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C++23 - The Complete Guide

This book is 75% completeLast updated on 2026-06-17
Nicolai M. Josuttis

All new language and library features of C++23 (for those who know C++20 already).

The book presents all new language and library features of C++23. Learn how this impacts day-to-day programming, to benefit in practice, to combine new features, and to avoid all new traps.

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C++23 is the next evolution in modern C++ programming, which will be supported step-by-step by the latest version of gcc, clang, and Visual C++.

C++23 is the first release after introducing several new key fetaures with C++20, which can be seend as the beginning of a new release cycle.

It contains both significant extensions and improvement of various features introduced with C++20 and a couple of new language and library features.

As usual, not everything is self-explanatory, combining new features gives even more power, and there are hidden traps.

This book presents all the new language and library features of C++23. It covers the motivation and context of each new feature with examples and background information. The focus is on how these features impact day-to-day programming, what it means to combine them, and how to benefit from C++23 in practice.


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Note that this book is published step-by-step. The first public version will be published probably in 2024. After that, the content will grow with new chapters, examples, and caveats about the features of C++23 and I integrate all feedback I get for the pages already published.

As written, once you bought the ebook you will get all updates for free.

PDF versus Other Formats

I write the book in LaTeX and generate PDF from it (the way I wrote my other books). The other formats (epub, mobi, and online reading) come from the leanpub markdown interface, for which I generate the necessary input from LaTeX by script.

Thus, the PDF layout has a better quality than the other formats. For example, the syntax highlighting rules for the formats other than PDF have to get fixed as soon as possible and the index is missing yet. Leanpub and me are working on corresponding improvements.

I hope you enjoy and benefit.

Nico

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Nicolai M. Josuttis

Nicolai Josuttis (http://www.josuttis.com) is well known in the programming community because he not only speaks and writes with authority, being the (co-)author of the world-wide best sellers

but is also an innovative presenter, having talked at various conferences and events.

He is an independent trainer and speaker being active in C++ standardization for more than 20 years.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

  1. Incremental Writing
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Versions of This Book

About This Book

  1. What You Should Know Before Reading This Book
  2. Overall Structure of the Book
  3. How to Read This Book
  4. The Way I Implement
  5. The C++ Standards
  6. Example Code and Additional Information
  7. Feedback

“Hello, World” with C++23

  1. The New “Hello World”

Modules std and std.compat

  1. A First Example Using the Standard Module std
  2. Standard Library Modules in Detail
  3. Using the Standard Modules in Practice
  4. Afternotes

Formatted Output with std::print() and std::println()

  1. Basics of Formatted Output Since C++20
  2. std::print() and std::println()
  3. Afternotes

Formatted Output Extensions

  1. Debugging Output Format for Strings and Characters
  2. Formatted Output of Tuples and Pairs
  3. Formatted Output of Containers and Ranges
  4. Concept std::formattable
  5. Afternotes

Operator Extensions

  1. Multi-Dimensional Operator []
  2. Afternotes

Deducing this as Explicit Object Parameter

  1. Introduction of Deducing this
  2. How to Benefit From Deducing this
  3. Recursive Lambdas
  4. Details of Deducing this as Explicit Object Parameter
  5. Afternotes

auto() and auto{}

  1. Introduction of auto() and auto{}
  2. Example of Using auto() or auto{}
  3. auto() and auto{} in Detail
  4. Afternotes

std::expected<>

  1. Using std::expected<>
  2. std::expected<> Types and Operations
  3. Special Cases
  4. Afternotes

Monadic Operations for std::optional<> and std::expected<>

  1. Basic Example of Monadic Operations
  2. Basic Example of Monadic Operations with std::expected<>
  3. Monadic Operations in Detail
  4. Afternotes

Views

  1. Introduction of Views
  2. Overview of All Views
  3. Remarkable View Extensions with C++23
  4. Afternotes

Pitfalls and Traps Using Views

  1. Overview of Pitfalls and Traps When Using Views
  2. Consequences of Reference Semantics
  3. Caching Views
  4. const Correctness with Views
  5. The Filter View Fiasco
  6. How to Use Views in Practice
  7. Afternotes

Supplementary Views in Detail

  1. Overview of Views Introduced with C++23
  2. Generating Views
  3. Filtering Views
  4. Transforming Views
  5. Views That Split or Join Ranges
  6. Views That Combine Multiple Elements
  7. Afternotes

Extensions for Ranges and Views

  1. Initialize Containers with std::from_range
  2. Other New Container Functions to Deal with Ranges as a Whole
  3. Creating Containers with std::ranges::to<>()
  4. How std::ranges::to<>() Operates and other Ways to Insert a Range
  5. Performance of std::ranges::to<>() and Using std::from_range
  6. Enable Views for Pipelines
  7. Afternotes

Coroutine Interface std::generator<>

  1. A First std::generator<> Example
  2. Unlimited std::generator<> Coroutines
  3. std::generator<> Coroutines with Parameters
  4. Parallel Use of std::generator<> Coroutines
  5. Ending a Coroutine with co_return
  6. Other Basic Aspects of std::generator<> Coroutines
  7. Afternotes

std::generator<> in Detail

  1. Exception Handling of std::generator<>
  2. Passing std::generator<> as Argument
  3. Memory Management of std::generator<> Coroutines
  4. Using Nested std::generator<> Coroutines
  5. Yielding References and Proxy Types
  6. Class Template std::generator<> in Detail
  7. Afternotes

Multi-Dimensional Spans std::mdspan

  1. Using std::mdspan
  2. Other Layouts of std::mdspan
  3. std::mdspan with No Elements or Zero Dimensions
  4. Using Accessors
  5. std::mdspan<> in Detail
  6. Afternotes

Small Improvements of the C++ Standard Library

  1. Updates for String Types
  2. Afternotes

Glossary

  1. A
  2. C
  3. F
  4. G
  5. I
  6. L
  7. P
  8. R
  9. S
  10. U
  11. V
  12. X

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