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Modern C and What We Can Learn From It - Luca Sas [ ACCU 2021 ]
Luca Sas's ACCU 2021 talk on Modern C, a style of C and C-like C++ aligned with data-oriented design. It covers centralized memory management, zero-is-initialization, error handling and API design.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a good overview of modern C patterns, including in threads about learning C.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- ACCU Conference
- Topic
- modern c programming
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2022
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From the original HN conversations
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Yes, that’s a very clean and robust approach. In the “Deferred resource release → Related work” section, one of the links is to a video from the ACCU 2021 conference by Luca Sas titled “Modern C and What We Can Learn From It” that explains …
AlbertoGP on Hacker News · 2021-08
In Show HN: C programming language extension: Cedro pre-processor"Modern C and What We Can Learn From It - Luca Sas [ ACCU 2021 ]" - [VIDEO] "Linux User/Kernel ABI: the realities of how C and C++ programs really talk to the OS - Greg Law" - [LINK]
belter on Hacker News · 2022-08
In Why aren't there C conferences? (2018)Modern C by Jens Gustedt is quite good. This video gives a good overview of some modern patterns in C: [VIDEO] I think the best thing you can do is go find a unit testing library you like the look of, maybe some tools for …
thom on Hacker News · 2022-12
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