Название: API Design for C++, 2nd Edition
Автор: Martin Reddy
Издательство: Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier
Год: 2024
Страниц: 650
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 51.3 MB
API Design for C++, Second Edition provides a comprehensive discussion of Application Programming Interface (API) development, from initial design through implementation, testing, documentation, release, versioning, maintenance, and deprecation. It is the only book that teaches the strategies of C++ API development, including interface design, versioning, scripting, and plug-in extensibility. Drawing from the author's experience on large scale, collaborative software projects, the text offers practical techniques of API design that produce robust code for the long-term. It presents patterns and practices that provide real value to individual developers as well as organizations. The Second Edition includes all new material fully updated for the latest versions of C++, including a new chapter on concurrency and multithreading, as well as a new chapter discussing how Objective C++ and C++ code can co-exist and how a C++ API can be accessed from Swift programs. Writing large applications in C++ is a complex and tricky business. However, designing reusable C++ interfaces that are robust, stable, easy to use, and durable is even more difficult. The best way to succeed in this endeavor is to adhere to the tenets of good API design. An API presents a logical interface to a software component and hides the internal details required to implement that component. It offers a high-level abstraction for a module and promotes code reuse by allowing multiple applications to share the same functionality. Modern software development has become highly dependent upon APIs, from low-level application frameworks to data format APIs and graphical user interface (GUI) frameworks.