Five bloggers have teamed up around the world to deliver an April Fool's joke to readers about eliminating pointers. The response to the five articles was huge and ranged from "it took so long" to "that can not be true".  Here again the truths, half-truths and untruths: No New New: Raw Pointers Removed from C++.  You can even read this post in German or in Russian. 

Two weeks ago, the ISO C++ standard meeting took place in Jacksonville.  Today I want to make a short detour and write about the revolutionary decision that was made in the Jacksonville meeting. Additionally, I refer to the post C++ Will no Longer Have Pointers by Fluent C++. The standard committee decided that pointers will be deprecated in C++20 and will with very high probability be removed in C++23.

Just updated: The C++ Standard Library: What every professional C++ programmer should know about the C++ standard library.

Do you want to reach the next C++ level? Here are my open C++ seminars in the first half of 2018.

• Embedded Programming with C++: 16.01 - 18.01
• C++11 and C++14: 13.03 - 15.03
• Multithreading with modern C++: 08.05 - 09.05

I'm also happy to give the seminars on-site or in English.

For further details please refer to: http://www.modernescpp.de/index.php/c (English button in the top, right corner)

Modernes C++,

Concurrency with Modern C++ is a journey through current and upcoming concurrency in C++.

• C++11 and C++14 have the basic building blocks for creating concurrent or parallel programs.
• With C++17 we got the parallel algorithms of the Standard Template Library (STL). That means, most of the algorithms of the STL can be executed sequential, parallel, or vectorized.
• The concurrency story in C++ goes on. With C++20 we can hope for extended futures, coroutines, transactions, and more.

Concurrency with Modern C++ is a journey through current and upcoming concurrency in C++. This the last early version of my book. Only a small chapter including the best practices is missing.

Concurrency with Modern C++ is a journey through current and upcoming concurrency in C++. This early version includes the memory model, the current multithreading interface, the parallel STL, and concurrency with the upcoming C++20 standard.