Modern C++ Features – Quality-of-Life Features
With the new C++ standards, we got a lot of features that feel like “quality-of-life” features. They make things easier for the programmer but do not add functionality that wasn’t […]
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“Modern C++” != “New(est) Standard”
The term “Modern C++” is often used interchangeably with “Code using the new C++ standard”. Here, “new” may be anything from C++11 to C++17 or even whatever is available of […]
Functions of Variants are Covariant
Today I am happy to present a guest post by Alfredo Correa about covariant visitors for std::variant. Alfredo works at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he uses C++ to develop […]
Modern C++ Features – std::optional
Sometimes we want to express the state of “nothing meaningful” instead of a value. This is the use case for C++17’s std::optional.
Overload: Build a Variant Visitor on the Fly
Having written about std::variant and std::visit last week, it’s time to string together some modern C++ features to build a naive basic implementation of overload, a proposed C++ feature.
Modern C++ Features – std::variant and std::visit
std::variant is a library addition in C++17 for sum types, and std::visit is one of the ways to process the values in a std::variant.
ACCUConf 2018 Trip Report
Two weeks ago, I attended the ACCU Conference in Bristol again, and again it was a blast. ACCUConf is by far the most interesting and enjoyable conference I have attended […]
How to Perform Unit Testing Native C++ Code in Visual Studio
Today’s guest post is by Saurabh Hooda. Saurabh is one of the co-founders of hackr.io. You can find Saurabh on Twitter and Medium. image source C++ is, hands down, one […]
Raw Pointers Are Gonna Stay!
Contrary to Sunday’s orchestrated April Fool’s posts, raw pointers are not going anywhere. However, there are some things in those posts that are based on reality. I’ll go into a […]
Raw Pointers Are Gone!
There’s some great news coming from the C++ standards committee: Raw pointers are gone – or rather will be in C++20.