Tang VS cppinsights

A template language that I wrote for generating HTML. Meant to be included as a C++ library. https://github.com/Ghoti-io/Tang

Plenty of other C++ code of mine is on Github (such as a bunch of utility stuff, a thread pool, and a HTTP server that I'm writing from scratch), even though I would only call myself an intermediate C++ programmer. I just happen to like the language.

Or, if I had to throw other stuff into the mix, a fairly recent patch to Manim (Python) that got accepted (https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/3155).

If I were really pressed, I would dig up a lot of my Drupal (PHP) stuff that I did years ago.

1. Realize that it is impossible to become an expert in everything.

2. Realize that it is very possible to become an expert in targeted areas.

3. Pick the targeted area that you enjoy the most and that makes the most $$$.

4. DO SOMETHING with the knowledge. Don't just acquire knowledge, because you will forget it. Build something useful... something that you can show off! THAT is the point at which people will start looking at you as the expert.

Personal note: I decided that I wanted to create a useful, non-trivial programming language, so I built one entirely on video. Github link: https://github.com/coreyp1/Tang Youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZqirAnnqaCZ8lT8w7p2P...

Guess what? NOBODY is going to watch the videos, and I know that. But I did it for myself. People look at 2 things: the end result, and the fact that it was me that did it. I'm STILL not an expert at Vim, Flex, Bison, ICU, Make, or programming language design in general, but I absolutely know much, much more than I did starting out, and I learned things that I didn't anticipate. Most of all, though, I found the process personally very rewarding.

Sorry, I don't know about an Emacs plugin. All the plugins/extensions I'm aware of are listed in the Readme.md: https://github.com/andreasfertig/cppinsights/#c-insights--vi...

I'm happy to add an entry for Emacs once somebody develops a plugin for that editor.

Thank you! This is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for.

I found the source at https://github.com/andreasfertig/cppinsights

You can put it into https://cppinsights.io/ and see the conversions that happen under the hood.

I tried this at https://cppinsights.io/ to see what is generated for something like:

> https://cppinsights.io/ it's a must so you can investigate what gets generated by templates behind the scenes.

> http://eel.is/c++draft/ bookmark this, you will need it!

Now, about books I would suggest the latest "A tour of C++" by Bjarne Stroustrup; it's ideal for experienced programmers that want to learn modern C++ rather fast.

Other books would be Scott Meyers' Effective Series, Andrei Alexandrescu and Herb Sutter are a must, and of course Jason Turner's "C++ Weekly" series [1]; of course apart from the books, the links I have originally shared are more than enough to cover everything around C++.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/lefticus1/videos

https://cppinsights.io/ it's a must so you can investigate what gets generated by templates behind the scenes.

Try https://cppinsights.io. For example, go to https://cppinsights.io/s/8401262a and click the play button at the top left.

If you're doing something more complex, you might need metashell. See http://metashell.org/manual/how_to/index.html#see-what-templ.... But you have to really, deeply, love C++ to get much out of it.