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Unicorns - Mathieu Ropert - CppCon 2020

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Mathieu Ropert delivers a lightning talk at CppCon 2020 exploring myths in the C++ programming community.

cppcon.org/ github.com/CppCon/CppCon2020 --- A brief look at the myth of unicorns throughout history. There's a point to that, I swear! --- French C++ expert working on (somewhat) historical video games. Decided to upgrade his compiler once and has been blogging about build systems ever since. Past speaker at CppCon, Meeting C++ and ACCU. Used to run the Paris C++ User Group. Currently lives in Sweden. --- Work at Hudson River Trading (HRT): tinyurl.com/safxfctf --- Streamed & Edited by Digital Medium Ltd - events.digital-medium.co.ukevents@digital-medium.co.uk *-----* Register Now For CppCon 2022: cppcon.org/registration/ *-----*

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What people say. Recommended as a great lightning talk addressing cultural challenges and myths around using C++ in embedded systems.

u/AudioRevelationsC++ Advocatein r/embedded • Recommends

On “C vs C++ and future of embedded dev”

Great summary. As I've posted a few other times on this sub, I think the biggest challenge regarding C++ in the embedded world is more a cultural one than anything. Well written C++ is undeniably safer, more bug-free, and more performant than C code in the large majority of cases, and I found frequently the reason for people wanting to stay on C was because they didn't want to learn a new language. This is a lightning talk (it's only 5 min and seriously worth it) that was given last cppcon. I started circulating when I was getting into those awful circular arguments about why we are using one technology over another. The "we're unicorns so we can't do X" is a widespread saying within the…
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u/AudioRevelationsC++ Advocatein r/embedded • Recommends

On “What were some of your biggest breakthroughs while learning embedded systems?”

One of the biggest realizations for me is that the industry (for the most part) is stuck in the mid 90's. Modern programming practices are uncommon at best and discouraged at worst, which in my experience leads to a very strange environment of "we can't do X because we're embedded" that most often is based in folklore rather than fact. That being said though, if you can get a good grip on modern programming and apply it to embedded, you will often be seen as a wizard. This talk is super relevant and remains one of my favorite talks.
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