Effective Remote C++ Development with Codespaces

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Showcases GitHub Codespaces creating a managed cloud dev environment from a repo, launching VS Code in the browser, auto-installing extensions and tools from the devcontainer file (g++, cmake, rsync), provisioning WSL/WSL2, and selecting an 8-core 16GB instance. Demo opens a fork of 2048, build in ~20 seconds and full debugging in ~1 minute via browser, fixes input bug live, and builds both Windows and Linux targets. Also demos OpenCV with distributed build acceleration and cache (feature shown as future, not in preview).

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:57Talk Overview
3. 1:32Problems
4. 3:10Demo
5. 9:34Visual Studio Support
6. 11:06Visual Studio 2019
7. 12:41Linux
8. 14:49Navigation
9. 16:31Debugging
10. 18:29Fixing Invalid Input
11. 19:27Running the Game
12. 20:15Cross Platform Development
13. 22:32OpenCV
14. 23:54Recap
15. 25:27QA

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