Join us for an evening where we'll be discussing all things C++, Part III

We have two international speakers lined up for our May Meetup.

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Boris Schäling will be flying in from Amsterdam who is the author of "The Boost C++ Libraries" and an experienced speaker at C++ Now in the US and Meeting C++ in Europe.

The evolving search for modern APIs in Boost

The talk will uncover the goals and guidelines of modern APIs in Boost. We will look closely at the evolution of the API in [Boost.]Process - a process management library under development since 2006 (brackets because it's still not yet an official Boost library). We will examine how the API changed over time, what the underlying reasons were, and what and how C++ language constructs and libraries helped to improve the API. We get a glimpse at the challenges faced, the discussions led by Boost developers and what trade-offs have to be considered when moving forward.

Our second talker is Diego Rodriguez-Losada, the co-founder of startup biicode.

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Conan.io C/C++ package manager

All programming languages have a dependency/package manager but C/C++. This talk will present a new FOSS project, called http://conan.io C/C++ package manager, trying to fill this gap. Conan takes all the lessons learnt from the previous failed attempt (biicode) and builds from scratch a new, very different approach: decentralized and also managing binaries. The talk will describe such system, both from the consumer and package creator points of view, with real usage examples and live demos.

On the night, IMC will be sponsoring a Raspberry Pi 3 Starter Kit. To get your hands on this, take a creative photo and tag #imcasiapacific on Instagram or tag @IMCAsiaPacific on Twitter.

Preacta have also teamed up with JetBrains to offer a couple of CLion 1-year subscriptions. More details to be released on this shortly.

This is gearing up to be a special event and we will hopefully see you there.

N.B. We have a limited capacity of 100 for this event, so please update your availability before the Meetup to ensure everyone who wants to attend, can attend. As the space is in a secured building, we cannot have any +1's for the event, unfortunately.