code early on, including memory leaks, buffer overflows and undefined behavior.
Today, we’ll be taking a look at three types of Clang sanitizers, how they’re used and what bugs they can help us nip in the bud.
Let’s spray away!
By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 5, 2021 01:28 PM | 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!
Behind the Scenes of a C++ Build System
by Jussi Pakkanen
Summary of the talk:
Everyone has an opinion on what build systems should do but there are surprisingly few who have an understanding of how they do it. In this talk we shall look behind the curtain and examine what does it actually take to create a modern build system and how they go about their business of turning source code into either compiler errors or executables.
On this journey we shall learn about the wonders of supporting 10+ different platforms and toolchains, dependency management, the awesomeness (both ironically and not) of shared libraries, compiler bugs and the interesting requirements on tools used at the lowest layers of a modern operating system. Using the increasingly popular Meson build system we shall examine real world design choices and tradeoffs and how they affect the final end user development experience. Performance optimization is also examined by looking at how you can efficiently scale program compilation both up to a compilation cluster and down to something like a Raspberry Pi.
Armed with all this knowledge we should finally be able to answer the question of why almost all build systems have suffered from poor usability and maybe, just maybe, find a proper solution for the build and dependency problem.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 2, 2021 03:09 PM | 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!
Effective Remote C++ Development with Codespaces
by Nick Uhlenhuth
Summary of the talk:
The rise of remote work and the growth of team sizes present a challenge for C++ developers. Many C++ projects have complex hardware and software requirements, making onboarding of new team members and productive coding from home harder than they need to be. We need tools to ease configuration of your team's development environments and grant them access to the processing power they need from wherever they are in the world.
This presentation will show how Codespaces can use the power and flexibility of the cloud to address these issues. Codespaces give you the ability to quickly create a managed online development environment specific to your project that you can access from anywhere. We'll look at the problems which hit C++ developers particularly hard, like long build times and dependency management. Finally, we'll show the tool in action to give you a feel for how your teams could leverage it, and more broadly get you to think about what parts of your team's development process can be streamlined.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 2, 2021 03:06 PM | Tags: community
Will you attend?
New Software Design Track at CppCon 2021
From the article:
CppCon 2021 introduces a new Software Design Track.
Lisa LippincottEvery year CppCon presents dozens of sessions on how to produce high quality C++ code. But high quality software products require more of software engineers than just good coding. Great software products are built by engineers with great design skills, so CppCon also presents sessions focused on designing software components of high quality...
By Meeting C++ | Jul 2, 2021 02:39 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community
An overview on upcoming C++ UG meetings in July!
C++ User Group meetings in July 2021
by Jens Weller
From the article:
This month is special as Meeting C++ celebrates 9 years of Meeting C++ on July 8th! Also keep in mind that the call for talks and the early bird tickets for Meeting C++ 2021 end on July 11th!
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 23, 2021 12:36 PM | Tags: community
Are you using it?
{fmt} 8.0 released with compile-time format string checks, compile-time formatting, improved performance and more
by Victor Zverovich
From the article:
Enabled compile-time format string check by default...
By Marco Arena | Jun 23, 2021 03:59 AM | Tags: ranges intermediate community
A new interpretation of a classical problem:
Reversing words of a string with ranges
by Marco Arena
From the article:
In this post I share the story of a “C++ aha-moment”, hence I use the hashtag #thatsarotate (resumed last Saturday at the Italian C++ Conference 2021 to honor our keynote speaker Sean Parent). Why not sharing your own stories of “C++ aha-moments” adding the same hashtag to your tweets, posts, or whatever? It would be really appreciated...
By Marco Arena | Jun 21, 2021 07:10 AM | Tags: community
The opening keynote of Italian C++ Conference 2021:
Warning: std::find is broken
by Sean Parent
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 15, 2021 09:44 AM | Tags: community
Are you going to check it?
JetBrains Brings C++Now to You
by Anastasia Kazakova
From the article:
C++Now is generally regarded as the year’s most academic event in the C++ community. The conference hosts excellent talks from some of the most prominent experts in the community about cutting-edge C++ language features and advanced C++ skill...