Post-Cologne Mailing

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/#mailing2019-08

• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/crg1dr/c_standards_committee_papers_201908_postcologne/

CppCast: C++ Epochs with Vittorio Romeo

https://cppcast.com/vittorio-romeo-epochs/

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/cxbkae/cppcast_c_epochs/

Article: https://vittorioromeo.info/index/blog/fixing_cpp_with_epochs.html

Rust vs. C++

Reddit: Is the C++ committee or any key influencers in the C++ community working on anything to tackle the advantages that Rust has over C++ (eg. Rust's borrow checking, compiler-checked concurrency safety and cargo package management)

Vcpkg: 2019.07 Update

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/vcpkg-2019-07-update/

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/cqta79/vcpkg_201907_update/

Hopefully you will not require specific versions of packages, as the workflow of vcpkg doesn't really support the (very common) scenario well.

{fmt} V6.0.0 released

https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/releases/tag/6.0.0

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/cvogos/fmt_60_released_with_format_string_compilation/

Cpp.Chat: https://youtu.be/PIeLO-H9ZZE

CppCast: https://cppcast.com/victor-zverovich/

Boost 1.71 released

https://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_71_0.html

• NEW: Variant2: A never-valueless, strong guarantee implementation of std::variant, from Peter Dimov.
• Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/csj2ql/boost_version_1710/

OSes built using C++

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/cho1qb/are_there_any_oses_built_using_c/

• TempleOS
• Haiku
• Google Fuchsia
• IncludeOS
• DistortOS (RTOS)
• Symbian OS (Dead)
• SerenityOS

Lambdas vs. Closures

Scott Meyers

• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/cqo05i/lambdas_vs_closures_scott_meyers/

Web Framework Benchmarks

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=26a79c95-5eec-4572-8c94-dd710df659d7&hw=ph&test=update

• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/csa0sg/drogonc17_becomes_one_of_the_fastest_web/

https://github.com/an-tao/drogon

Drogon: A C++14/17 based HTTP web application framework running on Linux/macOS/Unix

Introducing the Rule of DesDeMovA

Blog post by Peter Sommerlad

https://blog.safecpp.com/2019/07/01/initial.html

https://accu.org/content/conf2014/Howard_Hinnant_Accu_2014.pdf

Rule of Zero:

Code that you do not write cannot be wrong.

(C++ developers are really bad at naming things.)

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