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CppCon 2017: Herb Sutter “Meta: Thoughts on generative C++”

CppCon · 104.5K views · 2017-09-28 · 1:47:45

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At CppCon 2017 Herb Sutter presents his work on evolving C++ through compile-time code generation, including metaclasses and reflection. The aim is to make the language both more powerful and simpler by letting programmers express intent directly.

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Praised as the best talk of CppCon 2017 and the key introduction to metaclasses and generative C++.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2017–2020

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C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesProgramming language design
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xaedes · 2018-01 · Strong recommendation

The talk about the reflection proposal was amazing. Meta classes are also very cool. We can only hope it comes fast. [VIDEO]

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slavik81 · 2017-10 · Strong recommendation

Herb Sutter's talk about it is by far the best talk I've seen from from CppCon17. "Meta: Thoughts on generative C++" - [VIDEO]

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tylerhou · 2020-12 · Reference

A few years ago Herb Sutter proposed Python-like metaclasses in C++ through compile-time code generation. Not sure if anything has been proposed for general use. [VIDEO]

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