Which is your most loved feature of C++?

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  • abseil-cpp

    Abseil Common Libraries (C++)

  • I've come to love Abseil's absl::StatusOr. It is quite similar to Rust's way to handle errors.

  • cppan

    Project evolved into Software Network: https://github.com/SoftwareNetwork/sw

  • When I discovered vcpkg I waq very disappointed and started to look for alternatives. I found cppan (https://github.com/cppan/cppan) which was exactly what I was looking for (A bit like npm but for C++). It became sw and I don't really like that name but it's still the best thing I've found for handling dependencies on Windows.

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  • Jinx

    Embeddable scripting language for real-time applications

  • I actually solved some of this with my own scripting language called Jinx, in which every script executes as a co-routine, so you can just write any sort of time-based logic as needed. I later added explicit async / coroutine support for functions inside scripts as well at another user's request.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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