Many languages have the ability to let you create generators: a function that can be called multiple times, picking up where it left off and returning a different value each time. Unfortunately C++ does not give you this functionality, however that doesn’t mean that we can’t implement it ourselves.
Read More >The OpenTelemetry C++ implementation ships with several exporters for outputting your recorded traces: ostream, HTTP, gRPC, and more. It does not, however, provide a null implementation.
A null exporter is useful in test environments, where you just want to discard instrumentation data. The simple class below provides an implementation of a null span exporter.
Read More >Redis++ is the recommended C++ binding for connecting to a Redis server from a C++ application, however its build script is not entirely friendly towards CMake. It relies upon hiredis, but the make script expects it to already be compiled on the system.
Read More >If you’re using Doxygen to generate your project’s documentation, it would be nice to see errors in Visual Studio Code’s “Problems” panel so you can assess them and jump directly to them in the source code.
Getting Clang to run inside a Visual Studio Code remote container on Docker is surprisingly difficult, but I’ll take you through all the steps you need.
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