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Milestone | New Home | Trip Reports--Jon Kalb

By Adrien Hamelin | Oct 17, 2018 12:58 PM | Tags: community

The conclusion of this year cppcon.

Milestone | New Home | Trip Reports

by Jon Kalb

From the article:

At the formal closing of CppCon 2018, we took a moment to consider how far we’ve come in the first five years of the conference. Those years have seen us grow in so many ways. Since our first conference, we’ve added classes, field trips, author signings, exhibitor tables and booths, Tool Time, and the SG14 co-located ISO meeting. The number of main program sessions has grown by about fifty percent to almost one hundred fifty.  The number of Open Content sessions has doubled to about two dozen. The number of conference days (including classes)  has doubled from four and a half to nine and the number of attendees has doubled from about six hundred to over twelve hundred.

Trip report - CppCon 2018--Jean Guegant

By Adrien Hamelin | Oct 17, 2018 12:51 PM | Tags: community

A new one!

Trip report - CppCon 2018

by Jean Guegant

From the article:

New year, new conference! This time, my employer, King, helped me to organize a first pilgrimage to CppCon for me and another colleague. You cannot fathom how enthusiastic I was to finally making it there! Although I might be a bit late on the "trip-report-race", I think that it is still worth to relate my overall experience of the event and then move onto a list of recommended talks you should watch-out on Youtube...

Bjarne Stroustrup Interview at CppCon 2018--Steve Carroll, Augustin Popa

By Adrien Hamelin | Oct 15, 2018 12:29 PM | Tags: community

Cppcon videos are coming.

Bjarne Stroustrup Interview at CppCon 2018

by Steve Carroll, Augustin Popa

From the video:

We are back with footage from CppCon 2018, which occurred in Bellevue, Washington! In this special GoingNative episode, our host Steve Carroll chats with Gabriel Dos Reis and Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, who spoke this year about Concepts, an exciting new feature coming soon to C++!

Overload 147 is now available

By Adrien Hamelin | Oct 15, 2018 12:22 PM | Tags: community

ACCU’s Overload journal of October 2018 is out. It contains the following C++ related articles.

Overload 147 is now available

From the journal:

Are we nearly there yet?
Deciding if you are making progress can be a challenge. Frances Buontempo considers various metrics and their effects. by Frances Buontempo

How to Write a Programming Language: Part 3, The Evaluator
We’ve parsed our tokens: now we need turn them into values. Andy Balaam continues writing a programming language with the evaluator. by Andy Balaam

P1063 vs Coroutines TS: Consensus on High-Level Semantics
Dmytro Ivanchykhin, Sergey Ignatchenko and Maxim Blashchuk argue that we need coroutines TS now to improve-based-on-experience later. by Dmytro Ivanchykhin, Sergey Ignatchenko and Maxim Blashchuk

Implementing the Spaceship Operator for Optional
Comparison operators can get complicated. Barry Revzin explores how the new operator <=> helps. by Barry Revzin

Compile-time Data Structures in C++17: Part 2, Map of Types
Compile time type selection allows static polymorphsim. Bronek Kozicki details an implementation of a compile time map. by Bronek Kozicki

C++ Day 2018

By Marco Arena | Oct 15, 2018 06:07 AM | Tags: events community

A full day of C++ in Italy:

C++ Day 2018

November 24, 2018

Pavia (Italy)

 

In a nutshell

The C++ Day 2018 is a full-day event entirely dedicated to the C++ language, hosted in Pavia (Italy).

The event consists in some technical sessions (ITA and ENG) and networking.

Keynote: HPX : High performance computing in C++ with concurrency, parallelism and futures by John Biddiscombe from the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Lugano.

 

Who should attend the C++ Day 2018?

This event is made by C++ professionals for C++ professionals, students and enthusiasts. Whoever is interested in the C++ language and is keen on meeting the Italian C++ ecosystem is welcome!

 

What can I find in the C++ Day 2018?

The agenda consists of 1x90' keynote, 8x50' and 2x20' tech talks and 2.5 hours allocated for networking.

