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Knowing a bit of C but often programming in just about any other language, I was recently inspired to work with lower-level languages like C++ thanks to a bunch

Knowing a bit of C but often programming in just about any other language, I was recently inspired to work with lower-level languages like C++ thanks to a bunch of talks from Microsoft's Going Native 2013. Specifically Bjarne Stroustrup's The Essence of C++: With Examples in C++84, C++98, C++11, and C++14 -- video and slides at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/Opening-Keynote-Bjarne-Stroustrup http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/Opening-Key... C++ really has changed and is changing from what I learned back in university. It's quite exciting. They seem to be standardising and implementing in C++ compilers the way HTML5 is now a living standard with test implementations in browsers. See also: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/Keynote-Herb-Sutter-One-Cpp http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/Keynote-Her...

NigelTufnel 13y ago
There is a great moment in Stroustrup's talk when he shows a short error message in ConceptGcc and the audience applauds. It seems that Stroustroup was suprised by the applauses.
- lstamour 13y ago
  He's a university prof. When's the last time they ever heard applause? ;-) Really, in part, I think it was because he was trying to finish a thought and was going to summarize the feature again in two slides. But yeah, I'd have cheered. It felt like C++ the Steve Jobs keynote, in a way. All the good parts, right in front of you, shipping "soon".
  - lstamour 13y ago
    For the Google index, I'd also like to note that LLVM 3.4 released three weeks ago, has support for C++14 in Clang. Incidentally it also mimics Visual C++'s compiler from Microsoft in Visual Studio. I'd expect it to ship with an Xcode 5.1 alongside iOS 7.1. Now that I think about it, I should run to Apple's developer site and see if that's true. :) Edit: Xcode 5.1 beta 4 ships with Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.9) (based on LLVM 3.4svn) according to Google searches. So I guess that's a yes. I'm off to try it now. :)

NigelTufnel 13y ago

There is a great moment in Stroustrup's talk when he shows a short error message in ConceptGcc and the audience applauds. It seems that Stroustroup was suprised by the applauses.

lstamour 13y ago
He's a university prof. When's the last time they ever heard applause? ;-) Really, in part, I think it was because he was trying to finish a thought and was going to summarize the feature again in two slides. But yeah, I'd have cheered. It felt like C++ the Steve Jobs keynote, in a way. All the good parts, right in front of you, shipping "soon".
- lstamour 13y ago
  For the Google index, I'd also like to note that LLVM 3.4 released three weeks ago, has support for C++14 in Clang. Incidentally it also mimics Visual C++'s compiler from Microsoft in Visual Studio. I'd expect it to ship with an Xcode 5.1 alongside iOS 7.1. Now that I think about it, I should run to Apple's developer site and see if that's true. :) Edit: Xcode 5.1 beta 4 ships with Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.9) (based on LLVM 3.4svn) according to Google searches. So I guess that's a yes. I'm off to try it now. :)