The C++ Core Guidelines are a collaborative effort led by Bjarne Stroustrup, much like the C++ language itself. They are the result of many person-years of discussion and design across a number of organizations. Their design encourages general applicability and broad adoption but they can be freely copied and modified to meet your organization's needs.
The C++ Core Guidelines, managed from this GitHub repository, represent a recent attempt to define good practices for modern C++ development. The guidelines focus on rules which static analysis tools are capable of detecting.
Alongside the guidelines themselves is the guideline support library (GSL). While the guidelines do not go into explicit detail about the behavior of such features, the Microsoft implementation currently acts as the de-facto standard.
- Direct link to the C++ Core Guidelines document.
