C++ is one of the most popular and widely used programming languages, and it has been that way for three decades. Designed with a focus on performance, efficiency, and flexibility, C++ combines paradigms such as object-oriented, imperative, generic, and functional programming. C++ is standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and has undergone massive changes over the last decade and a half. With the standardization of C++11, the language has entered a new age, which has been widely referred to as modern C++. Type inference, move semantics, lambda expressions, smart pointers, uniform initialization, variadic templates, and many other recent features have changed the way we write code in C++ to the point that it almost looks like a new programming language. This change has been further advanced with the release of C++20, which includes many new changes to the language, such as modules, concepts, and coroutines, as well as changes to the standard library, such as ranges, text formatting, and calendars. And now, the language is moving even further with more changes introduced in C++23 and the upcoming C++26.
This book addresses many of the new features included in C++11, C++14, C++17, C++20, and C++23. This book is organized into recipes, each covering one particular language or library feature, or a common problem that developers often face and the typical solution to it using modern C++. Through more than 150 recipes, you will learn to master both core language features and the standard libraries; including those for strings, containers, algorithms, iterators, streams, regular expressions, threads, filesystem, atomic operations, utilities, and ranges.
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C++ is one of the most popular and widely used programming languages, and it has been that way for three decades. Designed with a focus on performance, efficiency, and flexibility, C++ combines paradigms such as object-oriented, imperative, generic, and functional programming. C++ is standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and has undergone massive changes over the last decade and a half. With the standardization of C++11, the language has entered a new age, which has been widely referred to as modern C++. Type inference, move semantics, lambda expressions, smart pointers, uniform initialization, variadic templates, and many other recent features have changed the way we write code in C++ to the point that it almost looks like a new programming language. This change has been further advanced with the release of C++20, which includes many new changes to the language, such as modules, concepts, and coroutines, as well as changes to the standard library, such as ranges, text formatting, and calendars. And now, the language is moving even further with more changes introduced in C++23 and the upcoming C++26.
This book addresses many of the new features included in C++11, C++14, C++17, C++20, and C++23. This book is organized into recipes, each covering one particular language or library feature, or a common problem that developers often face and the typical solution to it using modern C++. Through more than 150 recipes, you will learn to master both core language features and the standard libraries; including those for strings, containers, algorithms, iterators, streams, regular expressions, threads, filesystem, atomic operations, utilities, and ranges.