Update 2021 Apr
Modern times. Godbolt and the proper immediately obvious test online. Continue reading
Ok. Let us see what has changed in “people’s heads” in the last 6 years. Or the last 10+ years since the original post.
ps: ok I was an idealist, I admit. But only about software that is. Hardware prophecy has been fulfilled.
[Previous Post: 2014 Dec 28] Continue reading
The point is: Someone has to pay
Software development is often a risky business. The stakeholder’s point of view is rather important. The stakeholder has one question: Is that feasible? The question for you today is: Is it feasible to invest in C++ based development? Continue reading
[ Update 2021-03-18 ]
There was “a bug the size of the house” in there. strlen and strnlen do not count the end of string char. Of course. Godbolt code is here.Copy away. Continue reading
The purpose of this post is to show and explain a bit more about the practical usage of C++ “lambda power”. This time in developing a light, fully functional, fast, and hopefully not that often seen, matrix creation utility. Functional programming style.
GitHub gist is here. The previous post with another very interesting matrix variation is here.
Update 2021 MAR: The gist version 6 is a major update. Matrix related code does not use the std:: lib any more.
Release 0.6.0
Pompously named epiphany.h is added. Idea is to turn some implicit conversion warnings into errors. Just enough to make your code not compilable without the help of nothing_but<T>. Also data() method and assignment methods got their ref. qualified variants. In order to stop taking data from temporary objects and to stop assigning to temporary objects. Continue reading