C & C++ recap for week 15/2025

From 7/4/2025 to 13/4/2025

Articles #

• Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (part I) 1569 comments in 12 discussions

• 6 usability improvements in GCC 15 308 comments in 5 discussions

• Rust to C compiler - 95.9% test pass rate, odd platforms 268 comments in 4 discussions

• Writing C for curl 195 comments in 4 discussions

• The forgotten art of Struct Packing in C / C++. 189 comments in 3 discussions

• C++ in Embedded Systems: A practical transition from C to modern C++ 102 comments in 1 discussion

• My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules 76 comments in 9 discussions

• Make C string literals const? 73 comments in 2 discussions

• Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 54 comments in 3 discussions

• Should you use final? 49 comments in 1 discussion

• EngFlow Makes C++ Builds 21x Faster and Software a Lot Safer 47 comments in 1 discussion

• Function overloading is more flexible (and more convenient) than template function specialization 40 comments in 1 discussion

• Reducing build times with C++ modules in Visual Studio 39 comments in 1 discussion

• Code::Blocks 25.03 is here! 39 comments in 1 discussion

• What just happened to our beloved ISO C++ domain? 38 comments in 4 discussions

Releases #

• JSON for Modern C++ 3.12.0 released 31 comments in 1 discussion

• Vari v1.0.0 released: Variadic pointers 9 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Made my own Linux distro and package manager in C++ — blazing fast and still growing 134 comments in 1 discussion

• shorty: a C++ library for concise lambdas 35 comments in 2 discussions

• FreeRTOS , C++ and O0 Optimization = Debugging nightmare 30 comments in 1 discussion

• CWebStudio a super easy C/C++ WebServer 25 comments in 4 discussions

• My First C Program — Minimal System Info Tool: sifetch 13 comments in 1 discussion

• GitHub - lumia431/reaction: A lightweight, header-only reactive programming framework leveraging modern C++20 features for building efficient dataflow applications. 6 comments in 1 discussion

• A simple REPL for the C programming language 4 comments in 1 discussion

• it - my poor man's version of tree command 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Solutions and Notes for The C Programming language 2nd edition 3 comments in 1 discussion

• cbuf - single producer single consumer circular buffer 3 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• The existential threat against C++ and where to go from here - Helge Penne - NDC TechTown 2024 404 comments in 3 discussions

• Tips for C Programming 7 comments in 1 discussion

• Visual Studio extension for step predictions 6 comments in 1 discussion

• Asynchronous Programming with C++ - interview with the authors 2 comments in 1 discussion