Day 1/90: C++ setup & environment
90 Day C++ Challenge: Zero to Production
Today I wanted c++ setup & environment to feel like a real engineering decision, not a syntax demo. The useful shift was getting a clean C++ toolchain into place before the codebase gets complicated.
The checks that mattered were compiler choice and standard flags, editor or IDE integration, and a build command that works every time.
The failure mode I was actively trying to avoid was treating the toolchain as disposable and relearning the same compiler setup every week. I wanted c++ setup & environment to feel like something I could explain at a whiteboard or in a code review, not just something I recognized from docs.
That is the bar I want from this track: code that stays readable when requirements move, not just code that compiles today. I also want to keep tracing one concrete path through the code because that exposes weak assumptions faster than a larger demo.
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