Meeting 28 June 2018

CLion 2018.2 EAP

Announcement

• clangd as an additional (not you Windows!) C++ language engine

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 3

Announcement

• convert basic macros to constexpr
• experimental code analysis features
• Template IntelliSense
• clang-format
• improved CMake support
• C++ Quick Info Tooltips (show expanded macros)

What is a good Package Manager for C++?

Reddit thread

No matter which one you use, you’ll probably be pretty disappointed.

std::variant Doesn’t Let Me Sleep, by Pablo Arias (ht to Gergely Petrik)

• Post

• Overload: Build a Variant Visitor on the Fly
• folly/Overload.h

Raffle (C++17, ranges, asio, json)

Fetches the names of all RSVP members of a meetup event and randomly chooses The Raffle Winner.

• Code
• Reddit thread

Diego Franco - LauncherOne rocket with C++ engine - CppCon 2017

• Radiation
  • Single Event Upset (SEU)
  • Single Event Latch (SEL)
  • Error Correcting Code (ECC)
  • Memory scrubbing
  • Radiation-hardened components
• Log or hard error
  • Log for each requirement
  • Not all errors are hard errors
  • Depends on system under test – some systems are more expensive to test than others

{fmt} 5.0.0

• Release notes
• P0645
• Support for ranges, containers and types with tuple interface

{fmt} supports colours

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zapcc open-sourced

zapcc is a caching C++ compiler based on clang, designed to perform faster compilations.

• Code (LLVM)

Getting started with Meson in C++

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

Using Conan with Premake

• Article

Digital Mars C++ compiler source code

• Code

NanoRange: a MSVC-compatible Ranges TS implementation for C++14

• Code (BSL)
• Reddit thread

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