Although QuasarDB is mostly run on Linux, most of the development team works primarily on Windows using Visual Studio. It’s because VS has the most advanced native debugger, sitting on top of the Windows Debug API.
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Since C++ 11 it's possible to use braces for construction and initialization. Although this is something you could ignore for the code you write, it's obviously important to know for the code you may read.
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The topic of commenting source code has been discussed over and over.
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One of the constant reproaches we can hear about C++ is that it is too complex, too hard, too unsafe and has too many features, really these r-value references are useless and dangerous and why would you need variadic templates anyway, and "lol" you are still managing memory manually in 2016.
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Oh what a tangled web we weave when we first try to optimize files inclusion in C++. I can hear your sarcasm other-language programmer developer, feel free to flood the comments sections with something along the lines of “We don’t have this problem in fancy-new-language, you paleo-programmer!”.
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