mincore / awesome-modern-cpp

A collection of resources on modern C++

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Awesome Modern C++

A collection of resources on modern C++.

The goal is to collect a list of resouces to help people learn about and leverage modern C++11 and beyond.

Contributing

To add, remove or change things on the list: please submit a pull request to the GitHub repository.

Best Practices

• Consider the C++ Core Guidelines.
• Never manually format code, use clang-format.
• Build your code using CMake.
• Test your code using Catch.
• Also test using sanitized builds: AddressSanitizer, ThreadSanitizer and MemorySanitizer.
• Use a fuzzer to test untrusted input: afl, libFuzzer, KLEE.

Books

• The C++ Programming Language (Bjarne Stroustrup) [C++11]
• Effective Modern C++ (Scott Meyers) [C++11/14]
• Overview of the New C++ (Scott Meyers) [C++11/14]
• C++ Core Guidelines (Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter) [C++11/14/17] - Guidelines for using modern C++.
• C++ Concurrency in Action (Anthony Williams) [C++11/14/17] - Using the C++ Concurrency Library

For a comprehensive guide to C++ books see the Stackoverflow Definitive C++ Book Guide and List.

Blogs

• Andrzej's C++ blog - Guidelines and thoughts about C++.
• C++ Hints - Common mistakes and their solutions.
• Embedded in Academia - John Regehr, Professor of Computer Science, University of Utah, USA.
• Eric Niebler
• Guru of the Week (new posts) - A regular series of C++ programming problems created and written by Herb Sutter.
• Guru of the Week (older posts) - Older Guru of the Week posts.
• Marshall's C++ Musings
• Paul Fultz II's Blog
• Preshing on Programming
• Simplify C++ - Write clean and maintainable C++.
• Sticky Bits - A blog looking at developing software for real-time and embedded systems.
• Sutter's Mill - Herb Sutter on software development.
• The View from Aristeia -Scott Meyers' Professional Activities and Interests.
• Visual C++ Team Blog
• Why is a raven like a writing desk?
• Anthony Williams' blog

Conferences

• ACCU - The Conference for Developers.
• C++ Now - A gathering of C++ experts and enthusiasts.
• CppCon - The C++ Conference.
• Meeting C++ - A independent C++ Conference.

Libraries

This is not supposed to be a comprehensive list of all C and C++ libraries. It is a list of high-quality modern libraries with general applicability (serialization, database, testing, etc) or high-quality libraries with novel use of new C++ features.

• autocheck - QuickCheck and SmallCheck clones for C++.
• Bandit - A header-only framework for C++11 that wants to make working with unit tests a pleasant experience.
• Beast - HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11
• Boost.Hana - Your standard library for metaprogramming.
• Boost - Collection of C++ libraries.
• C++ Format - Small, safe and fast formatting library for C++.
• CAF - An Open Source Implementation of the Actor Model in C++.
• Catch - A modern, C++-native, header-only, framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD.
• doctest - The lightest feature rich C++ single header testing framework.
• cereal - A C++11 library for serialization.
• ChaiScript - An easy to use embedded scripting language for C++.
• Cinder - Cinder is a free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.
• cpptoml - A header-only library for parsing TOML configuration files.
• cppitertools - itertools (python) implementation for C++14
• cpr - C++ Requests: Curl for People, a spiritual port of Python Requests.
• Crow - Crow is very fast and easy to use C++ micro web framework.
• cxxopts - Lightweight C++ command line option parser.
• docopt.cpp - docopt creates beautiful command-line interfaces.
• date - A date and time library based on the C++11/14/17 header
• fixed_size_function - Fixed size function wrapper like std::function.
• Folly - Facebook Open-source Library.
• iod - Meta programming utilities for C++14.
• json - JSON for Modern C++.
• jsoncpp - A C++ library for interacting with JSON.
• Junction - Concurrent data structures in C++.
• mongo-cxx-driver - C++ Driver for MongoDB.
• mstch - A implementation of Mustache templates using modern C++.
• Mustache - Mustache text templates in C++11.
• Nonius - A C++ micro-benchmarking framework.
• PEGTL - Parsing Expression Grammar Template Library (C++11, header-only).
• pistache - An elegant C++ REST framework.
• pybind11 - Seamless operability between C++11 and Python.
• random - A simple, convenient, header only Random for modern C++.
• rang - A simple, modern & header only C++11 library for colors in your terminal.
• range-v3 - Experimental range library for C++11/14/17.
• rapidcheck - QuickCheck clone for C++.
• redox - Modern, asynchronous, and wicked fast C++11 client for Redis.
• simple_match - Simple header only pattern matching for c++14.
• sol2 - C++ library binding to Lua.
• sqlite3pp - C++ wrapper of SQLite3 API.
• sqlite_orm - powerful header only SQLite3 ORM library for C++14
• sqlpp11 - A type safe SQL template library for C++.
• tinyformat.h - Minimal, type safe printf replacement library for C++.
• tinytoml -A header only C++11 library for parsing TOML.
• tweeny - A header only interpolation library with 30+ easing functions.
• Vireo - A lightweight and versatile video processing library by Twitter.
• yaml-cpp - A YAML parser and emitter in C++.
• ASAP - header-only library to parse, display, operate and iterate on dates.

