Growing a Smart Pointer

We have the great please to welcome Patrice Roy to our user group. Patrice has been playing with C++, either professionally, for pleasure or (most of the time) both for over 25 years. After a few years doing R&D and working on military flight simulators, he moved on to academics and has been teaching computer science since 1998. Since 2005, he’s been involved more specifically in helping graduate students and professionals from the fields of real-time systems and game programming develop the skills they need to face today’s challenges. The rapid evolution of C++ in recent years has made his job even more enjoyable. He’s been a participating member in the ISO C++ Standards Committee since late 2014 and has been involved with the ISO Programming Language Vulnerabilities Committee since late 2015.

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Abstract:
C++ offers a small set of 'smart' pointers, each of them encoding a set of rules and responsibilities in a type, overall making code generally simpler to reason about, safer to use and better documented.

There are some niches for 'smart' pointers that have not been covered by standard utilities. In this talk, we will write a type that fills one of these niches.

Along the way, we will discuss various technical and philosophical implications to our homemade type, and we will end up with something that's actually useful in practice. Because, well... why not?

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Schedule:
19:00 (CET) -- Start of the videostream