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Trip report: February 2019 ISO C++ committee meeting, Kona, Hawai’i--Timur Doumler

By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 5, 2019 01:21 PM | Tags: community

Another report.

Trip report: February 2019 ISO C++ committee meeting, Kona, Hawai’i

by Timur Doumler

From the article:

What better way to start my new blog than to publish a trip report from the most recent C++ committee meeting on the wonderful Big Island of Hawai’i?

If you are looking for an incredibly detailed report of everything that happened, please instead head to this report by Bryce and others, and also see Herb Sutter’s and cor3ntin’s reports. I won’t try to provide this breadth of coverage, and instead focus on a few areas that are particularly relevant for me and the community that I am proxying here:

  • Making C++ simpler, more uniform, and easier to teach;
  • Providing developers with better tools;
  • Improving support for low-latency and real-time(-ish) programming,
  • 2D Graphics, Audio, and other forms of I/O and human-machine interaction.

That being said, let’s start with the big news: we voted both Coroutines and Modules into C++20!

Formatting user-defined types with {fmt} library--Wojtek Gumuła

By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 5, 2019 01:10 PM | Tags: experimental community

The future.

Formatting user-defined types with {fmt} library

by Wojtek Gumuła

From the article:

C++ has two standardized ways of printing formatted text out already: printf-family functions inherited from C and I/O streams abstraction built on operator<<. Streams are considered more modern, providing type-safety and extensibility functionalities. However, printf have some notable advantages, too — at the cost of lost type-safety, user can use an interface that looks familiar to almost all developers, allowing for some ways of localization and more readable syntax. And then, there is {fmt} — yet another text formatting library, inspired by design already available in languages like Python and Rust...

Conan.io: Package management in C++

By Jordi Mon Companys | Mar 3, 2019 08:52 AM | Tags: community

Diego Rodríguez-Losada is interviewed about Conan.io

Package management in C++

by Andrew Nesbitt and Alex Pounds

Though a bit outdated because it was recorded 9 months ago, still or, in fact, more than valid knowledge about tooling in C++. From the excerpt: We talk about what inspired the development of Conan, package management problems specific to C/C++ package management and the plans for the future.

 

C++ User Group Meetings in March

By Meeting C++ | Mar 1, 2019 06:16 AM | Tags: user groups meetingcpp community

The monthly overview on upcoming C++ User Group meetings by Meeting C++

C++ USer Group Meetings in March 2019

by Jens Weller

From the article

The monthly overview of upcoming C++ User Group meetings! Lots of groups already announced their meetings, if your group is not in the list, they might announce later.

Want to speak at a User Group? Use the contact form to reach out to several User Groups that you'd be able to visit for a talk!

There are 4 new C++ User Groups...

Overload 149 is now available

By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 25, 2019 12:35 PM | Tags: community

ACCU’s Overload journal of February 2019 is out. It contains the following C++ related articles.

Overload 149 is now available

From the journal:

Rip It Up and Start Again.
Some things can be resurrected, others cannot. Frances Buontempo wonders when we need to repent and start over.

5 Big Fat Reasons Why Mutexes Suck Big Time.
Mutable shared state in multithreaded code is often protected by mutexes. Sergey Ignatchenko reminds us that Re-Actors can avoid many of the problems.

A Small Universe.
Writing a programming language is a hot topic. Deák Ferenc shows us how he wrote a compiler for bytecode callable from C++.

QM Bites: Understand Windows Operating-System Identification Preprocessor Macros.
Quality matters and bite sized articles help. Matthew Wilson returns with a QM Bites.

A Thorough Introduction to Distributed Systems.
What is a distributed system, and why is it so complicated? Stanislav Kozlovski explains.

Don’t Use std::endl.
How do you add a new line in C++? Chris Sharpe suggests std::endl is a tiny utility that’s more trouble than it’s worth.

Cpp On Sea 2019 Trip Report--Arne Mertz

By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 20, 2019 01:12 PM | Tags: community

Were you there?

Cpp On Sea 2019 Trip Report

by Arne Mertz

From the article:

From February 3rd through February 6th I have been in Folkestone, UK, to visit the first C++ On Sea conference.

There must be something in the water on that island that enables them to organize fantastic conferences like ACCUConf and, since this year, C++ On Sea.
C++ On Sea is definitely the best conference I have ever been to, and here’s a little glimpse why I think so...

Using VS Code for C++ development with containers--Marc Goodner

By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 11, 2019 12:59 PM | Tags: community

It can do it.

Using VS Code for C++ development with containers

by Marc Goodner

From the article:

This post builds on using multi-stage containers for C++ development. That post showed how to use a single Dockerfile to describe a build stage and a deployment stage resulting in a container optimized for deployment. It did not show you how to use a containers with your development environment. Here we will show how to use those containers with VS Code. The source for this article is the same as that of the previous article: the findfaces GitHub repo...