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by wirthjason 1208 days ago
C++ needs a “missing semester” around tooling. Most material I see focus on the core language but leave out setting up build systems, package management, clang tidy, testing etc.
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dls2016 1208 days ago
Yeah, the whole aspect of teaching C++ to beginners is fraught with tooling issues. That school is moving to Python (years after main campus switched)... but I'm not sure how I feel about that since I spent a lot of time talking about memory layout.

I ended up suggesting those who don't know how to setup a tool chain use VS Code. Not out of any particular affinity for it, but because of the good documentation covering Windows, Linux and macOS.

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no_wizard 1208 days ago
How do you do package management in C/C++?

I have only used pip, cargo, npm (well yarn and pnpm mostly) and composer.

Big off putting aspect of learning C/C++ is that I can’t grok how shared libraries work very well

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3836293648 1208 days ago
A mix of actual package managers, distro packages and just cloning the library into a 3rd_party folder in your project
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