June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
60 pages
1h 32m
English
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Chapter 4. The Beast Roars Back
In this chapter, we’ll discuss a number of C++ resources, most of which are either new or have been revitalized in the last few years. Of course this isn’t an exhaustive list. Google and Amazon are your friends.
WG21
Our first topic is the ISO Committee for C++ standardization, which at 25 years old, is hardly a new resource, but it certainly glows with new life. The committee is formally called ISO/IEC JTC1 (Joint Technical Committee 1) / SC22 (Subcommittee 22) / WG21 (Working Group 21).1 Now you know why most people just call it the C++ Standards Committee.
As big an accomplishment as it is to release a new or updated major standard like C++98 or C++11, it doesn’t have much practical impact if there are no tools that implement it. As mentioned earlier, this was a significant issue with the release of the standard in 1998. Committee attendance fell off because implementation was understood to be years away.
But this was not the case for the release in 2011. Tool vendors had been tracking the standard as it was being developed. Although it called for significant changes to both the core language and the standard library, the new update was substantially implemented by a couple of different open source implementations, GCC and Clang, soon after its release.2 Other tool vendors had also demonstrated their commitment to the update. Unlike some language updates,3 this was clearly adopted by the entire community as the path forward.
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.