Thursday, 21 August 2025

What's the fuss about template for and :expand: in C++26?

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As reflection was (lately) voted into the C++ language* and we can see more and more blog posts about its usages and advantages**, one canno...
Wednesday, 9 November 2022

Why Qt containers? And do we ❤️ them?

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I have read the following post titled  "I ❤️ Qt containers! :)" on the Qt Development mailing list and found it extremely interes...
Tuesday, 27 September 2022

Guest post - An Extraterrestrial Guide to C++20 Text Formatting

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This is a guest post  which was written by Victor Zverovich* (aka @vzverovich ) for  C++ Stories and which I liked so much (not least becau...
Friday, 26 August 2022

Do we need the Y-combinator in C++?

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You may (or may not...) have heard of the Y-combinator proposal for the C++ standard library. If you are like me, then you may have been ...
Thursday, 30 June 2022

Some praise for my Qt book

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You might perhaps already know that I recently wrote a  book  (blogged about it  here )!  In the book I discussed various general program pe...
Tuesday, 4 January 2022

Named parameters for C++11 with variadic templates vs a language feature

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As I'm a little obsessed with emulating Python-style named parameters in C++ (of which several previous posts on this blog could serve ...
Friday, 31 December 2021

Beauty in Software Design (and Programming)

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Recently I repeatedly heard the phrases "beautiful"/"not beautiful" used to describe and grade a software design, a bu...