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Hello! My go-to language to develop something that needs high performance has been C++. I do a lot of high frequency transactions, systems programming (implement tiny compilers/interpreters for domain specific problems and such), personal projects, etc. and I usually start my projects in C++. But it is increasingly looking like Rust can solve all the problems that C++ can without losing performance and while...

Did you ever wonder where undefined, true, and other core JavaScript objects come from? These objects are the atoms of any user defined object and need to be there first. V8 calls them immovable immutable roots and they live in their own heap – the read-only heap. Since they are used constantly, quick access is cruc...

The primary motivation for defining a class in C++ is to reflect and maintain a class invariant. In this post we will see what class invariants are and how you deal with them. Class invariants are important part of C++, even though there is no “invariant” keyword in C++. Contrast the following two class definitions:...

By now you should have heard that various government agencies are issuing clear recommendations against using languages that aren’t memory safe by default. This led many to wonder what the future viability of C++ was. I’m an avid C++ programmer but when faced with the reality of how software is built, I have to applaud the effort here. Sure, maybe I trust myself to...