C++

To use all of the latest JUCE features you should at least use C++14 as your standard. Any newer standard works as well.

Idioms

If the list of idioms & language features below seems familiar to you, you're at a great starting point. If not, I have provided some resources below.

• Composition

• Inheritance

  • virtual / override / final

  • CppCon 2017: Louis Dionne “Runtime Polymorphism: Back to the Basics”

• Lambdas

  • CppCon 2019: Arthur O'Dwyer “Back to Basics: Lambdas from Scratch”

• RAII

  • CppCon 2019: Arthur O'Dwyer “Back to Basics: RAII and the Rule of Zero”

• Constexpr

  • CppCon 2015: Scott Schurr “constexpr: Introduction”

  • CppCon 2015: Scott Schurr “constexpr: Applications"

• Atomic/Lock

  • CppCon 2019: Rainer Grimm “Atomics, Locks, and Tasks (part 1 of 2)”

  • CppCon 2019: Rainer Grimm “Atomics, Locks, and Tasks (part 2 of 2)”

• Smart Pointer (unique & shared)

  • CppCon 2019: Arthur O'Dwyer “Back to Basics: Smart Pointers”

• Exceptions:

  • CppCon 2019: Ben Saks “Back to Basics: Exception Handling and Exception Safety”

• Where possible: noexcept/const

  • CppCon 2019: Dan Saks “Back to Basics: Const as a Promise”

• Container

  • array

  • vector

  • map