I'm not necessarily urging making use of any particular features of C++.
Just start small: use a C++ compiler and C++ file extensions.
(There is an unfortunate lack for standardization of extensions for C++
files. Gcc uses .cc - which seems as good as anything else.)
I do suggest when possible using std::string rather than C strings.
(There is pretty easy and convenient inter-operability between them.)
Personal history/anecdote:
In an old life, working for Cygnus, I wrote a lot of C++ and was active in the
C++ community. Then for many years I basically wrote no C++ and very little C.
It was mostly Java, and Scheme. I started exploring using JavaScript to
implement
ideas for "next-generation" iterminals using JavaScript, This became DomTerm.
In 2017 I added a C-based backend to DomTerm, based on an existing C application
(ttyd) and a C networking library (libwebsockets). That worked pretty well,
but in 2020 I converted the backend to C++. This has been a gradual conversion:
Some structs have become classes, and I've converted some functions to methods
(member functions). I switched to using a C++ library for JSON. I use
templates for a lookup table that is used for 3 different value types.
As I change a section of code, I may replace C strings with std::string.
And so on. It still looks more like C than C++ in many places. There is no
inheritance and no virtual methods. (I still use a table containing function
pointers in place of virtual methods.) If I had started with C++, or if
I were more fluent in C++ than I am now, it would look different.
But the current hybrid is fine.
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--Per Bothner
p...@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/