Topcis of the tech talks:

  • C++20
  • A.I.
  • Reflection
  • GIS in C++
  • Algorithms & Optimization
  • Scientific Computing
  • Python Integration
  • Metaprogramming

 

You can refer to the detailed program for more information.
 

When and Where will the C++ Day 2018 take place?

The event will be held on November 24, 2018 at University of Pavia, in Pavia (Italy).

Check-in opens at 8.30 AM, the main event begins at 9.45 AM and will last for a full day.
 

Who supports this event?

The Italian C++ Community co-organizes the event with some students of the University of Pavia.

We don't have sponsorships yet. Please get in touch if you want to support/sponsor the event!

 

Do I need to register?

The C++ Day 2018 is free, but you must register to facilitate the organization of the event.

You can register here.

Word Counting in C++: Implementing a Simple Word Counter--Jonathan Boccara

By Adrien Hamelin | Oct 12, 2018 11:36 AM | Tags: intermediate community

Useful to learn.

Word Counting in C++: Implementing a Simple Word Counter

by Jonathan Boccara

From the article:

Word counts can reveal information about your code, or make an unknown piece of code more expressive to your eyes.

There are online tools to count words in generic text, but most of those I’ve come across are designed around counting words in text and SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Since analysing source code is not the same thing as analysing the text of a blog post, let’s design a tool fit for our needs of counting words in code. This way, we will be able to make it evolve when we discover new tasks to try with our word counter.

Another reason to write our own word counter is that it will let us practice interface design, and also STL algorithms, which are useful to master for coding in C++.

For this first version of our word counter, the objective will be to put together a working prototype. Then we will improve it over future posts, by adding features and by refining its implementation...

JSON for Modern C++ version 3.3.0--Niels Lohmann

By Adrien Hamelin | Oct 8, 2018 10:53 AM | Tags: community

Are you using it?

JSON for Modern C++ version 3.3.0

by Niels Lohmann

From the article:

This release adds support for GCC 4.8. Furthermore, it adds a function get_to to write a JSON value to a passed reference. Another topic of this release was the CMake support which has been overworked and documented.

Besides, a lot of bugs have been fixed and slight improvements have been made. All changes are backward-compatible...

ACCU 2019 Call for Papers -- ACCU

By Felix Petriconi | Oct 7, 2018 11:19 AM | Tags: community

The ACCU 2019 is now putting together its program, and they want you to speak on C++. The ACCU has a strong C++ track, though it is not a C++-only conference. If you have something to share, check out their

Call for Papers

by the ACCU

From the article:

Historically, ACCU has a lot of C++ and C content, and is proud of that: ACCU is the foremost annual conference for people interested in C++ and C, at least in and around the UK. But it is not just a C++ and C conference, ACCU is about programming in whatever language people are using, with whatever tools and processes people are using: D, Chapel, Java, Kotlin, C#, F#, Groovy, Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, Lisp, to name just a few programming languages about which there have been sessions at ACCU conferences. Git, Mercurial, CMake, Meson, TDD, BDD, allthese tools and techniques have been the focus of sessions at ACCU. The ACCU Conference is looking for sessions that will be interesting to people who create software.

The keynote speakers are M. Angela Sasse, Kate Gregory, Paul Grenyer and Herb Sutter.

The Call for Papers lasts for about 3 weeks and will close on Friday 2018-10-26T23:59+01:00.

CppCon 2017: Web | C++--Lukas Bergdoll

By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 19, 2018 12:57 PM | Tags: community

Have you registered for CppCon 2018 in September? Late registration is open now.

While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2017 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:

Web | C++

by Lukas Bergdoll

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

Have you ever tried writing a web application with C++? Can opening a file and serving it via HTTP be as simple as writing 20 lines of python? With the undeniable importance of web development, C++ can not allow itself to ignore such an important field, especially with the rising competition in the field of system programming languages, coming from Rust, D and Go.

Join us as we explore modern approaches to asynchronous IO, socket communication the advantages and disadvantages of using a unikernel and their respective performance implications.

We'll also take a look at how future iterations of the C++ standard library, could solve some of those problems.