snake VS tomlplusplus

I worked on a snake game few days back. The solo motive of game was to write highly testable code. So, in case of random fruit generation and all the game state needed to be testable. https://github.com/RishabhRD/snake

Repository: https://github.com/RishabhRD/snake

Unless you want to make your own config file parser as an exercise (which is a good idea) I'd recommend using toml++.

It's a public repo - this one: https://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus but thank you

For a live demo, see the toml++ homepage: https://marzer.github.io/tomlplusplus/

Added bonus, tomlplusplus is a solid C++ implementation, actively updated, and easy to drop into a project (header only, CMake, vcpkg, Conan, etc.). Very easy to use for what I've needed.

Key links: - Homepage: https://marzer.github.io/tomlplusplus/ - Repository: https://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus - "What is TOML?": https://toml.io/

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.23) project(testProj) set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 23) set(FETCHCONTENT_BASE_DIR ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/${CMAKE_PROJECT_NAME}/libs CACHE PATH "Missing description." FORCE) include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare( tomlplusplus GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus.git GIT_TAG v3.1.0 ) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(tomlplusplus) add_executable(testProj testProj/src/main.cpp) target_link_libraries(testProj tomlplusplus)

I use them in toml++ to store the path of the source document for all the data nodes parsed from that document. Storing it as a separate std::string allocation for every single object would have been very wasteful, and the alternative would have been to make an overall document class that owned everything, which I didn't want to do, so shared_ptr was a good compromise.

Key links: - Homepage: https://marzer.github.io/tomlplusplus/ - Repository: https://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus - "What is TOML?": https://toml.io/

toml++ was both my first 'public'/open-source project, and my first ever attempt at a parser. There's a few things I'd do differently now if I were to write it from scratch, but I've learned a lot along the way (particularly about making things build 'clean' on multiple platforms).