C++11/C++14/C++17 includes several additions to the core language and extends the C++ standard library. Some of these new features are very easy to use and bring a big added value to your C++ projects.
It’s interesting to detect automatically places where we can use some C++11 new features. For such needs clang-tidy is a standalone tool used to automatically convert C++ code, written against old standards, to use features of the newest C++ standard where appropriate.
Developers who utilze Clang could easilly use the clang-tidy tool. However for Visual C++ developers and other compilers users it’s not an easy task to benefit from this interesting tool result.
To let all C++ developers benefit from this amazing tool, CppDepend is integrating it now in its latest windows version 2018.1 in order to detect the places where the following features could be used: Continue reading “Easily detect where you can modernize your C++ codebase.”