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CppCon 2015: Herb Sutter "Writing Good C++14... By Default"

CppCon · 193.1K views · 2015-09-24 · 1:29:06

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Herb Sutter's CppCon 2015 plenary on writing safe, modern C++ by default using the C++ Core Guidelines. It includes a demo of lifetime-checking static analysis tooling.

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HN cites it in C++ versus Rust safety debates for its lifetime profile demo, and recommends it as a modern C++ talk.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2015–2018

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pjmlp · 2018-03 · Recommendation

- Tour of C++ ( [LINK] ) - Principles and Practice Using C++ ( [LINK] ) - From Mathematics to Generic Programming ( [LINK] ) - The Scott Meyers books Some of the Bjarne Stroustrup videos, "Learning and Teaching Modern C++" - [LINK] Some of the Herb Sutter videos, "Writing Good C++14... By Default" - [VIDEO] "Back to the Basics! Essentials of Modern C++ Style" - [LINK] Some of the Kate Gregory videos, "Stop Teaching C" - [LINK] "10 Core Guidelines You Need to Start Using Now" - [LINK] "It's Complicated" - [LINK]

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e12e · 2016-05 · Recommendation

I've been spending a few days going through talks from last years cppcon[1]. They're all good, but they've all left me with a strong desire for a strongly opinionated, there-is-no-past-only-the-future introduction to C++14 (and incidentally, C11). I've added a few of those talks I've watched and liked to a small playlist (with a couple of other talks on programming, unrelated - the relevant talks are prefixed with "cppcon 2015"): [LINK] The full cppcon playlist is here: [LINK] Of special relevance is the rather excellent talk by Kate Gregory on "Stop Teaching C" (when you're supposed to do an intro course to C++): "CppCon 2015: Kate Gregory “Stop Teaching C"": [LINK] (But again, I want an open wiki/live tutorial, along the lines of "How I start", but longer, which goes through all this stuff. We really should make one, both for C++14 and for C11). CppCon 2015: Herb Sutter "Writing Good C++14... By Default": [VIDEO] Is also rather uplifting, and: CppCon 2015: Sean Parent "Better Code: Data Structures": [LINK] makes a pretty good case for simple, modern C++ being clear, easy and efficient. Finally, CppCon 2015: Phil Nash “Test Driven C++ with Catch”: [LINK] apart for being a pretty straight forward intro to a simple testing framework, appears to reveal some secrets combining template magic and still get sane compile times (hint: don't recompile more (template) code on every iteration than you need to). There's a couple of good ones that touch on meta-programming too (Look for t

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jbandela1 · 2015-12 · Recommendation

Take a look at Herb Sutter's talk from CppCon 2015. The slides are here ( [LINK] ) and the video is here [VIDEO] . Microsoft will be releasing the static analysis tool as a free cross-platform tool (and I think open-source IIRC). They shipped a preview for Visual Studio 2015 with Update 1, and are planning on shipping a cross-platform version soon. As tools like this become free and ubiquitous, it will greatly improve C++ code safety.

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