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Overload 140 is now available

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 21, 2017 12:10 PM | Tags: community

ACCU’s Overload journal of June 2017 is out. It contains the following C++ related articles.

Overload 140 is now available

From the journal:

Editorial: Gnomes and Misnomers.
What's in a name? Frances Buontempo decides some names are better than others.

The Path of the Programmer.
Charles Tolman provides a framework for personal development.

A Usable C++ Dialect that is Safe Against Memory Corruption.
Sergey Ignatchenko continues his investigation of allocators for (Re)Actors.

Metaclasses: Thoughts on Generative C++.
Herb Sutter shows how metaclasses could simplify C++ with minimal library extension.

A C++ Developer Sees Rustlang for the First Time.
Katarzyna Macias provides an introduction to Rust for a C++ developer.

Portable Console I/O via iostreams.
Alf Steinbach describes how his library fixes problems streaming non-ASCII characters in Windows.

A Functional Alternative to Dependency Injection in C++.
Satprem Pamudurthy showcases a functional alternative to dependency injection in C++.

About the C++ Core Guidelines.
Andreas Fertig shows us the C++ core guidelines.

Afterwood.
Chris Oldwood reminds us to fix the problem, not to blame.

C++17 Features And STL Fixes In VS 2017 15.3--Stephan T. Lavavej

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 15, 2017 01:39 PM | Tags: community

It's always getting better!

C++17 Features And STL Fixes In VS 2017 15.3

by Stephan T. Lavavej

From the article:

Visual Studio 2017’s first toolset update, version 15.3, is currently in preview and will be released in its final form very soon. (The toolset consists of the compiler, linker, and libraries. After VS 2017 RTM, the 15.1 and 15.2 updates improved the IDE. The 15.3 update improves both the IDE and the toolset. In general, you should expect the IDE to be updated at a higher frequency than the toolset.)

CppCon 2016: A modern database interface for C++--Erik Smith

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 14, 2017 02:44 PM | Tags: community

Have you registered for CppCon 2017 in September? Don’t delay – Registration is open now.

While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2016 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:

A modern database interface for C++

by Erik Smith

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

C++ has historically had many options for database connectivity but has lacked a standard interface that other languages, such as Java, have had for a long time. This talk will present a standards grade interface along with experience with a reference implementation that includes support for at least 6 databases. A key aspect of the design is to show how modern C++ features can be used to achieve a high degree of both efficiency and ease-of-use. Specific features to be covered will include type conversion, connection pooling, I/O binding for scalars and arrays, row sets, direct/polymorphic interfaces, policy based design, the driver interface, and details on the implementation. Forward looking standards proposals, such as ranges and variants, will also be included in the discussion.

CppCon 2016: Turning Particle-Astro-Physicist-Hackers into Software Engineers--Alex Olivas

By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 11, 2017 03:18 PM | Tags: efficiency community

Have you registered for CppCon 2017 in September? Don’t delay – Registration is open now.

While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2016 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:

Turning Particle-Astro-Physicist-Hackers into Software Engineers

by Alex Olivas

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

Want to increase software literacy in your organization? In this talk I'll present programs I've developed over the last year to teach C++ software engineering principles to graduate students and postdocs on the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory. I believe similar programs could be beneficial to all types of organizations, from scientific collaborations to professional software shops.

IceCube is a kilometer-scale high energy neutrino observatory located deep in the Antarctic ice at the geographic South Pole. IceCube studies physics in energy regimes ranging from the most energetic processes in the visible universe (several orders of magnitude greater than the collision energies at the Large Hadron Collider), to dark matter detection at the 100 GeV scale. It is a relatively large collaboration, consisting of roughly 300 physicists and engineers from 48 institutions from a dozen different countries. IceCube has been collecting data for over 11 years (going into our 6th season with the fully completed detector) and is expected to run for at least another decade.

Many large scientific projects, which often run for decades, rely on code developed by hackers, who's focus and passion is rarely software engineering. Their primary passion, understandably, is the field for which they found themselves writing code. To make matters worse, the amount of work and focus required to secure a career in their chosen field often leaves little time and energy to devote to honing the skills needed to develop production quality code. Many students and postdocs often have, at best, a cursory understanding of the programming language(s) that comprise the experiment's codebase.

C++ has become the primary programming language for High Energy Physics (HEP) and will likely continue to be for decades to come. Consider, for example, that ROOT, GEANT, and Pythia to name a few critical HEP libraries are written in C++. Over the last year on IceCube, I've developed several comprehensive internal training programs in an attempt to bridge the gap between the scientist-hacker and the professional C++ software engineer. In this session I'd like to present the challenges I've encountered over the last year and my plans for extending these programs to the High Energy Physics community through the HEP Software Foundation.

The reviews at r/cpp_review have begun!

By Meeting C++ | Aug 10, 2017 08:12 AM | Tags: performance intermediate efficiency community codereview c++14 c++11 basics

Participate in the first two reviews at r/cpp_review:

The reviews have begun

by Jens Weller

From the article

A few weeks ago I announced a C++ review community, which since then has grown to 250+ members on reddit. There has been great feedback and discussions since then, so that the idea is now ready to be tested.  With August, the first review period has started