Summary

In this chapter, we touched on a few of the many new features of C++20 and are now ready to dive deeper into the language. We discussed the process of building a C++ application and its compilation phases. This includes analyzing the code to detect syntactical and grammatical errors, generating intermediate code to make optimizations, and finally, generating the object file that will be linked together with other generated object files to form the final executable file.

In the next chapter, we will learn about C++ data types, arrays, and pointers. We will also gain an understanding of what pointers are and look at low-level details of conditionals.