C++ and Beyond

Microsoft’s Channel  9 has just published the video of the final session from C&B 2011, our “Ask Us Anything!” panel.  As one might expect from a session with such an open-ended charter, the topics were all over the map.  Charles Torre at Channel 9 included the following table of contents in his post announcing the video:

[00:10] On strings, UTF-8 vs UTF-16, etc…
[03:08] How does the ISO C++ standards committee work?
[04:34] On shared_ptr performance and correctness
[11:30] What C++ work do you guys do outside of your real jobs?
[14:51] Implementations of atomic…
[17:07] Memory consistency model…
[22:13] Favorite C++11 features…
[24:23] What’s next for the standard’s committee?
[25:55] How to convince your company it’s OK to use templates now (C++11)…
[28:30] Favorite feature that’s not in the C++11 standard…
[30:44] What’s the deal with systematic and principled thread termination and program termination?
[36:22] Concepts…
[36:55] What’s going on with constexpr?
[41:51] When will we see Effective/Exceptional C++ books for C++11?

Many thanks to Charles and Channel 9 for their hard work in making this and the other videos from C&B 2011 available.  A lot more goes into it than just setting up a camera and hitting “Record.”

This is the final video that will be posted from C&B 2011, but that means we can turn our attention to C&B 2012.  I’ll make a formal announcement about that later this week, but this much I can tell you now:  C&B 2012 will take place August 5-8, and it will be in the Eastern Time Zone of the USA.  Details are coming soon!

Scott

Channel 9 has just posted a recording of my opening talk to kick off C++ and Beyond 2011 last month in Banff. Here’s the link: C++ and Beyond 2011: Why C++.

It’s a keynote-y talk, not a technical talk, but we felt it was important to address an important trend involving the language. The goal is to share a perspective and rationale for why of late there’s such a resurgence of interest in C++ — both across the industry, and within Microsoft.

I hope you enjoy it!

While attending C++ and Beyond 2011, Microsoft’s Channel 9’s Charles Torre was able to convince a few fellow attendees to get in front of the camera and talk about C++, how they use the language, and what they think of C++11 and C++ and Beyond.

Here are the first two interviews:

Sean Gibb, Director of Software at Rad3 Communications

 
Benedict Gaster, a software architect designing programming models for heterogeneous computing and well-known for his contributions to OpenCL

Enjoy!

Lisa