CppCon 2018: “Latest and Greatest in the Visual Studio Family for C++ Developers 2018”

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Steve Carroll & Marian Luparu “Latest and Greatest in the Visual Studio Family for C++ Developers 2018”
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This talk will be modeled on our previously successful talks at CppCon. We'll give the community an update on how we are doing in terms of conformance where we'll be announcing the final conformance state for MSVC for the final 2017 update. We'll be showing many many demos of new features (not in previous versions of this talk) that target cross platform developers in C++. This will include making it easier to bring your code to Visual Studio, significant improvements to ease of use for developers using CMake, improvements to unit testing experiences, a lot of new Linux targeting improvements, an update on our performance work, and new debugger features for C++ developers. Developers will learn new tricks they can apply immediately on leaving the session as well as get a sense of what is coming in future updates. The main message is that Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code will make every C++ developer (not just Windows developers) more productive.
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Steve Carroll
Director of Development, Microsoft
Steve Carroll is the dev manager for the Visual C++ team and previously the dev manager for the Visual Studio debuggers and profilers.

Marian Luparu
C++ Program Manager Lead, Microsoft
Ask me about Visual Studio :)
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[MrMLRV]

Wow, so many great features. Thank you, VS team : )

[jonesconrad]

you can tell he's an MS person. Calling the user account administrator :)

[PixelPulse]

Visual Studio is the only usable Microsoft software because they are listening to your feedback.

[Voy]

2017 still has horrible constexpr support, I hope they fix it in next year, but I doubt it.

[samthomas]

A 1 hour advertisement for Visual Studio

[ilnurKh]

optimization power of msvc is really poor

another example: i have a program (benchmark, just cpu usage, no any io), there clang-compiled version under wsl is 3 times faster than msvc.

[Prompt]

Now in the vocabulary of MS “cross platform” is Windows and Linux. Continue trying guys... maybe in the next 25 years you have it for Mac, also the tool running outside Windows, etc ;)
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