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Four CppCon 2026 keynotes are already free to watch
CppCon 2026 closed on Friday and four keynotes are already on YouTube as unlisted prerelease links, including the first panel keynote the conference has run. The rest of the programme sits in paid Early Video Access for at least 30 days before the free drip to YouTube begins, one Main Program talk per business day.
Meeting C++ 2026 lands in Berlin with a units-library keynote
Meeting C++ 2026 runs 26 to 28 November in Berlin, hybrid as always. Two keynotes are announced so far: Mateusz Pusz, author of the mp-units library now on its way into the standard, and Kate Gregory. For anyone following the quantities-and-units work, the library's author opening the main European C++ conference is worth a note in the calendar.
Carbon is still pre-0.1, with 1.0 somewhere after 2028
Carbon gets discussed as though it were an option you could evaluate. It is not one yet: the project has not reached 0.1, its own roadmap puts that at late 2026 at the earliest and 1.0 sometime after 2028, and it says so plainly. Reading the roadmap is a better use of ten minutes than another Carbon-versus-Rust argument.
CppCon 2026 is onsite only, and Stroustrup opens it
CppCon runs 12 to 18 September in Aurora, Colorado, and this year there is no online track. Sessions are recorded and posted to YouTube afterwards, but nothing is streamed live, so remote attendance is not an option. Bjarne Stroustrup gives the Monday opening keynote.
GCC will decline AI-generated contributions above the legal threshold
The GCC Steering Committee has adopted a policy declining any legally significant contribution that includes or is derived from LLM-generated content. Test cases are an explicit exception, small contributions are allowed if clearly marked, and using a model to find bugs or review patches stays permitted. Commits that had AI help need an Assisted-by tag, and only humans may submit or sign off.
How the C++ community is actually using AI in 2026
The question in the C++ world has shifted from whether to use LLMs to how to use them well. A roundup of where that conversation is right now: Jason Turner's three-part C++ Weekly arc on getting useful code out of AI, CppCast on teaching C++ in the LLM era, and Herb Sutter asking the uncomfortable question about agents doing harm.
CppCon 2026 puts three language designers on one stage
CppCon 2026 (Sep 12-18, Aurora CO) will host the conference's first-ever keynote panel: Bjarne Stroustrup (C++), Guido van Rossum (Python), and Mads Torgersen (C#) on one stage. Three creators of three of the most-used languages alive, comparing notes on where their languages are headed.
Gor Nishanov (1971-2026), who gave C++ its coroutines
Gor Nishanov, the architect of C++20 coroutines, has died at 54. From the 2014 resumable-functions papers to shipping implementations in MSVC and Clang, he spent the better part of a decade turning co_await into a standard language feature. Herb Sutter remembered him as intelligent and witty, but above all kind.
C++: The Documentary is now on YouTube
CultRepo's 'C++: The Documentary' had its world premiere on May 28 in New York and is now available worldwide on YouTube. The film traces C++ from Bell Labs in 1979 through the language's role in modern infrastructure. Sponsored by Hudson River Trading.