C & C++ recap for week 17/2025

From 21/4/2025 to 27/4/2025

Articles #

• How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 502 comments in 5 discussions

• Microsoft revokes C++ extension from VS Code forks 421 comments in 2 discussions

• Does using Rust really make your software safer? 338 comments in 4 discussions

• Learn WebGPU for native graphics in C++ 111 comments in 2 discussions

• C++26: more constexpr in the core language 109 comments in 2 discussions

• C++ Boost:Unordered_flat_map 106 comments in 2 discussions

• Making a C alternative. 101 comments in 1 discussion

• Bare metal printf - C standard library without OS 96 comments in 3 discussions

• Exploiting Undefined Behavior in C/C++ Programs for Optimization: A Study on the Performance Impact 95 comments in 3 discussions

• Exploiting Undefined Behavior in C/C++ Programs for Optimization: A Study on the Performance Impact 83 comments in 2 discussions

• I just discovered std:optional in C++17 72 comments in 1 discussion

• Living in the future: Using C++26 at work 57 comments in 1 discussion

• Detecting if an expression is constant in C 55 comments in 4 discussions

• String reversal but it's cursed 51 comments in 1 discussion

• Don’t put -Weverything in your build flags (2018) 45 comments in 2 discussions

Releases #

• Just released my first C-based CLI tool - would love your thoughts and suggestions 26 comments in 2 discussions

• SFML 3.0.1 is released! 15 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• I’m 15 and built a neural network from scratch in C++ — no frameworks, just math and code 250 comments in 2 discussions

• TacOS: UNIX-like OS from scratch that runs DOOM 83 comments in 2 discussions

• I made a zero dependency Bitcoin math implementation in C 32 comments in 3 discussions

• Oniguruma, a popular regex library, is archived, the project "ended" 16 comments in 1 discussion

• C Code for Exif data 15 comments in 1 discussion

• A C Library for Vector Similarity with SIMD 13 comments in 1 discussion

• b64 - A command-line Base64 encoder and decoder in C 12 comments in 2 discussions

• Just finished my CHIP-8 emulator built with C++ and WinAPI 12 comments in 2 discussions

• Roast My Lazy Asynchronous Runtime 9 comments in 1 discussion

• Asking for feedback on my C++ code 6 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Build System For C in C 16 comments in 1 discussion

• Create Coding and Cellular Automata in C with raylib