Meeting 7 November 2019

The Case for C++

• Article
• Reddit

ABI: Now or Never

• P1863R0 by Titus Winters
• Reddit
• C++ Epochs won’t help as they only touch syntax, not ABI.

The Most Essential C++ Advice

John M. Dlugosz

Another cool MSVC flag: /d1reportTime

Aras Pranckevičius

Introducing C++ Build Insights in Visual Studio

• VC++ Team Blog
• Reddit

Why T t(u) not equivalent to T t = u ?

Reddit

STL:

C++ initialization is a mess.

Stack Overflow: Is there a difference between copy initialization and direct initialization?

Scapix language bridge

• Intro
• Code
• Reddit 1
• Reddit 2

CURL wrappers

Swish

• Code
• Reddit

CPR

• Code
• Docs

Span Lite

Code

A C++20-like span for C++98, C++11 and later in a single-file header-only library.

mdspan

• Implementation (BSD 3-Clause)
  • Intro
  • Reddit
• Kokkos
• Multi-dimensional strided array views in Magnum
• P0009R9 mdspan: A Non-Owning Multidimensional Array Reference
• CppCast with Bryce Adelstein Lelbach

Enums, warnings, and default

• Barry Revzin
• Reddit

GCC & Clang: -Wswitch-enum

James McNellis’s typename trick

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The Programmers’ Credo:

We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy.