Today, we are going to go through a couple of changes introduced by C++23 where the common theme is encoding. These changes are all related to how the code we write will be encoded by the compiler....

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Recently, I had to refresh some training material for software engineers who are not new to programming but are new to C++. It’s a short introduction by all means and as participants are expected t...

Last week, we started to discuss the main parts of std::filesystem and we discovered how to work with paths, how to navigate up through the directory structure and how to move files and directories...

I know that this is not a new topic at all. But this blog in its roots is to document what I learn, and I haven’t used the filesystem library up until a few weeks ago. After the initial encounter, ...

Recently we had a coding dojo with my colleagues where we were working on the second part of the Racing Car Katas, called TextConverter. To sum up the problem, the HtmlTextConverter class takes a f...

This is not the first book of Gergely Orosz, author of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, but this is the most general one so far. Before this one, he wrote books that targeted much narrower topics...

I want to share with you a recent story. I’ll not reveal the name of the company, because of two reasons. 1) I’m not sure if that would be legal from my part. 2) They were kind, helped, gave back w...

In this post, we continue discovering the changes introduced by C++23. We are going to look into three (and a half) small changes, each affecting constructors of some standard library types. We’re ...

C++23 is going to bring us a few changes regarding move operations. It mostly means extended support in the standard library, but there is also one change directly in the language. Let’s start with...