Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code

Afterword

“Beautiful C++” is not only a catchy title, but my own personal goal and what I appreciate (and hope for) the most in C++’s evolution. While it’s true that C++ is complex, writing C++ in a modern style already yields much cleaner—and yes, more beautiful—code than writing it in older C++98 or “C with Classes” styles.

But what does it mean to write C++ in a modern style? Documenting the answer to that question in one authoritative place was one of the major reasons Bjarne Stroustrup and I created the C++ Core Guidelines—including designing them with Enforcements so that you can optionally ask static analysis tools to help you stay in the “modern style” of C++ code. The guidelines are necessarily organized like an encyclopedia—a reference ...