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Herb Sutter on the Future of C++

The Future of C++ Friday, November 2, 2012 12:45pm (U.S. Pacific Time) This talk will give an update on recent progress and near-future directions for C++, both at Microsoft and across the industry, with some announcements of interest in both areas. The speaker is the lead language architect of Visual C++ and chair of the […]


Standard C++ Foundation

It’s official! C++ now has it’s own “Marketing Department” and a reliable place to go learn about the language, where is it going and what’s happening around it. According to isoccp.org About page, goals are: 1) To promote dissemination of correct and up-to-date information about modern C++. 2) To promote greater availability of high-quality C++ […]


Release 1.5.0 Available!

Development Release 1.5.0 is available. Major new features include a significantly improved Data framework, the new JSON library, and lots of other improvements. Please note that this is a development release and not considered stable. Interfaces may change, backwards compatibility may be broken, not all platforms may work and there may be some rough edges. […]


“Dynamic C++” Presentation Slides

The Code Camp 2012 “Dynamic C++” presentation went really well. There was 40+ attendees and lots of participation, discussion, interesting questions and suggestions. Slides are here. Thanks a lot to everyone who attended and helped with this event. EDIT: Code from the presentation is also available now.