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Ray Bradbury is the best horror writer to have worked in a sci-fi milieu. This story is one of only a couple sci-fi short stories to creep me out enough that I still remember them …

The closing problem is more fun. > A man is twice the age his wife was when he was the age she is now. When she reaches his present age, their combined years will be 100. Find the …

I was there 06-25, and this matches my recollection. Honestly, it's a very restrained document.

The idea sounds good, even if Epic's recent track record of tools is not inspiring. But the commit messages etc. are very clearly products of vibe-coding. And version control is no…

XHTML was never all the rage. Your premise is false. Hard errors up front are great when you control the full content pipeline. It's very rare that that's the case, and was rare ev…

On the contrary, image decoders all run complex processes that try and guess what to do in erroneous cases. I used to maintain Chrome's image decoders, and every single image forma…

(Tangent: What a pleasure to see your username again; will always think of your readability help fondly!)

This list is missing my personal law, Kasting's Law: Asking "who wrote this stupid code?" will retroactively travel back in time and cause it to have been you.

Crowing over omitting Arabic numerals in the name of avoiding any kind of cultural influence or bias seems silly when everything is still going to be expressed in decimal.

C++ module implementation is a story with a lot of drama, if you ever want to read up on it. The short summary, though, is that no toolchain yet has a bulletproof implementation, t…

Yeah, maintainers would certainly +1 a CL that added a note about the parts of //base to use instead. Trivial oversight.

FWIW, I still think the Google Style Guide banning UDLs entirely is too harsh. I think they should be used sparingly, but there are cases where they make sense. In Chromium's UI co…

A cursory Chromium code search does not find anything outside third_party/ forcing either signed or unsigned char. I suspect if I dug into the archives, I'd find a discussion on cx…

Dunno! My last project there was to add support for one of the TI DSPs, but as I said, that's decades past now. Anyway, I think there are two takeaways: 1. There probably do exist …

Yes, reading the actual data would still be UB. Hopefully will be fixed in C++29: https://github.com/cplusplus/papers/issues/592

At least in Chromium that wouldn't help us, because we disable strict aliasing (and have to, as there are at least a few core places where we violate it and porting to an alternati…

When I led C++ style/modernization for Chromium, I made this argument frequently: we should prefer the stdlib version of something unless we have reason not to, because incoming en…

It's weird to me, as the former lead maintainer of this page for ten years or so, that this got submitted to both r/c++ and HN on the same day. Like... what's so exciting about it?…

The majority of things Chromium bans would still get banned in green-field use. Some notable exceptions: we'd have allowed std::shared_ptr and . We might also have allowed and frie…

This bit us in Chromium. We at least discussed forcing the compiler to use unsigned char on all platforms; I don't recall if that actually happened.

Green Hills Software's compiler supports more recent versions of C++ (it uses the EDG frontend) and targets some DSPs. Back when I worked in the embedded space, chips like ZSP were…

I don't think that's an accurate representation. There are a few features like that, but the majority of things banned in the Google style guide are banned for safety, clarity, or …

Both parts of your sentence refer to the Google style guide. This doc isn't the Google style guide. It's the Chromium modern c++ features doc. We don't talk about exceptions or pla…

We have base::Callback for when you'd reach for std::function, which provides superior safety.

Sure; you can roll your own, or you can use one of the many other libraries that provide alternatives. There are obvious downsides to the former, and the latter is basically equiva…