C++ explained to my dog

I was quickly looking at LinkedIn, and found a post with a few good questions about the rule of five.

Yesterday I was cooking risotto for dinner and, as part of the process, I had to slice onions.

This won’t be a long post, I promise.

There’s this annoying thing I’ve seen this in many codebases, and I’ve wrote it myself during the years.

Recently, a C++ committee meeting happened in Wroclaw.

I see that many still tend to misunderstand the use of the inline keyword, and I do understand them, as I was part of that team years ago.

Also available in Italian On Twitter recently someone posted this picture: Ok, that’s C#, but we can (and will, in a few lines) rewrite it in C++.

The challenge In a recent post, I shown how a GPT-3 based AI can perform in a C++ interview, giving the impression to know C++.

I’ve been testing GitHub Copilot recently, to see how far it can be pushed, and I must say that, for C++ applications alone, I’m happy with the results, but not too impressed.

This post is also available in Italian.