CppCon 2015: Bjarne Stroustrup “Writing Good C++14”

Why HN readers recommended it

HN people recommend it as the starting point for modern C++ and for the language's safety story.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

CppCon

Topic

modern c++ guidelines

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2018

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From the original HN conversations

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• There are some great talks by Neil MacIntosh about the kinds of static analysis they are building into the tool. CppCon 2015: Neil MacIntosh “Static Analysis and C++: More Than Lint" [LINK] CppCon 2015: Neil MacIntosh “Evolving array_view and string_view for safe C++ code" [LINK] …

• You should watch those cppcon again, because Stroustrup and Herb are saying there many times that smart pointers are NOT should be use instead of raw pointers. Use smart pointers where It's about ownership. You should watch this video: [VIDEO]

• It's hardly modern C++ what you will see in this talk. Mike Acton even said that they only use C++ because it's game industry standard but he would prefer C. If you want to start with modern c++ watch this: CppCon 2015: Bjarne Stroustrup “Writing …