Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting (Cologne)

by Herb Sutter

Obligatory comment: The C++20 Eagle has wings.

At noon today, July 20 2019, the ISO C++ committee completed its summer meeting in Cologne, Germany, hosted with thanks by Think-Cell, SIGS Datacom, SimuNova, Silexica, Meeting C++, Josuttis Eckstein, Xara, Volker Dörr, Mike Spertus, and the Standard C++ Foundation...

Italian C++ Conference 2019

by Marco Arena

The 4th edition of the Italian C++ Conference took place at Politecnico di Milano last June 15th...

A first Schedule for Meeting C++ 2019

by Jens Weller

The schedule for Meeting C++ 2019 is online!

This is a first look at the great program that Meeting C++ 2019 will offer, once again 3 days full of C++ in Berlin!

C++ Core Guidelines: Improved Performance with Iostreams

by Rainer Grimm

As easy as my title and the rules of the C++ core guidelines sound, getting more performance out of the Iostreams is no no-brainer...

Use constexpr for faster, smaller, and safer code

by Trail of Bits

With the release of C++14, the standards committee strengthened one of the coolest modern features of C++: constexpr. Now, C++ developers can write constant expressions and force their evaluation at compile-time, rather than at every invocation by users. This results in faster execution, smaller executables and, surprisingly, safer code...

C++ Core Guidelines: Iostreams

by Rainer Grimm

When you interact with the outside world, the iostream library is the way to go in C++. As always you have to keep a few rules in mind. Let me show, which rules...

“The STL From Scratch” is back!

by Arthur O’Dwyer

Registrations for CppCon 2019 are open, and so are registrations for my two-day pre-conference class, “The STL from Scratch.”...

C++ 2019 - The state of Developer Ecosystem in 2019 Infographic

by Jet Brains

People continue to adopt the new C++ standards. The usage of C++17 has grown by 10 percentage points since last year...

Pragmatic compiling of C++ to WebAssembly. A Guide.

by Thomas Deniffel

Most C++-Programmers I know of have already heard of WebAssembly, but most have had troubles getting started. This guide brings you beyond of a simple “Hello World”: To a stateful-applications with interactions between C++ and JavaScript...

C++ Core Guidelines: Rules for Strings

by Rainer Grimm

The C++ core guidelines use the term string as a sequence of characters. Consequently, the guidelines are about  C-strings, C++-strings, the C++17 std::string_view's, and std::byte's...