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Slides of the 13th of May 2026 BeCPP Meeting

By Marc Gregoire | May 20, 2026 10:00 AM | Tags: community becpp

On May 13th 2026, I organized the next Belgian C++ Users Group event. There were 2 sessions:

  • “Designing Data for Performance and Maintainability” by Laurent Carlier
  • “The fastest Java Virtual Machine is the C++26 compiler” by Koen Samyn

You can find the schedule (with abstracts), slides, and pictures on the BeCPP blog:

  • Schedule: https://becpp.org/blog/2026/04/06/next-becpp-ug-meeting-planned-for-may-13th-2026/
  • Slides: https://becpp.org/blog/2026/05/20/slides-of-the-13th-of-may-2026-becpp-meeting/
  • Pictures: https://becpp.org/blog/2026/05/20/pictures-of-the-13th-of-may-2026-becpp-meeting/

Call for Sponsors - Meeting C++ 2026

By Meeting C++ | May 19, 2026 07:47 AM | Tags: meetingcpp events community

This years Meeting C++ conference is on the 26th - 28th November!

Meeting C++ 2026: Call for Sponsors

by Jens Weller

from the article:

Have you thought about the possibilty that you could have your employer sponsor Meeting C++ 2026?

Maybe your employer is interested in being present as a sponsor at this years Meeting C++ conference? With the call for talks closing on June 4th, now is the ideal time to talk about sponsorships for Meeting C++!

The 15th Meeting C++ conference is looking for sponsors! Come to Berlin in late November and be part of a large gathering of the C++ community!

 

BeCPP Symposium 2026 - Gabriel Dos Reis - Tightening the Screws with C++ Profiles

By Marc Gregoire | May 16, 2026 01:41 AM | Tags: c++26 becppsymposium2026 becpp

BeCPP Symposium 2026 (organized by BeCPP): Now on YouTube!

Gabriel Dos Reis - Tightening the Screws with C++ Profiles

Abstract:

The C++ community has been challenged to provide practical solutions to the problem of memory safety prevalent in some software with large blast radius.  By "practical", I mean solutions that scale to billions of lines of existing running code that deliver value every single day.  The constraints we are dealt afford us neither the luxury of pausing the world for complete rewrite from scratch, nor only focusing on "future", yet to be written, code.  C++ profiles are a tooling-based evolutionary approach that meets those constraints.  They enable the C++ community to tackle similar problems in a single, extensible, and flexible framework.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Gabriel Dos Reis is an Architect for Visual Studio at Microsoft, working in the area of large scale software construction, tools, and technique.  His contributions to C++ include scalable generic programming, pioneering compile-time computation, language support for modularity, safety, and security.  He is interested in all aspects of software construction with bias towards computational logic, formal methods, and the fun of building useful tools.

 

C++: The Documentary trailer

By Blog Staff | May 14, 2026 08:00 AM | Tags: None

Sponsored by HRT and produced by CultRepo, we're pleased to share the official trailer for C++: The Documentary.

The trailer premieres today at 19:00 UTC. Click Notify me on the YouTube Premiere page to get a reminder when it goes live.

The film will have its world premiere on May 28 at a special live event in New York City’s Financial District, followed by a panel discussion that will be recorded for later release. C++: The Documentary will be released worldwide on YouTube on June 4, with the panel recording following a few days later.

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The ACCU on Sea 2026 Schedule is Now Announced -- ACCU

By Phil Nash | May 7, 2026 11:39 AM | Tags: community

C++ on Sea and the ACCU Conference combine, this, year for one big festival of C++ by the sea!

The 2026 Schedule is Here!

by ACCU

From the article:

Four days, five tracks, and a lineup that spans the full breadth of what ACCU on Sea is about: deep C++ content, broader software craft, and the kind of talks that make you rethink something you thought you understood.

BeCPP Symposium 2026 - Lieven de Cock - Type Punning, the joke is on you, pun intended

By Marc Gregoire | Apr 29, 2026 06:39 AM | Tags: c++26 becppsymposium2026 becpp

BeCPP Symposium 2026 (organized by BeCPP): Now on YouTube!

