I was able to attend C++ and Beyond 2011 and it was a tremendous experience. I captured some great footage from the event for C9, like this end-of-last-day panel - Ask Us Anything - with Scott, Andrei and Herb. Great questions and excellent answers. This is the third and final panel from C&B 2011 to air on C9. The other two panels: C++11 and Concurrency and Parallelism - are very well worth your time if you haven't had a chance to watch/listen to them yet.



Thanks Andrei Alexandrescu, Scott Meyers and Herb Sutter for putting on such a great event for C++ developers and for allowing Channel 9 to broadcast some of it. I am so thrilled to learn that C++ and Beyond 2012 will take place August 5-8, 2012! I encourage you to attend (I know I'll be there!). It will be well worth your (and your company's) time. The way I think about C&B is: Mind-bending C++ content that's also practical, presented by industry experts who are very engaging, passionate about C++ and very approachable. The folks in attendance are stellar native developers from around the world, employing C++ in a variety of contexts.

Make sure to check out all the C&B 2011 content we're lucky enough to have on C9

Enjoy! Learn! Go native!



Table of Contents (click on the time links to jump directly to the question/topic referenced):

[00:10] On strings, UTF-8 vs UTF-16, etc...

[03:08] How does the ISO C++ standards committee work?

[04:34] On shared_ptr performance and correctness

[11:30] What C++ work do you guys do outside of your real jobs?

[14:51] Implementations of atomic...

[17:07] Memory consistency model...

[22:13] Favorite C++11 features...

[24:23] What's next for the standard's committee?

[25:55] How to convince your company it's OK to use templates now (C++11)...

[28:30] Favorite feature that's not in the C++11 standard...

[30:44] What's the deal with systematic and principled thread termination and program termination?

[36:22] Concepts...

[36:55] What's going on with constexpr?

[41:51] When will we see Effective/Exceptional C++ books for C++11?