C++ Today: The Beast is Back

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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. The Nature of the Beast
	C⁠+⁠+: What’s It Good For?
		High-Level Abstractions at Low Cost
		Low-Level Access When You Need It
		Wide Range of Applicability
		Highly Portable
		Better Resource Management
		Industry Dominance
Chapter 2. The Origin Story
	C: Portable Assembler
	C with High-Level Abstractions
	The ’90s: The OOP Boom, and a Beast Is Born
	The 2000s: Java, the Web, and the Beast Nods Off
Chapter 3. The Beast Wakes
	Technology Evolution: Performance Still Matters
	Language Evolution: Modernizing C⁠+⁠+
	Tools Evolution: The Clang Toolkit
	Library Evolution: The Open Source Advantage
Chapter 4. The Beast Roars Back
	WG21
	Tools
	Standard C⁠+⁠+ Foundation
	Boost: A Library and Organization
	Q&A
	Conferences and Groups
	Videos
	CppCast
	Books
Chapter 5. Digging Deep on Modern C⁠+⁠+
	Type Inference: Auto and Decltype
	How Move Semantics Support Value-Semantic and Functional Programming
	No More Output Parameters
	Inner Functions with Lambdas
	Lambdas as a Scope with a Return Value
Chapter 6. The Future of C⁠+⁠+
	Setting the Standard
	“Never Make Predictions, Especially About the Future” (Casey Stengel)
		Performance
		New Platforms
		Scale
		Software Ubiquity
		Powerful Tools
Bibliography
About the Authors