“New standards to the rescue: the view through an IDE’s glasses”
summary
IDE vendors report a hard correctness vs performance tradeoff when parsing real C++: a 9,000-developer survey shows mixed standard adoption and slow migration to newer features. The talk demonstrates how if constexpr collapses multiple overload-resolution paths into one resolvable body, how Concepts let tools cache and suggest API contracts, how modules remove context-dependent header reparse pain, why metaclasses force IDE-driven code generation, and how Clang-tidy and Core Guidelines power automated modernization.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 0:46IDE reality and challenges
- 5:29Developer survey results
- 6:29C++ syntax complexities
- 8:55The parsing challenge
- 9:24Tooling for new standards
- 28:01Q&A and closing
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