In 2022, the PVS-Studio static analyzer for C and C++ turns 16 years old. If the analyzer were a human, it would have already finished high school! This project was started a long time ago,…

In this article, we are going to talk to Jason Turner, one of the CppCast founders. CppCast is the first podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. From 2015 to 2022 CppCast had weekly c…

Stride is a free, feature-packed and cross-platform game engine implemented in C#. Stride may certainly become an alternative to Unity, but what about the quality of its source code? Let′s …

List is one of the most used collections in C#. Let′s inspect the features of List and look at how some of its parts are implemented.

.NET Multi-platform App UI is a framework written by professionals. However, the code of some of its functions looks like the developers could have forgotten what null reference dereferenci…

This article is purposed to be in a friendly spirit manner and carries neither mockery, nor snobbery. It intends to protect from unnecessary stress those who are entering the programming wo…

There aren′t many things left in modern C++ that don′t fit the Don′t pay for what you don′t use paradigm. One of them is dynamic_cast. In this article, we′ll find out what′s wrong with it, and...

Lots of interesting developer conferences take place in the world. It would be great to invent teleportation so you could attend every talk you′re interested in, but let′s make things easier. You can...

PVS-Studio 7.21 has been released. This short note describes the analyzer′s main enhancements and lists our recent articles and quizzes.

Developers often make mistakes accidentally, or because they are in a hurry. Wondering how to find such mistakes quickly? Welcome to another article in the How PVS-Studio prevents rash code…

C# 11 is coming, so we′re going to explore its new features in detail. You may find these new features pretty curious even though there are not that many of them. Today let′s take a closer look at...

Compilers are evolving: they issue more and more warnings. Do developers still need to use static code analyzers like PVS-Studio? Yes, because analyzers are evolving too. In this article yo…

This article could have been named How PVS-Studio prevents rash code changes, example N7. However, naming articles like that becomes boring. So today Freddy Krueger′s name is in the title, …

Here is an interesting story of how our team were looking for a bug in the PVS-Studio analyzer. Well, we make mistakes too. However, we are ready to roll up our sleeves and dive deep into t…

After reading this article, you will learn the following: ways to extend the lifetime of a temporary object in C++, various tips and tricks; pitfalls of the lifetime extension that a C++ programmer...

After reading this article, you will learn the following: ways to extend the lifetime of a temporary object in C++, various tips and tricks; pitfalls of the lifetime extension that a C++ programmer...

Regular expressions come in handy when you need to search for and replace text. However, in some cases, they may cause the system to slow down or even make vulnerable to ReDoS attacks.

We collected some hot stories about programming errors for you to have a little fun and learn something new. Keep reading to find out how one programmer broke the Internet by deleting a tin…

.NET 7 is now available, which means that we can enjoy all sorts of new features and enhancements. Let′s talk about the most interesting improvements: C# 11, containers, performance, GC, an…

In this article, I′ll try to list all things that we can throw out of C++ without remorse. This won′t cost us anything but will reduce the standard (and our headaches), take the burden off the...