Gentoo Linux and VIM worshiper, C developer, network protocol dissector implementer,socket/network programmer, recently entered the embedded world, hater of buzzwords and made up titles
Great article. I spent the last 8 years doing only c++ network programming. Then after thinking things through, I thought to myself that this is overly complex for what I'm doing and OOP is something I can live without. Also, I can easily replicate it with function pointers which I also use in C++ anyway.
This was just a quick intro, you should stick with C++ if you like it; you wrote a great post about it anyway. Now, here's the reason I'm writing this comment; there's an alternative to Valgrind which you could consider using once you get more acquainted with C++. Valgrind incurrs 20x slowdon or was 10x I don't rememeber honestly, but it can get quite slow and eat up a huge amount of memory. The other alternative that doesn't cause any noticeable slowdown are gcc/clang fsanitize methods
I have used Valgrind but these days I mostly use -fsanitize gcc/clang switches since they don't cause such a major slowdown and memory consumption.
Great article. I spent the last 8 years doing only c++ network programming. Then after thinking things through, I thought to myself that this is overly complex for what I'm doing and OOP is something I can live without. Also, I can easily replicate it with function pointers which I also use in C++ anyway.
This was just a quick intro, you should stick with C++ if you like it; you wrote a great post about it anyway. Now, here's the reason I'm writing this comment; there's an alternative to Valgrind which you could consider using once you get more acquainted with C++. Valgrind incurrs 20x slowdon or was 10x I don't rememeber honestly, but it can get quite slow and eat up a huge amount of memory. The other alternative that doesn't cause any noticeable slowdown are gcc/clang fsanitize methods
When I first started coding in C++ I also usw Valgrind; not even sure if fsanitize methods were available back then.
Happy programming and congrats on this great post.
DF