CppCon 2015: Herb Sutter "Writing Good C++14... By Default"

Why HN readers recommended it

HN cites it in C++ versus Rust safety debates for its lifetime profile demo, and recommends it as a modern C++ talk.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

CppCon

Topic

modern C++ safety

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

16

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2018

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• We should be seeing completely safe C++ code soon. Take a look at Herb Sutter's CppCon talk this year: [VIDEO] Reinventing the wheel isn't entirely necessary. Though if you're a SysAdmin and you write your codebase in Rust.. that's some nice job security. ;)

• At this year's CppCon Herb Sutter the chair of the ISO C++ committee addressed just this issue of lifetime safety. Here is a video of his talk and includes a demo of the upcoming static analysis tool that can do this with very minimal annotations …

• Take a look at Herb Sutter's talk from CppCon 2015. The slides are here ( [LINK] ) and the video is here [VIDEO] . Microsoft will be releasing the static analysis tool as a free cross-platform tool (and I think open-source IIRC). They shipped a …