June C++ Link Roundup

Eric Battalio

June 30th, 20171 0

C++ link roundup for June:

In the latest CppCast <chrono> and more with Howard Hinnant, Rob Irving and Jason Turner interview the author of several C++11 and 14 features Howard Hinnant.
PJ Naughter has created a C++ framework called Toast++ which allows for easy integration of Windows UWP Notification toasts in desktop Win32 applications.
The Mozilla Record and Replay Framework (“rr”) is a lightweight tool for recording and replaying execution of applications (trees of processes and threads) on Linux. You can set breakpoints and reverse-execute to where they were hit.
ISO C++ hosts this mega (super) C++ FAQ on all things C++ related. Continuously updated (it is a wiki), it covers everything from overview material including big picture issues and coding standards to classes and inheritance, C++11 and C++14. Good stuff for beginners and experts alike.
Eric Niebler spoke about the latest experimental additions to the standard library and the concepts and the design decisions behind them at the May Northwest C++ user group meeting.
Chandler Carruth spoke about compiler optimizations for C++ at the June Northwest C++ user group meeting.
Microsoft Build 2017 was held in May in Seattle, WA. You can catch our own Marian Luparu as he shares 7++ reasons to move your C++ code to Visual Studio 2017 with a bunch of demos and other content on Channel 9.
The Italian C++ Conference was held in June. There was an English and Italian track. Raffaele Rialdi spoke about xcore, a C++ nodejs plugin that allows javascript/nodejs to use .NET Core assemblies. Videos for past years are available now; this year will be posted in the future.
Jason Turner “Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17” is not to be missed.
Punit Jajobia published a full series of articles on C++ library functions.
C++ Now was held in May in Aspen, Colorado. Videos are available now.
CppCon will be in Bellevue, Washington in September. Early bird registration fees end July 7th. The program should be announced later in July. There are pre- and post- conference training sessions available as well.
CppChat is returning from hiatus in July. John Kalb comments on c++ and examines issues of interest to c++ programmers.