favorite-cpp-resources

C++14 libs

• https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt [conan]

  std::format from C++20 available in C++14

• https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2.git [conan]

  For unit testing

• https://github.com/google/googletest [conan]

  For unit testing and mocking

• https://github.com/eranpeer/FakeIt [conan]

  For mocking

• https://github.com/rollbear/trompeloeil [conan]

  For mocking

• https://github.com/mapbox/variant.git

  For a close implementation of std::variant and std::optional (in C++17) available with C++14

• https://github.com/ericniebler/range-v3 [conan]

  Range library for C++14/17/20, basis for C++20's std::ranges

• https://github.com/gabime/spdlog [conan]

  Fast C++ logging library.

C++17

• https://github.com/hanickadot/compile-time-regular-expressions [conan]

  Compile time very efficient REGEX

• https://github.com/xroche/stringswitch

  Efficient switch on string

• https://github.com/Neargye/magic_enum [conan]

  Enum static reflection

Alternative STL

• https://github.com/facebook/folly [conan]

  Facebook Open-source Library

• https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL [conan]

  Electronic Arts Standard Template Library

• https://github.com/bloomberg/bde/tree/master/groups/bsl

  BSL (Basic Standard Library) part of BDE Libraries

• https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp [conan]

  Abseil : C++ Common Libraries:

  [...] designed to augment the C++ standard library [...] collected from Google's own C++ code base

Functional Programming in C++

• https://github.com/arximboldi/lager

  Value-oriented design using the unidirectional data-flow architecture

• https://github.com/arximboldi/immer

  Postmodern immutable and persistent data structures for C++

• https://github.com/serge-sans-paille/frozen [conan]

  Header-only library that provides 0 cost initialization for immutable containers, fixed-size containers, and various algorithms.

• https://github.com/Dobiasd/FunctionalPlus

  Functional Programming Library for C++.

• https://github.com/graninas/cpp_functional_programming

  List of materials about functional programming in C++

• https://github.com/TartanLlama/expected

  C++11/14/17 std::expected with functional-style extensions

• Good samples (need more analysis)

  • https://gist.github.com/splinterofchaos/4112114
  • https://github.com/toby-allsopp/coroutine_monad
  • https://github.com/dkormalev/cefal (C++20)
  • https://github.com/dkormalev/asynqro
  • https://github.com/BartoszMilewski/Okasaki (aside talk)
  • https://github.com/graninas/cpp_stm_free
  • https://github.com/loopperfect/neither

Tools

Profiler

• https://github.com/yse/easy_profiler [conan]

  • to build it on macOS, use:

  cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/qt@5/5.15.2 -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++-9 -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc-9 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" ..
  

• https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy

  • to build it on macOS, use:

  brew install freetype capstone gtk glfw
  make -C profiler/build/unix release
  

  • to build it on Linux Ubuntu 20.02, use:

  apt install libcapstone-dev libtbb-dev libglfw3-dev libfreetype6-dev libgtk-3-dev
  make -C profiler/build/unix release  
  

• https://github.com/bombomby/optick

Benchmark

• https://github.com/google/benchmark [conan]

Experimental

• Reflection with Circle : https://www.circle-lang.org

Bits operations

• http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
• http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/blog/?p=78
• https://bits.stephan-brumme.com
• http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/

Book references

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-book-guide-and-list?answertab=active#tab-top

List of lists

• https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp

• https://github.com/rigtorp/awesome-modern-cpp

Ref cards

• GDB/LLDB command command map : https://lldb.llvm.org/use/map.html

unexpected optimizations

• "Three Optimization Tips For C++" by Andrei Alexandrescu pdf
• “Speed Is Found In The Minds of People" by Andrei Alexandrescu pdf