CppCon 2015: Bjarne Stroustrup “Writing Good C++14”

CppCon · 351.1K views · 2015-09-23 · 1:40:46

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Overview

Bjarne Stroustrup's CppCon 2015 keynote on using C++14 to write better code, not just different code. It introduces the C++ Core Guidelines and the machine-checkable rules and GSL library behind them.

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HN people recommend it as the starting point for modern C++ and for the language's safety story.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2016–2018

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C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages

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lossolo · 2016-05 · Recommendation
It's hardly modern C++ what you will see in this talk. Mike Acton even said that they only use C++ because it's game industry standard but he would prefer C. If you want to start with modern c++ watch this: CppCon 2015: Bjarne Stroustrup “Writing Good C++14” [VIDEO]
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lossolo · 2016-04 · Recommendation
You should watch those cppcon again, because Stroustrup and Herb are saying there many times that smart pointers are NOT should be use instead of raw pointers. Use smart pointers where It's about ownership. You should watch this video: [VIDEO]
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sitkack · 2016-01 · Recommendation
There are some great talks by Neil MacIntosh about the kinds of static analysis they are building into the tool. CppCon 2015: Neil MacIntosh “Static Analysis and C++: More Than Lint" [LINK] CppCon 2015: Neil MacIntosh “Evolving array_view and string_view for safe C++ code" [LINK] For something of this magnitude I wouldn't consider the project late until mid summer. Stroustrup's keynote at CppCon is a great overview of the semantics they want to support and the errors that the tooling with will prevent. [VIDEO]
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