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Structured bindings in conditions may look like a small syntax sugar, but they let us write much more expressive conditional logic. By allowing decomposition and condition checking to live side by side, C++26 reduces boilerplate, improves locality, and better supports modern result types that bundle status and data together. This is a pragmatic, well-integrated evolution of a feature that has already proven its value since C++17.

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C++26: Structured Bindings in Conditions

by Sandor Dargo
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Structured bindings were introduced in C++17 as an alternative way of declaring variables. They allow you to decompose an object into a set of named variables, where the collection of those bindings conceptually represents the original object as a whole.
// https://godbolt.org/z/97GaMajMP
#include <cassert> #include <string>
struct MyStruct {
int num;
std::string text;
bool operator==(const MyStruct&) const noexcept = default;
};
MyStruct foo() {
return {42, "let's go"};
}
int main() {
const auto& [n, t] = foo();
MyStruct ms{n, t};
assert(ms == foo());
return 0;
}

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2026 Annual C++ Developer Survey "Lite"
Please share your feedback in this annual 10-minute survey to help inform C++ standardization and C++ tool vendors. This is the biggest opportunity we all have each year to make our voices heard and help improve our industry and community!
A summary of the results, including aggregated highlights of common answers in the write-in responses, will be posted publicly here on isocpp.org and shared with the C++ standardization committee participants and C++ tool vendors to help inform C++ evolution and tooling.
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Registration is now open for CppCon 2026! The conference starts on September 12 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting videos of some of the top-rated talks from last year's conference. Here’s another CppCon talk video we hope you will enjoy – and why not register today for CppCon 2026!

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Could C++ Developers Handle an ABI Break Today?

by Luis Caro Campos
Summary of the talk:

The C++ Evolution Working Group recently reaffirmed its commitment to ABI stability, prioritizing link compatibility with C and older C++. The C++11 libstdc++ ABI updates introduced in gcc 5.1, although not strictly “breaking”, are still in the collective memory of C++ developers and this experience shows us how sensitive the ecosystem is to ABI updates.
This talk challenges the assumption that a future ABI break would be equally problematic, as the landscape has evolved significantly in the last decade.
On the one hand, the C++ standard has evolved in such a way that even if the standards committee and compiler vendors go through great lengths to avoid breaking the ABI of standard library implementations, library authors are not as cautious - so in practice, the ability to link objects built with different C++ standard levels does not hold true for a lot of cases.
On the other hand, tooling has evolved significantly in this time period. For example, both Conan and vcpkg are able to “tag” binaries on some arbitrary ABI version. We can see similar examples in other tools or ecosystems that need to work around ABI complexities.
This talk is not intended to argue about the merits or risks of future ABI changes - but to ask ourselves the question: are we overestimating the pain of a future ABI break?

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