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Modern C and What We Can Learn From It - Luca Sas [ ACCU 2021 ]

ACCU Conference · talk · Watch on YouTube

C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesSoftware architecture & design

What it is

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 Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as a good overview of modern C patterns, including in threads about learning C.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “If you haven’t watched it, I can recommend it.”

    Explains modern C techniques and mentions the Cedro approach.

    AlbertoGP, 2021-08 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: C programming language extension: Cedro pre-processor”

  2. “Modern C and What We Can Learn From It - Luca Sas [ ACCU 2021 ]”

    Offered as example of a C conference talk.

    belter, 2022-08 · Recommendation · in “Why aren't there C conferences? (2018)”

  3. “This video gives a good overview of some modern patterns in C”

    Good overview of modern C patterns.

    thom, 2022-12 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Learn C in 2023?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: c language, data-oriented design, memory management, api design, error handling

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