C & C++ recap for week 50/2024

From 9/12/2024 to 15/12/2024

Articles #

• John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++ 610 comments in 6 discussions

• Handles are the better pointers (2018) 311 comments in 8 discussions

• Making memcpy(NULL, NULL, 0) well-defined 288 comments in 3 discussions

• Google ‘Retrofits’ Spatial Memory Safety Onto C++ - researchers showed they were able to "retrofit" spatial safety onto their C++ codebases, and to do it with a surprisingly low impact on performance 220 comments in 3 discussions

• C++ Move Semantics Considered Harmful (Rust Is Better) 168 comments in 3 discussions

• Common Misconceptions about Compilers 152 comments in 5 discussions

• C++ exception performance three years later 135 comments in 3 discussions

• Zero to CMake: A beginner's guide to why CMake works 46 comments in 2 discussions

• C has its limits. If you know where to look. 33 comments in 3 discussions

• Sutter’s Mill: My code::dive talk video is available: New Q&A 30 comments in 1 discussion

• N3322: Null pointers are *finally* valid zero-length pointers 23 comments in 1 discussion

• made my first game! 9 comments in 1 discussion

• All Your Codebase 6 comments in 1 discussion

• SAHI in C++ 4 comments in 1 discussion

• C++23 Library Features and Reference Cards 3 comments in 1 discussion

Releases #

• TidesDB - Open-source high performance, transactional, durable storage engine/column store (v0.2.0b RELEASE!) 117 comments in 7 discussions

• Transmission 4.1.0-beta.1 has been released with major code changes and is looking for new C++ contributors 63 comments in 1 discussion

• Boost v1.87.0 Released 16 comments in 1 discussion

• KDE Frameworks 6.9.0 released 7 comments in 1 discussion

• Boost 1.87.0 Release Report

Projects #

• Implementing Rust-like traits for C++ 20 (with no runtime overhead) 98 comments in 2 discussions

• Custom C++ allocators to improve cache locality for lists, maps, … 54 comments in 3 discussions

• nanoid.h: Nano ID generator implemented in 270 bytes of C 50 comments in 1 discussion

• Command line interfaces with cpp26 reflection 36 comments in 1 discussion

• FREE C++ OS SOURCE CODE OF MINE!!! feel free to fork :D 11 comments in 1 discussion

• Good research of Java (JIT) vs. C++ (AOT) performance with interesting results 8 comments in 1 discussion

• A Pip for C Language 7 comments in 1 discussion

• looking for contributors for an open-source c++ project 7 comments in 1 discussion

• C++ template for Advent of Code with code generation using CMake 3 comments in 1 discussion

• To make hopping around large unfamiliar headers easier I made a VSCode extension 2 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Reflection is Not Contemplation 32 comments in 1 discussion