Core and other guidelines. The good, the bad, the... questionable? - Arne Mertz - NDC TechTown 2024

This talk was recorded at NDC TechTown in Kongsberg, Norway. #ndctechtown #ndcconferences #developer #softwaredeveloper Attend the next NDC conference near you: https://ndcconferences.com https://ndctechtown.com/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel and learn every day: / @NDC Follow our Social Media! https://www.facebook.com/ndcconferences https://twitter.com/NDC_Conferences https://www.instagram.com/ndc_conferences/ #cplusplus #technique Books, blogs, and especially the C++ Core Guideline project usually contain useful guidelines and best practices towards writing better C++ and software in general. Quite often, these guidelines get retold countless times and are stripped of their rationale and reduced to single sentence rules that are blindly followed. In this talk, we explore a number of C++ Core Guidelines and other best practices and compare them to the form in which they have appeared in actual project style guides. We will compare the original intent to the effect of their application in those instances. In the end, we will draw conclusions how guidelines should be chosen and applied to projects to get the most benefit out of them without bogging the team down with needless bureaucracy.