How C++17 Benefits from Boost Libraries, Part One

by Bartlomiej Filipek

In today’s article, I’ll show you battle-tested features from the well-known Boost libraries that were adapted into C++17.

With the growing number of elements in the Standard Library, supported by experience from Boost you can write even more fluent C++ code.

Read on and learn about the cool things in C++...

Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Belfast, November 2019

by Botond Ballo

Last week I attended a meeting of the ISO C++ Standards Committee (also known as WG21) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This was the third and last committee meeting in 2019; you can find my reports on preceding meetings here (July 2019, Cologne) and here (February 2019, Kona), and previous ones linked from those. These reports, particularly the Cologne one, provide useful context for this post...

Trip Report: Freestanding Errors in Belfast

by Ben Craig

The C++ standards committee met in Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK) between Nov 4 and Nov 8. This was my fifth committee meeting, third evening session, and my first paper accepted into the standard. Through clever manipulation of the process, I was also able to fix 1.5% of all the national body comments SINGLE HANDEDLY (with the help of a coauthor, several reviewers, the entirety of LEWG and LWG, and a few national bodies)...

WG21 in my own backyard: Belfast trip report

by Guy Davidson

November turned into a heavy travel month when I agreed to speak at both C++ Russia in St Petersburg and Meeting C++ in Berlin, either side of the Autumn WG21 committee in Belfast. I took what some considered to be “quite a risk” with St Petersburg: the date straddled the Brexit date, and I would be accompanied by my wife whom the organisers graciously agreed to pay to accompany me. She travels with an Irish passport, so the idea of both of us safely returning to the country immediately after a change to border law seemed potentially hazardous...

CRTP and Israel Joining the C++ ISO

by CppCast

• Doubling the speed of std::uniform_int_distribution in the GNU C++ library
• Benchmarking is hard: processors learn to predict branches
• Boost.UT C++20 macro-free Unit Testing Framework
• C++20 The Big Four
• ASAN for Windows with MSVC

Support for C++20’s Concepts in CLion

by Anastasia Kazakova

Concepts are one of the biggest features coming in C++20, and knowing that, we’ve been thinking about supporting Concepts in CLion for quite a while. Enter Saar Raz with his C++20’s Concepts implementation in Clang! Long story short, we have been collaborating with Saar to merge his branch into our custom Clangd-based language engine in CLion, and started implementing some nice IDE features on top. Sounds ambitious enough, but we have thoroughly enjoyed the experience so far! A very early result of this collaboration was used by Saar in his CppCon 2019 talk on Concepts...

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AddressSanitizer (ASan) for Windows with MSVC

by Augustin Popa

We are pleased to announce AddressSanitizer (ASan) support for the MSVC toolset. ASan is a fast memory error detector that can find runtime memory issues such as use-after-free and perform out of bounds checks. Support for sanitizers has been one of our more popular suggestions on Developer Community, and we can now say that we have an experience for ASan on Windows, in addition to our existing support for Linux projects...

Slides of the 10th of October 2019 BeCPP Meeting

by Marc Gregoire

• “C++20: What’s in it for you?” by Marc Gregoire
• “From Iterators To Ranges — The Upcoming Evolution Of the Standard Library” by Arno Schödl

If you couldn't attend the event in person, or if you would like to go over the material again, you can download them from the BeCPP website.

Slides of the 3rd of July 2019 BeCPP Meeting

• “What’s new in Visual C++ 2019?” by Marc Gregoire
• “Statistical Scientific programming: challenges in converting R to C++” by Olivia Quinet

If you couldn’t attend the event in person, or if you would like to go over the material again, you can download them from the BeCPP website.