Software Engineer
Alan de Freitas is a Staff Engineer at The C++ Alliance and one of its earliest members. He designed the architecture of MrDocs, the Alliance’s documentation generator for modern C++ built directly on Clang and LLVM, and created cpp-actions, the CI automation used by Boost libraries and the Alliance’s projects. He is the author of Matplot++, a widely used C++ plotting library, co-authored Boost.URL, which he has maintained in every Boost release since 1.81 as one of twenty Boost libraries he has contributed to, and is a US delegate to the ISO C++ committee (WG21). Before the Alliance he was a university professor for ten years, with a PhD in computational intelligence, research at Rolls-Royce, and more than 50 peer-reviewed publications. Off the clock, he cooks, plays guitar, and spends time with his dog.
The questions changed. For a long time, people asked about MrDocs in the abstract: what formats will it support, how will it handle templates, when will it be ready. Then, gradually, the questions became specific. Jean-Louis Leroy, the author of Boost.OpenMethod, became one of our most active source
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We had been putting off the Boost.URL security review for a while. There was always something more urgent. When the review finally happened, it confirmed what we hoped: the core parsing logic held up well.
Read more →When new developers joined the MrDocs team, we expected the usual ramp-up: learning the codebase, understanding the architecture, and getting comfortable with the review process. What we did not expect was that building and testing the project would be the hardest part.
Read more →In 2024, the MrDocs project was a fragile prototype . It documented Boost.URL, but the CLI , configuration , and build process were unstable. Most users could not run it without direct help from the core group. That unstable baseline is the starting point for this report.
Read more →Boost libraries typically maintain granular unit tests using Boost.Build (B2). B2 provides a run rule that makes it easy to define many independent test targets from a single source file or executable.
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