2022 Keynote on Contemporary C++: Daniela Engert, prerelease

Daniela Engert on contemporary C++ at her CppCon 2022 keynote in Aurora, Colorado!

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2022 Closing Keynote on Cppfront: Herb Sutter, prerelease

Herb Sutter announces Cppfront an experimental C++ frontend at the CppCon 2022 closing keynote in Aurora, Colorado!

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Opening 2022 Keynote: Bjarne Stroustrup, prerelease

CppCon 2022 is in midweek and so much has happened thus far in Aurora, Colorado!

Along with great talks from C++ experts, we’ve had social events and panels, including our annual Committee Fireside Chat where attendees had the opportunity to hear directly from C++ standard committee members.

CppCon wouldn’t be the same though without an opening keynote from C++’s creator, Bjarne Stroustrup. This year Bjarne’s focus was on using C++ in Constrained Environments.

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Instructor Interview: Andreas Fertig / Modern C++: When Efficiency Matters

In this instructor interview, Kevin Carpenter welcomes Andreas Fertig for a discussion of his CppCon Academy classes Modern C++: When Efficiency Matters and Programming With C++20, which will be online.

Andreas is an international C++ trainer, CEO of Unique Code GmbH, and the creator of C++ Insights.

 

In addition to this class, Andreas will be doing two Main Program sessions: Back to Basics: Move Semantics and Coroutines from Scratch.

You can still register for this class and the conference.

CppCon 2022 Keynote: How C++23 Changes the Way We Write Code by Timur Doumler Live, In Person

We’re happy to announce: Timur Doumler will be in Aurora live, in person to deliver key insights on C++23 best practices.

Timur DoumlerHere is the abstract for Timur’s talk:

C++20 was a huge release: coroutines, concepts, ranges, and modules profoundly changed the way we write code and think about C++. In comparison, C++23 is a lot smaller in scope: its primary mission is to complete C++20, to fill holes, and to fix issues. Nevertheless, some great new features made the cut this time around, both in the standard library and in the core language. This is even more remarkable considering that the entire feature design phase of C++23 took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, challenging the ISO C++ committee to completely reinvent how we work together.

This is not a firehose talk about C++23 that tries to cram as many additions and improvements as possible into one hour. Instead, we deliberately focus on just a handful of new features that are going to noticeably change and improve the experience of the everyday C++ programmer. We will talk about how `std::expected` improves error handling, the huge impact that `std::mdspan` will have on scientific computing, how deducing `this` greatly simplifies longstanding C++ idioms such as CRTP, and how `std::print` will forever change how we write “Hello, World”.

Timur is the Developer Advocate for C++ tools at JetBrains and an active member of the ISO C++ standard committee. As a developer, he worked many years in the audio and music technology industry and co-founded the music tech startup Cradle. Timur is passionate about building inclusive communities, clean code, good tools, low latency, and the evolution of the C++ language.

Registration is now open. Tickets are now available for both online attendees and in-person attendees.

Register today!

CppCon 2022 Online Keynote: Principia Mathematica by Lisa Lippincott Live, In Person

Lisa Lippincott will be online for a talk that takes its title from Bertrand Russell’s and Alfred North Whitehead’s logicist tour de force, Principia Mathematica.

Lisa LippincottHere is the abstract for her talk:

The C++ integral arithmetic operations present a challenge in formal interface design. Their preconditions are nontrivial, their postconditions are exacting, and they are deeply interconnected by mathematical theorems. I will address this challenge, presenting interfaces, theorems, and proofs in a lightly extended C++.

This talk takes its title from Bertrand Russell’s and Alfred North Whitehead’s logicist tour de force, Principia Mathematica. It echoes that work in developing arithmetic from first principles, but starts from procedural first principles: stability of objects, substitutability of values, and repeatability of operations.

In sum, this talk is one part formal interface design, one part tour of C++ integral arithmetic, one part foundations of arithmetic, and one part writing mathematical proofs procedurally.

