Useful Modern C++ resources to consider

(Updated 2024-April-10th)

Books/Websites:

• (C++20) Rainer Grimm, C++20, Leanpub, 2021.
• (C++20) Jason Turner, C++ Best Practices, Leanpub, 2021.
• (C++20) Bjarne Stroustrup, A Tour of C++, 3rd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2022.
• Bjarne Stroustrup
• cplusplus.com
• Herb Sutter
• CppCast podcast
• isocpp.org
  • Current ISO C++ status
  • Compiler conformance status
• quick-bench.com
• SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard
• Tony Albrecht, "Pitfalls of Object-Oriented Programming", Presentation, Dec 2009.
• Russell Hadley, "Improved Linker Fundamentals in Visual Studio 2019", MS C++ Team Blog Entry, July 2019.
• Corentin Jabot, "The Problem with C", Blog Entry, Aug 2020.
• Corentin Jabot, "The Day the (C++) Standard Library Died", Blog Entry, Feb 2020.
• Noel Llopis, "Data-Oriented Design", Article, Dec 2009.
• John Regehr, "A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++", Blog Entry, July 2010.
• Lane Roathe, "OOP != Classes, but may == DOD", Blog Entry, March 2010.
• Chris Wellons, "The Value of Undefined Behavior", Blog Entry, July 2018.

Videos:

