In this blog post, we’ll look at several different view/reference types introduced in Modern C++. The first one is string_view added in C++17. C++20 brought std::span and ranges views. The last addition is std::mdspan from C++23. Let’s start. String View (C++17)   The std::string_view type is a non-owning reference to a string.

Learn how the overload pattern works for std::variant visitation and how it changed with C++20 and C++23. While I was doing research for my book and blog posts about C++17 several times, I stumbled upon this pattern for visitation of std::variant: template<class... Ts> struct overload : Ts... { using Ts::operator()...; }; template<class.

Today, I’ll show you my review of a cool book, “Beautiful C++,” written by two well-known C++ experts and educators: Kate Gregory and Guy Davidson. The book’s unique style gives us a valuable perspective on effective and safe C++ code. Let’s see what’s inside. Disclaimer: I got a free copy from the publisher.

In this post we’ll have a look at new operations added to std::optional in C++23. These operations, inspired by functional programming concepts, offer a more concise and expressive way to work with optional values, reducing boilerplate and improving code readability. Let’s meet and_then(), transform() and or_else(), new member functions. Traditional Approach with if/else and optional C++20   In C++20 when you work with std::optional you have to rely heavily on conditional checks to ensure safe access to the contained values.

From dynamic container operations to compile-time constants, C++ offers a variety of techniques (as in this famous Meme :)). In this article, we’ll delve into advanced initialization methods likereserve() and emplace_backfor containers to tuples with piecewise_construct and forward_as_tuple. Thanks to those techniques, we can reduce the number of temporary objects and create variables more efficiently.

In this article, we’d shed some light on the implementation of ranges::reverse_view and std::views::reverse. We’ll compare them to understand the differences between views and their adaptor objects. Let’s jump in. ranges::reverse_view and std::views::reverse in Action   Let’s look at an example to understand how these views work. Assume we have a range r of integers from 1 to 5.

Lots of practical examples, general programming, software development techniques, OOP, parallel algorithms, plus C++ to combine it all into working applications. This is a short introduction to the book “Introduction to Programming with C++” by Prof. Boguslaw Cyganek, an excellent book for students who start their journey with system coding.

In my last article, we discussed Finite State Machines based on std::variant and some cool C++17 techniques. Today I want to go further and show you an example of a Vending Machine implementation. Here’s the previous article Finite State Machine with std::variant - C++ Stories States & Events   Here’s a basic diagram that illustrates how the machine is going to work:

In this blog post, I’ll show you how to convert a “regular” enum-style finite state machine into a modern version based on std::variant from C++17. This technique allows you to improve design, work with value types and enhance code quality. States   Let’s start with a basic example: we want to track a game player’s health status we’d like to respond to events like “Hit by a monster” or “Healing bonus.

Last week the ISO committee met in Varna to discuss some of the first batch of C++26 features. It’s an excellent occasion to shed some light on the latest status and interesting C++ proposals. Let’s start! By the way: This will be my first blog post with the #cpp26 tag!

A few years ago (see here, I showed an interesting implementation for self-registering classes in factories. It works, but one step might be at the edge of Undefined behavior. Fortunately, with C++20, its new constinit keyword, we can update the code and ensure it’s super safe. Intro   Let’s bring back the topic:

C++ allows us to declare various forms of non-local objects: they usually live throughout the execution of the whole program. In this article, we’ll look at global variables, dynamic, and thread-local objects. We’ll also consider new features for safe initialization C++20. This text comes from my book “C++ Initialization Story”.