First of all, I’m not a single parent. I cannot feel and entirely know what it takes. This article is inspired by those rare weeks when I had to take care of the kids alone while also working. It i...

You might laugh at this question because your answer is of course, who wouldn’t! Especially in the world of C++. Equally, you might laugh at this question, because your answer is obviously no! You ...

If you pick a random talk at a C++ conference these days, there is a fair chance that the speaker will mention safety at least a couple of times. It’s probably fine like that. The committee and the...

We recently talked about C++26’s unnamed placeholder and how useful it will be with structured bindings. Before unnamed placeholders, one of our problems was that in structured bindings we could no...

C++11 introduced parameter packs to provide a safer way to pass an undefined number of parameters to functions instead of relying on variadic functions. While packs are a useful feature, and since...

I started to learn a new language, and you probably should too. I read some of my goals from previous years. At one point, I planned to become familiar with 2 programming languages per year. Maybe...

Let’s continue exploring C++26. In this post, we are going to discuss a core language feature proposed by Corentin Jabot and Micheal Park in P2169R4. With the new standard we get a cool unnamed pla...

Our first quest into the world of C++26 was about =delete with an optional error message, which improves the readability of the source code and potentially the error messages. In this next part of ...

It’s the end of the year. As I’ve done over the past years, I’m sharing a rather personal post about how my year went, whether I achieved my goals, and what I plan for the next year. A year ago, I...

Let’s start exploring C++26 with a simple but useful change. Thanks to Yihe Li’s proposal (2573R2), when we =delete a special member function or a function overload, we can specify a reason. This ...