CppCon 2020

As C++20 brings new features for C++ programmers at all levels of experience, so does our last year of work on Visual Studio and MSVC. New versions of the IDE have brought new productivity features and experience improvements for all developers, no matter what platforms they are targeting. Our open source standard library has seen contributions from across the C++ ecosystem, improving in conformance and performance. We've been hard at work on key C++20 compiler features like Concepts. We're also working on bold new ways of working on C++ projects with cloud environments.

Come along to hear about all of these as well as announcements about the future of our tools.

Do you contribute to open-source projects or share projects with coworkers and classmates? In this talk, you’ll learn how optimize Visual Studio Code for collaborative, cross-platform C++ development. This talk will cover recommended tools and extensions for collaborative, cross-platform development, diving deep into the C++ extension, the CMake Tools extension, the GitHub Pull Requests and Issues extension, and the Live Share extension.

During this session, we’ll build and submit a PR to an open-source CMake project in Visual Studio Code, interacting with GitHub pull requests and issues directly in the editor. You’ll also learn how to create Live Share sessions for an nontraditional pair programming experience, where you can work together while retaining personal editor preferences as well as having your own cursor. Throughout the demo, we’ll showcase Visual Studio Code’s rich, productive editing and debugging features for C++ development.

Jussi has requested a Birds of a Feather meeting for attendees interested in Meson.

Please meet at Table 2 in the AMA Room.

Note that this table only holds eight participants. If you see that the table is full and you are just lurking, please consider surrendering your seat to another attendee.

Attendees interested in discussing Meson and other tools, can join the discussion channel at #sig_tooling.

Rob has requested a Birds of a Feather meeting for attendees interested in Build Systems.

Please meet at Table 2 in the AMA Room and then overflow into tables 3, 4, etc. as necessary.

Note that each table only holds eight participants.

Attendees interested in discussing build systems and other tools, can join the discussion channel at #sig_tooling.

The rise of remote work and the growth of team sizes present a challenge for C++ developers. Many C++ projects have complex hardware and software requirements, making onboarding of new team members and productive coding from home harder than they need to be. We need tools to ease configuration of your team's development environments and grant them access to the processing power they need from wherever they are in the world.

This presentation will show how Codespaces can use the power and flexibility of the cloud to address these issues. Codespaces give you the ability to quickly create a managed online development environment specific to your project that you can access from anywhere. We'll look at the problems which hit C++ developers particularly hard, like long build times and dependency management. Finally, we'll show the tool in action to give you a feel for how your teams could leverage it, and more broadly get you to think about what parts of your team's development process can be streamlined.

Mark has requested a Birds of a Feather meeting for attendees interested Bazel builds.

We will hold this BoF in a Zoom meeting.

Topic: Bazel Builds BoF
Time: Sep 17, 2020 05:00 PM LondonJoin Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/93200206644?pwd=V3lzSG1Ybm5BODlZYWZsQnlEZFh2UT09

Meeting ID: 932 0020 6644
Passcode: 346349

Attendees interested in discussing Bazel builds and other tools, can join the discussion channel at #sig_tooling.