string-view-lite

string_view lite - A C++17-like string_view for C++98, C++11 and later in a single-file header-only library

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string_view lite - A C++17-like string_view for C++98, C++11 and later in a single-file header-only library

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Martin Moene (my favorite C++ person in the entire universe right now) wrote a drop-in replacement for older standard versions: https://github.com/martinmoene/string-view-lite.…

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2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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how_gauche·May 10, 2018Recommendation phrase

Martin Moene (my favorite C++ person in the entire universe right now) wrote a drop-in replacement for older standard versions: https://github.com/martinmoene/string-view-lite. He's also backported optional, variant, and expected, and wrote my favorite unit testing library called "lest". This guy saved me so much hassle this year and it's causing a complete sea change in the way that we work. I really really want to live in a world of value-typedness and it's finally possible to do it. The simple and natural idioms are now MORE efficient than doing it the complicated way: the average function I'm writing in 2018 is significantly less convoluted and allocates on the heap far less than the same function I'd be writing five or six years ago.

In How to Adopt Modern C++17 into Your C++ Code [video]