Rob and Jason are joined by Niall Douglas to talk about Google Summer of Code, Boost and his proposed Outcome library.

Niall Douglas is a consultant for hire, is one of the authors of the proposed Boost.AFIO v2 and Boost Outcome, he is also currently the primary Google Summer of Code administrator for Boost.

News

• C++Now 2017 Report
• Error Handing in C++ or: Why You Should Use Eithers in Favor of Exceptions and Error-Codes
• JavaScript/C++ Rosetta Stone
• CppCon 2017 Call for Submissions

Niall Douglas

• @ned14
• Niall Douglas' blog

Links

• Google Summer of Code
• Boost.Outcome
• Boost.AFIO v2
• ACCU 2017: Niall Douglas "Mongrel Monads, Dirty, Dirty, Dirty"
• CppCon 2015: Niall Douglas "Racing the File System"
• CppCon 2016: Niall Douglas "Better mutual exclusion on the filesystem using Boost.AFIO

Sponsors

• Conan.io

Hosts

• @robwirving
• @lefticus
• Better C++/Chicago