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C++ Core Guidelines: Supporting Sections--Rainer Grimm

Table of contents.

C++ Core Guidelines: Supporting Sections

by Rainer Grimm

From the article:

Let's recapitulate. In the last two years, I have written about 100 posts to the C++ Core Guidelines. Why? The document answers:  "This document is a set of guidelines for using C++ well. The aim of this document is to help people to use modern C++ effectively.". But my story does not end here. The guidelines have a supporting section...

Presenter Interviews: Kate Gregory--Kevin Carpenter

Discover the person presenting at CppCon.

Presenter Interviews: Kate Gregory

by Kevin Carpenter

From the article:

In this week’s presenter interview, Kevin Carpenter welcomes back Kate Gregory to preview her upcoming talk Naming is Hard: Let’s Do Better. Kate’s talk will discuss how bad we as C++ developers can be when it comes to naming things and how we could improve.

Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Cologne, July 2019--Botond Ballo

Lots happened!

Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Cologne, July 2019

by Botond Ballo

From the article:

Last week I attended a meeting of the ISO C++ Standards Committee (also known as WG21) in Cologne, Germany. This was the second committee meeting in 2019; you can find my reports on preceding meetings here (February 2019, Kona) and here (November 2018, San Diego), and previous ones linked from those. These reports, particularly the Kona one, provide useful context for this post...

Secure Coding in C/C++ with Robert C. Seacord of NCC Group

In episode 35 of The Secure Developer with Robert C. Seacord of NCC Group

 

Secure Coding in C/C++

with Robert C. Seacord of NCC Group

 

In episode 35 of The Secure Developer, Guy is joined by Robert C. Seacord of NCC Group, who champions the continued practice of coding security in C and C++, and offers practical advantages to using various programming languages in the Agile era.

std::format in C++20--Victor Zverovich

Just great!

std::format in C++20

by Victor Zverovich

From the article:

I’m happy to announce that the Text Formatting proposal (std::format) made it into the C++20 Committee Draft at the Cologne meeting, just in time before the feature freeze. This concludes a three-year long design, implementation, and standardization effort.

Here’s a brief history of the proposal aka “what took you so long?”...