A collection of resources on modern C++.
The goal is to collect a list of resources to help people learn about and leverage modern C++11 and beyond.
To add, remove or change things on the list: please submit a pull request to the GitHub repository.
- Consider the C++ Core Guidelines.
- Never manually format code, use clang-format.
- Build your code using CMake.
- Test your code using Catch.
- Also test using sanitized builds: AddressSanitizer, ThreadSanitizer and MemorySanitizer.
- Use a fuzzer to test untrusted input: afl, libFuzzer, KLEE.
- A Tour of C++ (Bjarne Stroustrup) [C++11/17/20]
- The C++ Programming Language (Bjarne Stroustrup) [C++11]
- Effective Modern C++ (Scott Meyers) [C++11/14]
- Overview of the New C++ (Scott Meyers) [C++11/14]
- C++ Core Guidelines (Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter) [C++11/14/17] - Guidelines for using modern C++.
- C++ Concurrency in Action (Anthony Williams) [C++11/14/17] - Using the C++ Concurrency Library
- C++ Annotations (Frank B. Brokken) [C++11/14/17]
- Professional CMake (Craig Scott)
For a comprehensive guide to C++ books see the Stackoverflow Definitive C++ Book Guide and List.
- Andrzej's C++ blog - Guidelines and thoughts about C++.
- C++ Hints - Common mistakes and their solutions.
- Embedded in Academia - John Regehr, Professor of Computer Science, University of Utah, USA.
- Eric Niebler
- Guru of the Week (new posts) - A regular series of C++ programming problems created and written by Herb Sutter.
- Guru of the Week (older posts) - Older Guru of the Week posts.
- Marshall's C++ Musings
- Paul Fultz II's Blog
- Preshing on Programming
- Simplify C++ - Write clean and maintainable C++.
- Sticky Bits - A blog looking at developing software for real-time and embedded systems.
- Sutter's Mill - Herb Sutter on software development.
- The View from Aristeia -Scott Meyers' Professional Activities and Interests.
- Visual C++ Team Blog
- Why is a raven like a writing desk?
- Anthony Williams' blog
- Fluent C++ - Expressive Code in C++.
- ACCU - The Conference for Developers.
- C++ CoreHard (Minsk 🇧🇾)
- C++ Now (Aspen, Colorado 🇺🇸, YouTube, Twitter) - A gathering of C++ experts and enthusiasts.
- C++ on Sea (Folkestone, Kent 🇬🇧, YouTube, Twitter) - The international C++ conference in the UK, by the sea.
- Core C++ (Tel-Aviv 🇮🇱)
- CppCon (Aurora, Colorado 🇺🇸, YouTube, Twitter) - The C++ Conference.
- Meeting C++ (Berlin 🇩🇪, YouTube, Twitter) - A independent C++ Conference.
This is not supposed to be a comprehensive list of all C and C++ libraries. It is a list of high-quality modern libraries with general applicability (serialization, database, testing, etc) or high-quality libraries with novel use of new C++ features.
- abseil - Abseil Common Libraries.
- autocheck - QuickCheck and SmallCheck clones for C++.
- Bandit - A header-only framework for C++11 that wants to make working with unit tests a pleasant experience.
- Beast - HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11.
- BigIntegerCPP - A C++11 large integer library with effective high performance, simplistic in nature and also clean in the eyes.
- Boost.Hana - Your standard library for metaprogramming.
- Boost - Collection of C++ libraries.
- {fmt} - Small, safe and fast formatting library.
- CAF - An Open Source Implementation of the Actor Model in C++.
- Catch - A modern, C++-native, header-only, framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD.
- doctest - The lightest feature rich C++ single header testing framework.
- cereal - A C++11 library for serialization.
- ChaiScript - An easy to use embedded scripting language for C++.
- Cinder - Cinder is a free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.
- Conduit - High Performance Streams Based on Coroutine TS.
- cpptoml - A header-only library for parsing TOML configuration files.
- cppitertools - itertools (python) implementation for C++14
- cpr - C++ Requests: Curl for People, a spiritual port of Python Requests.
- Crow - Crow is very fast and easy to use C++ micro web framework.
- Cpp-Taskflow - Modern C++ Parallel Task Programming Library
- cxxopts - Lightweight C++ command line option parser.
- docopt.cpp - docopt creates beautiful command-line interfaces.
- date - A date and time library based on the C++11/14/17 header.
- EnTT - A header-only, fast and, reliable entity-component system (ECS) for modern C++.
- Drogon - A C++14/17 based, high-performance HTTP application framework
- fixed_size_function - Fixed size function wrapper like std::function.
- Folly - Facebook Open-source Library.
- HashLib4CPP - C++11 library that provides an easy to use interface for computing hashes and checksums of strings, files, streams, bytearrays and untyped data to mention but a few. It also supports Incremental Hashing.
- Inja - A Template Engine for Modern C++.
