Not your GrandParent’s C++
summary
A brisk history of C++ shows concrete changes: 13 years of stagnation end with C++11 modernization, the committee adopts a timed “train” model, and features actually land — lambdas, move semantics, ranges, Concepts, coroutines, modules, std::expected and monadic ops for composing optionals/expecteds, plus std::span and std::format. Examples include refactoring a vector<int>→vector<string> pipeline from verbose iterators to ranges and lambdas; many promised high‑level concurrency pieces land late or slip (std::execution delayed). Overall, language gains higher‑level ergonomics while preserving zero‑cost goals.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:50C++ history and evolution
- 9:01Pre-standard C++ foundations
- 16:45C++98 and the Standard Template Library
- 21:46C++11 revolution
- 31:35C++14 and C++17 updates
- 38:13C++20 features
- 44:10C++23 and future
- 53:44Language evolution challenges
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