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

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C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages

What it is

Bjarne Stroustrup's CppCon 2015 keynote on using C++14 to write better code, not just different code. It introduces the C++ Core Guidelines and the machine-checkable rules and GSL library behind them.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2018

What HN commenters said

  1. “Stroustrup's keynote at CppCon is a great overview of the semantics they want to support and the errors that the tooling with will prevent.”

    Overview of the semantics and safety errors C++ tooling will catch.

    sitkack, 2016-01 · Recommendation · in “A brief introduction to C++'s model for type- and resource-safety [pdf]”

  2. “You should watch this video”

    Clarifies that smart pointers are for ownership, not a replacement for raw pointers.

    lossolo, 2016-04 · Recommendation · in “Why would you learn C++ in 2016?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: c++14, core guidelines, bjarne stroustrup, gsl, type and resource safety

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