Description

Andreas Weis joins Timur and Phil. After some news about Boost, std::format and performance, Andreas talks to us about safety critical application domains, safety in C++ in general, and the difference between safety in security.

News

• Boost libraries may drop support for older language versions
• "Fun with printing tables with std::format and C++20" - Bartlomiej Filipek
• "C++20 Formatting Library, Parts 1. 2 and 3" - Gajendra Gulgulia
• "Decreasing the Number of Memory Accesses, 1/2" - Ivica Bogosavljevic
• using std::cpp (conference in Madrid)

Links

• MUC++ (The Munich C++ User Group)
• ComicSansMs - Andreas on StackOverflow
• The EU's Cyber Resilience Act
• "Why not simply implement borrow checking in C++?" - Sean Baxter on Twitter
• P2771R0 - "Towards memory safety in C++"
• "Rust Safety is not superior to C++" - Bjarne Stroustrup
• P2739R0 - "A call to action: Think seriously about 'safety'; then do something sensible about it"
• P2759R1 - "DG Opinion on safety for ISO C++"
• P2723R1 - "Zero-initialize objects of automatic storage duration"
• D2795R0 - "Correct and incorrect code, and 'erroneous behaviour'"
• P2809R0 - "Trivial infinite loops are not Undefined Behavior"
• MISRA