Vocabulary types for composite class design

We're back! After a bit of a break from online meet-ups, we're back for our first in-person event in London for 2.5 years!

We're really pleased to have Jonathan Coe for our main talk, as well as a handful of short, 10 minute, talks as appetisers.

We're being hosted by G-Research, who will also be providing free pizza and drinks (beer and soft). They had meant to be hosting our last in-person meet-up in 2020, before it was cancelled as the pandemic closed in. So it's appropriate that we pick up our journey where we left off!

Agenda:

18:50 "Intro, welcome back, and news" - Phil Nash

19:00 Short talks (10 mins each):

• "What just got voted in to C++23" - Timur Doumler
• "What might come after C++?" - Phil Nash
• "sCi++ : Why I'm Still Using C++ for Science in 2022" - Tobias Wood

19:30 "Vocabulary types for composite class design" - Jonathan Coe

I will present two new classes, polymorphic_value and indirect_ value, which make writing component based classes easier and correct.

20:30 Sharp exit and socialising elsewhere

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About the speaker:

Jonathan Coe is a software developer who has used C++ for around 14 years.
He has worked in the financial, and energy industries and has written software for AI research.
He's interested in language interop and making programming more accessible without cost.