Awesome Modern C++

A collection of resources on modern C++.

The goal is to collect a list of resouces to help people learn about and leverage modern C++11 and beyond.

Contributing

To add, remove or change things on the list: please submit a pull request to the GitHub repository.

Best Practices

Consider the C++ Core Guidelines.
Never manually format code, use clang-format.
Build your code using CMake.
Test your code using Catch.
Also test using sanitized builds: AddressSanitizer, ThreadSanitizer and MemorySanitizer.
Use a fuzzer to test untrusted input: afl, libFuzzer, KLEE.

Books

The C++ Programming Language (Bjarne Stroustrup) [C++11]
Effective Modern C++ (Scott Meyers) [C++11/14]
Overview of the New C++ (Scott Meyers) [C++11/14]
C++ Core Guidelines (Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter) [C++11/14/17] - Guidelines for using modern C++.
C++ Concurrency in Action (Anthony Williams) [C++11/14/17] - Using the C++ Concurrency Library
C++ Annotations (Frank B. Brokken) [C++11/14/17]

For a comprehensive guide to C++ books see the Stackoverflow Definitive C++ Book Guide and List.

Blogs

Andrzej's C++ blog - Guidelines and thoughts about C++.
C++ Hints - Common mistakes and their solutions.
Embedded in Academia - John Regehr, Professor of Computer Science, University of Utah, USA.
Eric Niebler
Guru of the Week (new posts) - A regular series of C++ programming problems created and written by Herb Sutter.
Guru of the Week (older posts) - Older Guru of the Week posts.
Marshall's C++ Musings
Paul Fultz II's Blog
Preshing on Programming
Simplify C++ - Write clean and maintainable C++.
Sticky Bits - A blog looking at developing software for real-time and embedded systems.
Sutter's Mill - Herb Sutter on software development.
The View from Aristeia -Scott Meyers' Professional Activities and Interests.
Visual C++ Team Blog
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Anthony Williams' blog
Fluent C++ - Expressive Code in C++.

Conferences

ACCU - The Conference for Developers.
C++ Now - A gathering of C++ experts and enthusiasts.
CppCon - The C++ Conference.
Meeting C++ - A independent C++ Conference.

Libraries

This is not supposed to be a comprehensive list of all C and C++ libraries. It is a list of high-quality modern libraries with general applicability (serialization, database, testing, etc) or high-quality libraries with novel use of new C++ features.

abseil - Abseil Common Libraries.
autocheck - QuickCheck and SmallCheck clones for C++.
Bandit - A header-only framework for C++11 that wants to make working with unit tests a pleasant experience.
Beast - HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11.
BigIntegerCPP - A C++11 large integer library with effective high performance, simplistic in nature and also clean in the eyes.
Boost.Hana - Your standard library for metaprogramming.
Boost - Collection of C++ libraries.
C++ Format - Small, safe and fast formatting library for C++.
CAF - An Open Source Implementation of the Actor Model in C++.
Catch - A modern, C++-native, header-only, framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD.
doctest - The lightest feature rich C++ single header testing framework.
cereal - A C++11 library for serialization.
ChaiScript - An easy to use embedded scripting language for C++.
Cinder - Cinder is a free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.
cpptoml - A header-only library for parsing TOML configuration files.
cppitertools - itertools (python) implementation for C++14
cpr - C++ Requests: Curl for People, a spiritual port of Python Requests.
Crow - Crow is very fast and easy to use C++ micro web framework.
cxxopts - Lightweight C++ command line option parser.
docopt.cpp - docopt creates beautiful command-line interfaces.
date - A date and time library based on the C++11/14/17 header
fixed_size_function - Fixed size function wrapper like std::function.
Folly - Facebook Open-source Library.
HashLib4CPP - C++11 library that provides an easy to use interface for computing hashes and checksums of strings, files, streams, bytearrays and untyped data to mention but a few. It also supports Incremental Hashing.
Inja - A Template Engine for Modern C++.
IntX - A C++11 port of IntX arbitrary precision Integer library with speed, about O(N * log N) multiplication/division algorithms implementation.
iod - Meta programming utilities for C++14.
json - JSON for Modern C++.
jsoncpp - A C++ library for interacting with JSON.
Junction - Concurrent data structures in C++.
mongo-cxx-driver - C++ Driver for MongoDB.
mstch - An implementation of Mustache templates using modern C++.
Mustache - Mustache text templates in C++11.
Nonius - A C++ micro-benchmarking framework.
PEGTL - Parsing Expression Grammar Template Library (C++11, header-only).
pistache - An elegant C++ REST framework.
pybind11 - Seamless operability between C++11 and Python.
random - A simple, convenient, header only Random for modern C++.
rang - A simple, modern & header only C++11 library for colors in your terminal.
range-v3 - Experimental range library for C++11/14/17.
rapidcheck - QuickCheck clone for C++.
redox - Modern, asynchronous, and wicked fast C++11 client for Redis.
simple_match - Simple header only pattern matching for c++14.
sol2 - C++ library binding to Lua.
sqlite3pp - C++ wrapper of SQLite3 API.
sqlite_orm - powerful header only SQLite3 ORM library for C++14.
sqlite_modern_cpp - Zero overhead C++14 wrapper for sqlite3.
sqlpp11 - A type safe SQL template library for C++.
tinyformat.h - Minimal, type safe printf replacement library for C++.
tinytoml -A header only C++11 library for parsing TOML.
tweeny - A header only interpolation library with 30+ easing functions.
Vireo - A lightweight and versatile video processing library by Twitter.
yaml-cpp - A YAML parser and emitter in C++.
ASAP - header-only library to parse, display, operate and iterate on dates.
Nameof - A header-only C++17 library provides nameof macros and functions to obtain the simple name of variable, type, function, macro, and enum.

Websites

C++ Questions Subreddit - A great place to get help.
C++ Patterns - A repository of modern C++ patterns.
C++ Subreddit - Discussions, articles, and news about the C++ programming language.
C++ Super-FAQ - The C++ Super-FAQ.
C++ reference - C++ reference.
C++11 FAQ
CppCast - The only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers.
Stackoverflow C++11
Stackoverflow C++14
Stackoverflow C++
The C++ Programming Language - News, Status & Discussion about Standard C++.

Talks

Tools

American fuzzy lop - American fuzzy lop is a security-oriented fuzzer.
cget - CMake package retrieval.
clang-format - A tool to format C++ code.
clang-tidy - A clang-based C++ "linter" and static analysis tool.
CMake - Cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software.
Compiler Explorer - Interactively explore the assembly output of your C++ code.
conan - C/C++ package manager.
cppcheck - Static analysis of C/C++ code.
C++ Archive Network - CPPAN - Cross-platform C/C++ package manager.
Hunter - Cross-platform package manager for C++.
irony-mode - A C/C++ minor mode for Emacs powered by libclang.
modern-cpp-font-lock-mode - Syntax highlighting support for Modern C++ with emacs

Podcasts

CppCast - Podcast happening in and around C++.

About

This list was compiled by Erik Rigtorp with help from the C++ community:

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