Lieven de Cock - Type Punning, the joke is on you, pun intended

Abstract:

Many codebases contain several spots of type punning, and unfortunately a whole lot of those are incorrect and undefined behavior. While many current versions of compilers seem to do the correct thing, they might no longer do that tomorrow. Safety considerations wants to reduce/eliminate UB.
It might be worthwhile to inspect your reinterpret_cast constructs, most probably they are wrong. In this talk we will inspect what is wrong about those, we will learn about alignment, strict aliasing, object lifetime. 3 areas which might flag a red card on our type punning constructions.
Luckily the language evolved and gave us more tools to do it correctly, things like memcpy, memmove, bit_cast, start_lifetime_as, launder. It does however remain a dark corner and a dangerous territory to wander in. Because let's face it, zero copy is something we love in C++, and those bytes that came from the network, really are an array of integers, array of coordinates, ... Compiler, trust me, I know what I am doing. Am I?

About the Speaker:

Lieven is a passionate software developer, architect, team lead, manager, coach, with 30 years of experience. He is passionate about C++, software craftsmanship, and clean code. His career started in the text-to-speech domain and then moved to video recognition technology for  traffic environments. During the last 15 years he is active in the satellite communication industry. Lieven also contributes to several open source projects and is the lead developer of the open source IDE Code::Blocks. He is also the lead coach of the Coderdojo division in Ghent, Belgium where he lives. A major focus is on sharing knowledge on C++, coaching people to grow in C++, and maintaining and raising the bar on quality.

 

BeCPP Symposium 2026 - Herb Sutter - C++ Growing in a world of competition, safety, and AI

By Marc Gregoire | Apr 26, 2026 06:17 AM | Tags: c++26 becppsymposium2026 becpp

BeCPP Symposium 2026 (organized by BeCPP): Now on YouTube!

Herb Sutter - C++: Growing in a world of competition, safety, and AI

Abstract:

These are exciting times for C++. This talk will cover why to be excited about the new C++26 standard, which is expected to be technically finalized 48 hours before this talk. More broadly, it will cover why C++’s strong market growth — and the strong growth of human software development in general — are likely to continue for the foreseeable future in a world of explosively growing software demands for performance, security, and AI.

About the Speaker:

Herb is a technical fellow at Citadel Securities, designer of several Standard C++ features, chair emeritus of the ISO C++ committee, and chair of the Standard C++ Foundation. His current interest is simplifying C++.

 

CppCon 2025 Why Every C++ Game Developer Should Learn SDL 3 Now -- Mike Shah

By Blog Staff | Apr 15, 2026 12:30 PM | Tags: None

gameindustry-shah.pngRegistration is now open for CppCon 2026! The conference starts on September 12 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting videos of some of the top-rated talks from last year's conference. Here’s another CppCon talk video we hope you will enjoy – and why not register today for CppCon 2026!

Why Every C++ Game Developer Should Learn SDL 3 Now

by Mike Shah

Summary of the talk:

The C++ programming language does not have a standard graphics library, However, there exists many popular graphics frameworks for cross-platform graphics. In this talk, I will provide an introduction to the Simple Directmedia Layer (SDL) library, which has at the start of 2025 released version 3. This library for several decades has been a standard in the games and graphics industry. Throughout this talk, I will show how to get started with the library, some more advanced examples (including compiling graphics applications to web), and then talk about what a standard graphics library could look like in C++, or if it is even necessary. I will also talk about the 3D GPU library in SDL3. Attendees will leave this talk ready to build multimedia / game applications and with an understanding on if SDL3 is the right tool for them.

Announcing Meeting C++ 2026

By Meeting C++ | Mar 25, 2026 10:01 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community c++26 c++20

This years Meeting C++ conference is special, as its the 15th conference in total that Meeting C++ has organized, and its also the 5th time the event is hybrid!

Announcing Meeting C++ 2026

by Jens Weller

From the article:

We'll be meeting from the 26th - 28th November in Berlin! You have the unique chance to spend the 1st advent in Berlin with C++ and Christmas Markets open!

With Mateusz Pusz and Kate Gregory I've chosen two well known speakers for the keynotes this year. Mateusz is well known for his units library, which currently also is proposed for the standard. It is also an important contribution to making C++ more safe and secure, the big topic of last year. Then Kate Gregory will be visiting us in Berlin again, she is known for her ability to create great talks around technical and social aspects in our daily lives as devs. You might remember her from giving a keynote in 2017, or speaking about the aging programmer two years ago.

For the 15th time Meeting C++ will organize a great event for 3 days filled with lots of content about C++, like last year the plan is to host 3 tracks in parallel in Berlin, with an optional 4th track. The 4th track will be unlocked either by sponsorships or ticket sales. You can be a part of this great C++ event by attending onsite and online. There is already great news for onsite attendees: Hudson River Trading is again this years t-shirt sponsor, a great and unique Meeting C++ 2026 t-shirt is an exclusive perk for onsite attendees!