CppCon 2018 Selected

Selection

• Bjarne Stroustrup “Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming (the future is here)
• Chandler Carruth “Spectre: Secrets, Side-Channels, Sandboxes, and Security”
• G. Nishanov “Nano-coroutines to the Rescue! (Using Coroutines TS, of Course)
• Kris Jusiak “State Machines Battlefield - Naive vs STL vs Boost”
• Anastasia Kazakova “Talk to me! The art of reporting a bug (and handling the feedback)”
• Tsung-Wei Huang “Fast Parallel Programming using Modern C++”
• Arvid Norberg - Test coverage
• Stephan T. Lavavej “Class Template Argument Deduction for Everyone”
• Diego Rodriguez-Losada “Why not Conan (part III)?”
• Jon Kalb “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things”
• Tony Wasserka “Curly Function Call Syntax”
• Alan Talbot “Moving Faster: Everyday efficiency in modern C++”
• Fedor Pikus “Design for Performance”
• James Bennett “Refactoring Legacy Codebases with LibTooling”
• Ólafur Waage “Let’s learn programming by inventing it”
• Mateusz Pusz “How to create slides about CMake with CMake?”
• Jon Kalb “Copy Elision”
• Kate Gregory “What Do We Mean When We Say Nothing At All?”
• Patricia Aas “Software Vulnerabilities in C and C++”
• James McNellis “The Shape of a Program”
• Barbara Geller & Ansel Sermersheim “Undefined Behavior is Not an Error”
• Nir Friedman “Wise Enum: A C++ Smart Enum For All Your Reflective Enum Needs”
• Stoyan Nikolov “OOP Is Dead, Long Live Data-oriented Design”
• Richard Powell “How to Argue(ment)”
• Nicolai Josuttis “The Nightmare of Initialization in C++”
• Matt Godbolt “The Bits Between the Bits: How We Get to main()”
• Andrei Alexandrescu “Expect the expected”
• Mateusz Pusz “Effective replacement of dynamic polymorphism with std::variant”
• Mateusz Pusz “Git, CMake, Conan - How to ship and reuse our C++ projects”
• Phil Nash “Modern C++ Testing with Catch2”
• Boris Kolpackov “What to Expect from a Next-Generation C++ Build System”
• Boris Kolpackov “C++ Dependency Management: from Package Consumption to Project Development”
• Greg Law “Debugging Linux C++”
• Brand & Nash “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: A Tale of Expectations and Exceptions”
• Michael Caisse “Modern C++ in Embedded Systems - The Saga Continues”
• Jonathan Boccara “105 STL Algorithms in Less Than an Hour”
• Fred Tingaud “A Little Order: Delving into the STL sorting algorithms”
• Peter Sommerlad “Sane and Safe C++ Classes”
• Jussi Pakkanen “Compiling Multi-Million Line C++ Code Bases Effortlessly with the Meson Build System”
• Herb Sutter “Thoughts on a more powerful and simpler C++ (5 of N)”
• Kate Gregory “Simplicity: Not Just For Beginners”
• Bob Steagall “Fast Conversion From UTF-8 with C++, DFAs, and SSE Intrinsics”
• Kevin Carpenter “Scaling Financial Transaction using 0MQ and JSON”
• Arthur O’Dwyer “Return Value Optimization: Harder Than It Looks”
• Arno Lepisk “Avoiding Disasters with Strongly Typed C++”
• Ben Deane “Operator Overloading: History, Principles and Practice”
• Robert Ramey “Safe Numerics”
• Patrice Roy “Pessimistic Programming”
• Serge Guelton “Frozen data structures in C++14”
• Vincent Reverdy “Custom Overload Sets and Inline SFINAE for Truly Generic Interfaces”
• Bryce Adelstein Lelbach “The C++ Execution Model”
• Jon Cohen “Ensuring Exception Safety Through Testing”
• Elmar Westphal - Using Template Magic to Automatically Generate Hybrid CPU/GPU-Code
• Nir Friedman “Understanding Optimizers: Helping the Compiler Help You”
• Jason Turner “Applied Best Practices”
• Matthew Butler “Secure Coding Best Practices: Your First Line Is The Last Line Of Defense (1 of 2)”
• Matthew Butler “Secure Coding Best Practices: Your First Line Is The Last Line Of Defense (2 of 2)”
• Titus Winters “Modern C++ Design (part 1 of 2)”
• Titus Winters “Modern C++ Design (part 2 of 2)”
• Marc Gregoire “Writing Standard Library Compliant Data Structures and Algorithms”
• Alisdair Meredith “Contract Programming in C++(20) (part 1 of 2)”
• Alisdair Meredith “Contract Programming in C++(20) (part 2 of 2)”
• Walter E. Brown “C++ Function Templates: How Do They Really Work?”
• James McNellis “Unwinding the Stack: Exploring How C++ Exceptions Work on Windows
• H. Wright “Large-Scale Changes at Google: Lessons Learned From 5 Yrs of Mass Migrations”
• Andrew Sutton “Concepts in 60: Everything you need to know and nothing you don’t”
• Marshall Clow “Development strategies: You’ve written a library - now what?”