This video gives you a quick introduction to the RAD Studio and C++Builder IDE for quickly building beautiful Windows apps with C++. Eli M. walks you through how to set up both VCL and FireMonkey projects while going through some of the key IDE features. C++Builder is a rapid application development environment, originally developed by Borland and as of 2009 owned by Embarcadero Technologies, for…
Learn C++ With Closing the Gap between Rust and C++ Using Principles of Static Analysis by Sunny Chatterjee (CppCon 2020) Video
November 27, 2020
The safety benefits of Rust language are commonly familiar for C++ developers. In the system programming languages, both Rust and C++ perform in high quality. However, customers and security researchers say that C++ is more secure when it comes to safety and correctness.
Learn C++ With Template Metaprogramming: Type Traits by Jodi Haggins (CPPCon 2020) Video
November 26, 2020
Template metaprogramming can be very broad. However, fundamental idioms exist and can be found useful with the modern C++ code. This video focuses on applying type traits from the standard library, as having knowledge in the fundamental idioms of template metaprogramming can…
There are two kinds of if statements in modern C++: runtime if and compile-time if constexpr.
Runtime if looks like:
if (condition) statement-true
if (condition) statement-true else statement-false
In both forms of above if the result of condition yields to true, then statement-true is executed. Otherwise (in the second form of above) the statement-false is…
Learn The Initialization Of Class Objects By Rvalues When Building Windows Apps In C++
November 25, 2020
C++Builder includes the use of rvalue references, which allow creating a reference to temporaries. When you initialize to an class object using an rvalue(a temporary object), C++11 looks to see if you have defined a move constructor in your class. If you have, the temporary…
Learn About Using Right Angle Brackets In This C++11 Feature For Windows Development
November 25, 2020
In the Clang-enhanced C++ compilers, two consecutive right angle brackets no longer generate an error, and these constructions are treated according to the C++11 standard.
C++03’s parser defines “>>” as the right shift operator or stream extraction…
Learn C++ With Back to Basics: The Abstract Machine by Bob Streagall (CPPCon 2020) Video
November 23, 2020
The C++ abstract machine is commonly unknown to many programmers. This video introduces the C++ abstract machine; how it is relative to the C++ language and how it affects our perception with coding in C++. If you are only discovering about the C++ abstract at the moment…
auto-typed variables is a C++11 feature that allows the programmer to declare a variable of type auto, the type itself being deduced from the variable’s initializer expression. The auto keyword is treated as a simple type specifier (that can be used with * and &)…
Learn About Using C++ rvalue References In The C++Builder BCC32 Compiler
October 31, 2020
BCC32, which is the classic C++Builder 32 bit compiler, includes the use of rvalue references, which allow creating a reference to temporaries. Also, rvalue references avoid unnecessary copying and make possible perfect forwarding functions. This feature is one of the C++11 features.
Rvalue references are a compound type like standard C++ references, which are referred to as lvalue references.
