In Hands-On Design Patterns with C++, the author Fedor Pikus shares the most common design patterns used in modern C++. In fact, not only design patterns but also some best practices and idioms. He...

In this blog post, let’s collect a couple of changes that are going to be shipped with C++23 and are all related to strings or string_views. std::string and std::string_view have contains One of ...

std::string_view has been introduced by C++17 and its purpose is to provide read-only access to character sequences. It potentially replaces const string& parameters and offers a significant pe...

A few months ago I changed teams and I started to work on a library that helps its users to perform cryptographic operations. Those operations need a so-called Hardware Security Module (HSM) that i...

In this article, let’s step back from coding a little bit. We are going to discuss how C++ was born and how it’s been evolving ever since. We’ll only have a brief overview of what happened in the l...

In C++ the size of a bool is 1 byte. That’s the case despite that it can only have two values, true or false which can be represented on one single bit. This might not be a concern all the time, bu...

In the previous article discussing new language features of C++23, we discussed if consteval. Today, we’ll slightly discuss if constexpr and also static_assert. Andrzej Krzemieński proposed a paper...

How to maximize the benefits of cooperation? Is it better to cooperate with others or to defect? How to decide? How to react when you’re a good person but you’re taken advantage of? Can we avoid es...

Bjarne Stroustrup, the father of C++ once said that “C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.” Why did he say so? What makes...

Let’s continue our exploration of C++23 features! This week we discuss how to call consteval functions from not explicitly constant evaluated ones. This paper, this new feature is also a good exam...