Standard C++ Foundation Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2024
FY2024 Annual Report – Standard C++ Foundation
(fiscal year ending 2024-06-30)
Highlights
This fiscal year FY2024 from 2023-07-01 to 2024-06-30. Although most of the Foundation’s work is done virtually, the pandemic did affect some of our prominent operations in 2020 through 2022. CppCon 2023 and 2024 have now been successfully held normally again fully on-site, and the pandemic's effects are now fully behind us.
As in every recent year, the majority of funds received and spent in FY2024 were from running CppCon.
As we came out of the pandemic, per our financial assistance policy the Foundation resumed spending on supporting in-person ISO C++ standardization. When the ISO C++ committee (WG21) resumed holding in-person meetings, with online Zoom participation, the pandemic had "spilled the pipeline" of planned hosts; the Standard C++ Foundation was instrumental in keeping WG21 meetings going, by paying in whole or in part for hosting three of the first four post-pandemic WG21 meetings, two of which fell into FY2023 and one of which will fell into FY2024. The Foundation will again host a WG21 meeting in November 2025 (FY 2026).
During FY2024, the Foundation again provided financial travel assistance to expert participants whose ISO C++ proposals had been encouraged by WG21 but who would not otherwise have been able to attend to progress their proposals; however, because WG21 meetings are now hybrid, participants who are able to present their papers remotely do not need travel assistance to attend the meeting.
Thank you very much once again to the Foundation's members and all the CppCon attendees and sponsors! Your support directly enables the Foundation to be able to pay for these ISO meetings and support ISO participants from around the world.
CppCon
Every year, the Foundation runs the CppCon conference, which is currently the largest C++ conference in the world. Since its inception in 2014, a goal for CppCon has been to help raise the bar for all C++ sister conferences. In our inaugural conference in 2014, we were the first C++ conference we know of to professionally record all talks and panels using a paid film crew, and make the videos available for free to everyone in the world; since then, several other conferences have followed suit, including that some have used the same video production company CppCon uses (Bash Films, which we can highly recommend). In each year since, we have continued to strive to add features, most recently professional in-room live captioning in 2019.
CppCon 2023 was held in October 2023, and CppCon 2024 in September 2024 (which is in FY 2025 but the information is now already available to report). Both enjoyed the highest number of talk submissions ever (second only to pre-pandemic 2019), and both years had year-over-year increases in attendees, sponsors, and exhibitors. We thank all our sponsors, exhibitors, volunteers, and attendees.
The professionally recorded C++ videos are made available worldwide at no charge on the CppCon YouTube channel. Here are some basic channel statistics updated for this fiscal year:
- combined viewership: 20.5 million views (+4.1M views in the past year)
- total watch time: 5.5 million hours (+600K hours in the past year)
- channel subscribers: over 154,000 (+20K subscribers in the past year)
Next report
Our next annual report will cover the fiscal year from 2024-07-01 to 2025-06-30. Besides being published here, the annual report will also be given as usual as a live presentation at our annual Foundation members meeting which is held during the week of the autumn WG21 meeting.
About the Standard C++ Foundation
The Standard C++ Foundation (Standard CPP Foundation in some databases that don’t support + in names) is a Washington 501(c)(6) not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to support the C++ software developer community and promote the understanding and use of modern Standard C++ on all compilers and platforms. We do this by operating and funding isocpp.org, the github.com/isocpp and github.com/cplusplus repositories, the CppCon conference including CppCon.org and the CppCon YouTube channel, and providing financial assistance support for WG21 (ISO C++ committee) standards meetings for meeting hosting costs, travel assistance for attendees in financial need, and grants to progress WG21 proposals that have been encouraged but whose the authors cannot progress further without some financial assistance and that the WG21 major subgroup chairs have approved funding.
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A post I wrote back in 2023 
Exploring how different languages solve the same problem often reveals interesting contrasts, especially when it comes to implementing powerful features like reflection. While C++26 aims to introduce introspection and code generation via P2996 and P3294, Rust’s approach using its derive macros offers a mature solution for code generation, even without introspection, highlighting different philosophies in language design and their practical applications.
