Thankfully, compiler warnings and static analyzers have become much better in recent years. For instance, gcc can now warn about a missing 'break;' mentioned in

Thankfully, compiler warnings and static analyzers have become much better in recent years. For instance, gcc can now warn about a missing 'break;' mentioned in the article (you need to add a special comment like '/* fall through */' if it's intentional). Also, clang-tidy is getting better with each release. I highly recommend using it, although the initial configuration will take some time, depending on the code base.