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RxCpp and Executors with Kirk Shoop
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Rob and Jason are joined by Kirk Shoop to talk about the RxCpp library and the future of Executors in C++. Kirk stumbled into an internship at Microsoft in the 90s that turned into contracting and eventually employment at Microsoft. At Microsoft Kirk sometimes pushed the compiler to its knees in the pursuit of libraries that prevent common errors. In 2013 Kirk joined Microsoft Open Technologies Inc to work on open source. Kirk began investing heavily in rxcpp in the belief that it is a better abstraction for async than the primitives commonly used. Now Kirk works at Facebook with Eric Niebler and Lewis Baker to build async range concepts and algorithms (with coroutines) into the c++ std library. News Kona: A trip report Are C++ Modules DOA 2 C++ Breaking the Rules with Inline (...)

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Ranges, Code Quality, and the Future of C++—Jason Meisel
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Very intersting comment about ranges.

Ranges, Code Quality, and the Future of C++ by Jason Meisel

From the article:

Many of you have seen the recent blog post by Eric Niebler about the acceptance of his C++ Ranges proposal to the C++2a standard. This is a feature set I’ve wanted in C++ for some time. In fact, using C#’s standard LINQ library, I’ve become accustomed to writing code in this style. I found it unfortunate, then, to see people respond to this post on Reddit and Twitter by complaining that this feature makes code unreadable. Apparently, C++ is becoming more complex and less useful. I think this is completely untrue. C++2a is going to be the best version of C++ yet, and a big reason for that is Eric’s Ranges library. But even to me, his Pythagorean (...)

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Standard Ranges—Eric Niebler
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Coming soon.

Standard Ranges by Eric Niebler

From the article:

As you may have heard by now, Ranges got merged and will be part of C++20. This is huge news and represents probably the biggest shift the Standard Library has seen since it was first standardized way back in 1998. This has been a long time coming. Personally, I’ve been working toward this since at least November 2013, when I opined, “In my opinion, it’s time for a range library for the modern world,” in a blog post on input ranges. Since then, I’ve been busy building that modern range library and nailing down its specification with the help of some very talented people. Future blog posts will discuss how we got here and the gritty details of how the old stuff and the new stuff play together (we’re C++ (...)

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Use the official range-v3 with MSVC 2017 version 15.9—Casey Carter
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The MSVC compiler now supports Eric Niebler’s range-v3 library:

Use the official range-v3 with MSVC 2017 version 15.9 by Casey Carter

From the article:

It’s no longer necessary to use the range-v3-vs2015 fork that was introduced for MSVC 2015 Update 3 support; true upstream range-v3 is now usable directly with MSVC 2017...

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Should Span Be Regular?—Barry Revzin
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Do you have an opinion?

Should Span Be Regular? by Barry Revzin

From the article:

In my last post, I talked about the concept of Westie types (yes, I am trying to make this happen), what Regular means, and which of them are Regular. I went through an explanation for why means for span is not Regular and potentially why it should be. After lots of resulting conversations with several people (thanks Zach Laine, Nicole Mazzuca, Eric Niebler, John Shaw, Tim Song), I thought it was necessary to write a follow up with more details and more argument...

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