June 8 to 13, Brno, Czechia
June 17-20, Folkestone, UK
September 12-18, Aurora, CO, USA
November 6-8, Berlin, Germany
November 16-21, Búzios, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
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.
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.
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++.
By Blog Staff | Apr 15, 2026 12:30 PM | Tags: None
Registration 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.
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!
By Meeting C++ | Dec 23, 2025 10:17 AM | Tags: security safety meetingcpp community basics advanced
Thanks to James McNellis to giving an introduction to this crutial technique for protecting C++ applications, which he has practical experience with.
A little Introduction to Control Flow Integrity - James McNellis - Keynote Meeting C++ 2025
by James McNellis
Watch the video:
By Meeting C++ | Dec 11, 2025 08:02 AM | Tags: meetingcpp conference community
Meeting C++ is hosting a 24h++ Event on December 18th and 19th! Get your tickets now!
Meeting C++ 24h++
by Jens Weller
From the page:
Meeting C++ 24h++ starts at the 18. December 2025.
Meeting C++ hosts an 24h++ online event with a mix of live content and prerecorded talks from Meeting C++ 2025. With the 24h+ of the event, you should be able to attend some of the talks during the event plus you get access to all talks in the event to view after the event!
By Blog Staff | Dec 9, 2025 03:36 PM | Tags: None
What a year I had! One more conference, one more trip report! I had the chance to go to Meeting C++ and give not just one but two talks!
Trip report: Meeting C++ 2025
by Sandor Dargo
From the article:
I remember that last year I said that Berlin in November is the perfect place to have a conference because you want to be inside that four-star hotel and not outside. This year, the conference was held a week earlier, and the weather was so nice that it was actually tempting to go out and explore.
But people resisted the temptation. The lineup and content were very strong — this year there were more than 50 talks across 5 different tracks. Also, Meeting C++ is a fully hybrid conference, so you can join any talk online as well.
It might sound funny, but I must mention that the food is just great at Meeting C++. It’s probably the conference with the best catering I’ve ever been to — from lunch to coffee breaks, everything was top-notch.
This year, there were no evening programs. I’m not complaining; it’s both a pity and a blessing, and I’m not sure how I feel about it. For example, when I first attended C++ On Sea, there were no evening events, and I really enjoyed discovering Folkestone in the evenings. Over the years, the schedule there got extended, and sometimes I had no time to visit my favorite places. But at least some socializing was guaranteed. One can say that you can do it on your own, but many of us are introverted, and if we’re not forced to socialize, we just won’t. That’s even easier to avoid in a big city like Berlin. I remember that last year I didn’t have time to go out until the end of the conference. It was different this year.
But let’s talk about the talks.
My three favourite talks
Let me share with you the three talks I liked the most. They are listed in chronological order...
By Blog Staff | Dec 3, 2025 03:30 PM | Tags: None
The Budapest C++ Meetup was a great reminder of how strong and curious our local community is. Each talk approached the language from a different angle — Jonathan Müller from the perspective of performance, mine from design and type safety, and Marcell Juhász from security — yet all shared the same core message: understand what C++ gives you and use it wisely.
Trip report: Budapest C++ - Breaking & Building C++
by Sandor Dargo
From the article:
More than a hundred people registered, and the room quickly filled up with local developers eager to hear three technical talks. The atmosphere was lively and welcoming — it showed the strength of the C++ community in Budapest. In 2027, even WG21 might come to Hungary!
The evening began with Jonathan Müller’s talk, Cache-Friendly C++, followed by my own session on Strongly Typed Containers. Finally, Marcell Juhász closed the event with an insightful and hands-on presentation on Hacking and Securing C++.
By Blog Staff | Nov 25, 2025 02:54 PM | Tags: None
In this final part of the tuple-iteration mini-series, we move beyond C++20 and C++23 techniques to explore how C++26 finally brings first-class language support for compile-time iteration. With structured binding packs (P1061) and expansion statements (P1306), what once required clever template tricks can now be written in clean, expressive, modern C++.
C++ Templates: How to Iterate through std::tuple: C++26 Packs and Expansion Statements
by Bartlomiej Filipek
From the article:
In part 1 of this mini-series, we looked at the basics of iterating over a
std::tupleusingindex_sequenceand fold expressions. In part 2, we simplified things withstd::applyand even created helpers likefor_each_tupleandtransform_tuple.So far, we used C++ features up to C++20/23… but now, in C++26, we finally get language-level tools that make tuple iteration straightforward and expressive. In this article, we’ll explore two new techniques: