Battle-tested, Mom-approved

Battle-tested, Mom-approved

A great 2-hour rant on how C++ is the worst programming language ever made. Thank god somebody else made this video so I didn’t have to.

I’m not fond of the AI generated images but whatever, video’s good.

A C++ library to create interactive terminal UI, with a functional API inspired by React.

State machines should be used more than they are, and this is a good example of a high level API

This is a really interesting look in how much of a pain in the ass adding features to C and C++ is.

This reminds me quite a lot of similarly felt issues in the Linux kernel.

Web review of Ervin

S2 is a library for spherical geometry written primarily by Eric Veach:

• Designed to have good performance on large geographic datasets.
• Organized as a toolkit with various layers, that gives clients as much control as possible.
• Works exclusively with spherical projections.
• API available in C++, Go, Java and Python.
• Supports Linux and MacOSX.

Excellent absolutely ancient blog post by the creater of the Sokol library about using arrays and indexes instead of individual memory allocations and direct pointer handling.

D&D-style map of C++

The story of how YouTube outpaced Google Videos. Conclusion: type annotations are a plague 😭