Exploring C++11: A look at the new language and library features

by Gavin Baker gavinb@antonym.org

This source repository contains a series of sample programs designed to illustrate some of the major new features of C++11. It constitutes the complete set of source files to accompany the articles posted at:

http://antonym.org/blog/categories/cplusplus11

Motivation

Once drafts of the C++11 specification became widely available, numerous articles were published discussing the proposed new features. It became clear that this standards update was the most significant yet. C++11 introduces a raft of new language features, as well as sweeping changes and major new additions to the standard library.

I decided that reading about the new features wasn't enough; I had to use them, write lots of new code, experiment, and write up notes on the experience. That is the best way to really learn something new - theory followed by lots of practice. This series of articles is a distillation of this process, published here in the hope that it might be useful for others.

Topics

The subfolders herein contain code illustrating the following areas:

smart_pointers: modern memory management
threads: multithreading and concurrency
async: asynchronous processing with futures and promises
chrono: simple time point and duration support
regex: regular expressions
string: numeric conversions

Each has a brief explanation, and a Makefile to build the samples.

Compatibility

This code has been tested on Mac OS X and Linux using the clang and gcc toolchains. It should work on Windows with a suitably standards-conformant compiler. Every effort has been made to ensure the code is portable, and to avoid using any platform-specific features.

Licenses

The text, explanations and relevant blog posts are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

To the extent that there exists any originality, the example source files are published under the MIT license (the simplest and most permissive):

http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Feedback

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions for improvement, please feel free to drop me an email, or even send me a patch.

-- Melbourne, Summer 2014

gavinb/cplusplus11

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