Keynote: Not Getting Lost in Translations - Preview Interview with Daniela Engert
summary
Built a production ultrasonic inspection machine 15 years ago and now develops an in-house library (about 1–1.5 years old) that keeps compile-time translation and type/format checking while allowing runtime language selection. Integrates with std::format and std::print and borrows techniques from work on the fmt ecosystem (major contributor around 2017–18). Uses machine-readable Unicode rules to choose correct grammatical forms, rewrites common runtime idioms into constexpr-era code, and reports formatting errors at compile time instead of via exceptions.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Keynote interview intro
- 0:22Daniela Engert’s background
- 1:48Military to steel inspection
- 3:37Ultrasound in train safety
- 4:18Meaning of keynote title
- 5:46Engineering real-world solutions
- 6:53Adapting software internationally
- 7:58Compile-time translation library
- 9:05Learnings from fmt library
- 10:10String formatting challenges
- 10:54Keynote and library prep
- 11:40CPPCON venue exploration
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