Is there an idiomatic way to create a collection of delegates in C++?

The design you propose will work, but using regular function pointers will limit you considerably in the kind of callbacks you can register, and although more powerful, the approach based on inheritance from a fixed interface is more verbose and requires more work for a client to define callbacks.

You might want to look into std::function, your vector would then look like this.

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