Effective Modern C++

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Coming to grips with C++11 and C++14 is more than a matter of familiarizing yourself with the features they introduce (e.g., auto type declarations, move semantics, lambda expressions, and concurrency support). The challenge is learning to use those features effectively - so that your software is correct, efficient, maintainable, and…

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Arthur O'Dwyer

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Scott Meyers' Effective C++ series was insanely influential around the turn of the millennium. Then C++11 obsoleted almost the whole series by changing the language out from under it. This book—Scott Meyers' last, as of 2024—is the only one that remains relevant to today's C++. It assumes the reader is reasonably familiar with C++98, and then explains smart pointers, move semantics, perfect forwarding, std::initializer_list, decltype and auto, and many other "modern C++" features, in Meyers' trademark item-oriented format, which is easily digestible and quotable.

The past decade of C++ standardization has added plenty of things that this book doesn't mention;…

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