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This blog entry is highly disappointing. The Sigma blog post reads as if they reinvented the wheel with basic information that is not only widely known and understood but it also featured in books published decades ago.

The blog post authors would do well if they got up to speed on the basics of working with C++ projects. Books such as "Large scale C++ vol1" by John Lakos already cover this and much more.

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It could be my bias but it seems a lot of inexperienced developers no longer read comprehensive books on topics but survive on Google, stack overflow, some documentation with examples/simple tutorials, blog posts and now Gpts.

All are useful tools but they are very poor in eliminating unknown unknowns like a book would.

You think only inexperienced developers have stopped reading books?

That's fair, I bet it is more widespread, but people starting in the last 15-20 years did not even have the initial introduction. I read a lot, it surprised me to find out that it was atypical in an industry that is supposed to be somewhat about leveraging brainpower. May as well stand on the shoulders of giants.

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