Keynote: Safety, Security, Safety and C / C++ - C++ Evolution - Herb Sutter - ACCU 2024

Herb Sutter discusses the evolution of safety and security in C and C++, highlighting updates on reflection and his cppfront experiment.

ACCU Membership: tinyurl.com/ydnfkcyn --- Keynote: Safety, Security, Safety[sic] and C/C++[sic] - C++ Evolution - Herb Sutter - ACCU 2024 --- As the world’s threats and dangers evolve, so too must our tools. Sometimes a tool can evolve sufficiently to be useful in a new environment. Other times, a tool has to be used less or exchanged for a different one. This talk addresses several questions: - Why does the title say “safety” twice? - Why is “C/C++” an essential term to embrace, not avoid? - Is distinguishing “C vs C++” a True Scotsman problem? - What is recognizably “C++” as C++ continues to evolve? - Why hope for major improvement in C, C++, and C/C++? Finally, the talk will also cover a few other updates about other C++ evolution (including reflection!) and from my personal ongoing experiment with my cppfront compiler. Slides: accu.org/conf-previous/accu2024/ Sponsored By think-cell --- Herb Sutter Author, chair of the ISO C++ committee, software architect at Microsoft. --- The ACCU Conference is the annual conference of the ACCU membership, but is open to any and all who wish to attend. The tagline for the ACCU is 'Professionalism in Programming', which captures the whole spectrum of programming languages, tools, techniques and processes involved in advancing our craft. While there remains a core of C and C++ - with many members participating in respective ISO standards bodies - the conference, like the organisation, embraces other language ecosystems and you should expect to see sessions on C#, D, F#, Go, Javascript, Haskell, Java, Kotlin, Lisp, Python, Ruby, Rust, Swift and more.The ACCU Conference is a conference by programmers for programmers about programming. Discounted rates for members. ACCU Membership: tinyurl.com/ydnfkcyn 2024 Program: accu.org/conf-previous/accu2024/ accu.org accuconference.org/ mastodon.social/@ACCUConf linkedin.com/showcase/accu-conference/ bsky.app/profile/accuconf.bsky.social facebook.com/accuorg reddit.com/r/ACCUConf/ --- YouTube Videos Filmed, Edited & Optimised by Digital Medium: events.digital-medium.co.uk #accuconf #programming #cplusplus #cpp #cprogramming