The C++ Alliance

The questions changed. For a long time, people asked about MrDocs in the abstract: what formats will it support, how will it handle templates, when will it be ready. Then, gradually, the questions became specific. Jean...

We had been putting off the Boost.URL security review for a while. There was always something more urgent. When the review finally happened, it confirmed what we hoped: the core parsing logic held up well. Around the same time, a constexpr feature request that we had been dismissing sudd...

When new developers joined the MrDocs team, we expected the usual ramp-up: learning the codebase, understanding the architecture, and getting comfortable with the review process. What we did not expect was that building and testing the project would be the hardest part. People de...

Early in Q1 2026, I joined the C++ Alliance. A very exciting moment.

So I began to work early January under Joaquin’s mentorship, with the idea of having a clear contribution to Boost Graph by the end of Q1. After a few days of auditing the current state of the library versus the literature, it became clear that community detection methods (aka gr...

C++20 modules have been in the standard for 6 years already, but we’re not seeing widespread adoption. The ecosystem is still getting ready. As a quick example, import std, an absolute blessing for compile times, requires build system support, and this is still experimental as of CMake 4.3.1.

And yet, I’ve realized that writing module-n...