Episode #7 - June 2021

This month we reflect on text formating, compile times, the C++23 schedule, a round-up of tools news, and what C can do that C++ can't!

Standards news includes if consteval, starts_with and ends_with and preventing std::strings from being constructed from nullptr.

Links from this episode:

• C++ Annotated - June 2021 - If you prefer the same material in blog form
• C++ on Sea
• CPPP - Call for speakers, open
• CppCon - Call for speakers, open, registration open, keynotes announced
• A quest for safe text formatting API - About type safe text formating in {fmt} and std::format
• C++ Library Include Times (CPP-LIT 🔥) - This repo answers the question: how much time is added to my compile time by a single inclusion of <header>?
• Herb's ISO plenary trip report
• Priorities for C++23
• Schedule for C++23
• P1933: if consteval
• P1659: starts_with and ends_with
• P2166: A Proposal to Prohibit std::basic_string and std::basic_string_view construction from nullptr
• CLion 2021.2 - Many Debugger Updates and Fixes for CMake Presets
• ReSharper C++ 2021.2 EAP - Inline Function Refactoring, Modernizing Inspections, Faster Clang-Tidy
• SonarLint plug-in for CLion - Detect Code Quality and Code Security issues on the fly in CLion
• PVS-Studio plug-in for CLion
• Switching to Clang Improved PVS-Studio C++ Analyzer's Performance
• What can C do that C++ can't? - Reddit thread