Santa Clara: New standards to the rescue — the view through the IDE's glasses

This month, thanks to Anastasia's being in town for GDC (http://www.gdconf.com), we have a bonus Thursday meetup in Santa Clara!

We often talk about how new language features can help developers to write more accurate and concise code. There is another type of discussion to be had on how tools help leverage language issues and support developers. How about quite a third perspective? Which is about how language can help tools to do better.

As C++ tools vendors, we are used to sharing our experience with C++ language trickiness and peculiarities, including preprocessor and non-trivial parsing. It's time now to talk about upcoming language changes as viewed through the IDE’s glasses.

In this talk I'll identify the most important issues with the language from the IDE's perspective and show how new language standards, as well as other initiatives like C++ Core Guidelines, are helpful and beneficial to IDEs. I'll cover a variety of features from "if constexpr" to Concepts and Modules, as well as std2 and some other initiatives that are no more than proposals at this point. Come and see the language from our perspective.

As a C and C++ software developer, Anastasia Kazakova created real-time *nix-based systems and pushed them to production for 8 years. She has a passion for networking algorithms and embedded programming and believes in good tooling. With all her love for C++, she is now the Product Marketing Manager on the JetBrains CLion team. Anastasia also runs a C++ user group in Saint Petersburg, Russia (https://www.meetup.com/St-Petersburg-CPP-User-Group/).

This meetup will be hosted at NVIDIA's new global headquarters. You can't miss it - it's the gigantic triangular-shaped building at the intersection of San Tomas and Walsh. There is a parking garage under the building that you can use if you're driving. If you have trouble entering the building, call Bryce Adelstein Lelbach at 510-890-9323.

The talk will begin at 7:00PM. We'll be ready for people as early as 6:00PM.