Most people think that they know C++ which is used in production level as they are taught C++ in their syllabus of their university/college. But they mostly do not know what standard of C++ they are taught. They are taught C++ 89 i.e. CFront 2.0. Students are told to use Turbo C++ as IDE to learn C++ in university because it is or was a great IDE in it's age. As the academic syllabus takes a lot of time to change and people don't know that it is outdated mostly trend to learn old coding styles and deprecated features.
What is Modern C++?
Modern C++ stands for C++ that is based on C++11, C++14, and C++17 C++20 and future versions.
With C++11 we had a revolution. That revolutions became with C++14 and will become with C++17 to an evolution. An overview on the time line of C++ features which makes my point clear.
Modern C++ not only enhances the usability of the C++ itself, but the modification of the auto keyword semantics gives more confidence in manipulating extremely complex template types. At the same time, a lot of enhancements have been made to the language at runtime. The emergence of Lambda expressions has made C++ have the "closure" feature of "anonymous functions", which is almost in modern programming languages (such as Python/Swift/.. It has become commonplace, and the emergence of rvalue references has solved the problem of temporary object efficiency that C++ has long been criticized for.
Deprecated Features
- The string literal constant is no longer allowed to be assigned to a
char *. If you need to assign and initialize achar *with a string literal constant, you should useconst char *orauto.
char *str = "hello world!"; // A deprecation warning will appear
C++98
exception description,unexpected_handler,set_unexpected()and other related features are deprecated and should usenoexcept.auto_ptris deprecated andunique_ptrshould be used.registerkeyword is deprecated and can be used but no longer has any practical meaning.boolcan no longer be incrementedIf a class has a
destructor, the properties for which it generates copy constructors and copy assignment operators are deprecated.C language style type conversion is deprecated (ie using (convert_type)) before variables, and
static_cast,reinterpret_cast,const_castshould be used for type conversion.In particular, some of the C standard libraries that can be used are now deprecated in the latest C++ standard, such as
<ccomplex>,<cstdalign>,<cstdbool>and<ctgmath>.Many more that I cannot remember.
Resources of learning Modern C++
- AwesomePerfCpp
- Modern C++ Book
- Best Practices
- Awesome Modern C++
- Modern C++ Tutorials
- Iso C++
- 30 Seconds of C++
- C++ Preference
List of Posts made by me
Github
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Modern C++ Series
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Top comments (5)
I chuckled a little at
bool can no longer be incremented!Part of me really wants to know the backstory to that and why (if purposefully) that was ever possible!
hhh, I did too and was wondering if anyone posted a comment on that. And yes I was not alone :D
Just to say, that Turbo C was the ugliest IDE and to be honest I dislike it. I use gcc and g++ to compile code what kind of IDE or Environment do you prefer?
g++ and VSCode for me
Heads up! I have updated the main post and I will continue my series when C++ 20 is out because there are gonna be many new features and major changes. Hope you are looking forward to it!