Friday, October 30, 2020

How to build dependencies as Meson subprojects using SDL as an example

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Today we released version 0.56.0 of the Meson build system. This is an especially important release as it marks the 10 000th commit since th...
Monday, October 26, 2020

The Meson Manual: Good News, Bad News and Good News

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 Starting with good news, the Meson Manual has been update d to a third edition. In addition to the usual set of typo fixes, there is an ent...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Cargo-style dependency management for C, C++ and other languages with Meson

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My previous blog post about modern C++ got a surprising amount of feedback. Some people even reimplemented the program in other languages, i...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Does C++ still deserve the bad rap it has had for so long?

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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...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Is your project a unique snowflake or do you just think that it is?

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If there is a national sport for programmers, it is reinventing existing things from scratch. This seems to be especially common inside corp...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Want GCC's cleanup attribute in Visual Studio? Here's what to do.

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A common pain point for people writing cross platform C code is that they can't use GCC's cleanup attribute and by extension GLib...
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Proposal for a computer game research topic: the walk/game ratio

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I used to play a fair bit of computer games but in the recent years the amount of time spent on games has decreased. Then the lockdown happe...
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