Overview of Modern C++

C++ is often treated like an old grandpa language: powerful, cranky, and assumed to have stopped evolving sometime around the arrival of Java, C#, and Python.

Except it didn’t.

C++ changed dramatically with C++11. Since then, new versions have followed roughly every three years, bringing a steady stream of features that make the language safer, more expressive, and, occasionally, less hostile to human beings.

Here are some of those features, hand-picked from each version:

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