Visual Studio 2015

A couple of exciting things have been announced for C++ programmers with respect to Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2015 is currently available as an unsupported preview release.

VS 2015 will support the Clang/LLVM toolchain directly for building code for Android and iOS
A new Community Edition of Visual Studio is available for free (starting with VS 2013). The community edition is extensible, allowing you to use additional productivity add-ons for C++ like Visual Assist to provide additional refactoring and navigation support in your C++ code base.

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Boost 1.57 Released

Boost 1.57 has been released.

From the boost.org homepage:

Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.

We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library. Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use.

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C++ Talks from the 2014 European LLVM Conference

The 2014 European LLVM Conference in April, 2014 included the following talks related to C++:

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“The Boost C++ Libraries”, 2nd ed., Published

Boris Schäling has published the 2nd edition of his book The Boost C++ Libraries. The entire book is readable online and is available for purchase in PDF, EPub, Kindle and print editions.

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Future Meeting Topics

At our first meeting, we came up with this list of potential topics for upcoming meetings. If you have other topic ideas that you’d like to suggest, please feel free to add them in the comments!

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October Meeting

On October 8th, 2014 at 6 PM, we’ll hold our first meeting. Please join us!

Here is the agenda:

Introductions
Meeting format discussion
A brief presentation
Coding exercise

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Join the Utah C++ Programmers MeetUp!

I’ve started a Utah C++ Programmers MeetUp group to organize meetings of the Utah C++ Users Group. This will make it easy to schedule meetings, allow people to RSVP, etc. In short, this is what MeetUp was designed for, so it’s really the best tool for the job instead of a blog.

To quote The Evil Dead (1981), Join Us!

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C++ 14 ISO Standard Ratified

On August 18th, 2014, the ISO standards body ratified the latest version of the ISO C++ standard, known as C++14. You can obtain a working draft of the C++14 standard (N3797), which is likely to be nearly identical to the final published standard. Published standards can only be obtained from standards bodies by paying a fee, so most of us make do with the last draft standard issued prior to the official ratification of the standard.

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Two Exciting Releases from JetBrains

Both of these are in the “early access program” state, but they are exciting:

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Boost 1.56 Released

Boost 1.56 has been released.

From the boost.org homepage:

Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.

We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library. Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use.”

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