With the winter ISO meeting behind us, it’s onward into spring conference season!

ACCU Conference 2024. On April 17, I’ll be giving a talk on C++’s current and future evolution, where I plan to talk about safety based on my recent essay “C++ safety, in context,” and progress updates on cppfront. I’m also looking forward to these three keynoters:

• Laura Savino, who you may recall gave an outstanding keynote at CppCon 2023 just a few months ago. Thanks again for that great talk, Laura!
• Björn Fahller, who not only develops useful libraries but is great at naming them (Trompeloeil, I’m looking at you! [sic]).
• Inbal Levi, who chairs one of the two largest subgroups in the ISO C++ committee (Library Evolution Working Group, responsible for the design of the C++ standard library) and is involved with organizing and running many other C++ conferences.

Effective Concurrency online course. On April 22-25, I’ll be giving a live online public course for four half-days, on the topic of high-performance low-latency coding in C++ (see link for the course syllabus). The times of 14.00 to 18.00 CEST daily are intended to be friendly to the home time zones of attendees anywhere in EMEA and also to early risers in the Americas. If you live in a part of the world where these times can’t work for you, and you’d like another offering of the course that is friendlier to your home time zone, please email Alfasoft to let them know! If those times work for you and you’re interested in high performance and low latency coding, and how to achieve them on modern hardware architectures with C++17, 20, and 23, you can register now.

Beyond April, later this year I’ll be giving talks in person at these events:

• September: CppCon in Aspen, CO, USA
• November: Meeting C++ in Berlin, Germany
• November: code::dive in Wrocław, Poland

Details for the November conferences will be available on their websites soon.

I look forward to chatting with many of you in person or online this year!