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…

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The Dangers of C++: How to Mitigate Them and Write Safe C++ - Assaf Tzur-El - CppCon 2025
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C++ offers unmatched control over system resources, but this power comes with a price: undefined behavior, memory corruption, and hard-to…