Herb Sutter
[Updates: Clarified that an intrusive discriminator would be far beyond what most people mean by “C++ ABI break.” Mentioned unique addresses and common initial sequences. Added “unknown” state for passing to opaque functions.] Here is my little New Year’s Week project: Trying to write a small...
Herb Sutter
Yesterday I gave the opening talk at CppCon 2024 here in Aurora, CO, USA, on “Peering Forward: C++’s Next Decade.” Thanks to the wonderful folks at Bash Films and DigitalMedium pulling out all the stops overnight to edit and post the keynote videos as fast as possible, it’s already up on YouTube...
Herb Sutter
Here’s a super simple question: “How do I write a parameter that accepts any non-const std::istream argument? I just want an istream I can read from.” (This question isn’t limited to streams, but includes any similar type you have to modify/traverse to use.) Hopefully the answer will be super...
Herb Sutter
Many thanks to ACCU for inviting me back again this April. It was my first time back to ACCU (and only my second trip to Europe) since the pandemic began, and it was a delight to see many ACCUers in person again for the first time in a few years. I gave this talk, which is now up on YouTube...
Herb Sutter
On Friday, I sat down with Kevin Carpenter to do a short (12-min) interview about my ACCU talk coming up on April 17, and other topics. Apologies in advance for my voice quality: I’ve been sick with some bug since just after the Tokyo ISO meeting, and right after this interview I lost my voice...
Herb Sutter
With the winter ISO meeting behind us, it’s onward into spring conference season! ACCU Conference 2024. On April 17, I’ll be giving a talk on C++’s current and future evolution, where I plan to talk about safety based on my recent essay “C++ safety, in context,” and progress updates on...