There is a question that occurs often at interviews and in real life: “Why do we need the virtual destructor?” In a very reliable source of knowledge (that is, on the Internet), almost everywhere ...

Link to The Pragmatic Bookshelf. After attending standard so-called “compiler” courses at the university (“formal languages and grammars” and “construction of compilers”), I saw that they were w...

The very recurring topic of “speeding up compilation” is a special fun activity in which many C++ developers who do not like slow compilation took part. I will list the main directions of this acti...

Link to Amazon. This book was given to me as a gift in the Google’s San Francisco office 5.5 years ago. I haven’t touch it all this time until recently. But this is fine - I would not understand...

C++ can’t have strings (or string literals) in switch-expressions as case values. There can only be constant integral values or enum values (an enum itself is an integer type secretly). Such a st...

I wrote something about clang-tidy in this blog previously. It is used to check the code quality. It has a modular architecture - everyone can write their own check and use many checks independentl...

I haven’t posted anything in the blog for a while, but now I have moved, got a WiFi, so I decided to write a post related to thin clients 😎 Year by year the size of big projects grows up, and it b...

TempleOS is an operating system that Terry Davis had been developing for many years alone. The development began after a psychiatric hospitalization, during which Terry was diagnosed with schizophr...

They standardized std::unreachable in C++23. The function has a wacky description: invokes undefined behavior (Prior to C++23 you can use __builtin_unreachable on Linux) There are cases when ...

When I tried to understand how the coroutines (added to C++20) work, I discovered a very small number of understandable explanations on the Internet. In most explanations, the authors begin to rem...