C & C++ recap for week 18/2025

From 28/4/2025 to 4/5/2025

Articles #

• Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive 375 comments in 5 discussions

• C++26: more constexpr in the standard library 88 comments in 2 discussions

• Pwning the Ladybird browser 61 comments in 2 discussions

• 2025 Annual C++ Developer Survey "Lite" 29 comments in 1 discussion

• C++23 mdspan 17 comments in 1 discussion

• Starting on seamless C++ interop in jank 17 comments in 3 discussions

• GCC's atomic builtins + `__builtin_is_aligned(ptr, 2)` ⇒ pointer tagging without casting 15 comments in 1 discussion

• My journey to GCC 15 and module 15 comments in 1 discussion

• CppCast: Software development in a world of AI 13 comments in 1 discussion

• Getting the number of available processors 12 comments in 1 discussion

• Create your own graphics library in C++ 9 comments in 1 discussion

• Cross-Platform Software Development – Yes, Bytes Can Be 9 Bits 9 comments in 2 discussions

• DND inspired game I made 8 comments in 1 discussion

• Using type aliasing to avoid the ODR problem with conditional compilation, part 2 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Pure Virtual C++ 2025 is Tomorrow (Wed 2025-04-30, 14:00-16:30 UTC) 3 comments in 1 discussion

Releases #

• C++ DataFrame new release (3.5.0) is out on Conan and VCPKG 221 comments in 17 discussions

• Valgrind 3.25 released 62 comments in 10 discussions

• POPL 2025 coverage released totaling 257 talks across POPL, CPP, VMCAI, PADL, and many more workshops and events!

Projects #

• Open-lmake: A novel reliable build system with auto-dependency tracking 87 comments in 1 discussion

• My approach to building portable Linux binaries (without Docker or static linking) 15 comments in 1 discussion

• Pytocpp: A toy transpiler from a subset of Python to C++ 14 comments in 1 discussion

• Introducing LogMod: Feature-complete Modular Logging Library with printf Syntax 14 comments in 2 discussions

• I made a CLI tool to print images as ascii art 11 comments in 1 discussion

• Sanctum || A pq-safe and fully sandboxed VPN daemon, written in C. 11 comments in 2 discussions

• created a small library of dynamic data structures 5 comments in 1 discussion

• Strangecpp: strange cpp things 3 comments in 1 discussion

• VSUM is a C library specifically designed for highly efficient summation of array data. It focuses on optimized summation techniques for `int`, `float`, and `double` types

Videos #

• Using std::cpp 2025 keynote: The Real Problem of C++ 88 comments in 1 discussion