The 10 Essential Features for the Future of C++ Libraries

Mateusz Pusz

⏱ 90 minute session
beginner
intermediate
advanced
14:30-16:00, Friday, 4th April 2025
C++ is a powerful language for building high-performance, flexible libraries. However, language and standard library limitations often hinder library developers from achieving their full potential.

This talk will unveil 10 critical missing C++ features that could significantly improve library development. By addressing common pain points and unlocking new possibilities, these features will empower developers to create more robust, efficient, and expressive libraries.

Through concrete examples from the quantities and units library, we'll explore how these features can: - Simplify complex generic programming, - Improve type safety without sacrificing functionality, - Enable more concise and expressive code, - Serve as building blocks for crucial new library features.

Some of the presented features are already proposed for standardization but have yet to be a part of the C++ standard. Others are still pure fiction, but hopefully, they will enter the standardization pipeline in the future.

Join us to explore the potential future of C++ library development and how these 10 features could shape the language for years to come, opening up new possibilities and revolutionizing the way we build libraries.

🏷 design
🏷 architecture
🏷 library
🏷 language
🏷 interfaces
🏷 Modern C++
🏷 constexpr
🏷 templates
🏷 safety

Mateusz Pusz

A software architect, principal engineer, and security champion with over 20 years of experience designing, writing, and maintaining C++ code for fun and living. A trainer with over 10 years of C++ teaching experience, consultant, conference speaker, and evangelist. His main areas of interest and expertise are Modern C++, code performance, low latency, safety, and maintainability.

Mateusz worked at Intel for 13 years, and now he is a Principal Software Engineer and the head of the C++ Competency Center at EPAM Systems. He is also a founder of Train IT, which provides dedicated C++ trainings and consulting services to corporations worldwide.

Mateusz is a contributor and an active voting member of the ISO C++ Committee (WG21), where, together with the best C++ experts in the world, he shapes the future of the C++ language.