{"id":2223,"date":"2026-06-10T18:41:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:43:06","slug":"the-story-of-c-the-worlds-most-consequential-programming-language-the-official-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/10\/the-story-of-c-the-worlds-most-consequential-programming-language-the-official-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of C++: The World&#8217;s Most Consequential Programming Language | The Official Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The Story of C++: The World&#8217;s Most Consequential Programming Language | The Official Story&#8221; was released recently, and it is a must-watch if you are passionate about software engineering, systems programming, or tech history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am excited to share that this documentary features video footage from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/herb-sutter-826b436\/\">Herb Sutter<\/a>&#8216;s fantastic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QWqfJtjTAdw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">presentation at the BeCPP Symposium 2026<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a personal note, I am honored to see a small fragment of one of my own CppCon sessions included in the final cut. Being a tiny part of telling the story of a language that powers so much of our modern world is surreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A huge congratulations to everyone involved in bringing this documentary to life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u27a1\ufe0f <strong>Watch it here:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lI7tMxzSJ7w\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lI7tMxzSJ7w<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tom-tesch\/\">Tom Tesch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/koen-samyn-1652235\/\">Koen Samyn<\/a>, and myself are committed to organizing the symposium again in 2027!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Story of C++: The World&#8217;s Most Consequential Programming Language | The Official Story&#8221; was released recently, and it is a must-watch if you are passionate about software engineering, systems programming, or tech history. I am excited to share that this documentary features video footage from Herb Sutter&#8216;s fantastic presentation at the BeCPP Symposium 2026! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,6],"tags":[253],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-becpp","category-c","tag-c26"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2225,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}