Nibble Stew

A gathering of development thoughts of Jussi Pakkanen. Some of you may know him as the creator of the Meson build system. jpakkane at gmail dot com

How many of you have listened, read or taken part in a discussion about programming languages that goes like the following: Person A: "Pro...

Note: Everything that follows is purely my personal opinion as an individual. It should not be seen as any sort of policy of the Meson buil...

The C++ standard library (also know as the STL) is, without a doubt, an astounding piece of work. Its scope, performance and incredible back...

Designing APIs is hard. Designing good APIs that future people will not instantly classify as "total crap" is even harder. There are typical...

Whenever a new programming language becomes popular its fanpersons start evangelizing its virtues by going to existing projects and filing b...

The relative performance of C and C++ is the stuff of folk legends and Very Strong Opinions. There are microbenchmarks that can prove differ...

Traditionally C++ has been seen by many (and you know who you are) as just plain bad: the code is unreadably verbose, error messages are und...