Lisa Lippincott designed the software architectures of Tanium and BigFix, two systems for managing large fleets of computers. She is chair of the numerics study group of the C++ standardization committee.

Registration is now open. Tickets are now available for both online attendees and in-person attendees. Register today!

Instructor Interview: Fedor Pikus / Performance and Efficiency in C++

In this instructor interview, Kevin Carpenter welcomes Fedor Pikus for a discussion of his CppCon Academy classes, Performance and Efficiency in C++ for Experts, Future Experts, and Everyone Else, which will be onsite in Aurora, Colorado.

Fedor is a recognized expert on high-performance computing and C++ and he currently A Chief Engineering Scientist in the Design to Silicon division of Mentor Graphics Corp.

Kevin and Fedor discuss his background as developer and as a presenter at CppCon. They also talk about the history of this class, which is based in large part on material from Fedor’s book, The Art of Writing Efficient Programs and how he adapts in during the class to the needs of attendees.

You can still register for this class and for CppCon.

Instructor Interview: Klaus Iglberger / Modern C++ Design Patterns

In this instructor interview, Kevin Carpenter welcomes Dr. Klaus Iglberger for a discussion of his CppCon Academy class, Modern C++ Design Patterns, which will be onsite in Aurora, Colorado.

Klaus is an international C++ trainer, initiator and lead designer of the Blaze C++ math library, the organizer of the Munich C++ user group, and creator and co-chair our own Software Design Track.

Klaus and Kevin discuss how this class has evolved in the years since Kevin attended it. The class has been updated to cover new C++20 features, but the emphasis is on structure and dependencies rather than features.

Klaus also announces his new book book which can be used as a reference for this class.

In addition to this class, Klaus will be doing two Main Program sessions: Breaking Dependencies: The Visitor Design Pattern in the Software Design Track and Back to Basics: Value Semantics in the Back to Basics Track.

You can still register for this class and for CppCon.

CppCon 2022 Program Announced

The Main Program for CppCon 2022 is now live!

This year, CppCon is a hybrid format, so we are presenting four tracks for onsite attendees and five tracks for online attendees.

Online attendees will be able to participate in onsite sessions via “simul-cast” for most sessions. (Online attendees with On-Demand Session Access will have the ability to view recorded versions of all sessions–onsite and online–shortly after they happen.)

We’ll have over seventy breakout sessions delivered onsite and fifty additional remote sessions by the best C++ presenters in the industry, many returning from previous years as well as some exciting new voices, some of whom are able to present only because we are offering a remote presenting possibility. In addition, we’ll present our traditional onsite plenary session every day and an online opening keynote. We’ve already announced our onsite Opening Keynote and three other plenary talks and will be announcing our other two headline talks here in coming days.

This year’s Main Program features five special tracks including the Back to Basics Track, the Embedded Track, the Software Design Track, and the band new Scientific Computing Track and Tooling Track.

In addition to the Main Program, we’ll have the panels, lightning talks, Open Content talks, BOFs, exhibitors, social events, and classes that attendees have enjoyed in past years.

Most of the program is published, but we are still working a few surprises, so keep checking back.

We’d like to thank the Program Committee, our speakers, and the many professionals who proposed talks which we, unfortunately, just couldn’t squeeze in this year. Thank you for your hard work and enthusiastic support for this year’s program!

We hope to see you all in less than a month so register now.

CppCon 2022 Diversity & Attendance Support Ticket program

Again this year, CppCon is running a Diversity & Attendance Support Ticket program. These free tickets are for people who would not be able to attend otherwise. This is an open program, but reasons to apply may include financial assistance, that you are part of an underrepresented group in tech, and others.

In order to apply for this program, please fill in the application form here. The application deadline is August 21, 2022. 10 on-site and 20 on-line support tickets will be selected from all applications. Decisions will be sent by August 28.

We look forward to seeing many of you on-site and on-line again this year at CppCon 2022!