modern-cpp-features VS dmd

Just go through this https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features and you should be fine.

If you also like thorough explanations and graphs, there's https://hackingcpp.com/ that could answer many questions you might have.

By the way, just in case, bookmark this online C++ reference https://eel.is/c++draft/ for diving in deep waters.

Good luck!

I'm a little 10 years out from writing C++ professionally and I found this cheat sheet[0] useful. Basically if you have an inkling of the concept you're looking for, just search on that cheat sheet to find the relevant new C++ thing. Specifically for me, we used Boost for smart pointers which are now part of the stdlib, and threads are now part of the stdlib as well.

[0] https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features

A more productive way to go about it would be to ask "What are the features in each version of C++ past C++11 that I should care about the most?" instead. In that case you could take a look at things like https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features and https://github.com/mortennobel/cpp-cheatsheet, see what appeals to you, ignore what does not.

Looks like there's a version history here

As someone suggested cppcon and c++ talks, also I would reccomend reading this: https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features and all things in the papers section in this: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support

I've already done a bit of research which has led me to the The Definitive C++ Book Guide & List. From that, I've decided to go over The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) to learn C++11 and then this GitHub repo to learn the remaining C++14/17/20 features.

clickable:

"Welcome back to C++ - Modern C++" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/welcome-back-to-cp...

"21 New Features of Modern C++ to Use in Your Project" http://www.vishalchovatiya.com/21-new-features-of-modern-cpp...

"What is modern C++"? https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp_questions/comments/tgs6ir/what_...

"C++ is the next C++" https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2022/p26...

"modern c++ features" https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features

C++ 23 to introduce module support "https://www.infoworld.com/article/3662808/c-plus-plus-23-to-..."

"C++ 2023" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B23

Here's the pipeline spitting out the same error as on my macbook did.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/actions/runs/8023469412/job/219...

Not completely on topic (if you read TFA) but my favorite Git commit is by compiler badass and HN frequenter, where he checks in an entire C compiler to the D language repo:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/12507

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27102584

A new generated code alone is 4000 lines long [1]. The actual code added is just 2000 lines, and some are used to pay debts, I mean, to make a proper code generator (which can be alternatively written in a simpler scripting langauge). In any case it is never comparable to the entier C parser proper.

[1] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/15307/files#diff-3677bcc89...

D is completely opensource already (https://github.com/dlang/dmd). The "open" of OpenD is just ADR saying that OpenD will be more open to new language features than D has historically been.

The reference compiler, DMD, is open source: https://github.com/dlang/dmd

But they don't accept just any Pull Request or features the community submits, understandably. There's a process called DIP for language improvements: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/README.md

However, by some accounts, it's really hard to get anything through.

Given D already has so many feature, I find that to be a good thing , to be honest, by not everyone agrees, of course.