In the next week, I will be giving talks on C++ reflection in Singapore (Thursday night) and Sydney (Sunday night). If you’re local, please RSVP! I look forward to seeing many of you there.
Singapore C++ Users Group November Meetup
Thursday November 20, 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Clifford Pier, Fullerton Bay Hotel
80 Collyer Quay, Singapore 049326
Citadel Securities Sydney C++ Talk
Sunday November 23, 6:00pm to 10:00pm
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
140 George Street, The Rocks, NSW, Australia 2000
In related news, see yesterday’s Reddit post “Reflection is coming to GCC sooner than expected!” — our major compiler implementers understand the importance of reflection and are racing to implement it. Favorite quote: “This patch implements C++26 Reflection as specified by P2996R13, which allows users to perform magic.”
Finally, here’s my talk description.
Reflection — C++’s Decade-Defining Rocket Engine
In June 2025, C++ crossed a Rubicon: it handed us the keys to its own machinery. For the first time, C++ can describe itself — and generate more. The first compile-time reflection features in draft C++26 mark the most transformative turning point in our language’s history by giving us the most powerful new engine for expressing efficient abstractions that C++ has ever had, and we’ll need the next decade to discover what this rocket can do.
This talk is a high-velocity tour through what reflection enables today in C++26, and what it will enable next. The point of this talk isn’t to immediately grok any given technique or example. The takeaway is bigger: to leave all of us dizzy from the sheer volume of different examples, asking again and again, “Wait, we can do that now?!” — to fire up our imaginations to discover and develop this enormous new frontier together, and chart the strange new worlds C++ reflection has just opened for us to explore.
Reflection has arrived, more is coming, and the frontier is open. Let’s go.
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