Reusable Code, Reusable Data Structures - Sebastian Theophil - CppCon 2024

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Reusable Code, Reusable Data Structures - Sebastian Theophil - CppCon 2024
Slides: https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2024/blob/main/Presentations/Reusable_Code_Reusable_Data_Structures.pdf
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DRY -- don't repeat yourself -- is an important software engineering principle. Repetitive code is error-prone code. Inevitably, and sooner rather than later, we will forget to change one of these repetitive code locations. C++ offers many different tools to share code and data and I often see novice and intermediate programmers struggle with choosing the best one in each situation. We have template functions, template classes, std::variant, virtual classes and std::any. We have some common associated programming patterns like CRTP, templated base classes, template functions taking function arguments. All of these have their uses and in my talk, I want to develop some intuitions on when to use which.

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Sebastian Theophil

Sebastian has been working at think-cell since its founding in 2002. In the last few years, among many other things, he has ported think-cell to run on macOS. He is also the maintainer of the typescripten project which lets programmers call JavaScript libraries from C++ code compiled to WebAssembly in a convenient and type-safe way. He enjoys leaving his desk from time to time to talk at international C++ conferences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zkDeiyF5Rc