- IntX - A C++11 port of IntX arbitrary precision Integer library with speed, about O(N * log N) multiplication/division algorithms implementation.
- iod - Meta programming utilities for C++14.
- json - JSON for Modern C++.
- jsoncpp - A C++ library for interacting with JSON.
- Junction - Concurrent data structures in C++.
- mongo-cxx-driver - C++ Driver for MongoDB.
- mstch - An implementation of Mustache templates using modern C++.
- Mustache - Mustache text templates in C++11.
- Nonius - A C++ micro-benchmarking framework.
- oat++ - High-performance Web framework (C++11, zero-dependency).
- PEGTL - Parsing Expression Grammar Template Library (C++11, header-only).
- pistache - An elegant C++ REST framework.
- pybind11 - Seamless operability between C++11 and Python.
- random - A simple, convenient, header only Random for modern C++.
- rang - A simple, modern & header only C++11 library for colors in your terminal.
- range-v3 - Experimental range library for C++11/14/17.
- rapidcheck - QuickCheck clone for C++.
- redox - Modern, asynchronous, and wicked fast C++11 client for Redis.
- simple_match - Simple header only pattern matching for c++14.
- sol2 - C++ library binding to Lua.
- sqlite3pp - C++ wrapper of SQLite3 API.
- sqlite_orm - powerful header only SQLite3 ORM library for C++14.
- sqlpp11 - A type safe SQL template library for C++.
- tinyformat.h - Minimal, type safe printf replacement library for C++.
- tinytoml -A header only C++11 library for parsing TOML.
- tweeny - A header only interpolation library with 30+ easing functions.
- Vireo - A lightweight and versatile video processing library by Twitter.
- yaml-cpp - A YAML parser and emitter in C++.
- ASAP - header-only library to parse, display, operate and iterate on dates.
- Nameof - A header-only C++17 library provides nameof macros and functions to obtain the simple name of variable, type, function, macro, and enum.
- C++ Questions Subreddit - A great place to get help.
- C++ Patterns - A repository of modern C++ patterns.
- C++ Subreddit - Discussions, articles, and news about the C++ programming language.
- C++ Super-FAQ - The C++ Super-FAQ.
- C++ reference - C++ reference.
- C++11 FAQ
- CppCast - The only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers.
- Stackoverflow C++11
- Stackoverflow C++14
- Stackoverflow C++
- The C++ Programming Language - News, Status & Discussion about Standard C++.
- CppCon Talks - Talks from the C++ Conference.
- CppCon 2014: Bjarne Stroustrup "Make Simple Tasks Simple!"
- CppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Lock-Free Programming (or, Juggling Razor Blades), Part I"
- CppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Lock-Free Programming (or, Juggling Razor Blades), Part II"
- CppCon 2014: Scott Meyers "Type Deduction and Why You Care"
- CppCon 2015: Bjarne Stroustrup "Writing Good C++14"
- CppCon 2015: Herb Sutter "Writing Good C++14... By Default"
- CppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “Garbage In, Garbage Out: Arguing about Undefined Behavior..."
- CppCon 2016: Herb Sutter "Leak-Freedom in C++... By Default."
- CppCon 2017: Jason Turner "Practical C++17"
- code::dive conference 2014 - Scott Meyers: Cpu Caches and Why You Care (slides)
- code::dive conference 2015 - Andrei Alexandrescu - Writing Fast Code I (slides)
- code::dive conference 2015 - Andrei Alexandrescu - Writing Fast Code II (slides)
- C++Now Talks - Talks from the C++Now conference.
- Going Native 2012: Variadic Templates are Funadic
- Going Native 2013: Stephan T Lavavej - "Don't Help the Compiler"
- American fuzzy lop - American fuzzy lop is a security-oriented fuzzer.
- Buckaroo - Fully Decentralized Polyglot Package Manager for C++ and Friends
- cget - CMake package retrieval.
- clang-format - A tool to format C++ code.
- clang-tidy - A clang-based C++ "linter" and static analysis tool.
- CMake - Cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software.
- Compiler Explorer - Interactively explore the assembly output of your C++ code.
- conan - C/C++ package manager.
- cppcheck - Static analysis of C/C++ code.
- C++ Archive Network - CPPAN - Cross-platform C/C++ package manager.
- CPM - A CMake script for setup-free cross-plattform dependency management.
- Hunter - Cross-platform package manager for C++.
- irony-mode - A C/C++ minor mode for Emacs powered by libclang.
- modern-cpp-font-lock-mode - Syntax highlighting support for Modern C++ with emacs
- vcpkg - C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
- CppCast (YouTube, Twitter) - The first podcast by C++ developers for C++ developers!
- Cpp.chat (YouTube, Twitter) - Comments on c++ and issues of interest to c++ programmers.
This list was compiled by Erik Rigtorp with help from the C++ community: