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Scott Meyers
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Scott Meyers writes The View from Aristeia, a personal blog at scottmeyers.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2012, 37 different Hacker News readers have linked it 58 times, most often “The Errata Evaluation Problem”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Scott Meyers' Activities and Interests
Most-linked posts?
- The Errata Evaluation Problem5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-09-03
- Breaking all the Eggs in C++4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-11-13
- The Brick Wall of C++ Source Code Transformation3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-11-18
- } // good to go3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-12-31
- /2015/12/good-to-go.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-14
- Help me sort out the meaning of “{}” as a constructor argument2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-22
- A Concern about the Rule of Zero2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-21
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Free Digital Stuff2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-27
- Scott Meyers: The Errata Evaluation Problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-07
- The Dismal Failure of LLMs as EV Search Aids2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-28
What Hacker News says?
Interestingly Meyers is now a "retired C++ expert". He says he can't keep up anymore with the current C++ standard development to properly maintain errata for his books. http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/
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on “I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets”Submitted } // good to go as a story · 498 points
HN discussion> I see that you have not kept up. I have not (C++14 onwards was roughly where I started paying less attention), and that was partly my point. C++ has gone through dramatic change, and if I'm going to go through that dramatic change, I might as well do it with a language that has modern features and safety built in, and doesn't require extra boilerplate to do it. Looking up the rule of zero, it seems there's still s…
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on “C++ coroutines: Initial implementation pushed to master”Submitted O'Reilly's Decision and Its DRM Implication as a story · 185 points
HN discussionYou could be Scott Meyers, write: ==================================================== 1992. Effective C++: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs. 1995. More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs. 1998. Effective C++, Second Edition: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs. 2001. Effective STL: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of the Standard Template Libra…
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on “Modern C++ for C Programmers (2018)”Submitted The Time Needed to Write “Effective Modern C++” as a story · 171 points
HN discussion> has few surprises C++ has few surprises? This is from Scott Meyers, author of several books on the intricacies of C++: > I no longer plan to update my books to fix technical errors.It's not that I'm too lazy to do it. It's that in order to fix errors, I have to be able to identify them. That's something I no longer trust myself to do. He then goes on to explain how the language is so complex, that in two years he…
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on “NSA guidance on how to protect against software memory safety issues [pdf]”Submitted Help me sort out the meaning of “{}” as a constructor argument as a story · 169 points
HN discussionScott Meyers has retired from C++ (his own blog post: http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/12/good-to-go.html?m=1 ) so the next C++ bible has to come from somewhere else. Maybe he saw it coming :)
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on “A quick primer on type traits in modern C++”Submitted Breaking all the Eggs in C++ as a story · 118 points
HN discussionYep. You can see some more context here: http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2012/04/stdstring-sso-and-mo... I don't know if there are any canonical writeups on the various string implementations and their performance implications wrt modern hardware.
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on “A single character code change”Submitted Publishing Effective Modern C++, Part 1 as a story · 73 points
HN discussionUnfortunately, that's not likely: http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/12/good-to-go.html
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on “Trip report: Fall ISO C++ standards meeting”Submitted Breaking all the Eggs in C++ (2015) as a story · 60 points
HN discussionScott Meyers (of Effective C++ fame) has a great blog post on breaking backwards compatibility [1]. Unfortunately, he views it as a 10 year process. [1] http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/11/breaking-all-eggs-in...
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on “C++17 and its Technical Specifications”Submitted Publishing Effective Modern C++, Part 2 as a story · 54 points
HN discussionScott Myers' last sentence in his retirement-from-C++ page is telling: https://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/12/good-to-go.html The top-most entry in his long-suppressed to-do list? "Stop trying to monitor everything in the world of C++ :-)" I.e that retirement from C++ basically was the execution of that top-most to-do entry. Being a C++ expert means constantly monitoring what is spewing from the fire hose. By cont…
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on “The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry”Submitted The Brick Wall of C++ Source Code Transformation as a story · 49 points
HN discussionDepends who you talk to. Here’s one take by the great Scott Meyers: http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/11/breaking-all-eggs-in...
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on “A Perspective on C++ Standardization in 2018”Submitted Draft Version of Effective Modern C++ by S. Meyers Now Available as a story · 6 points
HN discussionScott Meyers has an Introduction: http://www.artima.com/shop/overview_of_the_new_cpp He's also writing a new book that's available in Rough Cuts from O'Reilly that covers C++11/14: http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2014/06/effective-modern-c-s... and has given a talk covering some of the same ground: http://vimeo.com/97318797 Herb Sutter has "Elements of Modern C++ Style": http://herbsutter.com/elements-of-modern-c-st…
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on “C++ Standards Committee Meeting in Rapperswil, June 2014”Submitted Sales Data for Effective Modern C++ as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYes to the 1st question - http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-esds-book-effect...
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on “Book of the Day: Effective JavaScript”Submitted Thoughts on the Vagaries of C++ Initialization as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI can second Effective Modern C++: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/effective-modern-c/9781... The most amazing thing about it is how it manages to be so entertaining to read (the last thing I expected from a C++ textbook and a thing that made getting through it way easier)! > I'm not sure if there's an even more recent edition that covers C++17 and C++20 Sadly, there is not. Scott for-the-most-part retired in 2…
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on “Curious C++ Lambda Examples: Recursion, constexpr, Containers C++23 included”Submitted Why I Don't yet Own an Electric Car as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOnly if this is fabrication too: https://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-errata-evaluati...
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on “The result of the C++26 DIS ballot”Submitted Scott Meyers: The Errata Evaluation Problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYeah, you're referring to Scott Meyers and he gave a really insightful talk about how complex and inconsistent C++ has become here titled "The Last Thing D Needs": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWA1DuvCnQ Slides are here: https://www.aristeia.com/TalkNotes/TheLastThingDNeeds2-ups.p... The conclusion is "The last thing D needs is someone like me." meaning D should avoid designing a language where you basically nee…
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on “The result of the C++26 DIS ballot”Submitted The Brick Wall of C++ Source Code Transformation as a story · 3 points
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