CC: C++ Core Guidelines

[bartlettroscoe]

I just ran across the page "C++ Core Guidelines":

• https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuideline

This is a collaborative and living effort to capture C++ core usage suggestions.

It looks like it it being lead by Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter as the main "editors" (well known and respected names in the C++ community). This is a single Github Pages webpage that currently prints out to 693 pages of a PDF file! The source Git repo is:

• https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines

which currently contains 2,152 commits (going back to 2016), 5.4K forks, 2k watchers, 41.9k stars, 332 contributors (hsutter 278 commits, tkruse 168 commits, BjarneStroupstrup 148 commits, …), and 803 merged PRs.

So this is a major effort to capture the C++ communities best practices, for each updated version of the C++ standard.

[bartlettroscoe]

NOTE: There is currently only 6 open PRs out of a total of 1022 closed (i.e. closed with or without merging), so they are doing a pretty good job on saying on top of suggestions.

[bartlettroscoe]

@betterscientificsoftware/bssw-editorial-board, unless there is an objection, I would rather write this CC article then the one in #2106. And it is more timely given the debates going on about safe C++ vs. Rust.

[bartlettroscoe]

FYI: I just posted the PR for this at:

• CC article C++ Core Guidelines (#2110) #2145

Hopefully this should be in pretty good shape and not need much editing to publish.