From July 18–20, 2022, I attended C++North, a new international C++ conference in Toronto, Canada. The first edition of this conference was eagerly anticipated, and it did not disappoint. Compared to some other C++ conferences, it was not a huge event – there were only about 180 attendees on site – but it was certainly a very high quality event. C++North grew out of the Toronto C++ User Group, and these local community roots were very noticeable, in a good way. The organizers were clearly proud of being able to host the conference on their home turf. Every morning started with a land acknowle

On July 25, 2022, the ISO C++ committee (also known as WG21) met via Zoom for a virtual plenary session. This plenary session was remarkable for two reasons. First, this was our last virtual meeting before we finally return to meeting in-person – the next meeting is scheduled for November 2022 in Kona, Hawaii. Second, it was the last meeting for approving new features for the upcoming C++23 standard. This means that as of now, C++23 is in feature freeze. The exciting news is that a lot of great features have made the cut! Thanks to the tireless work of the paper authors and committee subgroup

From May 1 to May 6, 2022, I attended the C++Now conference in Aspen, Colorado. This was my third time speaking at C++Now (I also attended in 2016 and 2019), and in my opinion it was the best edition of C++Now so far! This conference is truly different. It is much smaller than other international C++ conferences. Even pre-pandemic, it was capped to a maximum of 160 attendees, and this year, there was only about half that number, probably due to COVID-related travel hesitancy. As always, there was a good mix of well-known C++ experts and first-timers, and the intimate size of the event provi

From April 6-9, 2022, I attended ACCU 2022, the 25th edition of the ACCU conference, in Bristol, UK. It was only my third in-person conference post-COVID (after CppCon'21 and ADC'21). It felt very special to be back in Bristol after a three-year break, and it felt as good as ever to be among real people again. With all COVID restrictions now lifted in the UK, this was the first event on the C++ conference circuit that truly felt like it was back to normal. There was no social distancing or any other measures to impact the conference experience, and the vast majority of attendees were not weari

Hello everyone, my name is Timur Doumler (@timur_audio on Twitter), and I have just joined JetBrains as Developer Advocate for C++ tools, including the CLion IDE. I have actually worked at JetBrains as a software engineer in the past, working on CLion’s C++ parser. Apart from that, I have been active as a C++ developer on various projects in the audio and music technology industry (most recently, I co-founded the startup Cradle), as a conference speaker, and as an active member of the ISO C++ standard committee. I am very excited to be re-joining the JetBrains team, and I’m looking forward to