Takeaways from C++ Now 2017
May 15-20 2017
I had generous support from my postdoc mentor Jon Hauenstein at Notre Dame to attend this year's C++ Now conference, 2017. Here are some takeaways from this intensive week of C++ in Aspen Colorado.
Things to learn more about
- structured bindings
- tag types
std::nullopt
std::decay_t
(2x)throw
ing as a mechanism to provide a link error forconstexpr
- murmur hash -- constexpr
- detection idiom (Marshall)
- discriminated union
std::monostate
- user supplied literals
std::apply
- type erasure
- higher order metafunctions
- coroutines (2x) (3x) -- Tools for asyncronous computing
Things from C++17 to use in my code
- fold expressions to eliminate template recursion
if constexpr
People to learn more about
- Jonathan Muller
- Jason Turner -- aka lefticus
- Chandler Carruth -- @ Google
- Bryce Adelstein Lelbach @ LBNL
- Jackie Kay
- Lisa Lippincott -- @ Microsoft
Upcoming C++20 things to pay attention to
- Concepts -- expressing things that types implement, and functions requiring a concept be implemented
- Modules -- A way for packaging code, without headers
- Contracts -- Pre- and post-conditions on arguments to functions
- Proxy iterators