Life is change. Such a cliché. Yet it is true. Everything is changing around us and if we try to stay the same, the world passes by. If you don’t want to move backwards, you have to keep reinventi...

If my math is correct, there are 125 changes / fixes / new features in C++23 and we are progressively covering them on this blog. I try to go from topic to topic. There are some topics with many sm...

Ever since C++ introduced the constexpr keyword in C++11, each new standard brought us more and more opportunities to make our code increasingly constexpr, in other words, compile-time execution fr...

I think we are lucky as software developers. Most of us like what we do and we get a good salary. Even if a lot of people do not like the company they work for, in general, they like software devel...

I have already written a couple of times about dynamic_cast. I claimed that if you can avoid using it and RTTI, you can get a smaller binary. I also claimed that without dynamic_cast your code will...

A few months ago, I wrote a review on Template Metaprogramming with C++ by Marius Bancila where I mentioned not only that it’s a great book, but also that there are some topics which I’ll cover mo...

Recently, in the binary sizes series, we discussed how run-time type information affects RTTI. I also mentioned that in my opinion the lack of RTTI leads to better practices and you’ll end up with ...

I recently read a post on social media about modern people who are always chasing themselves as they are always late. It also reminded me of what one of my first bosses told me. According to the me...

In this post, I want to share some struggles I had twice during the last few months. For one of my examples, I wanted to initialize a std::vector with std::unique_ptr. It didn’t compile and I had l...

So why templates are interesting for our series on binary sizes? It’s because as mentioned, they do not represent callable code. They represent templates to generate callable code. The more you gen...