Silicon Valley Code Camp - Do you C what I C
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Learn more about C++Builder at http://www.embarcadero.com/products/cbuilder. John Thomas of Embarcadero Technologies presents C++ and its renewed usage in the high-growth mobile application development market with emphasis on the iOS and Android platforms. The presentation covers the brief history of C/C++, its renewed importance in modern application development with current frameworks, new C++11 language features, and vendor language extensions.
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Silicon Valley Code Camp - Do you C what I C
- 1. Do you C what I C? { The resurgence of C/C++ for modern application development Silicon Valley CodeCamp October 2012 John Thomas, Embarcadero Technologies
- 2. Dogs and Cats living together…Mass Hysteria!! -Dr. Venkman (Ghostbuster)
- 3. Dogs (like C++) require some effort, but it pays off in more utility, later.
- 4. A Brief History of C++ {
- 5. Bell Labs
- 6. C with Objects (1979) Modeled OO after Simula and Ada But syntax and RTL based on C Classes Inheritance Inlining Default arguments Type checking CFront compiler Bjarne Stroustrup
- 7. Name changed to C++ in 1983 Virtual functions Operator overloading References Constants // Single line comments AT&T commercial compiler AT&T C++
- 10. 1998 2003 2007 TR1 2011 Standardization (ANSI/ISO)
- 11. Language Library Multiple Inheritance Strings Templates Streams Abstract Classes Algorithms Exceptions Containers Namespace Iterators Typecasts bool C++ 98
- 12. C++03 was a bug fix Regular expressions release for Smart pointers implementers Hash tables No change to the specification Random number generators TR1 was library focused Reference wrapper Much of the standard Function objects library began its life in Tuple type Boost Fixed size array C++03 & TR1
- 13. Rvalue references and move Variadic templates constructors New string literals constexpr - Generalized constant User-defined literals expressions Multithreading memory model Core language usability enhancements Thread-local storage Initializer lists Explicitly defaulted and deleted special member functions Uniform initialization Type long long int Type inference Static assertions Range-based for-loop Allow sizeof to work on members of Lambda functions and expressions classes without an explicit object Alternative function syntax Control and query object alignment Object construction improvement Allow garbage collected Explicit overrides and final implementations Null pointer constant Threading facilities Strongly typed enumerations Tuple types Right angle bracket Hash tables Explicit conversion operators Regular expressions Alias templates General-purpose smart pointers Unrestricted unions Extensible random number facility Wrapper reference Polymorphic wrappers for function C++11 objects Type traits for metaprogramming
- 14. A Vendor Perspective { Application frameworks for design time development
- 15. Delphi/C++ (VCL) C++ (OWL) Windows Windows Encapsulation Encapsulation Delegation Inheritance Method Pointers Multiple-Inheritance (closures) v-tables Properties Fields Text file form Pure-code generation Streaming-system RTTI Application Frameworks
- 16. Design Time
- 17. C++Builder WinRT C++ __classid ref/value/interface __delphirtti property __closure Eevent __property delegate __published generic ref new ^ % RTTI
- 18. A Market Perspective { Rise and fall and rise again of C++
- 20. Changes in Enterprise 3,500,000 3,000,000 2,500,000 2,000,000 C/C++ 1,500,000 Java C#.Net 1,000,000 500,000 0 1995 2000 2005 2010
- 21. 1990s 2005 Large growth in Device development desktop applications kick-started again by Client-server IP Apple success with architecture nascent iPod, iPhone, and iPad Most server side apps 2010 were basic web Tremendous device 2000 client growth through smartphones driven by Server side Android development increase Server side still Java growth with EJB important but leveraged Client / Server
- 22. It’s all about the Client { Again…
- 24. Windows 8 WinRT
- 25. BlackBerry 10
- 26. Android NDK
- 27. Objective-C C-based OO language modeled after SmallTalk Now shares a common front-end and architecture with a major C++ compiler CLANG iOS
- 28. iOS Android BlackBerry C++ Source Code A common use case
- 29. C++ is coming up on its 30th anniversary It’s more important than ever Device growth and vendor support favor C++ Summary
- 30. Questions { john.thomas@embarcadero.com