Most people think that they know C++ which is used in production level as they are taught C++ in their syllabus of their university/college. But they mostly do not know what standard of C++ they are taught. They are taught C++ 89 i.e. CFront 2.0. Students are told to use Turbo C++ as IDE to learn C++ in university because it is or was a great IDE in it's age. As the academic syllabus takes a lot of time to change and people don't know that it is outdated mostly trend to learn old coding styles and deprecated features.

What is Modern C++?

Modern C++ stands for C++ that is based on C++11, C++14, and C++17 C++20 and future versions.

With C++11 we had a revolution. That revolutions became with C++14 and will become with C++17 to an evolution. An overview on the time line of C++ features which makes my point clear.

Modern C++ not only enhances the usability of the C++ itself, but the modification of the auto keyword semantics gives more confidence in manipulating extremely complex template types. At the same time, a lot of enhancements have been made to the language at runtime. The emergence of Lambda expressions has made C++ have the "closure" feature of "anonymous functions", which is almost in modern programming languages ​​(such as Python/Swift/.. It has become commonplace, and the emergence of rvalue references has solved the problem of temporary object efficiency that C++ has long been criticized for.

Deprecated Features

• The string literal constant is no longer allowed to be assigned to a char *. If you need to assign and initialize a char * with a string literal constant, you should use const char * or auto.

char *str = "hello world!"; // A deprecation warning will appear

• C++98 exception description, unexpected_handler, set_unexpected() and other related features are deprecated and should use noexcept.

• auto_ptr is deprecated and unique_ptr should be used.

• register keyword is deprecated and can be used but no longer has any practical meaning.

• bool can no longer be incremented

• If a class has a destructor, the properties for which it generates copy constructors and copy assignment operators are deprecated.

• C language style type conversion is deprecated (ie using (convert_type)) before variables, and static_cast, reinterpret_cast, const_cast should be used for type conversion.

• In particular, some of the C standard libraries that can be used are now deprecated in the latest C++ standard, such as <ccomplex>, <cstdalign>, <cstdbool> and <ctgmath>.

• Many more that I cannot remember.

Resources of learning Modern C++

• AwesomePerfCpp
• Modern C++ Book
• Best Practices
• Awesome Modern C++
• Modern C++ Tutorials
• Iso C++
• 30 Seconds of C++
• C++ Preference

List of Posts made by me

Modern C++ : Raw Strings

Swastik Baranwal ・ Dec 24 '19

#cpp #beginners #tutorial

Modern C++ : `and`, `or` and `not` as Boolean Operators

Swastik Baranwal ・ Dec 26 '19

#cpp #tutorial #beginners

Modern C++ : constexpr

Swastik Baranwal ・ Mar 19 '20

#cpp #beginners #tutorial

Modern C++: Temp Vars in If/Switch

Swastik Baranwal ・ Mar 21 '20

#cpp #tutorial #beginners

Modern C++: Lambdas

Swastik Baranwal ・ Apr 5 '20

#cpp #beginners #tutorial #computerscience

Modern C++: enum class|struct

Swastik Baranwal ・ Apr 9 '20

#cpp #beginners #tutorial #computerscience

C++ Named Operators

Swastik Baranwal ・ Jun 1 '20

#cpp #todayilearned #tutorial #computerscience

Github

All the code used in my articles are available on Delta456/modern-cpp-series.