Bjarne Stroustrup Announces the C++ Core Guidelines

alphabetsoup writes: At CppCon this year, Bjarne Stroustrup announced the C++ Core Guidelines. The guidelines are designed to help programmers write safe-by-default C++ with no run-time overhead. Compilers will statically check the code to ensure no violations. A library is available now, with a static checking tool to follow in October.

Here is the video of the talk, and here are the slides.The guidelines themselves are here.

Comments

Sad, really

[jandersen]

I think it is sad, looking around on the responses so far, to see, yet again, that the overwhelming response to this is to jeer at anything that is beyond people's comprehension. I guess what it boils down to is, that far too many who call themselves coders can't be bothered to sit down and work out a detailed plan before barging ahead. You get nothing but trouble from OOP if you think in terms of simple scripts, and that is particularly true of C++.