Currently, what are some of the worst things about C++?

• TinyXML

  3 4,843 5.6 C++

  TinyXML2 is a simple, small, efficient, C++ XML parser that can be easily integrated into other programs.

If someone wants a decent example to learn CMake from, I rewrote the tinyxml2 build not so long ago. It's small, but it handles tricky cases regarding distributing both static and shared versions of the library. See here: https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2

• Halide

  43 5,703 9.5 C++

  a language for fast, portable data-parallel computation

  

I also maintain the build system for Halide, but as it's less greenfield, there are some things I would need team buy-in to change. It's also much more complex (building code generators necessarily is). I'm still pretty happy with it, though. See here: https://github.com/halide/Halide

• InfluxDB

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• cmake-init

  164 1,812 8.1 CMake

  The missing CMake project initializer

cmake-init might be interesting to you. It does just that with a single command, optionally with Conan or vcpkg integration ready to go.

• vscode-clangd

  3 562 6.5 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code extension for clangd

  

But I will say that I am mostly happy with either one of the clangd and ccls plugins. The clangd plugin is nicely packaged with a self-installer. The ccls plugin takes a little more work to set up, but it has loads more features. Both are quite good at working with a proper AST. Both build the AST by actually compiling your code with libclang (llvm's compiler core). Both work reliably for me because I am able to provide a compile_commands.json using my project builder (ninja). Nice as it is, it does not update automatically, and I'm not sure I want it to.

• ccls

  41 3,636 5.3 C++

  C/C++/ObjC language server supporting cross references, hierarchies, completion and semantic highlighting

But I will say that I am mostly happy with either one of the clangd and ccls plugins. The clangd plugin is nicely packaged with a self-installer. The ccls plugin takes a little more work to set up, but it has loads more features. Both are quite good at working with a proper AST. Both build the AST by actually compiling your code with libclang (llvm's compiler core). Both work reliably for me because I am able to provide a compile_commands.json using my project builder (ninja). Nice as it is, it does not update automatically, and I'm not sure I want it to.

• WorkOS

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