The C++ language standard library comes with a std::function template type which represents a “thing you can invoke”.

Constructing the function is a matter of creating a custom callable for the specific functor. It’s conceptually simple, but the C++ language makes us write out a bunch of stuff to get it to work.

Part 2: Storage optimization: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200514-00/?p=103749

Storing a non-capturing lambda in a generic object: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200515-00/?p=103755