John Kalb, Andrei; Herb Sutter; Phil Nash

Talking about giving a presentation

• Recommending session
• Giving a talk is a performance.
• Andrei: treats each talk as different at different event. Re-does slides

Review of Andrei’s keynote

• sort()

  algorithm needs to make many decision: attributes need to be introspected/reflect. E.g. cost of comparison; cost of move; etc

• metaclasses are an example of this (Herb Sutter).
• “Modules help with new features? e.g. exceptions”
• “The dawn of a new error” by Phil Nash
• Swift assumes out of memory is not recoverable. “C++ aspires to handle out-of-memory”
• Looking at error handling is a great way to evaluate a language
• Andrei:

  static_if

  is a fundamental building block just like

  if