Meeting 26 July 2018

C++ Builder Community Edition

• Home page
  • Reddit
• Annual community licence (renewable)
• For academic and small-business use (up to 5 developers in a team, annual revenue up to $5000)
• Requires .NET 3.5 (!)
  • Installation instructions for Windows 10

CMake 3.12.0

• Announcement
  • Reddit
• Book: Professional CMake – $30
  • Reddit

MSVC Preprocessor Progress towards Conformance

• MSVC blog post
  • Reddit

2D Graphics TS at BSI

• Guy Davidson’s blog
• Reddit thread
• CppCast episode

Four Habit-Forming Tips to Faster C++

Post by KDAB

1. Make use of the (named-) return-value optimisation (YES)
2. Return parameters by value whenever possible (YES)
3. Cache member-variables and reference-parameters (NO/MAYBE)
4. Organize your member variables intelligently (YES)

web_view

• P1108R0
  • Reddit

This paper proposes a web_view facility for the C++ standard library. This facility enables modern, natural, multimodal user interaction by leveraging existing web standards and technologies.

Full C++17 Filesystem Library Guide

Part of the book C++17 – The Complete Guide by Nicolai Josuttis (Draft available now)

Using C++17 std::optional

• Post
  • Reddit

Modern C++ Features – std::variant and std::visit

• Post

In-Place Construction for std::any, std::variant and std::optional

• Post by Bartek Filipek
  • Reddit

C-Rez: A small tool to generate C arrays of data from a list of input files

• Code (MIT)
  • Reddit
• p1040R0 std::embed by JeanHeyd Meneide
  • Implementation

Book: The Modern C++ Challenge

• Review by Scott Meyers
• Book page (Packt)

Everything You Need to Know About std::any from C++17

• Post by B. Filipek

C++17: std::string_view

• Post

Coding Guideline: Avoid const member variables

• Reddit

Phil Nash advocates using const member variables and builder pattern.

(To be continued…)

Quote

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Every company has a test environment. Some are lucky enough to also have a production environment.