Using Types to Save Your Code's Future

Sponsor: The Exploration Company GmbH (https://www.exploration.space)

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On June 24th, we have the great pleasure to again welcome Björn Fahller to our user group. Björn is a senior developer at Net Insight, where he is currently coordinating the technical work of teams developing electronics, FPGA, embedded software, distributed control systems and web applications. He is keen on improving the skills of the teams he works in, by learning, and by sharing knowledge. Björn has worked full time with software development since 1994, mostly for networking products, and primarily in C++. He has also created the popular open source C++ libraries, Trompeloeil for mocking, and strong_type for type safety.

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Abstract: Using Types to Save Your Code's Future

One tool for making success more likely when someone who is unfamiliar with your code makes changes to it, is the type system. This is not only about type safety, but you can also use types to guide the programmer in the right direction, or at the very least make mistakes less likely to compile.

I will show some examples found in real world code, where usage of types would have made later evolution easier.

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Agenda:
18:30 CEST: Reception and welcome with food and drinks
19:30 CEST: Welome note by the MUC++ organizers
19:35 CEST: Lightning talk by Gautam Ghosh ("Documenting C++ with AI")
20:00 CEST: Main talk by Björn Fahller (TBA)
21:00 CEST: Q&A
21:30 CEST: Official end