…and tools and environments that matter. Back on C++ for the moment as the APIs I’m looking to use are only available to native Win32 code. I also want to broaden my comfort zone in C++ 2011\/2014\/2017 a bit more as I’ve been doing far more C#, Java and JavaScript lately than C++.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I expect to finish the current piece of tool code in C++ and then look at wrapping it (or perhaps a C++\/CLI equivalent) in a WPF\/C# UI tool for managing file duplication\/archiving. Depending on how things go I might play with some ASP.NET Core\/Angular code on this front too but not sure at the moment. I need to get a better handle on my current sprawl of archival storage without losing anything that matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reading through Effective Java Third Edition<\/a> and re-reading Effective Modern C++<\/a> (with some digressions into The C++ Standard Library Second Edition<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n It does take a bit of reorienting when switching between Java\/C#\/JavaScript and C++ as C++ is the only language where most things aren’t pointers (references, but effectively the same thing).\u00a0 Keeping things local and cleanly life-cycle managed is a rather different mind-set than the more free-wheeling approaches that the garbage collected languages encourage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …and tools and environments that matter. Back on C++ for the moment as the APIs I’m looking to use are only available to native Win32 code. I also want to broaden my comfort zone in C++ 2011\/2014\/2017 a bit more as I’ve been doing far more C#, Java and JavaScript lately than C++. I expect … Continue reading So many languages…<\/span>