C++ Best Practices

About

This repo contains list of C++ tools, coding standards and best practices with which I've encountered over the years.

List

Tools

• cpplint
  • An automated checker to make sure a C++ file follows Google's C++ style guide
• clang-tidy
  • Clang-based C++ “linter” tool.
  • extensible framework for diagnosing and fixing typical programming errors, like style violations, interface misuse, or bugs that can be deduced via static analysis.
  • provides a convenient interface for writing new checks.
• ninja
  • Small build system with a focus on speed
  • Supports CMake's Ninja backend
• CMake
  • Cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software
• CMake C++ Project template
  • Template for C++ projects using CMake, CI, code coverage, clang-format, reproducible dependency management and much more.
• Cppcheck
  • Static analysis
  • Misra rule texts
  • Open source
• clang-format
  • C++ code formatter
  • Can be implemented in the Build server, Link
• Clang indexer
  • Parse source code into an abstract syntax tree (AST)
  • Python bindings
• GoogleTest
  • Google’s C++ testing and mocking framework.
• grep.app
  • Search across a half million git repos
  • Very fast
• Valgrind
  • Number of debugging and profiling tools
  • Detects memory-related errors common in C/C++
• Google Benchmark
  • Benchmark C/C++ code snippets similar to unit tests
• Ditto
  • Windows Clipboard manager
  • Helps with copy-paste-ing code
• Everything
  • Locate files and folders by name instantly
• Compiler Explorer
  • Lets you type code in one window and see the results of its compilation in another window
• Wandbox
  • Run code trough the different compilers
• C++ Library project with CMake
• Conan package manager
  • The open source, decentralized and multi-platform package manager to create and share all your native binaries.
  • See the Conan introduction in the Knowledge base

Knowledge base

• cppreference
  • C++ reference web page
• Interrupt blog
  • Blog about embedded C/C++ programming
• Feabhas blog
  • Blog about developing software for real-time and embedded systems
• Declaration of VAR
  • Quality blog about software development in general
• Learn C++
  • Website devoted to teaching you how to program in C++
• Software Engineering at Google
  • Book about Google Software engineering principles with designing, architecting, writing, and maintaining code.
• Handbook of Data Structures and Applications
  • Discussion of well-known classes of data structures: Priority Queues, Dictionary Structures and Multidimensional structures.
  • Mechanisms and tools that were developed to facilitate the use of data structures in real programs.
  • Examination of the applications of data structures
• C++ Tools Ecosystem
  • Collection of various C++ tools
• C/C++ Google Style Guides
  • Most open-source projects developed by Google conform to the requirements in this guide.
• cppbestpractices
  • Collaborative Collection of C++ Best Practices
• C++ (and Rust, embedded, ...) Talks List
  • A list of talks about C++, Rust, embedded and related subjects compiled from youtube playlists
  • WARNING: Contains a lot of talks
• CMake Inheritance explained
  • Blog post where author explains how CMake inheritance works and how to use it.
• Introduction to Conan package manager
  • Blog creates Demo project where it includes several libraries liked with the Conan package manager. Demo project is then built with CMake.
• Application bootstrap layer for various C/C++ platforms
  • It's main goal is to provide compiler configuration for target platform, and abstraction of launching main application thread on target platform.
• CppCon 2018: Mateusz Pusz “Git, CMake, Conan - How to ship and reuse our C++ projects”
  • Provides great detail about how to use modern CMake to properly setup projects and also it teaches us how to use modern package manager called Conan.