To help with making the migration from C to C++ I’ve been watching a lot of conference talks on YouTube. I’ve gathered a list of some of the talks I’ve found interesting or have found myself recommending below. As my current focus is sadly on C++03, new language features are in short supply here. Most talks are on fundamental C++, best practises, and tools.

Fundamentals / General

• “10 Core Guidelines You Need to Start Using Now” Kate Gregory
• “Choosing the Right Integer Types in C and C++” Dan Saks
• “Curiously Recurring C++ Bugs at Facebook” Louis Brandy
• “How to Argue(ment)” Richard Powell
• “Intro to the C++ Object Model” Richard Powell
• “The Shape of a Program” James McNellis

Performance

• “Cache Warming: Warm Up The Code” Jonathan Keinan
• “Copy Elision” Jon Kalb
• “CPU Caches and Why You Care” Scott Meyers
• “Taming the Performance Beast” Klaus Iglberger
• “The End of std::endl” Dietmar Kühl
• “The Strange Details of std::string at Facebook” Nicholas Ormrod

Tooling

• “GDB - A Lot More Than You Knew” Greg Law
• “How C++ Debuggers Work” Simon Brand
• “LLVM: A Modern, Open C++ Toolchain” Chandler Carruth
• “Making C++ easier, faster and safer (part 1)” Chandler Carruth
• “Sanitize your C++ code” Kostya Serebryany

Compiler Optimisation

• “Understanding Compiler Optimization” Chandler Carruth
• “What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler’s Lid” Matt Godbolt
• “What Everyone Should Know About How Amazing Compilers Are” Matt Godbolt

Undefined Behaviour

• “My Little Optimizer: Undefined Behavior is Magic” Michael Spencer
• “Signed Integers Are Two’s Complement” JF Bastien
• “Undefined Behaviour in 2017 (part 1 of 2)” John Regehr

Const West - East Const

• “The Bad Big Wolf Meets Riding Hood Little Red” Borislav Stanimirov
• “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” Jon Kalb

History

• "(R)evolution of C++” Łukasz Ziobroń
• “The Beast is Back” Jon Kalb

C++0X

• “Applied Best Practices” Jason Turner
• “Practical Performance Practices” Jason Turner