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Podcast interview: Rust and C++

Sutter's Mill

Disclaimer: Please just ignore the “vs” part of the “Rust vs C++” title. Rust, while newer, is gaining traction in roles that demand safety and concurrency, particularly in systems programming. Herb works at Microsoft and chairs the ISO C++ standards committee.

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Trip report: February 2025 ISO C++ standards meeting (Hagenberg, Austria)

Sutter's Mill

On Saturday, the ISO C++ committee completed the second-last design meeting of C++26, held in Hagenberg, Austria. Highlights This time, the committee adopted the next set of features for C++26, and made significant progress on other features that are now expected to be complete in time for C+26.

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. When I say “safety” unqualified here, I mean programming language safety, which benefits both software security and software safety. Acknowledgments. Let’s dig in.

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The End of Programming as We Know It

O'Reilly

It is not the end of programming. It is the end of programming as we know it today. Assembly language programming then put an end to that. Then, development of even higher-level compiled languages like Fortran, COBOL, and their successors C, C++, and Java meant that most programmers no longer wrote assembly code.

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What Adrian Did Next — Part 4 — how I helped Netflix launch on iPad and iPhone — 2007 to 2010

Adrian Cockcroft

It was clearly far better hardware than we could build, had a proper full featured operating system on it, and as soon as it shipped, people figured out how to jailbreak it and program it. My homebrew phone project was abandoned and I started to learn Objective C and Apples mobile app development tooling.

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Can Language Models Replace Compilers?

O'Reilly

Python is an interpreted language, so there’s no machine code, but there’s no reason this loop couldn’t incorporate a C or C++ compiler. To people who programmed using circuit diagrams and switches, these early languages looked as radical as programming with generative AI looks today.

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What is behavior analytics?

Dynatrace

Using application programming interfaces (APIs) to instrument a wider range of digital touchpoints. These parameters can include device type, geolocation, app version, browser, and operating system. An organization may collect this data the following ways.

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