This article summarizes work that was done to make GCC 8 more usable by providing easier to understand warning and error messages. Many of these improvements will help you quickly recognize those common silly mistakes.

Lambdas are one of the totally new addition to C++11 and has changed the way we write the code in C++. Any modern C++ code is incomplete…

Short list of things to watch out for when using C++

Last month a large contingent from the Microsoft C++ team attended CppCon. We gave fourteen presentations covering our tools, developments in the standard, concepts which underlie the work we do, and more. We also recorded an episode of CppCast with Microsoft…

FallFury is an open source 2D game for Windows 8. You are playing as a bear that falls down from the sky, collecting buttons, avoiding obstacles and fighting monsters. This project demonstrates the ca

I was recently reminded of why I think it’s a bad idea to teach beginners C++. It’s a bad idea because it is an objective mess—albeit a beautiful, twisted, tragic, wondrous mess. Despite the current state of the community, this post is not a polemic against…

'Best approximation of C++ ideals so far,' says Stroustrup - but is it too big and complex?

A convenient way to define a functor that can help us to simplify the code.

C++ has surpassed Java and may soon eclipse C, according to the Tiobe index of programming language popularity. Cobol is back in the top 20.

Herb Sutter, Convener of the ISO/IEC C++ Technical Committee, reports that C++ 26 will have new features including […]