What could possibly go wrong?

Hashing strings in c++ at compile time has been possible since c++11 but is it worth doing? Me and a few colleagues was discussed this over a few beers and it reminded me that I have already written about it here (8 years ago… ARGH I’m getting old!). But a lot of time has passed since I wrote that… and I didn’t make any measurements in that article! shame! SHAME I SAY!

I’m not the one that tinkers a lot with my dev-environment but there are some tools and software that I need and find that they help a lot day to day. And since I like to read about what others use I might as well share some tips on tools that you might also like. My day-to-day OS of choice at home is xubuntu and at work Windows. I hope to make this post a living document so it might be updated from time to time.

Note: before we begin, finding a name for this post was really hard! In this post I’m going to touch on a c++-technique to handle callbacks that I have not seen written about before and that many of my colleagues hadn’t seen before either. Probably it’s not something new and some of you will probably just say “yeah yeah, nothing new under the sun” but it’s probably worth a few words!