Today we’ll continue to explore the C++ Standard Library by delving into its utility classes and functions. These extremely common tools provide us with basics like std::tuple whose C# equivalent is so essential it’s built right into the language.
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In today’s final article covering the C++ language, we’ll explore a new C++20 feature: coroutines. These are analogous to both C# iterator functions (i.e. those with yield) and C# async functions. There are a lot of interesting aspects of coroutines, so let’s dive in explore!
C# generics (List<T>) look a lot like C++ templates (list<T>), but they’re different in many key ways. It’s a big subject, so today we’ll start by looking at some of the most common uses of templates: applying them to classes, functions, members, lambdas, and variables.
The vast majority of the code we write executes at runtime. Today’s article is about the other kind of code, which runs during compilation. C# has very limited support for this. In C++, especially its newer versions, most of the language features are usable at compile-time. Read on to learn how to take advantage of this!
Both C++ and C# have lambdas, but they have quite a few differences. Today we’ll go into how C++ lambdas work, including all their features and how they compare and contrast with C# lambdas. Read on to learn all the details!
With structs wrapped up, we can move on to other features of C++. Today we’ll take a look at namespaces. We’ll cover the basics that C# provides, but go so much further and cover a lot of advanced functionality. Read on to learn all about them!
Today we’ll wrap up structs and classes by discussing a bunch of miscellaneous features: local classes, unions, overloaded assignment operators, and user-defined literals. C# doesn’t have any of these features, but it can emulate some of them. Read on to learn a bunch of new tricks!
The series continues today by picking up where we left off with pointers. We’ll discuss a popularly-used alternative in C++: references. These are quite different from the various concepts of references in C#!
Today we’ll continue the series with a look into pointers and, very differently from C#, the related concepts of arrays and strings. We’ll cover some interesting C++-only features, such as function pointers along the way.
The series continues today with functions. These are obviously core to any programming language, but it’s not obvious how many ways they differ from functions in C#. From compile-time execution to automatic return value types, there are a lot of differences to cover today.