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C++ Language Design and Evolution is a book written by C++ author Bjarne Stroustrup, discussing the thought process and trade-offs from the conception and design to the actual implementation of C++. It is arguably the only book on the market written from the perspective of a language designer on language design.

There are many issues where we should not only know How, but also understand Why, as this allows for a deeper comprehension of the subject. Fortunately, “C++ Language Design and Evolution” is precisely that kind of book. Recently, I realized many aspects of C++ that I only knew How but did not understand Why (too much was sacrificed for compatibility with C), and this article serves as a reading note and a record of Why, which I will gradually organize.

This article excerpts some content from the official Unreal Engine blog post: Capturing Stereoscopic 360 Screenshots, Videos, Movies in Unreal Engine 4, while the rest corrects errors in that article and provides a ready-to-use solution.

These past few days, I’ve been enthusiastic about reading CSAPP, and I even posted yesterday that reading CSAPP is more enjoyable than reading Modern Operating Systems (haha).

Smart pointers, as one of the most important features of C++11, were originally recorded in C++11 Syntactic Sugar, but this part is so important that I have recently been relatively free (逃) and decided to summarize it in detail separately.

Recently, I’ve been experimenting with a few development-related tools that can be considered artifacts. As the saying goes, “A workman must sharpen his tools before he can work well.” I’ll take some time to organize and write about it.

As a C++ developer and Linux user, I often write code on Linux. Recently, I discovered VisualGDB (a VS plugin), which is a fantastic tool that allows me to write and run programs directly on Linux from Windows! The debugging experience is even better!

In the past few days, I helped a colleague set up a VPS for proxy use and organized some related materials along the way. This article is not aimed at beginners. Before reading the following content, you should first have a VPS that can access the external network (foreign network), and secondly, you should have some basic knowledge of Linux operations.

From the time I began learning C language to now, it has been five or six years, during which I have read quite a few good and bad books, tried many tools (the holy war of compilers/editors), and here I will summarize everything in detail. After messing around for a long time, I have come to a kind of thought, which is different from the “take-it-for-granted” mindset; it is an experience of “doing it yourself.”

It’s hard to believe that I will soon graduate from university. Although I have learned (and struggled with) quite a lot during my time at university, I still feel that I need to improve and keep working hard.
I have a few thoughts about the future, and I will write them down at this moment to motivate myself.

These days are the time for the college entrance examination, and it reminds me of a few years ago when I took the exam. Back then, I was still too young, thinking that if I had something I wanted to pursue, I should go for it, wasting a lot of time learning programming. But looking back now, it’s important to study hard in high school, as a degree is indeed a threshold for just graduating.