Boost 1.73 Released and other Matters The 1.73.0 release of Boost took up more attention than I had anticipated, but in the end all seemed to go well. Since then I’ve been working through the issues list on GitHub and am now starting to make some headway. I cam across a few other interesting (to me) topics this month. (Possibly) Interesting Asio Things Last month I asked the question, “Is it possible to write an asynchronous composed operation entirely as a lambda?”. This month I went a...

Boost 1.73 New Library StaticString: A dynamically resizable string of characters with compile-time fixed capacity and contiguous embedded storage, from Krystian Stasiowski and Vinnie Falco. Boost Release Notes

The Rundown Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, my classes have been moved online. It’s certainly an interesting way to teach, but admittedly I can’t say it’s enjoyable or effective. However, it has given me a lot of time to work on various projects, which is a reasonable trade-off (at least in my opinion). I got quite a bit done this month due to the substantial increase in leisure time, and was able to work on several projects that previously didn’t fit into my schedule. Boost.StaticString I s...

Coding in the time of a Pandemic It has been an interesting month, there having been the minor distraction of a lockdown of our little country. The borders with Spain and France were closed about three weeks ago and all residents have been asked to stay at home other than to buy groceries or walk their dogs. Fortunately I have dogs so I at least have a legitimate reason to see the sun. One of the advantages of living in a tiny country is that the government has been able to secure the suppl...

Introduction I’m a first-year university student at the University of Connecticut pursuing a degree in Computer Science. I joined The C++ Alliance near the end of January as a part-time Staff Engineer at the recommendation of Vinnie, who has been mentoring me for the past several months. I’ve been programming in C++ for around 2 years now, with an interest in library development and standardization. My original reasoning for choosing C++ over other languages was a little misguided, being tha...