Short answer: because we said so.

I have not seen a “Best Practices” on how to handle configuration and similar for C and C++ libraries, so

Just yesterday, I gave a talk at the recent Microsoft Pure Virtual C++ 2020 Conference and wanted to expand on a few things I said, since there were a lot of questions!

… Let’s talk about something that has haunted me for over a year now.

You didn’t think I’d just have an irony post and not get to all the juicy technical bits, right dear reader?