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Abstraction Addiction: When Good C++ Design Goes Bad :: Adi Ben David

Presented at Core C++ 2025 conference, Tel Aviv. Language: Hebrew As software developers we love elegant code. We use templates, polymorphism and type erasure; We slice and dice our classes to maintain SRP (Single Responsibility Principle) and we generalize for every conceivable future scenario. We are responsible engineers after all and we most definitely know what’s coming, so naturally we lay the groundwork, sometimes for things that won’t happen until the heat death of the universe. I’m guessing you’ve all been there: you dive into a codebase and suddenly it’s less “reading code” and more “archeological expedition”. You’re carefully brushing away layers of inheritance and indirection to figure out what a function actually does, who implemented it, and on particularly fun days trying to guess which one of the three different implementations is actually called at runtime. In this talk I’ll play devil’s advocate to ask “Do we really need all of this?”. We’ll examine examples inspired by real-world C++ code where well-intentioned design using language features such as inheritance hierarchies, deep template metaprogramming and generalized abstractions ended up adding more friction than flexibility. Attendees will leave with a handy checklist to help spot over-engineered designs and strategy suggestions for balancing flexibility with maintainability in modern C++. Whether you’ve inherited a complex legacy codebase or built one yourself, this session will give you tools (and cautionary tales) to keep your future codebase clean, clear and kind to whoever comes next – including you. ===== Adi Ben David Senior software engineer and a mother of 2. Have worked in the industry for almost a decade and will defend C++ against anyone who tries to put it down. Cyber security enthusiast by day and dancer by night. In my (not so) spare time I volunteer in organizations that aim at helping more women join our industry.