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Not Your Grandparent's C++ - The Evolution of Cpp - Phil Nash - ACCU Cambridge
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C++ has been around, by that name, since the early 80s - but started in the 70s (as “C with Classes"). Reaching its heyday in the mid-late 90s, many people’s impressions of it were formed in that time frame, or during the 13 year C++98/03 period! But C++ has evolved considerably since then and, despite what you might have heard, mostly in ways that make it safer and simpler to use. This talk takes us on a tour of the evolution of C++ - from it’s genesis, following the PhD thesis of Bjarne Stroustrup - up to “modern” C++20 and C++23 - and a look ahead at what C++26 and beyond may bring. The question is: is it too late to prevent C++’s decline into being “the next Cobol”?
Slides: https://online.accuconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/This-is-not-your-grandparents-cpp.pdf
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Sponsored by undo
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Phil Nash
Phil is the original author of the C++ test framework, Catch2 and is an independent consultant and trainer, specialising in TDD and Modern C++. Developer Advocate at Undo he has had a career that spans finance, mobile and software security. He's also a member of the ISO C++ standards committee, organiser of C++ on Sea, ACCU, C++ Online, Swift Craft and C++ London (and now ACCU Cambridge) as well as co-host and producer of CppCast.
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ACCU Cambridge is for software developers and web developers in the Cambridge area. It is a local chapter of the ACCU Organisation. We host technical talks and workshops. Expect deep dives on C++ and other languages, as well as general agile software development.
The ACCU Organisation holds the ACCU Conference, an annual conference of the ACCU membership, but is open to any and all who wish to attend. The tagline for the ACCU is 'Professionalism in Programming', which captures the whole spectrum of programming languages, tools, techniques and processes involved in advancing our craft. While there remains a core of C and C++ - with many members participating in respective ISO standards bodies - the conference, like the organisation, embraces other programming language ecosystems and you should expect to see sessions on C#, D, F#, Go, Javascript, Haskell, Java, Kotlin, Lisp, Python, Ruby, Rust, Swift and more. The ACCU Conference is a conference by programmers for programmers about programming.
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