im new in c++ and i am creating a version of cat for practicing what i have learned so far. What im doing for managing the command line arguments is converting them to library strings and then using them, but now i have the doubt if it is the correct / most optimal way to do it
Small caveat:
std::string_viewwas introduced in C++17. Not all projects made that jump yet.If they are just practicing it isn’t a problem, C++17 is already 6 years old and the open source community should get onboard imo
Last time I checked, over half of the C++ community was still using C++14 or older.
Jumping into the latest and greatest is only trivial in small pet projects. In professional settings this requires significant amounts of work.
I’m not talking about professional projects. OP asked about making a pet project in C++.
Also, a lot of opensource software could jump forward in term of standard required ; I’m not saying that no professional project uses opensource library, just that we should start moving forward if we don’t want to get stuck with old versions