Plenary: The Beauty and Power of “Primitive“ C++ - Bjarne Stroustrup - CppCon 2020

--- Often, we focus on novel, clever, and advanced features of C . To contrast, here I look at addressing relatively simple problems in relatively simple ways under severe constraints of performance, ease of use, and reliability. My main example is to read and write typed objects from and to a byte buffer. This is of course something we do a lot and in a bewildering variety of ways. Any object that needs to be stored or transmitted to another compute