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He designed C++ to solve your code problems
Ryan welcomes Bjarne Stroustrup, designer of C++ and professor at Columbia, to the show to dive into all things C++, from its history to where it's going today. They discuss its first emergence as a way to bridge high-level abstractions with low-level systems control, the criticisms some have around memory safety and null pointers (and how to solve these problems in your code), and why “move to Rust” thinking is too simplistic for modern codebases.
Episode notes:
Keep up with everything happening with C++ at the Standard C++ Foundation’s website.
Connect with Bjarne on LinkedIn and explore more of his work at his website.
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