CppCon 2025 How C++26 Changes the Way We Write Code -- Timur Doumler

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How C++26 Changes the Way We Write Code

Monday, September 15 11:00 - 120:00 MDT

by Timur Doumler

Summary of the talk:

After the release of C++20, with groundbreaking new features like coroutines, concepts, ranges, and modules, and the more modest feature set of C++23, the upcoming C++26 Standard is shaping up to be another major milestone.

Trivial relocation evolves move semantics to the next level to unlock significant new performance benefits; contract assertions introduce portable, scalable, and configurable correctness checks for identifying program defects and making C++ code safer; and the new execution control library provides a powerful generic framework that redefines how to do asynchronous programming in C++. Finally, the most eagerly anticipated feature of C++26 — reflection — will profoundly reshape how we reason about C++ and what we can accomplish with it.

This talk is the latest installment in a popular series of talks about how each new C++ Standard changes the way we write code — from everyday idioms to advanced patterns — with a practical focus on what matters most to real-world developers. This is not a firehose talk that tries to cram as many additions to the latest Standard as possible into one hour. Instead, we focus deliberately on just a handful of particularly impactful features and highlight the essential parts that every C++ developer needs to know.

Timur Doumler is the co-host of CppCast and an active member of the ISO C++ standard committee, where he is currently co-chair of SG21, the Contracts study group. Timur started his journey into C++ in computational astrophysics, where he was working on cosmological simulations. He then moved into the audio and music technology industry, where he has been working for over a decade and co-founded the music tech startup Cradle. In the past, Timur also worked for JetBrains, first as a developer on CLion's C++ parser and later as a Developer Advocate for C++ developer tools. Currently, Timur lives in Finland, where he is organising the monthly C++ Helsinki meetup. Timur is passionate about clean code, good tools, low latency, and the evolution of the C++ language.

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