cpp.md

C++

To use all of the latest JUCE features you should at least use C++14 as your standard. Any newer standard works as well.

Idioms

If the list of idioms & language features below seems familiar to you, you're at a great starting point. If not, I have provided some resources below.

• Composition
• Inheritance
  • virtual / override / final
  • CppCon 2017: Louis Dionne “Runtime Polymorphism: Back to the Basics”
• Lambdas
  • CppCon 2019: Arthur O'Dwyer “Back to Basics: Lambdas from Scratch”
• RAII
  • CppCon 2019: Arthur O'Dwyer “Back to Basics: RAII and the Rule of Zero”
• Constexpr
  • CppCon 2015: Scott Schurr “constexpr: Introduction”
  • CppCon 2015: Scott Schurr “constexpr: Applications"
• Atomic/Lock
  • CppCon 2019: Rainer Grimm “Atomics, Locks, and Tasks (part 1 of 2)”
  • CppCon 2019: Rainer Grimm “Atomics, Locks, and Tasks (part 2 of 2)”
• Smart Pointer (unique & shared)
  • CppCon 2019: Arthur O'Dwyer “Back to Basics: Smart Pointers”
• Exceptions:
  • CppCon 2019: Ben Saks “Back to Basics: Exception Handling and Exception Safety”
• Where possible: noexcept/const
  • CppCon 2019: Dan Saks “Back to Basics: Const as a Promise”
• Container
  • array
  • vector
  • map