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October 2023 - C++ Team Blog

Structured Diagnostics in the New Problem Details Window

October 11, 2023 Oct 11, 2023 10/11/23
Sy Brand
Massive compiler errors which seem impossible to navigate are the bane of many C++ developers’ lives. It’s up to tools to provide a better experience to help you comprehend diagnostics and understand how to fix the root issue. I wrote Concepts Error Messages for Humans to explore some of the design space and now, due to the hard work of ...

Open Sourcing IFC SDK for C++ Modules

October 3, 2023 Oct 3, 2023 10/3/23
GDR
Back with VS2019 version 16.10, we announced a complete implementation of C++ Modules (and, generally, of all C++20 features) across the MSVC compiler toolset, static analysis, IntelliSense, and debugger. Implementing Modules requires principled intermediate representation of C++ source programs. Today, we are thrilled to announce the ...

Build Reliable and Secure C++ programs — Microsoft Learn

October 2, 2023 Oct 2, 2023 10/2/23
Herb Sutter
“The world is built on C and C++” is no overstatement — C and C++ are foundational languages for our global society and are always in the world’s top 10 most heavily used languages now and for the foreseeable future. Visual Studio has always supported many programming languages and we encourage new languages and experiments; diversity ...