Celebrating C++’s 40th birthday at C++ Day in Italy

By Marco Arena | Oct 27, 2025 06:42 AM | Tags: community

This year marks C++'s 40th anniversary, and at C++ Day 2025 (a proper "wrap-up post" will follow in the next days) we couldn't let the occasion pass without a little celebration!

While there wasn't a cake, we gathered everyone to sing "Happy Birthday, C++":

Followed by a lively game that mixed 1980s pop culture, ISO C++ trivia, Bell Labs history, and more:

Over 160 people joined the event, with about 120 staying until the end to play and win some unique prizes: 1980s-style posters featuring movie quotes reimagined with a C++ twist:

And we had a winner!

Also we ran a raffle including all quiz participants:

The posters also decorated the venue all day long, giving it a warm, retro, and festive feel:

It was a small but heartfelt way to celebrate four decades of a language that continues to inspire and evolve.

Here's to the next 40 years of C++!

The schedule for Meeting C++ 2025 is complete

By Meeting C++ | Oct 23, 2025 10:00 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community

Meeting C++ 2025 has now a fully filled schedule with 5 Tracks on 3 days!

Schedule of Meeting C++ 2025

November 6th - 8th, Berlin and online.

Releasing the 5th Track for Meeting C++ 2025

By Meeting C++ | Oct 15, 2025 05:24 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community

Meeting C++ hosts a new track in Berlin this year, offering 4 tracks onsite

Releasing the 5th Track for Meeting C++ 2025

by Jens Weller

from the article:

I am excited to announce that with the recent changes to the schedule, Meeting C++ 2025 has now 5 tracks: 4 onsite and 1 online track. This new track is possible thanks to better funding from sponsors and exhibitors enabling even more C++ content at Meeting C++ in Berlin.

For onsite attendees there is a new batch of hotel tickets and team tickets available. The current hotel ticket batch sells until Mid October.
New talks at Meeting C++ 2025

These are the new talks which are now at the conference:

    100 BC (binary compatibility) - Marc Mutz
    Case Study: Purging Undefined Behavior and Intel Assumptions in a Legacy Codebase - Roth Michaels
    Type Traits without Compiler Intrinsics – The Promise of Static Reflection - Andrei Zissu
    Back to the basics: Namespaces 101 - Sandor Dargo
    Building Bridges: C++ Interop., Foreign Function Interfaces & ABI - Gareth Williamson
    Instruction Level Parallelism and Software Performance - Ivica Bogosavljevic
    Real-time Safety — Guaranteed by the Compiler! - Anders Schau Knatten
    Missing (and future?) C++ range concepts - Jonathan Müller
    From Introductory to Advanced C++ - Learning Guidelines - Slobodan Dmitrovic
    MISRA C++ 2023 - Richard Kaiser

 

Trip Report: CppCon 2025 -- Sandor Dargo

By Blog Staff | Oct 14, 2025 01:10 PM | Tags: None

A long-delayed dream finally came true: after years of near-misses and lessons learned (“better to be invited than sent”), I made it to CppCon—and it was bigger, louder, and more inspiring than I imagined. In this recap I share the vibe of the week, five standout talks and ideas, a few notes from my own session, and links to recordings as they appear.

Trip Report: CppCon 2025

by Sandor Dargo

From the article:

CppCon is simply bigger than any other C++ conference I’ve attended. A massive venue packed with people and sponsors. I logged more than 10,000 steps on the very first day — without ever leaving the resort or going to the gym.

The whole experience felt like it was on another scale compared to European conferences (which I also love). But then again, that’s often the impression when you see something American from a European perspective, isn’t it?

I never would have imagined a C++ conference where a live band plays while Bjarne Stroustrup himself makes final checks before stepping on stage to deliver the opening keynote. Absolutely rocks.

Final call for sponsors for Meeting C++ 2025

By Meeting C++ | Oct 6, 2025 01:04 PM | Tags: meetingcpp conference community

With Meeting C++ 2025 coming closer, we're doing a last round of onboarding for sponsors

Final call for sponsors for Meeting C++ 2025

by Jens Weller

From the article:

With Meeting C++ 2025 just being 5 weeks away, I share a call for sponsors with you.

Maybe your employer is interested in being present as a sponsor at this years Meeting C++ conference? Have you thought about the possibilty that you could have your employer sponsor Meeting C++ 2025?

As an organization Meeting C++ gets its funding through sponsorship and ticket sales for the conference mostly.

CppCon 2025 Trip Report – tipi.build by EngFlow

By daminetreg | Sep 27, 2025 01:49 PM | Tags: None

CppCon 2025 was packed with exciting talks, deep dives, and great conversations.