• Mike Acton, "Data-Oriented Design and C++", CppCon talk, 2014. (SLIDES) (BACKUP)
• Tony Albrecht, "Pitfalls of Object-Oriented Programming, Revisited", Presentation, 2017.
• Andrei Alexandrescu, "How AI Tools Impact Your Life as a Systems Programmer", Code Europe closing keynote, 2023.
• Andrei Alexandrescu, "Robots Are After Your Job (or At Least the Boring Parts of It)", CppCon closing keynote, 2023.
• Matthew Butler, "Secure Coding Best Practices", C++Now talk, 2018.
• Marshall Clow, "Making Your Library More Reliable with Fuzzing", C++Now talk, 2018.
• Bruce Dawson, "Getting Started Debugging on Linux [using Qt Creator]", Steam Dev Days talk, 2014.
• Louis Dionne, "Compile-time Programming & Reflection in C++20 and beyond", CppCon talk, 2018.
• Hana Dusíková, "Compile-time Regular Expressions", CppCon talk, 2018.
• Matt Godbolt, "What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately?", CppCon talk, 2017.
• Matt Godbolt, "The Bits between the Bits: How We Get to main()", CppCon talk, 2018.
• Kate Gregory, "Stop Teaching C (when teaching C++)", CppCon talk, 2015.
• Kate Gregory, "10 Core Guidelines You Need to Start Using Now", CppCon talk, 2017.
• Kate Gregory, "What Do We Mean When We Say Nothing At All?", CppCon talk, 2018.
• Nicolai Josuttis, "The Nightmare of Initialization in C++", CppCon talk, 2018.
• Greg Law, "Debugging Linux C++", CppCon talk, 2018.
• Neil MacIntosh, "Static Analysis and C++: More than Lint", CppCon talk, 2015.
• Neil MacIntosh, "The Guideline Support Library: One Year Later", CppCon talk, 2016.
• Scott Meyers, "The Last Thing D Needs", DConf talk, 2014.
• Scott Meyers, "Type Deduction and Why You Care", CppCon talk, 2014.
• Phil Nash, "Modern C++ Testing with Catch2", CppCon talk, 2018.
• Sean Parent, "C++ Seasoning", GoingNative talk, 2013.
• Sean Parent, "Better Code: Data Structures", CppCon talk, 2015.
• Sean Parent, "Better Code: Concurrency", NDC London talk, 2017.
• Sean Parent, "Better Code: Runtime Polymorphism", NDC London talk, 2017.
• Sean Parent, "Better Code: Human Interfaces", CppCon talk, 2018.
• Sean Parent, "Generic Programming", Pacific++ talk, 2018.
• Fedor Pikus, "C++ Atomics: From Basic to Advanced", CppCon talk, 2017.
• Robert Ramey, "Safe Numerics", CppCon talk, 2018.
• John Regehr, "Undefined Behavior in 2017 (Part 1/2)", CppCon talk, 2017.
• John Regehr, "Undefined Behavior in 2017 (Part 2/2)", CppCon talk, 2017.
• Ben Saks, "Back to Basics: Exception Handling & Safety", CppCon talk, 2019.
• Dan Saks, "Understanding Lvalues and Rvalues", Core C++ talk, 2019.
• Dan Saks, "Back to Basics: Const as a Promise", CppCon talk, 2019.
• Dan Saks, "Back to Basics: Function and Class Templates", CppCon talk, 2019.
• Bjarne Stroustrup, "OOP without Inheritance", ECOOP talk, 2015.
• Bjarne Stroustrup, "Writing Good C++14", CppCon talk, 2015.
• Bjarne Stroustrup, "The Evolution of C++: Past, Present and Future", CppCon talk, 2016.
• Bjarne Stroustrup, "Learning and Teaching Modern C++", CppCon talk, 2017.
• Bjarne Stroustrup, "Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming", CppCon talk, 2018.
• Bjarne Stroustrup, "C++20: C++ at 40", CppCon talk, 2019.
• Bjarne Stroustrup, "C++ in Constrained Environments", CppCon talk, 2022.
• Bjarne Stroustrup, "Delivering Safe C++", CppCon talk, 2023.
• Herb Sutter, "Back to Basics: Essentials of Modern C++14 Style", CppCon talk, 2014. (PDF SLIDES)
• Herb Sutter, "Writing Good C++14...By Default", CppCon talk, 2015. (PDF SLIDES)
• Herb Sutter, "Leak-Freedom in C++14...By Default", CppCon talk, 2016.
• Herb Sutter, "Meta: Thoughts on Generative C++", CppCon talk, 2017.
• Herb Sutter, "Thoughts on a More Powerful and Simpler C++", CppCon talk, 2018.
• Herb Sutter, "De-fragmenting C++: Making Exceptions and RTTI More Affordable and Usable", CppCon talk, 2019.
• Herb Sutter, "Modern C++: What You Need to Know", Build talk, 2013.
• Herb Sutter, "How to Adopt Modern C++17 into Your C++ Code", Build talk, 2018.
• Herb Sutter, "Quantifying Accidental Complexity", C++ Meeting Prague talk, 2020.
• Herb Sutter, "Can C++ Be 10x Simpler & Safer?", CppCon talk, 2022.
• Herb Sutter, "Toward a Typescript for C++", CppCon plenary, 2023.
• Jeff Trull, "Liberating the Debugging Experience with the GDB Python API", CppCon talk, 2018.
• Jason Turner, "Practical constexpr", Meeting C++ talk, 2017.
• Jason Turner, "Rethinking Exceptions", Pacific++ talk, 2017.
• Jason Turner, "Practical C++17", CppCon talk, 2017.
• Jason Turner, "Surprises in Object Lifetime", CppCon talk, 2018.
• Jason Turner, "Applied Best Practices", CppCon talk, 2018.
• Jason Turner, "Break ABI to Save C++", YouTube video, May 2021.
• Geoffrey Viola, "Detecting Programs that Rely on Undefined Behavior", CppCon talk, 2019.
• Nathanael Weiss, "Wraithbinder Dev Ep005 - Code Bloat and the Pimpl Idiom", Highlight Video, Nov 2018.
• Nathanael Weiss, "Wraithbinder Dev Ep002 - C vs C++ Compilation Speed", Highlight Video, Nov 2018.
• Titus Winters, "The Philosophy of Google's C++ Code", CppCon talk, 2014.
• Titus Winters, "Lessons in Sustainability", CppCon talk, 2015.
• Titus Winters, Hyrum Wright, "All Your Tests are Terrible", CppCon talk, 2015.
• Hyrum Wright, "Large-Scale Change at Google: Lessons Learned", CppCon talk, 2018.

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