Websites

• C++ Questions Subreddit - A great place to get help.
• C++ Samples - A repository of modern C++ samples.
• C++ Subreddit - Discussions, articles, and news about the C++ programming language.
• C++ Super-FAQ - The C++ Super-FAQ.
• C++ reference - C++ reference.
• C++11 FAQ
• CppCast - The only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers.
• Stackoverflow C++11
• Stackoverflow C++14
• Stackoverflow C++
• The C++ Programming Language - News, Status & Discussion about Standard C++.

Talks

• CppCon Talks - Talks from the C++ Conference.
• CppCon 2014: Bjarne Stroustrup "Make Simple Tasks Simple!"
• CppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Lock-Free Programming (or, Juggling Razor Blades), Part I"
• CppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Lock-Free Programming (or, Juggling Razor Blades), Part II"
• CppCon 2014: Scott Meyers "Type Deduction and Why You Care"
• CppCon 2015: Bjarne Stroustrup "Writing Good C++14"
• CppCon 2015: Herb Sutter "Writing Good C++14... By Default"
• CppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “Garbage In, Garbage Out: Arguing about Undefined Behavior..."
• CppCon 2016: Herb Sutter "Leak-Freedom in C++... By Default."
• CppCon 2017: Jason Turner "Practical C++17"
• code::dive conference 2014 - Scott Meyers: Cpu Caches and Why You Care (slides)
• code::dive conference 2015 - Andrei Alexandrescu - Writing Fast Code I (slides)
• code::dive conference 2015 - Andrei Alexandrescu - Writing Fast Code II (slides)
• C++Now Talks - Talks from the C++Now conference.
• Going Native 2012: Variadic Templates are Funadic
• Going Native 2013: Stephan T Lavavej - "Don't Help the Compiler"

Tools

• American fuzzy lop - American fuzzy lop is a security-oriented fuzzer.
• cget - CMake package retrieval.
• clang-format - A tool to format C++ code.
• clang-tidy - A clang-based C++ "linter" and static analysis tool.
• CMake - Cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software.
• Compiler Explorer - Interactively explore the assembly output of your C++ code.
• conan - C/C++ package manager.
• cppcheck - Static analysis of C/C++ code.
• C++ Archive Network - CPPAN - Cross-platform C/C++ package manager.
• Hunter - Cross-platform package manager for C++.
• irony-mode - A C/C++ minor mode for Emacs powered by libclang.
• modern-cpp-font-lock-mode - Syntax highlighting support for Modern C++ with emacs

About

This list was compiled by Erik Rigtorp with help from the C++ community:

• rigtorp.se
• [email protected]
• github.com/rigtorp
• twitter.com/rigtorp
• linkedin.com/in/rigtorp