C & C++ recap for week 13/2025

From 24/3/2025 to 30/3/2025

Newsletter sent every monday with a recap of articles, projects and tutorials from previous week.

Articles #

C and C++ prioritize performance over correctness (2023) 1217 comments in 8 discussions
Why Is This Site Built With C 176 comments in 3 discussions
Writing your own C++ standard library from scratch 160 comments in 2 discussions
My Favorite C++ Pattern: X Macros (2023) 96 comments in 2 discussions
std::move() Is (Not) Free 87 comments in 1 discussion
Can jank beat Clojure's error reporting? 56 comments in 4 discussions
On the Ignorability of Attributes 54 comments in 1 discussion
prepare(): a proposed API to simplify process creation 40 comments in 2 discussions
Faster interpreters in Go: Catching up with C++ 40 comments in 4 discussions
Converting a C++ application to modules 27 comments in 1 discussion
Generalizing std::midpoint 25 comments in 1 discussion
C++ syntax highlighting can be slow in VS Code, but a simple update could improve performance by ~30% 21 comments in 1 discussion
embedded C++ 20 comments in 1 discussion
TrapC: Memory Safe C Programming with No UB 16 comments in 1 discussion
C++26: an undeprecated feature 13 comments in 1 discussion

Releases #

CMake 4.0.0 released 123 comments in 1 discussion
mus2 1.0 Release - Simple and fast music player in C and raylib. 7 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

Show HN: Hexi – Modern header-only network binary serialisation for C++ 44 comments in 1 discussion
komihash 5.16: Implemented full C++ compliance, minimized define pollution. Very fast, high-quality hash function, discrete-incremental and streamed hashing-capable (non-cryptographic, inline C/C++) 26GB/s 40 comments in 1 discussion
🔧 **Introducing CForge: A Modern C/C++ Build System!** 33 comments in 4 discussions
Msgpack23 – A modern, header-only C++ library for MessagePack (de)serialization 17 comments in 1 discussion
GitHub - davidesantangelo/nmri: All the calculation power you need without the bloat. NMRI is a powerful command-line calculator with support for mathematical functions, variables, command history, and memory operations. 15 comments in 1 discussion
I made my own unix/linux shell. 8 comments in 1 discussion
AntAsm - An X86_64 Assembler Interpreter Written in C 5 comments in 1 discussion
Circle – C++ bare metal environment for Raspberry Pi with USB (32 and 64 bit) 4 comments in 1 discussion
New open source RAG framework in C++ and Python 4 comments in 2 discussions
reflection in C: a "weekend hack" library as a proof of concept 4 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

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