I’ve always really liked working with delegates in Unreal Engine 4. It’s so easy to use, works in various different ways and after a while of using them, I wanted to try to implement them myself. As you might know, it’s not straight forward at all to store and execute a method in a generic way in C++. A function pointer might be a solution but it’s not flexible as it’s very type-restricted and can’t have any extra data a lambda would have. The standard template library solved this by providing std::function<> which is sort of a more flexible and fancy function pointer. However, I’ve found that both function pointers and std::function are such a headache to work with!.

I really like programming blogs and I love reading about how people learn from personal projects and share their thinking process, ideas and potentially implementation details. Just to name a few of many blogs in my bookmarks bar that are absolutely worth checking out:

• Jendryk Illner - Graphics Programming Weekly
• Turánszki János - Wicked Engine Dev Blog
• Adam Sawicki - General Graphics Programming and opinion blog
• Interplay of Light - Various Graphics Programming and misc posts.
• AJ Weeks - General updates on personal engine development
• Many more…