https://www.sandordargo.com/Sandor Dargo writes about about C++, software development, books and stoic philosophy applied to software craftsmanship 2026-05-13T07:01:57+02:00 Sandor Dargo https://www.sandordargo.com/ Jekyll © 2026 Sandor Dargo /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-05-13T00:00:00+02:00 2026-05-13T00:00:00+02:00 https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/05/13/cpp26-library-hardening Sandor Dargo

Undefined behavior (UB) in C++ is one of the hardest categories of bugs to deal with. It can silently corrupt memory, cause crashes far from the actual mistake, or — worst of all — just happens to work on your machine. A significant share of UB in real codebases comes not from exotic language features, but from basic misuse of the standard library: accessing a vector out of bounds, calling fron...

2026-05-09T00:00:00+02:00 2026-05-09T00:00:00+02:00 https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/05/09/an-immigrant-s-love-letter-by-kisin Sandor Dargo

I recently stumbled upon the TRIGGERnometry podcast, which brands itself as a “free speech show”. It’s hosted by two (former) comedians, Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster. I usually listen to these podcasts while working out, and what I really appreciate about them is that they host people with very different views and always have respectful, unfiltered discussions. Yes, honest debate without...

2026-05-04T00:00:00+02:00 2026-05-04T00:00:00+02:00 https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/05/04/devladder-comes-home Sandor Dargo

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you might remember that it wasn’t always just about C++. For years, alongside the language features and investigations, I wrote about careers, feedback, the seniority trap, and what it actually feels like to grow as an engineer over a long career. Then, about a year ago, I moved all of that out into a separate publication called The Dev Ladder. I’v...

2026-04-29T00:00:00+02:00 2026-04-29T00:00:00+02:00 https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/04/29/cpp26-string-string_view-improvements Sandor Dargo

Let’s continue our exploration of C++26 improvements. Today we focus on string_view. Some types got new constructors accepting string_views, and concatenation of strings and string_views just got easier. But let’s start with a brief reminder of what a string_view is. Reminder: the role of string_view std::string_view was introduced in C++17 and its purpose is to provide read-only access to...

2026-04-22T00:00:00+02:00 2026-04-28T17:54:35+02:00 https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/04/22/cpp26-structured-bindings-packs Sandor Dargo

Last week, we talked about how C++26 improves structured bindings by allowing them to be used in conditionals’ init statements. We also briefly touched on other improvements coming in C++26, such as individual binding annotations and constexpr bindings. There is, however, one important enhancement to structured bindings that we haven’t covered yet on this blog: Structured Bindings can intr...