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C++: Some Assembly Required - Matt Godbolt - CppCon 2025

Join Matt in exploring how the C++ ecosystem has evolved through the interplay of intentional design and emergent collaboration. Standards committees craft language features and compiler teams implement them, but something amazing happens in the spaces between: tools appear, communities form, and solutions emerge that nobody quite planned for. What started as individual developers solving their own problems has grown into an interconnected ecosystem that shapes how we all write C++.

From documentation to testing, from build systems to package managers, we'll examine how the C++ community has assembled itself around shared pain points and accidental standards. Using examples and perhaps too many rainforest metaphors, this talk celebrates not just the language we've built, but the organic ecosystem that's grown up around it. Come discover why C++'s greatest strength might be that it's always required some assembly. 

Slides: https://mattgodbolt.github.io/cppcon-2025-some-assembly-required/#/

Work at Hudson River Trading (HRT): https://tinyurl.com/safxfctf
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Matt Godbolt

Matt Godbolt is the creator of the Compiler Explorer website. He is passionate about writing efficient code. He has previously worked at a trading firm, on mobile apps at Google, run his own C++ tools company and spent more than a decade making console games. When he's not hacking on Compiler Explorer, Matt enjoys writing emulators for old 8-bit computer hardware.
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Matt Godbolt's CppCon 2025 closing keynote weaves personal history — from ZX Spectrum BASIC and ARM assembly on the Archimedes, through games industry C++ and finance trading — into a broad tour of why assembly language still matters for C++ developers. He live-demos Compiler Explorer showing how GCC and Clang compile a hex-string validator at O1/O2/O3, explaining x86, ARM, and RISC-V register conventions and ABIs. He also previews a new Claude-powered 'explain assembly' feature in Compiler Explorer. The second half surveys the C++ ecosystem: the STL's origin story via Stepanov, Boost as a standardization proving ground, the new Beman project, and the fragmented landscape of compilers, editors, build systems, and package managers.