C++Now 2018: John Lakos “C++ Modules & Large-Scale Development”

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This talk will cover one of the Standard Committee's most anticipated new features: modules.

We'll start with the problems that modules is designed to address and the goals for the new feature and then cover the current status of the proposal.

In addition to efficiency and fast build times, the feature must address the architectural needs of very large codebases such as those found at companies like Bloomberg, Google, Facebook, A9, and Microsoft.

We'll discuss both the efficiency and architecture requirements in detail as well as providing insights into how the feature can meet these objectives and well as provide a migration path for existing code bases of every scale.
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John Lakos
Bloomberg
SI Enginning Manager
John Lakos, author of Large-Scale C++ Software Design, serves at Bloomberg LP in New York City as a senior architect and mentor for C++ Software Development world-wide. He is also an active voting member of the C++ Standards Committee’s Evolution Working Group. Previously, Dr. Lakos directed the design and development of infrastructure libraries for proprietary analytic financial applications at Bear Stearns. For 12 years prior, Dr. Lakos developed large frameworks and advanced ICCAD applications at Mentor Graphics, for which he holds multiple software patents. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Computer Science ('97) and an Sc.D. in Electrical Engineering ('89) from Columbia University. Dr. Lakos received his undergraduate degrees from MIT in Mathematics ('82) and Computer Science ('81). His next book, entitled Large-Scale C++—Volume I: Process and Architecture, is anticipated in 2017.
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[jimsmith]

I remember his first book on large-scale C++ development. It's nice to hear him in-person talking about modern C++ and large-scale development.

[tikabass]

Any small project is huge now, compared to what we had to deal with in the 80's. Even in most of the mainframe world.