claudiocabral/contemporary_cpp

Modern C++ Practices: part 0 of N-1

Welcome! We'll dive into the most recent developments in C++. It has been al ong decade filled with innovation, questionable decisions and enough confusion to keep consultatns employed for the next century.

This contains a list of what I consider good to know things about C++ as it exists in 2021. I plan to add more entries as time passes

Tooling

• Compiler explorer
• CMake

• ninja
• clang-tidy
• package managers

Language features

• auto

• ranged for loop

• lambdas
• constexpr, consteval, constinit, if constexpr
• move semantics
• [[attributes]]

• class template deduction guide lines (C++17)
• user defined literals
• template magic
• coroutines (not covered, waiting for better compiler support)
• modules (not covered, waiting for better compiler support)
• concepts (not covered)

Standard Template Library

Containers

• std::vector
• std::array
• std::[unordered_]map
• std::[unordered_]set don't use lists.

View types

• std::string_view
• std::span

Algebraic types

• std::optional
• std::variant

(Smart Pointers)[stdlib/smart_ptr.cpp]

• std::unique_ptr
• std::shared_ptr

Algorithms library

• a whole world of wonders

Multithreading & data sharing

• std::atomic
• std::mutex & co
• std::lock & co
• std::thread & std::jthread

Formatting

• std::format

Resources

• cppreference
• Compiler Explorer
• CppCon talks
  • I think these talks thought me C++
  • personal favorite speakers:
  • Andrei Alexandrescu (formerly on Facebook, now teaching)
  • Sean Parent (Adobe)
  • Kate Gregory (Consultant)
  • Chandler Carruth (Google, LLVM)
  • Titus Winter (Google, responsible for their C++ codebase)
  • Fedor Pikus (Mentor, great talks about concurrency)
  • Jason Turner (Consultant)
  • Herb Sutter (Microsoft)
  • Many more, including many people who only spoke once but gave amazing talks
  • can provide a "best off" playlist if there's interest