strong_typedef - Create distinct types for distinct purposes--Anthony Williams

By Adrien Hamelin | May 30, 2019 01:39 PM | Tags: community

A common problem with a common solution made easier.

strong_typedef - Create distinct types for distinct purposes

by Anthony Williams

From the article:

One common problem in C++ code is the use of simple types for many things: a std::string might be a filename, a person's name, a SQL query string or a piece of JSON; an int could be a count, an index, an ID number, or even a file handle. In his 1999 book "Refactoring" (which has a second edition as of January 2019), Martin Fowler called this phenomenon "Primitive Obsession", and recommended that we use dedicated classes for each purpose rather than built-in or library types...

C++ Core Guidelines: std::array and std::vector are your Friends--Rainer Grimm

By Adrien Hamelin | May 30, 2019 12:59 PM | Tags: community

The series continue.

C++ Core Guidelines: std::array and std::vector are your Friends

by Rainer Grimm

From the article:

In 99 % of your use-cases for a sequential container, you are totally fine with a std::array or a std::vector. What? If you don't believe me, read this post...

Compiler Explorer with code execution support — now in early beta

By Adrien Hamelin | May 29, 2019 12:22 PM | Tags: community

You should try it!

Compiler Explorer with code execution support — now in early beta

Core C++ 2019 Trip Report--Anastasia Kazakova

By Adrien Hamelin | May 27, 2019 11:56 AM | Tags: community

It's trip report time!

Core C++ 2019 Trip Report

by Anastasia Kazakova

From the article:

More and more C++ events, community meetups, and conferences are appearing around the globe. 2019 is definitely looking like a year for new C++ conferences. Take, for example, C++ on Sea (UK, in February) or the upcoming CPPP (France, in June). Even C++ Russia now has two editions per year – one in Moscow and one in St. Petersburg. And, finally, there’s the event we just visited – Core C++, held in Tel Aviv, Israel...

ACCU 2019 Autumn Conference - Call for Proposals Open -- ACCU

By Felix Petriconi | May 24, 2019 09:30 AM | Tags: community

The Call for Proposals for the ACCU Autumn 2019 Conference to be held 2019-11-11 to 2019-11-12 at Hilton Hotel in Belfast is now open.

Call for Proposals

by ACCU

About the conference:

The call for proposals is open until 2019-06-16.

This conference abuts the WG21 committee meeting so expect lots of C++ folk to be around.

C++ Core Guidelines: The Standard Library--Rainer Grimm

By Adrien Hamelin | May 20, 2019 01:10 PM | Tags: community

The guidelines explained further.

C++ Core Guidelines: The Standard Library

by Rainer Grimm

From the article:

Curiously, there is no section to the algorithms of the standard template library (STL) in this chapter. Curiously, because there is a proverb in the C++ community: If you write an explicit loop, you don't know the algorithms of the STL. Anyway. Only for completeness, let me start with the first three rules which provide not much beef...

Report from using std::cpp 2019

By Adrien Hamelin | May 13, 2019 12:06 PM | Tags: community

The statitistics.

Report from using std::cpp 2019

From the article:

On March, 7th, we had the sixth edition of using std::cpp (the C++ conference in Spain). The conference was again a on-day free event, and as every other year it was hosted at the Higher Polytechnic School of University Carlos III of Madrid in Leganés.

As many other years roughly 200 participants attended the conference. Most of the attendees were coming from industry...

ACCU Trip report--Kate Gregory

By Adrien Hamelin | May 7, 2019 12:55 PM | Tags: community

Sweet and short.

ACCU Trip report

by Kate Gregory

From the article:

In early April I was lucky enough to go to Bristol in the UK for the annual ACCU conference. This has been an aspirational conference for me, one I attended before speaking at and am always delighted to attend. This year I was invited to keynote, and it turned out to be the closing keynote, which meant I was not done with all my talks until the conference was over! Nevertheless I enjoyed the week tremendously...

GCC 9.1 Released

By Adrien Hamelin | May 7, 2019 12:53 PM | Tags: community

Check it out.

GCC 9.1 Released

From the article:

In this release C++17 support is no longer marked experimental. The C++ front-end implements the full C++17 language (already previous GCC major version implemented that) and the C++ standard library support is almost complete. The C++ front-end and library also have numerous further C++2a draft features. GCC has a new front-end for the D language. GCC 9.1 has newly partial OpenMP 5.0 support and almost complete OpenACC 2.5 support...

Top Ten Reasons To Send Your Developers to CppCon (or any C++ Conference)--Jon Kalb

By Adrien Hamelin | May 6, 2019 10:44 AM | Tags: community

So you should send them.

Top Ten Reasons To Send Your Developers to CppCon (or any C++ Conference)

by Jon Kalb

From the article:

Sending software engineers to conferences is both a time and money expense, but conferences exists because they provide value to attendees and companies that send them. Some of the value may be obvious, some may not. Here is a list of the top business reasons to send your developers to CppCon or any other C++ conference...