Microsoft Visual C++ at CppCon 2023 Trip Report
Microsoft Visual C++ at CppCon 2023 Trip Report Sinem Akinci November 2nd, 20230 0 The Visual C++ team attended CppCon 2023, the largest in-person C++ conference, in Aurora, Colorado from October 2-6th. There were over 700 attendees from the C++ community, and we really enjoyed getting a chance to meet all of you and talk about your unique backgrounds and C++ experiences. Some of our team member’s talks are now available to watch on YouTube so that you can watch them even if you missed CppCon to learn the latest for our tooling and more: How Visual Studio Code Helps You Develop More Efficiently in C++ – Alexandra Kemper and Sinem Akinci – YouTube New in Visual Studio: CMake Debugger, Better Diagnostics, and Video Games – David Li & Mryam Girmay – YouTube Lifetime Safety in C++: Past, Present and Future – Gabor Horvath – CppCon 2023 – YouTube The venue was at the Gaylord Rockies this year. The Gaylord Rockies is a resort with a massive convention center and many restaurants to go check out. Somehow, it still felt small, as we were constantly running into familiar C++ faces and meeting them in different areas in the convention center. There really is no experience like it. The Microsoft Booth We had a chance to talk to customers at our Microsoft booth we had during the week, and it was great to meet to you all. It was a great learning experience seeing, in real time, what was affecting our users across a wide area of use cases. For example, we will inform the public more about our Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) support in Visual Studio through online videos and documentation and improve our VS Code setup process. Thank you to everyone who took the time to fill out our survey and talk to us. Our Talks What is a conference without the talks? The Visual C++ team at Microsoft gave several talks, and we highly recommend checking them out when they are available on YouTube: Lifetime Safety in C++ – Gabor Horvath New in Visual Studio: CMake Debugger, Better Diagnostics, and Video Games – David Li & Mryam Girmay Cooperative C++ Evolution: Towards a Typescript for C++ – Herb Sutter (Keynote) How Visual Studio Code Can Help You Develop More Efficiently in C++ – Alexandra Kemper & Sinem Akinci Regular, Revisited – Victor Ciura Getting Started with C++ – Michael Price [Herb Sutter’s Keynote on Cooperative C++ Evolution: Towards a Typescript for C++. Full house!] [Michael Price on Getting Started with C++, discussing the tools beginners can use to get started on their C++ journey] My Talk Mine and Alex’s joint talk on Visual Studio Code went great (despite slight technical difficulties ????). The turnout was really strong, and it was empowering to see so many people interested to learn about the latest features in VS Code. In our talk, we covered a variety of enhancements that our teams working on the C++ Tools and CMake Tools extensions have developed over the past year to help you all the way from getting started with C++ for the first time to working in your large C++ repositories. Many C++ users came up to us after to ask more questions about what was presented, specifically to learn more about GitHub […]
