C++ have stagnated for many years, and many developers were confident that the language will have the same destiny as Cobol, Fortran and VB6. No new projects will be developed with it and C++ developers will just do the maintenance of the existing projects. But against all odds, C++ reborn from its ashes and the new standards changes a lot how the language is used. Continue reading “Why the C++ modules feature is very important for the C++ future?”
Month: July 2017
Exploring SQLite Codebase: Improve C++ Skills
16 years after its first checkin, SQLite is the most widely deployed database engine in the world. An open source project such as this is a good candidate for learning how to make your code easy to understand and to maintain.
Let’s discover some facts about the SQLite code base, beginning with the following code snippet: Continue reading “Exploring SQLite Codebase: Improve C++ Skills”
The refactoring overhead costs of the C++ mechanisms over C
Few years ago when Linus Trovalds criticized C++ and told:
inefficient abstracted programming models where two years down the road you notice that some abstraction wasn’t very efficient, but now all your code depends on all the nice object models around it, and you cannot fix it without rewriting your app.
Many C++ developers does not appreciate this opinion. However we must admit that each language facility comes with a price and it’s better to know it than to think that my best programming language is perfect. Continue reading “The refactoring overhead costs of the C++ mechanisms over C”
