Analysis of Open Source C++ World

The mining of software repositories helped create large-scale research works in code comprehension, statistics, developer preferences and behavior, and the effectiveness of modern programming languages. However, this work has not targeted C++ as often as it did focus on other languages, primarily due to the difficulty of automatic C++ source code building. In this research project, we developed a semi-automatic system for building open source C++ projects, and we are working on analyzing GitHub repositories.

How does the world of C++ truly look like? How did the open-source community incorporate new language standards? Which language features and standard library components are used frequently, and which are not? How do C++ programmers express parallelism? How effective are compiler static analysis passes and optimizations?