CppCon 2016

What would you like to know about the C++ standard?

Join us for a panel discussion with the leaders of the C++ standards committee where the audience asks the questions.

Two significant areas where C++ violates "don't pay for what you don't use" are RTTI and exception handling. So much so that some groups turn it off for performance reasons.

Two industries that do so but still use C++ heavily are Games and Financial/Trading. They are among the highest employer of C++ programmers. So have you wondered how C++ can be improved for low-latency applications like Games and Financial/Trading. The emphasis is performance in low-latency, soft-real-time, simulation, graphics, simulation applications.

ISO C++ decided to start a Study Group 14 to officially analyze proposals to improve C++ in these important domains and it will occur on Wednesday as an official C++ Standard meeting. If you are in these domains and are interested in analyzing proposals, or just want to see how a C++ Standard meeting is run, please come to this Open Content talk to find out more about Wednesday's SG14 meeting.

Join a panel of college professors, recent and current undergraduates, and professionals with teaching and outreach experience as we discuss how to engage students in C++. Why is it important to teach C++ early, and is it an appropriate choice for a first programming language? Are colleges teaching C++ less than they used to? Are colleges teaching C++ well? How can the C++ community better engage students in open source and in industry?

David (and potentially other committee members) will give an update on
what's currently being discussed for reflection in C++

Everybody is invited to chime in on a discussion about use cases. For
instance, Roland is going to present his ideas for SQL statements being
used on databases, containers and streams.

This lively panel will cover some of the biggest security fails. We’ll discuss some of the fails common to C++ and other compiled languages, and some ideas for avoiding problems in your own code.

Join our panelists for a discussions of compression algorithms.

Want to meet your standard library maintainer? Now's your chance! Join us for a panel discussion of the C++ standard library with the people who implement it! C++ standard library maintainers and members of the C++ Committee's Library Working Group will talk about the philosophy behind the specification and implementation of the C++ standard library. We'll talk about all the new library features coming in C++17 (and beyond).