CppCon 2017: Louis Brandy “Curiously Recurring C++ Bugs at Facebook”

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a must-watch catalogue of C++ footguns, often cited in debates about Rust and C++ safety.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

CppCon

Topic

c++ bugs

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• No. Sorry for being unclear. [1] is a great video that covers a lot of good stuff in particular this usability bug. It's worth watching in its entirety. If you don't want to sit through the video, here's the broken code in question: void Obj::update() …

• I'm a big fan of Scott Meyer's Effective C++ . It's a little dated now, but it was the most valuable book I'd ever read on the language. Louis Brandy's Curiously Recurring Bugs at Facebook presentation from CppCon17 has somewhat of the same feeling, though …

• There are many differences when it comes to safety: - Like you said, Rust doesn't let you data race on the contents of an Arc. - Rust also doesn't let you data race on the Arc itself (i.e. repointing a global Arc without synchronization). This …