Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code Paperback Kindle

Foreword by Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ and co-editor of the C++ Core Guidelines

I enjoyed reading this book. I enjoyed it especially because it presents the C++ Core Guidelines (CG) very differently from how the CG itself does it. The CG presents its rules relatively tersely in a fixed format. The CG rules are often expressed in language-technical terms with an emphasis on enforcement through static analysis. This book tells stories, many coming from the games industry based on the evolution of code and techniques over decades. It presents the rules from a developer’s point of view with an emphasis on what benefits can be obtained from following the rules and what nightmares can result from ignoring them. There are more extensive discussions of the motivation for rules than the CG themselves can offer.