Meeting 6 December 2018
San Diego trip reports
CppCon 2018: Mark Elendt “Patterns and Techniques Used in the Houdini 3D Graphics Application”
Package management is hard, let’s mine some Bitcoin
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- Issue on GitHub “I don’t know what to say”
- Details on the npm blog
- event-stream vulnerability explained
- Bleeping Computer
- Exploiting developer infrastructure is insanely easy
- The Node.js Ecosystem Is Chaotic and Insecure
Who is STL? I mean the person, not the library
Hey. I’m Stephan T. Lavavej (“Steh-fin Lah-wah-wade”), and I’ve worked on MSVC’s STL since 2007. I’ve also worked on several Standard proposals that were accepted (notably the transparent operator functors). I filmed a bunch of videos for MS’s Channel 9 years ago, introducing various Core Language and Standard Library topics, and I’ve given talks at C++Now (formerly BoostCon) and CppCon which have been recorded.
Real world problems with #pragma once?
No.
Corentin Jabot:
Pragma once leads to UB if part of the sources are visible from several included paths which are hardlink of each others.
Good. If you do that, you deserve to suffer!
Pointer-to-member-functions can be tricky
Prepare thy Pitchforks: A De-facto Standard Project Layout
Reimplementing NumPy in C++
Other linear algebra libraries
Visual C++ Team Blog - std::any: How, when, and why
When you need to store an object of an arbitrary type, pull std::any out of your toolbox. Be aware that there are probably more appropriate tools available when you do know something about the type to be stored.
C++ Best Practices, by Jason Turner
Quote
Andrey Mokhov (@andreymokhov) via Twitter:
Inside every large program there is a small build system struggling to get out.