Evolution of C++ Concepts for Generic Programming

In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Doug Gregor from Apple about the history of C++0x Concepts.

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• Conor Hoekstra
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About the Guest:

Douglas Gregor is is a Distinguished Engineer at Apple working on the Swift programming language, compiler, and related libraries and tools. He is code owner emeritus of the Clang compiler (part of the LLVM project), a former member of the ISO C++ committee, and a co-author on the second edition of C++ Templates: The Complete Guide. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2024-04-29
Date Released: 2024-05-03

• C++20 Concepts
• Swift Programming Language
• Elements of Programming
• Tecton: A Language for Manipulating Generic Objects
• Generic Programming by David Musser and Alexander Stepanov
• Original paper on concepts for C++0x (Stroustrup and Dos Reis)
• C++ Concepts vs Rust Traits vs Haskell Typeclasses vs Swift Protocols - Conor Hoekstra - ACCU 2021
• Paper on the implementation of concepts in ConceptGCC (Gregor, Siek)
• C++0x Concepts proposal that explains the model (Gregor, Stroustrup)
• Language wording for concepts that went into C++0x
• Doug’s last-ditch effort to bring back a simpler C++0x Concepts model using archetypes for type checking
• Jeremy Siek’s extensive C++0x Concepts writeup

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