Bringing Business Logic Back to C++

Explore the evolution of business logic in C++ programming through this insightful conference talk from code::dive 2018. Delve into the reasons behind the migration of business logic to other languages and discover techniques to enhance expressiveness and efficiency when writing complex business logic in C++. Learn about powerful object-oriented programming concepts, polymorphic type-erasure wrappers, open methods, multiple dispatch, dynamic mixins, and hotswapping. Gain valuable insights on how to leverage these advanced C++ features to create more elegant, efficient, and maintainable code for complex business applications.

Intro
What is in this talk?
What do we have here?
Problems with that
Criticism of OOP
Defense of OOP
Powerful OOP
Polymorphic type-erasure wrappers
Open methods
Multiple dispatch (Multimethods)
Vanilla C++ OOP
Dynamic Mixins
Hotswap?
Stateless hotswap
Stateful hotswap
Interpreting C++
Hotswapping on steroids