CppCon 2025 Trip Report

by tipi.build by EngFlow

About the report

tipi.build by EngFlow attended both as a developer team and as a CppCon sponsor. Discover in our trip report the highlights from the sessions we attended and the talks we gave, How monday’s afternoon break started with ice cream + key takeaways and resources if you’d like to dive deeper.

Highlighting the student and support tickets for Meeting C++ 2025

By Meeting C++ | Sep 25, 2025 07:29 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community

Meeting C++ is offering online and onsite student and support tickets for this years conference!

Highlighting the student and support tickets for Meeting C++ 2025

by Jens Weller

From the article:

I'd like to point towards the programs for those that can't afford to pay for a ticket for Meeting C++ 2025: the programs for the student and support tickets.

And let me start with thanking those that enable these programs through their ticket buying: the attendees and sponsors of Meeting C++ 2025! With the schedule published, I'd like to highlight the student and support tickets for Meeting C++ 2025. For a few years now Meeting C++ has hosted programs to give students, underrepresented folks and those who can't afford a ticket access to the conference.

 

CppCon 2025 The Programmer CEO -- Greg Law

By Blog Staff | Sep 12, 2025 01:46 PM | Tags: None

Registration is now open for CppCon 2025! The conference starts on September 13 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting some upcoming talks that you will be able to attend this year. Here’s another CppCon future talk we hope you will enjoy – and register today for CppCon 2025!

The Programmer CEO

Wednesday, September 17 16:45 - 17:45 MDT

by Greg Law

Summary of the talk:

Many programmers think about starting a company. It’s often not about getting rich so much as to pursue a vision for a computer program that is much bigger than one person could write alone. Like most programmers who start up, I had no formal training and little experience outside of software development. I was naively confident, and didn’t know what I didn’t know (it turned out that that was a LOT!)

The talk includes some of the lessons I’ve learned along the way, many of which were a complete surprise. I’ll cover getting investment, building the product, building a team, and getting and keeping customers. Little of this talk is directly about programming, but it is aimed at programmers who want to create code in order to create a business, or who want to create a business so that they can create the code they want.

Much of the content is also relevant for programmers who find themselves doing non-programming tasks, such as managing people or customer-facing roles, and anyone working at a start-up. Contains candid, warts-and-all war stories, and because it’s for programmers, comes with a no adverts and no business-talk BS guarantee.

Greg is co-founder and CEO at Undo. He is a programmer at heart, but likes to keep one foot in the software world and one in the business world. Greg finds it particularly rewarding to turn innovative software technology into a real business. Greg has over 25 years' experience in innovative start-up software companies.

CppCon 2025 Engineers Are Users Too: Case Study in Design Thinking for Infrastructure -- Grace Alwan

By Blog Staff | Sep 11, 2025 01:42 PM | Tags: None

Registration is now open for CppCon 2025! The conference starts on September 13 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting some upcoming talks that you will be able to attend this year. Here’s another CppCon future talk we hope you will enjoy – and register today for CppCon 2025!

Engineers Are Users Too: A Case Study in Design Thinking for Infrastructure

Tuesday, September 16 15:15 - 16:15 MDT

by Grace Alwan

Summary of the talk:

Bringing together strong engineering skills with a foundation in UX Design can open unexpected doors—especially in fields like infrastructure, where there are few engineers trained in design. As a software engineer on an infrastructure team at a fintech company, I work on low-level systems that power how engineers manage compute at scale. But it’s my background in UX and human-computer interaction that’s made me an invaluable asset. By applying design thinking to infrastructure – through prototyping, user interviews, and iteration – I transformed a complex internal workflow and quickly became a subject matter expert.

This talk will walk you through that journey and give you the tools to be a design trailblazer in your own career. You'll leave with practical techniques for integrating empathy and user-centric thinking into deeply technical work—and insights on how expanding your skillset can accelerate your growth as a C++ or systems engineer.

Grace Alwan graduated from Stanford University in 2023, where she got her BS and MS in Computer Science specializing in Human-Computer Interaction. She is now a software engineer in the Technology Infrastructure org at Bloomberg, where she works on cluster and host management.

Planning the next Meeting C++ job fairs

By Meeting C++ | Sep 11, 2025 09:00 AM | Tags: meetingcpp jobs events community

Meeting C++ is hosting a job fair in October online and planning a job fair in November in Berlin at Meeting C++ 2025!

Planning the next Meeting C++ job fairs

by Jens Weller

From the article:

The next Meeting C++ online job fair is planned for October 14th & 15th, also I'd like to talk about the onsite job fair plans for Meeting C++ 2025!

If you have open positions you should advertise them in the bi-weekly Meeting C++ Jobs Newsletter, which now also powers the candidate listing of Meeting C++ with 80+ international candidates at the moment.