Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++

Re:Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++ by vvanders on Friday July 22, 2016 @10:21AM (#12143654)

Large difference there is that in those systems you opt-in and only pay for it in the classes you want(which is more in line with C++).

In the case of Unreal we used it to extend the RTTI system to to more things than just isA(). Stuff like member properties(editor hints in window), serialization(network & disk) and stuff you'd use C# attributes for.

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Re:Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++ by pjmlp on Friday July 22, 2016 @10:57AM (#12143914)

I guess C++ would have been more well served by having static RTTI, but if it comes will be only on C++20 most likely, although type traits and template meta-programming already get us half way there.

However when I look to such examples, I am quite happy to spend most of my time on JVM/CLR lands.

It is not the meta-programming as such, rather the decltype, trailing return types and SFINAE tricks that put me off.

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