By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 22, 2019 08:27 AM | Tags: experimental community
Many things happened!
Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting (Cologne)
by Herb Sutter
From the article:
Obligatory comment: The C++20 Eagle has wings.
At noon today, July 20 2019, the ISO C++ committee completed its summer meeting in Cologne, Germany, hosted with thanks by Think-Cell, SIGS Datacom, SimuNova, Silexica, Meeting C++, Josuttis Eckstein, Xara, Volker Dörr, Mike Spertus, and the Standard C++ Foundation...
By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 16, 2019 11:19 AM | Tags: experimental c++17
How do you do it?
Expressiveness, Nullable Types, and Composition (Part 1)
by Rafael Varago
From the article:
We’re software developers, our mission is to provide software that solves problems. And in its essence, writing software is all about composition.
We have a big problem to solve, so we break it up into smaller pieces that can be more easily comprehended, and then we compose these smaller pieces together into working software...
By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 2, 2019 12:26 PM | Tags: experimental efficiency
Exited?
Simplify Your Code With Rocket Science: C++20’s Spaceship Operator
by Cameron DaCamara
From the article:
C++20 adds a new operator, affectionately dubbed the “spaceship” operator: <=>. There was a post awhile back by our very own Simon Brand detailing some information regarding this new operator along with some conceptual information about what it is and does. The goal of this post is to explore some concrete applications of this strange new operator and its associated counterpart, the operator== (yes it has been changed, for the better!), all while providing some guidelines for its use in everyday code.
By Meeting C++ | Apr 25, 2019 05:09 AM | Tags: performance meetingcpp experimental efficiency community c++20 c++17 c++14 c++11 basics advanced
The call for submissions is open for Meeting C++ 2019!
New speakers are welcome to submit as there is a dedicated track for this, start speaking at Meeting C++!
Submit your talk to Meeting C++ 2019!
by Jens Weller
From the article:
When Meeting C++ 2019 was announced in the begin of April, there was already a hint that you could submit your talks. And so far a few have done so. Now its time for an official news entry. Submit your talk to Meeting C++ 2019! This year its the 8th edition of Meeting C++!
Speaking at Meeting C++ is a fun experience, you get to attend the speakers dinner, attend the full conference for free and enjoy the luxurious Hotelrooms the Andels offers from Wednesday to Saturday! You can look at last years schedule to get a feel for what your competition might talk about, but have in mind that you don't see the talks that were not submitted! If you want to talk about a C++ topic that wasn't covered yet, or have a unique idea for your talk, please submit! Speakers don't need to buy a ticket and the conference has a contingent of rooms available for speakers & staff.
By Adrien Hamelin | Apr 15, 2019 10:42 AM | Tags: experimental community
Short and sweet.
Report from the February 2019 ISO C++ meeting (Core Language working group)
by Jason Merrill
From the article:
The February 2019 ISO C++ meeting was held in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. As usual, Red Hat sent three developers to the meeting: I attended in the Core Language working group, Jonathan Wakely in Library, and Thomas Rodgers in SG1 (parallelism and concurrency). The meeting went smoothly, although there was significant uncertainty at the beginning where we would end up. In the end, Modules and Coroutines were accepted into the C++20 draft, so now we have our work cut out for us nailing down the remaining loose corners. Here ar highlights from the meeting...
By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 26, 2019 10:43 AM | Tags: experimental community
Everything you need to know.
Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Kona, February 2019
by Botond Ballo
From the article:
A few weeks ago I attended a meeting of the ISO C++ Standards Committee (also known as WG21) in Kona, Hawaii. This was the first committee meeting in 2019; you can find my reports on 2018’s meetings here (November 2018, San Diego), here (June 2018, Rapperswil), and here (March 2018, Jacksonville). These reports, particularly the San Diego one, provide useful context for this post...
By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 12, 2019 12:04 PM | Tags: experimental advanced
Complex, but useful!
Understanding C++ Modules: Part 1: Hello Modules, and Module Units
by Colby Pike
From the article:
My previous posts on modules have received a lot of attention. I’m happy that I’ve been able to kick-start a lot of conversation, but I’ve also seen that a large part of the community is still unclear on what modules actually are.
There is a lot of ground to cover. I can’t do it all in one sitting, and I doubt you’d want to read the entire thing in one go. I’ll be breaking this up, starting at the most high-level aspects and drilling down over time. I intend these posts will clarify and discuss what modules are, what they can do, and what they are intended to do, what they cannot do, and how they are used...
By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 12, 2019 11:54 AM | Tags: experimental c++17
The series continues!
Lambdas: From C++11 to C++20, Part 2
by Bartlomiej Filipek
From the article:
In the first part of the series we looked at lambdas from the perspective of C++03, C++11 and C++14. In that article, I described the motivation behind this powerful C++ feature, basic usage, syntax and improvements in each of the language standards. I also mentioned several corner cases.
Now it’s time to move into C++17 and look a bit into the future (very near future!): C++20...
By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 6, 2019 01:23 PM | Tags: experimental community
Help make the future of C++ better!
CMake + GCC module proof-of-concept
From the article:
Hi all, CMake developer here. There's been a lot of noise and discussion of modules recently, particularly with respect to how build systems will deal with it. There has been build2 for quite a while, but it was also designed with modules in mind...
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...