C++ Casts: To lie, and hopefully - to lie usefully - Patrice Roy - Meeting C++ 2025
Patrice Roy gave a great talk online on C++ casts at Meetign C++ 2025
To lie, and hopefully - to lie usefully - Patrice Roy - Meeting C++ 2025
by Patrice Roy
October 25, Pavia, Italy
November 6-8, Berlin, Germany
November 3-8, Kona, HI, USA
By Meeting C++ | Nov 23, 2025 09:18 AM | Tags: meetingcpp c++17 c++11 basics advanced
Patrice Roy gave a great talk online on C++ casts at Meetign C++ 2025
To lie, and hopefully - to lie usefully - Patrice Roy - Meeting C++ 2025
by Patrice Roy
By Meeting C++ | Nov 20, 2025 07:51 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community
The first video from Meeting C++ 2025. As every year the online track is released first.
The Code is Documentation Enough - Tina Ulbrich - Meeting C++ 2025
by Tina Ulbrich
Watch now:
By philsquared | Aug 8, 2025 01:18 AM | Tags: None
How do you quickly explore an unfamiliar C or C++ codebase? We'll use Doom as an example to demonstrate how to navigate an unfamiliar codebase.
Explore the Doom C Codebase in VS Code | Learn to Navigate Complex C and C++ Code on Linux
by Greg Law
From the description:
Using the classic Doom C program on Linux as our real-world example, we trace the exact moment a zombie is killed and backtrack through the codebase to understand how it happened [..] using Undo’s Time Travel Debugging technology.
By Meeting C++ | Jul 20, 2025 04:43 AM | Tags: meetingcpp intermediate embedded community c++23 c++20 c++17 basics
This weeks interview with Amar about his book on C++ on embedded systems:
C++ in Embedded Systems Interview with Author Amar Mahmutbegović
by Jens Weller
Watch the video
By Blog Staff | Jun 26, 2025 01:28 PM | Tags: None
Registration is now open for CppCon 2025! The conference starts on September 15 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting videos of some of the top-rated talks from last year's conference. Here’s another CppCon talk video we hope you will enjoy – and why not register today for CppCon 2025!
Lightning Talk: The UB Detector: constexpr
by Andreas Fertig
Summary of the talk:
A constexpr function evaluated at compile time is free of any undefined behaviour they say. Do you think that statement is true as well?
By Blog Staff | Jun 24, 2025 01:25 PM | Tags: None
Registration is now open for CppCon 2025! The conference starts on September 15 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting videos of some of the top-rated talks from last year's conference. Here’s another CppCon talk video we hope you will enjoy – and why not register today for CppCon 2025!
Modern C++ Error Handling
by Phil Nash
Summary of the talk:
We’ve had exceptions in C++ since before the first standard. C++17 introduced std::optional and C++23 std::expected (along with the so-called Monadic Operations for both types).
What should we use and when?
Meanwhile we still have older approaches, such as boolean or error code returns, as well as global or thread local error status or pointer or reference arguments.
Do these still have a place?
And where does assert fit in? And the (hopefully) upcoming contracts?
Perhaps more importantly, once we’ve examined all the trade-offs, can we defer any of those decisions to when we are best positioned to commit to them?
Erroneous conditions can have a big impact on your code’s safety and security, so error handling shouldn’t just be left to the “exercise left for the reader” in the books we used to read. Let’s get this all straight.
By Blog Staff | Jun 20, 2025 01:22 PM | Tags: None
Registration is now open for CppCon 2025! The conference starts on September 15 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting videos of some of the top-rated talks from last year's conference. Here’s another CppCon talk video we hope you will enjoy – and why not register today for CppCon 2025!
Lightning Talk: How Far Should You Indent Your Code? - The Number Of The Counting
by Dave Steffen
Summary of the talk:
Coding Standards have to say something about how we indent our code. Is there a definitive answer?
By Blog Staff | Jun 18, 2025 01:19 PM | Tags: None
Registration is now open for CppCon 2025! The conference starts on September 15 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting videos of some of the top-rated talks from last year's conference. Here’s another CppCon talk video we hope you will enjoy – and why not register today for CppCon 2025!
Guide to Linear Algebra With the Eigen C++ Library
by Daniel Hanson
Summary of the talk:
Linear algebra is an essential part of scientific programming, particularly in domains such as quantitative finance, data science, physics, and medical research. It is also relevant to imaging in game development. As C++ did not have all the convenient built-in multidimensional array capabilities and supporting libraries that came with typical Fortran platforms, scientific programmers making the transition to C++ back in the late 1990’s and early 2000's often found themselves in an inconvenient situation with limited options. These included building up this functionality mostly from scratch, wrestling with interfaces to numerical Fortran libraries such as BLAS and LAPACK, or somehow convincing management to invest in a third-party commercial C++ linear algebra library.
The situation has improved substantially over the years with the development of several well-regarded open-source linear algebra libraries for C++. One in particular that has become popular, first released in 2006, is the Eigen library. It has been adopted for use within both the TensorFlow machine learning library and the Stan Math Library, as well as at CERN, and it can also be found in the implementation of high-performance quantitative trading strategies in C++.
In this talk, we will examine the setup and basics of the Eigen library, followed by a discussion of some of its more advanced features, including applications of matrix decompositions frequently used in quantitative work, as well as its compatibility with STL algorithms. It will conclude with an overview of how it can be used within the context of the C++26 BLAS interface proposal (P1673), via an interface with std::mdspan now available in C++23.
By Blog Staff | Jun 16, 2025 01:14 PM | Tags: None
Registration is now open for CppCon 2025! The conference starts on September 15 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting videos of some of the top-rated talks from last year's conference. Here’s another CppCon talk video we hope you will enjoy – and why not register today for CppCon 2025!
Lightning Talk: Amortized O(1) Complexity in C++
by Andreas Weis
Summary of the talk:
We will take a quick look at how amortized analysis for algorithms works. We will use two examples from the standard library to demonstrate this and show how in one place, the standard's interpretation of amortized constant complexity is at odds with the usual use of the term.
By Blog Staff | Jun 14, 2025 01:11 PM | Tags: None
Registration is now open for CppCon 2025! The conference starts on September 15 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting videos of some of the top-rated talks from last year's conference. Here’s another CppCon talk video we hope you will enjoy – and why not register today for CppCon 2025!
Lightning Talk: Using PMR in C++ Embedded Systems for Functional Safety
by Scott Dixon
Summary of the talk:
Dynamic memory is often disallowed in high-assurance, c++ embedded systems but, when examining the reasons why, C++17 Polymorphic Memory Resources emerge as an unexpected solution to enable the use of C++ standard library constructs for such projects. My talk will explore how PMR can be used to meet functional safety requirements and to build embedded systems that are robust, performant, and testable.