Igor Viarheichyk - Embedded Programming with Modern C++ Cookbook: Practical recipes to help you build robust and secure embedded applications on Linux

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Igor Viarheichyk works as an engineering manager at Samsung, developing a safety-critical middleware platform for advanced driver assistance systems aimed at specialized automotive embedded platforms. Prior to joining Samsung, in the past 20 years of his career, he has played different roles, from software engineer to software architect, to engineering manager in a variety of projects, and he has gained vast experience in the areas of system programming, embedded programming, network protocols, distributed and fault-tolerant systems, and software internationalization. Though he knows and actively uses programming languages such as C, Java, and Python, C++ is his language of choice to implement large-scale, high-performance applications.

Antonino Calderone has worked in the computer software industry for over 20 years as a software engineer in various domains, including telecommunications and networks, embedded systems, cybersecurity, machine learning algorithms, and DBMS. He has worked for companies such as Ericsson, Intel, and McAfee. He has also been a security architect, technical writer, and teacher in programming courses in C++ and design patterns. Antonino is an author and maintainer of several open source projects, including mipOS, an RTOS for SoC microcontrollers, and nuBASIC, a language designed for educational purposes. He was also a contributor to the magazine Computer Programming, one of the most well-known programming magazines in Italy in the 90s and 2000s.

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For a long time, development for embedded systems required either plain C or assembly language. There was a host of good reasons for this. The hardware did not have enough resources to run applications written in higher-level programming languages, such as C++, Java, or Python, but more importantly, there was no real need to write software in these languages. Limited hardware resources put a limit on software complexity, the functionality of embedded applications remained relatively simple, and the capabilities of C were sufficient to implement it.

As a result of the progress in hardware development, more and more embedded systems nowadays are powered by inexpensive yet powerful System-on-Chip capable of running a general-purpose multitasking operating system such as Linux.

Growing hardware capabilities demand more complex software, and more and more often C++ becomes the language of choice for new embedded systems. With its you don't pay for what you don't use approach it allows developers to create applications that use computational and memory resources, like applications written in C, but gives developers many more tools for dealing with complexity and safer resource management, such as object-oriented programming and the RAII idiom.

Seasoned embedded developers with substantial experience in C often tend to write code in C++ in a similar, habitual way, considering this language just as an object-oriented extension of C, a