Kate Gregory - It's Complicated - Meeting C++ 2017 Center Keynote
The first keynote from Meeting C++ 2017 has been published:
Kate Gregory - It's Complicated - Meeting C++ 2017 Center Keynote
by Kate Gregory
efficiency
Introducing Abseil, a new common libraries project--Titus Winters
A new library is out!
Introducing Abseil, a new common libraries project
by Titus Winters
From the article:
Today we are open sourcing Abseil, a collection of libraries drawn from the most fundamental pieces of Google’s internal codebase. These libraries are the nuts-and-bolts that underpin almost everything that Google runs. Bits and pieces of these APIs are embedded in most of our open source projects, and now we have brought them together into one comprehensive project. Abseil encompasses the most basic building blocks of Google’s codebase: code that is production tested and will be fully maintained for years to come.
What's new in clang-format 5
A good way to simplify your life:
What's new in clang-format 5
by Benoît Blanchon
From the article:
Clang 5 was released last week.
It's a good opportunity to talk about a not-enough-known tool: Clang-format.Clang-format is part of the Clang project but can be used without the Clang compiler. It's an independent executable.
Clang-format is a code linter for C++. It takes a non-formatted code as input and produces a well-formatted code as output. The result is instantaneous.
Meeting C++ 2017 Schedule published
The Schedule for Meeting C++ 2017 is live:
Meeting C++ 2017 Schedule
by Jens Weller
Overview:
For 3 days there is a keynote per day and 4 tracks in parallel of very good C++ Content.
Top 20 C++ multithreading mistakes and how to avoid them--Deb Haldar
You use threads? You should know this.
Top 20 C++ multithreading mistakes and how to avoid them
by Deb Haldar
From the article:
Threading is one of the most complicated things to get right in programming, especially in C++. I've made a number of mistakes myself over the years. Most of these mistakes were luckily caught in code review and testing ; however, some arcane ones did slip through and make it into production code and we had to patch live systems, which is always expensive.
In this article, I've tried to catalog all the mistakes I know of, with potential solutions. If you know any more pitfalls, or have alternative suggestions for some of the mistakes – please leave a comment below and I'll factor them into the article.
CppCon 2016: Regular Expressions in C++, Present and Future--Tim Shen
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:
Regular Expressions in C++, Present and Future
by Tim Shen
Summary of the talk:
Regular expressions are widely used in application development and data processing, yet it is challenging to design and implement a regular expression library that is expressive, efficient and safe.
In this talk, Tim Shen, the current maintainer of libstdc++'s ＜regex＞, will introduce the basics of implementing regular expressions in C++, the status of existing implementations, and what is expected from the standardization process.
For the implementation, several data structures and algorithms will be introduced, with pros and cons listed; we will show how several popular implementations (Boost.Regex, Boost.Xpressive, ＜regex＞ from standard library implementations, RE2, etc) pick their algorithms. Several popular features/patterns that hurt performance will be explained, with a "safe" regex usage suggested. Finally a wishlist of features will be presented, in order to deliver a more efficient and usable regex library.
CppCon 2016: Turning Particle-Astro-Physicist-Hackers into Software Engineers--Alex Olivas
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
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.
22.08.2017, C++::London Meetup: Why Iterators Got It Wrong and A Foreign Function Interface Generato
A new event is coming:
22.08.2017, C++::London Meetup: Why Iterators Got It Wrong and A Foreign Function Interface Generator for C++
From the article:
Interested in C++ present and future? Want to improve your skills and knowledge - or just hang out with like-minded individuals? Don't miss this month's C++ London meetup!
The reviews at r/cpp_review have begun!
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
CppCon 2017 class and presentation on concurrency--Anthony Williams
Interested?
CppCon 2017 class and presentation on concurrency
by Anthony Williams
From the article:
I am pleased to announce that I will be running my "Concurrent Thinking in C++" class at CppCon again this year.