Transfer at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on my way to Kona, got stuck in an unusually long passport queue. While everyone else is freaking out that they'll miss their flight, I'm admiring the usage of vexillologically correct aspect ratios for all the flags on that yellow sign 😄

Today I learned that in C++ you can explicitly return a value of type void from a function: void f() { return void(); // valid } void g() { return f(); // also valid }

Yeehaa! WG21 meeting just ended. And my addition of std::breapoint, is_debugger_present, and breakpoint_if_debugging is in for C++26! Standard C++ #cplusplus

WG21 meeting in Kona is over. SG21 approved our paper with a new Contracts syntax: wg21.link/p2961r2 The double square brackets are gone, contract checks are now spelled like this: int f(int x) pre (x > 0) post (r: r > x) { contract_assert(i > 0); return x + i; }

We had a really fun meetup last night! Thank you @hatcat01.bsky.social & Jeroen Akershoek for the fantastic talks, and Remedy Entertainment for the venue & pizza! That's it for 2023, but we'll be back with another C++ Helsinki meetup in January 2024! Meanwhile, have a great holiday break everyone!

Episode 371 of CppCast is live! @[email protected] and Timur Doumler are joined by Martin Hořeňovský to talk about Catch2 v3 and how it is different to v2, as well as random numbers and portable random number distributions. Listen now: cppcast.com/catch2_v3_and_…

People keep saying that C++ is sorely lacking proper package management. We have conan and vcpkg. I'm curious, what exactly are they missing that C++ developers need? What exactly would need to happen before people can say "package management in C++ is working well"?

Tomorrow, 12 Dec 2023, I am giving a talk about the current state of Contracts in C++ at the MUC++ End of Year Event: meetup.com/mucplusplus/ev… This will be followed by talks from Anastasia Kazakova and @[email protected]. If you're in Munich 🇩🇪 come by and say hi!

Episode 372 of CppCast is live! Timur Doumler and @[email protected] are joined by Matthias Kretz to talk about SIMD and his efforts to get support into the standard. Listen now: cppcast.com/simd/

Episode 373 of CppCast 🎅 2023 Holiday Special 🎅 is live! @[email protected] and Timur Doumler look back on the last year, discuss the news, and talk about what they're working on. Listen now: cppcast.com/2023_holiday_s…

Episode 374 of CppCast is live! Timur Doumler and guest co-host @hatcat01.bsky.social are joined by Ville Voutilainen to talk about Qt, modern C++ features such as Modules and Sender/Receiver, and how they can integrate with the Qt framework. Listen now: cppcast.com/modern_cpp_wit…

We're very excited to announce our next C++ Helsinki Meetup on Tue 30 Jan 2024! This time, we're sponsored by Hive Helsinki, an innovative coding school, who are hosting the meetup on their campus. Anyone interested in C++ is welcome to attend! RSVP here: meetup.com/cpphelsinki/ev…

Noexcept? Enabling Testing of Contract Checks in C++ - by Pablo Halpern & Timur Doumler- CppCon 2023 youtu.be/BS3Nr2I32XQ #Cpp26 #Functions #cppcon

Episode 375 of CppCast is live! @[email protected] and Timur Doumler are joined by Daveed Vandervoorde to talk about Reflection for C++ 26. Listen now: cppcast.com/reflection_for…

Episode 376 of CppCast is Live! Timur Doumler and @[email protected] are joined by Rainer Grimm to talk about teaching and training modern C++. Listen now: buff.ly/49wsg4j

On March 4th, I'm giving a talk in London about the current state of Contracts for C++: meetup.com/cpplondon/even…

Episode 378 of CppCast is live! @[email protected] and matt godbolt is mostly on bsky these days are joined by Gail Ollis to talk about Psychology and Starting Out as a Developer. Listen now: buff.ly/3Vm3117

Episode 379 of CppCast is live! Timur Doumler and @[email protected] are joined by Erich Keane to talk about heterogeneous computing, his work at Nvidia and Clang, and the recent ISO C++ standard committee meeting in Tokyo 🇯🇵 Listen now: cppcast.com/heterogeneous_…

Episode 381 of CppCast is live! Timur Doumler and @[email protected] are joined by Niels Lohmann to talk about JSON for Modern C++. Listen now: buff.ly/3wgjkSX

I wrote a blog post about Contracts for C++: timur.audio/contracts_expl… In this blog post, I explain in five minutes how the proposed feature works and why it's actually not very hard or complicated!