C++ Reference

Comprehensive reference documentation for the C++ language and standard library

Language Reference

This section provides detailed information about the C++ language syntax, semantics, and features.

Keywords, operators, expressions, statements, and other fundamental language elements.

Built-in types, user-defined types, type conversions, and declarations.

The C++ Standard Library provides a rich set of components that you can use in your programs.

Sequence containers, associative containers, and container adaptors for storing collections of objects.

Functions for searching, sorting, counting, manipulating, and performing operations on ranges of elements.

C++ has evolved significantly over the years. Here's a brief overview of the major C++ standards:

Introduced auto type deduction, lambda expressions, range-based for loops, smart pointers, and more.

Added generic lambdas, improved return type deduction, binary literals, and other minor improvements.

Added structured bindings, if constexpr, std::optional, std::variant, std::any, and filesystem library.

Introduced concepts, ranges, coroutines, modules, and the spaceship operator.