[iorrus]

Do they have a coding style or similar in which this is outlined?

I had a quick look at the code but I would be interested in what "a style that is something between C and C++" actually entails.

Avoiding templates but using classes/namespaces? Minimizing use of the stl?

[s9w]

Kindof. Almost no standard library but it does use namespaces. (almost) no templates. Lots of pointers and arrays. Lots of explicit begin/end or push/pop functions instead of more idiomatic solutions like RAII/scope guards etc. va_ macros instead of variadic templates or fold expressions.

Also while ImGUI is great and the guy follows good coding practices - it's not at all what I would recommend for learning C++. Not only is it technically not C++, but the problem it solves (GUI-Framework and immediate on top) leads to some pretty hard to follow code with a lot of hidden global state.

[gpderetta]

> Lots of explicit begin/end or push/pop functions instead of more idiomatic solutions like RAII/scope guards etc. va_ macros instead of variadic templates or fold expressions.

I'm going to have nightmares tonight.

[s9w]

It's a simple API, that's for sure. But it's pretty consistent in itself and obviously is trivial to build abstractions upon. Also makes it easy to port to other languages.

[ncmncm]

That sounds like uniformly bad code.

[iorrus]

Thanks that’s a great explanation