Episode #4 - March 2021
This month we chat about Contracts, Conferences and colonies, CLion and const (east), and a round-up the Russian Coat Check Algorithm, ReSharper-C++, return types and ridding C++ of macros.
Links from this episode:
- C++ Annotated - March 2021 - If you prefer the same material in blog form
- Improving Print Logging with Line Pos Info & Modern C++
- CLion Debugger video series
- GotW #101: Preconditions, Part 2 - From Herb Sutter's blog
- D2339R0 – 'Contract violation handlers'
- P2332R0 – 'Establishing std::hive as replacement name for the proposed std::colony container'
- Sean Parent's 'Better Code: Relationships' talk
- Anthony Williams' implementation of Sean's algorithm
- Syntax style setting in ReSharper C++ 2021.1 - including east/ west const, almost-always-auto and east-end-functions
- Branch Coverage in CLion 2021.1 - and the difference between line and statement coverage
- C++ Now - May 2 - 7
- C++ on Sea - June 30 - July 2
- Will we ever get rid of macros in C++? - Reddit discussion
Episode #3 - February 2021
In this month's round-up we cover the latest C++ committee plenary session, what's been approved to go into the C++23 standard, other proposals being worked on, news about Concepts and Modules, Clang Power Tools, Postfix completions in CLion and the C & C++ browser Search Extension
Links from this episode:
- C++ Annotated - February - If you prefer the same material in blog form
- C++ Developer Ecosystem 2021 Survey - Contribute your insights about C++ community
- Herb Sutter's Winter 2021 trip report - Including the February plenary session
- P1102 - Down with ()! - Making `()` optional, even for mutable lambdas
- P2093R4 - Formatted output - Integration with iostreams
- P2216R3 - std::format improvements - Compile time format string checks
- P1947 - C++ – an Invisible Foundation of Everything - Bjarne's summary of the principles of and ideals of C++
- More concepts library - intended to help categorize the STL containers and write some generic code that works with a selected category
- build2 with C++20 modules support. - Also includes some useful examples of modules in use
- Clang Power Tools - Format editor - Including the Style Detector
- Clang Power Tools - now 100% free for everyone - including commercial users
- Postfix completion for C and C++ in JetBrains tools - An alternative to UFCS?
- C/C++ search extension - Browser extension (except for Safari) to directly search cppreference
- When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call? - from Arthur O'Dwyer's blog
Episode #2 - January 2021
Another round-up of community and committee news from the start of a new year.
Links from this episode:
- C++ Annotated - January - If you prefer the same material in blog form
- Faster C++ Iteration Builds - From the Microsoft Blog
- Global Data Flow Analysis - From the EAP announcement on the CLion Blog
- P0447 - std::colony - Introduction of std::colony to the standard library
- P2232 - Zero-Overhead Deterministic Exceptions: Catching Values - New exceptions proposal, based on Boost.Leaf
- P2168 - std::generator: Synchronous Coroutine Generator for Ranges - An generator library type for coroutines
- P2272 - Safety & Security Review Group - Proposal for a review group of invited experts to advise the committee on safety and security matters
- ACCU 2021 schedule announced
- C++ Now 2021 registrations open - the call for speakers is also open until the 14th February
- C++ on Sea 2021 pre-announced - the conference will be online, with more of a mix of workshop sessions
- Two's Complement - With Matt Godbolt and Ben Rady
- Klaus Iglberger on CppCast - SOLID Design Principles
- Clare Macrae's legacy code testing webinar - On 16th February - so register soon!
- Ray tracer in pure CMake
Episode #1 - December 2020
This month we talk about more news from around the C++ community - with a distinctly 20s theme.
You can watch the show on YouTube, listen to it as a podcast,
or read it as a C++ Annotated post on the CLion blog.
You can even subscribe to the text format as the C++ Annotated newsletter.
Links from this episode:
- 20 years of LLVM - LLVM started 20 years ago today! From humble beginnings at UIUC, it has grown to include contributions from hundreds of people and powers countless products and impactful languages. How have you used LLVM, contributed to it, or been touched by a product using it?
- C++20 published
- C++20 Comparisons in ReSharper C++ 2020.3 - ReSharper C++ 2020.3 brings full support for C++20’s changes to comparison semantics. In this post, we’ll briefly go over the language updates to comparisons in C++20 and take a look at how ReSharper C++ can help you use the new language features
- Boost 1.75 released - New C++ podcast with Chris Leary and JF Bastien
- Two's Complement - A Programming Podcast by Matt (Godbolt) and Ben (Rady)
- CoSy Tech - Why Another C++ (And More™) Conference?
- Two's Complement - A Programming Podcast by Matt (Godbolt) and Ben (Rady)
- r/cpp: 'A basic trick question that I've been asked in interview' - Hi everyone, today I had a codepair interview for Graduate C++ Developer position and this was one the question that interviewer asked me. I found it quite interesting.
- r/cpp: CLion Q&A Session on Reddit: CLion Today and Tomorrow - This Q&A session will focus on the recent 2020.3 release, our overall plans for 2021, and our roadmap for v2021.1. By the end of this year, we’ve enhanced the debugger experience by adding many top-voted feature requests, started bringing MISRA checks to CLion, tuned IDE actions for Qt, and integrated with CTest. Overall IDE performance, as well as making existing features more stable and complete, are our major goals for 2021 for CLion.
Episode #0 - November 2020
Welcome to our pilot episode, covering a selection of this month's news from the C++ community.
You can watch the show on YouTube, listen to it as a podcast,
or read it as a C++ Annotated post on the CLion blog.
You can even subscribe to the text format as the C++ Annotated newsletter.
Links from this episode:
- CppCast - The first C++ podcast
- C++ Weekly - Jason Turner's YouTube show
- cpp.chat - C++ podcast with Phil co-hosting with Jon Kalb
- TLB Hit - New C++ podcast with Chris Leary and JF Bastien
- ADSP - The first C++ podcast
- CppCast - The first C++ podcast
- Modules support in Visual Studio - From the Microsoft Blog
- Modules support coming to GCC 11?
- Qt6 libraries via Conan
- CLion 2020.3 released - with Core Dumps Debug and Debug as Root, CTest Support, MISRA Guideline Integration, and a Better Qt Project Experience
- ReSharper C++ 2020.3 (about to be) released - with UnrealHeaderTool, C++20 Comparisons, Push-to-Hint Inlay Hints
- std::visit is everything wrong with modern C++ - recent Reddit thread on this blog post from 2017
- Pattern Matching proposal