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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.