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Awesome Modern C++

A collection of resources on modern C++.

The goal is to collect a list of resources to help people learn about and leverage modern C++11 and beyond.

Contributing

To add, remove or change things on the list: please submit a pull request to the GitHub repository.

Books

• A Tour of C++ (Bjarne Stroustrup) [C++11/17/20]
• The C++ Programming Language (Bjarne Stroustrup) [C++11]
• Effective Modern C++ (Scott Meyers) [C++11/14]
• Overview of the New C++ (Scott Meyers) [C++11/14]
• C++ Core Guidelines (Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter) [C++11/14/17] - Guidelines for using modern C++.
• C++ Concurrency in Action (Anthony Williams) [C++11/14/17] - Reference and guide to writing multi-threaded code with standard C++.
• C++17 - The Complete Guide (Nicolai M. Josuttis) [C++17] - Giving guidance on how to use Language and Library Features of C++17.
• Professional CMake (Craig Scott) - A practical guide for using CMake to build your C++ projects.
• Modern C++ Tutorial: C++ 11/14/17/20 On the Fly (Changkun Ou) - The book claims to be "On the Fly". Its intent is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the relevant features regarding modern C++ (before 2020s).

For a comprehensive guide to C++ books see the Stackoverflow Definitive C++ Book Guide and List.

Community

Find the latest C++ news and updates:

• News, Status & Discussion about Standard C++.

Listen to the latest C++ podcasts:

• CppCast (YouTube, Twitter) - The first podcast by C++ developers for C++ developers!
• Cpp.chat (YouTube, Twitter) - Comments on c++ and issues of interest to c++ programmers.
• C++ Weekly - Educational videos by Jason Turner.

Read the latest C++ standard proposals:

• C++ Standards Committee Papers.

Discuss everything related to C++:

• r/cpp - The C++ subreddit.
• C++ Slack - The C++ Slack workspace.
• CoreHard Telegram group.

Ask your C++ questions:

• r/cpp_questions - A subreddit for C++ questions and answers.
• Stackoverflow C++ / C++11 / C++14 / C++17 / C++20 - Stackoverflow questions about C++.

Maybe your question was already answered in a FAQ?:

• C++ Super-FAQ.
• C++11 FAQ.

Go to one of the many C++ conferences:

• List of upcoming and past C++ conferences.

Find C++ user groups:

• Meeting C++ list of user groups.
• List of user groups in the C++ Super-FAQ.
• C/C++ meetups.
• Search for channels starting with #ug in the C++ Slack.

Talks

TODO curate list of good talks on how to simplify code using C++11/17/20 features

Start with SG20 Education and Recommended Videos for Teaching C++.

• CppCon Talks - Talks from the C++ Conference.
• CppCon 2014: Bjarne Stroustrup "Make Simple Tasks Simple!"
• CppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Lock-Free Programming (or, Juggling Razor Blades), Part I"
• CppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Lock-Free Programming (or, Juggling Razor Blades), Part II"
• CppCon 2014: Scott Meyers "Type Deduction and Why You Care"
• CppCon 2015: Bjarne Stroustrup "Writing Good C++14"
• CppCon 2015: Herb Sutter "Writing Good C++14... By Default"
• CppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “Garbage In, Garbage Out: Arguing about Undefined Behavior..."
• CppCon 2016: Herb Sutter "Leak-Freedom in C++... By Default."
• CppCon 2017: Jason Turner "Practical C++17"
• CppCon 2018: Jonathan Boccara “105 STL Algorithms in Less Than an Hour”
• code::dive conference 2014 - Scott Meyers: Cpu Caches and Why You Care (slides)
• code::dive conference 2015 - Andrei Alexandrescu - Writing Fast Code I (slides)
• code::dive conference 2015 - Andrei Alexandrescu - Writing Fast Code II (slides)
• C++Now Talks - Talks from the C++Now conference.

Blogs

• Andrzej's C++ blog - Guidelines and thoughts about C++.
• Anthony Williams' blog
• Embedded in Academia - John Regehr, Professor of Computer Science, University of Utah, USA.
• Eric Niebler
• Fluent C++ - Expressive Code in C++.
• Guru of the Week (new posts) - A regular series of C++ programming problems created and written by Herb Sutter.
• Guru of the Week (older posts) - Older Guru of the Week posts.
• Marshall's C++ Musings
• Paul Fultz II's Blog
• Preshing on Programming
• Simplify C++ - Write clean and maintainable C++.
• Sticky Bits - A blog looking at developing software for real-time and embedded systems.
• Sutter's Mill - Herb Sutter on software development.
• The View from Aristeia -Scott Meyers' Professional Activities and Interests.
• Visual C++ Team Blog
• Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Websites

• C++ Best Practices - Collaborative Collection of C++ Best Practices.
• C++ Patterns - A repository of modern C++ patterns.
• C++ reference🔥 - C++ reference.
• C++ By Example - Learn C++ by Example!

Project Starter Templates

• ModernCppStarter - A template for kick-starting modern C++ projects using CMake, CI, code coverage, clang-format, reproducible dependency management and more.
• modern-cpp-template - A template for modern C++ projects using CMake, Clang-Format, CI, unit testing and more, with support for downstream inclusion.
• cmake_template - A template CMake project to get you started with C++ and tooling.
• Pitchfork - Pitchfork is a Set of C++ Project Conventions.

Libraries

This is not supposed to be a comprehensive list of all C and C++ libraries. It is a list of high-quality modern libraries with general applicability (serialization, database, testing, etc) or high-quality libraries with novel use of new C++ features.

Kitchensink / Framework

• abseil - Abseil is an open-source collection of C++ code (compliant to C++11) designed to augment the C++ standard library.
• Boost - Collection of C++ libraries.
• Folly - Facebook Open-source Library.
• POCO - The POCO C++ Libraries are powerful cross-platform C++ libraries for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems.
• nonstd-lite - Parent of *-lite repositories, a migration path to post-C++11 features for pre-C++11 environments.
• xtd - Modern C++17/20 framework to create console (CLI), forms (GUI like WinForms) and tunit (unit tests like Microsoft Unit Testing Framework) applications on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and android.

Testing

• Approval Tests for C++ - Native ApprovalTests for C++ on Linux, Mac and Windows.
• autocheck - QuickCheck and SmallCheck clones for C++.
• Bandit - A header-only framework for C++11 that wants to make working with unit tests a pleasant experience.
• Boost:UT - C++20 μ(micro)/Unit Testing framework, single-header, without need for macros.
• Boost.Test - Boost testing framework.
• Catch 🔥 - A modern, C++-native, header-only, framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD.
• clean-test - A modern C++-20 testing framework.
• doctest 🚀 - The fastest feature-rich C++11/14/17/20 single-header testing framework for unit tests and TDD.
• Fakeit - C++ mocking made easy. A simple yet very expressive, headers only library for c++ mocking.
• Googletest - Google Testing and Mocking Framework.
• Mull - Practical mutation testing tool for C and C++
• rapidcheck - QuickCheck clone for C++.
• snitch - Lightweight C++20 testing framework.

Benchmarking

Libraries and frameworks for creating micro-benchmarks.

• Celero - C++ Benchmark Authoring Library/Framework.
• Google Benchmark 🌟 - A microbenchmark support library.
• hayai - the C++ benchmarking framework.
• [Nonius](http