The Venue ACCU on Sea was hosted at the Leas Cliff Hall in Folkestone, England. This is the same venue that C++ on Sea had been hosted at in the past. Although I have been to ACCU twice, I had never been to C++ on Sea in person. So this was…
The Talks ACCU on Sea is not strictly a C++ conference, though it is known as one because 90% of the talks are C++ based. Aside from C++ there were talks on Rust, C, and even LISP. There were a wide variety of talk lengths. Most sessions we…
There was a lot of forward thinking at this conference, and not just the typical “What is coming in the next standard(s)?” kind of forward thinking. This was more along the lines of what will our industry look like in the near future. The n…
There were plenty of talks that don’t slot neatly into a single theme, but were absolutely worth a mention in their own right. Here are a few of my favourites. In the beginning: A genesis of our craft - Walter Brown Sadly this one wasn’t re…
/W4 /WX: How hard could it be? This was the second time I gave this talk. You can read my reflections on my first outing at BeCpp 2026 here. As a guesstimate, there were probably about 50 people that attended. Maybe a little less. Other tha…
This is a write up of all the good and interesting stuff that I experienced at ACCU on Sea 2026. The TL;DR of the following sections is (in no particular order of significance): My thoughts on the location and venue of ACCU on Sea Some gene…
In this lightning talk I go through an issue that we had on Sea of Thieves that was caused by a predicate that took its arguments by value. Then talk about what we did to prevent this ever happening again! This topic was covered in my ACCU
Function types are not the only types that we will want to inspect the parameters of. In fact, function types are likely the least likely type of object to be passed to an algorithm or some other type of function that takes a callable. In m…
Quite recently it was announced that the release of GCC 16.1 brought in a load of C++26 reflection goodies. From looking at my LinkedIn, it seemed like everyone was extremely excited for this and a load of static reflection articles started…
This blog series will take you through the implementation of a type trait that can take in a callable and inspect the parameters of that callable. I will first describe how to do this using C++20 and then we can have a look at C++26 reflect…
Overload sets are one of the things that are tricky to deal with in the C++ type system. There isn’t really a good way to query or process them. Even with C++26 it isn’t trivial to process an overload set when you have ADL (argument depende…
Perhaps the strongest theme of the symposium was around “Safety”, or at least “preventing bugs”. Herb’s keynote talked quite a lot about security and how we as an industry need to be focussing more on hardening our software. He noted that w…