Reiterating this, the upcoming CMake 3.30 release has a big performance improvement to FetchContent which started from one user taking the time and effort to provide benchmarks and a carefully researched bug report. It turned out to be hard to fix, but their effort motivated me.

CY2025 Draft available at vfxplatform.com. More details, including how to submit feedback, at groups.google.com/g/vfx-platform…

Upcoming new Pixar's OpenUSD release adds support for oneTBB and makes boost an optional dependency. 🙏

NEW SURVEY - Please complete the new 2024 VFX/Animation Studio Linux Survey by August 23rd. The results will be shared at the upcoming VFX Reference Platform User Group meeting in early September. bit.ly/VFXsrv24

Hey! It's the time of year where we tell matt godbolt is mostly on bsky these days , Patrick Quist, and the rest of the @[email protected] team how much we appreciate their work! They have completely changed how we teach, prototype, and think about C++ (and 30 other languages!). godbolt.org

Some people seem to be incapable of seeing the commentary on the wastefulness of RAM and CPU resources in modern software development that the rest of us are trying to make.

The 19th Edition of *Professional CMake: A Practical Guide* is now available. One highlight is the new FetchContent behavior that avoids a sub-build (big potential performance gains!). Updated material for Qt 6.7 too. Get it from the usual place: crascit.com/professional-c…

I'm not associated with Kitware, but maybe some of my followers may be interested in this open position working in a CMake-related role: jobs.lever.co/kitware/8dcfd3…

How to Keep C++ Binaries Small - Techniques for C++ Optimization - by Sandor Dargo - C++ on Sea 2024 youtube.com/watch?v=XfU2ZO… #Coding #Cplusplus #Cpp #Programming #cpponsea

PEP 760: No More Bare Excepts (Withdrawn) peps.python.org/pep-0760/

The Ultimate Guide to Error Handling in Python blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-ultim…

Proud to start sharing Google's strategy for tackling our remaining memory safety challenges: security.googleblog.com/2024/10/safer-… High level, but it outlines the long-term strategy. We'll be sharing more detailed posts in this series. #CPlusPlus #RustLang #CarbonLang

Disposal xkcd.com/3005

C++20 comparison in Qt (even with C++17🤩) qt.io/blog/c20-compa… #QtDev #cpp #cplusplus

Python 3.8 Reaches End of Life peps.python.org/pep-0569/

Join us in London next week, Nov. 14, for an #ASWF Beers of a Feather mixer hosted by Foundry! The event is open to anyone in the technical community within #VFX and #animation. RSVP at hubs.la/Q02X1F3v0

Trust gnome one… Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl arrives on Netflix globally from January 3rd and @bbc in the UK on Christmas Day!

Disclaimer: no bagpiping robots were hurt during the making of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. The film lands Christmas Day on @bbc in the UK and Netflix globally from January 3rd.

It is finally out! A new hands-on Continuous Integration tutorial This is a whole new section in the docs, with incremental exercises with code, introducing tools and practices to do CI for C++ at scale with Conan 2 Read the introductory blog post: blog.conan.io/2024/12/10/New…

A brief and incomplete comparison of memory corruption detection tools devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20… #cpp #cplusplus