Rust has no built-in equivalent to C++’s static_assert, but you can add compile-time checks with a small const_assert! macro. Learn how it works, why it’s useful, and how to integrate it without extra dependencies.

Learn how to debug static initialization issues in MSVC. Understand constructor order, CRT startup, and how to trace crashes before main() in C++.

Hello all! Our latest San Diego C++ Meetup took place on Tuesday, November 18th, 2025. This was the 80th meeting of our group! It was a slightly shorter session than usual as I’ve been quite …

C# has a nice feature called class/struct property. It is a public data member but with the ability to control read/write access, underlying storage or to compute the value on the fly. You can thin…

Hello everyone! Our final meeting of 2025, San Diego C++ Meetup #81, took place on Tuesday, December 9th. It was a fantastic session to wrap up the year, featuring a deep dive into the intersection…

The curl project moved over its source code hosting to GitHub in March 2010, but we kept the main bug tracker running like before - on Sourceforge. It took us a few years, but in 2015 we finally ditched the Sourceforge version fully. We adopted and switched…

Let's take a look back and remember some of what this year brought. commits At more than 3,400 commits we did 40% more commits in curl this year than any single previous year! Since at some point during 2025, all the other authors in the project have now…

Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite…

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Could C++ Developers Handle an ABI Break Today? - Luis Caro Campos - CppCon 2025
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The C++ Evolution Working Group recently reaffirmed its commitment to ABI stability, prioritizing link compatibility with C and older C++. The C++11…

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Unsatisfied with the C++ Standard Library? Join The Beman Project! - River Wu - CppCon 2025
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Not satisfied with the current C++ standard library? Check out the latest progress of ongoing C++ standard library proposals in the Beman…

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The Joy of C++26 Contracts - Myths, Misconceptions & Defensive Programming - Herb Sutter - CppCon 2025
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This talk is all about the C++26 contracts feature. It covers the following topics:

- Why defensive programming is a Good…

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Why 99% of C++ Microbenchmarks Lie – and How to Write the 1% that Matter! - Kris Jusiak - CppCon 2025
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We've all seen (or written!) benchmarks claiming "X is faster than Y" - only to discover the opposite in production. Most microbenchmarks…

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The Hidden Power of C++23 std::stacktrace for Faster Debugging & Exception Handling - Erez Strauss - CppCon 2025
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This presentation explores a novel approach to exception handling and debugging in C++23. We introduce a method to…

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How To Build Robust C++ Inter-Process Queues - Jody Hagins - CppCon 2025
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This talk will offer design and implementation details of a queue intended to be used between multiple processes.

The C++ standard was written with a…

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Back to Basics: Master C++ Friendship - Mateusz Pusz - CppCon 2025
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C++ offers a rich set of access specifiers to control the visibility of class members. However, the friend keyword introduces a unique and often misunderstood…

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Cutting C++ Exception Time by +90%? - Khalil Estell - CppCon 2025
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Have you ever been "nerd sniped"? When I realized that exceptions are capable of reducing binaries sizes, it felt like the only thing standing in the way of its…

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Optimize Automatic Differentiation Performance in C++ - Steve Bronder - CppCon 2025
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Reverse‑mode automatic differentiation (AD) powers everything from back‑propagation that trains trillion‑parameter large language models to the…

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Is Your C++ Code Leaking Memory? Discover the Power of Ownership-Aware Profiling - Alecto Irene Perez - CppCon 2025
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When it comes to memory profiling, there are two questions that most people care about:

- Why is my program…