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The latest in C++, Visual Studio, VS Code, and vcpkg from the MSFT C++ team

`yield` keyword to become `co_yield` in VS 2017

Coroutines—formerly known as “C++ resumable functions”—are one of the Technical Specifications (TS) that we have implemented in the Visual C++ compiler. We’ve supported coroutines for three years—ever since the VC++ November 2013 CTP release. If you’re using coroutines you should be aware that the keyword `yield` is being ...

vcpkg 3 Months Anniversary, Survey

vcpkg, a tool to acquire and build C++ open source libraries on Windows, was published 3 months ago. We started with 20 libraries and now the C++ community has added 121 new C++ libraries. We really appreciate your feedback and we created a survey to collect it. Please take 5 minutes to complete it. The survey measure your overall ...