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Last night we held our 83rd San Diego C++ Meetup. It was a fantastic evening filled with deep technical discussions and a significant announcement regarding the future of our community infrastructure. The Big Announcement: Moving to Luma The biggest news from this meeting is that we are officially moving away from Meetup.com. To streamline our […]

Hello everyone! Our final meeting of 2025, San Diego C++ Meetup #81, took place on Tuesday, December 9th. It was a fantastic session to wrap up the year, featuring a deep dive into the intersection of Modern C++, AI tooling, and functional programming interpreter design. For those who couldn’t make it, the full recording is […]

Hello all! Our latest San Diego C++ Meetup took place on Tuesday, November 18th, 2025. This was the 80th meeting of our group! It was a slightly shorter session than usual as I’ve been quite busy, but we managed to pack in some great discussions on Agentic AI, review some fascinating C++ news/blogs, and solve […]

Hello all! This time, our 79th meeting Oct 22 2025, we were hosting Hubert Liberacki who gave a fantastic presentation on “Cracking Open the Black Box: Legally Testing the Privates in C++”. A huge thank you to everyone who attended and participated in the discussion! For those who couldn’t make it or would like to […]

Hello all! Our latest San Diego C++ Meetup took place on Tuesday, September 24th, 2025. It was another great virtual session where we dove deep into some of the lesser-known features and types in Modern C++. A massive thank you to everyone who joined, participated in the quizzes, and contributed to the discussion! For those […]

Hello all! Our latest San Diego C++ Meetup took place on Tuesday, August 19th, 2025. It was another great session with engaging discussions on modern C++ features, standard library improvements, and a fascinating look into the world of AI-assisted development. A huge thank you to JetBrains for their continued sponsorship of our meetup group. Their […]

Hello everyone, Last week we met for another San Diego C++ meetup session. I was super busy with tons of other obligations, so this blog post summary of the meetup session comes a bit late. The meeting took place on July 15 2025, 5PM Pacific. Virtual meeting. Meeting page can be found here. Recording can […]

Hello everyone! On Tuesday, June 10th 2025, we were honored to host Mike Shah The topic was “Understanding large and unfamiliar codebases“. A very interesting talk discussing and demonstrating multiple tools and techniques when working with large, unfamiliar code. The meeting page can be found here The recording can be found here: Abstract of the […]

Hello Everyone! Took me some time to write this post since I was on travel for few days. We met on Tuesday May 13 2025 and discuss std::uninitialized_xyz() function family. The Agenda: Meetup page for the event is here. Thank you CLion JetBrains for sponsoring San Diego C++ Community! Very much appreciated! Details The great […]

Hello everyone! Here is the summary of the last session, took place on Tuesday, April 15 2025. The session had few topics discussed. First, I’d like to announce that we have a new Sponsor to our meetup! Jetbrains has generously agreed to sponsor the yearly Meetup fees! It is super fun to have your favorite […]

Hello everyone! Tuesday March 18 2025 evening was all about Refactoring with C++ by Dmitry Danilov. But before we dive to the summary – we’ll mention that there was a Job posting presented by Parker Lanning – Looking for Mid Sr. C++ Developer Role – contract role. Please feel free to contact Parker. We also […]

San Diego C++ Meetup, February 14th 2025. yes, Valentine day, because we love C++ 🙂 Link to the meetup page here. Recording uploaded to San Diego C++ Meetup (sdcppmu) YouTube channel: Hello everyone! February 2025 was dedicated to a new book from Packpub publication: “Debunking C++ Myths: Dispelling Misconceptions and Embracing Modern C++” by Alex […]

Hello all, I’m late on this report. I’ve been traveling a lot in the past week and did not have a chance to sit down and write this report. The meeting info on meetup can be found here. Took place on Tuesday, January 14, 2025. Recording is uploaded as usual to our sdcppmu Youtube channel: […]

Hello all, Summary of San Diego C++ Meetup – Meeting session number 69. Took place on December 10 2024. This is the last session for 2024! Event link can be found here. Topics we covered: How can I map a runtime value to a compile-time value? This was the main topic. The idea was as […]

Hello all! Here is the summary of the last San Diego C++ Meetup, virtual meeting, took place on Wednesday, Nov 13 2024. Link to the meetup event page here. Recording uploaded to the San Diego C++ Meetup channel (sdcppmu) The agenda: More details: First, Alex’s YT channel mentioned above is something you should checkout. It’s […]

Hello all, We had a fun evening on Tuesday October 15th, discussing C++ STL, Data structure and various modern techniques. The inspiration coming from a recently published book by John Farrier: recording: Event page here. Hey everyone, Here’s a quick recap of our discussion: We kicked things off with cppquiz 167. It’s a tough one […]

Hello everyone, Last Tuesday (September 17, 2024), we gathered for the 66th meeting of The San Diego C++ Meetup. The topic was CMake. Yes, CMake can be fun sometimes! 😊 The inspiration for this session came from the relatively new 2nd edition of “Modern CMake for C++” by Rafal Swidzinski. First off, the book is […]

Hello everyone, Super late in writing this summary, can’t believe we are 1 week past the session. I’ve been super busy at work and with Family. What did we have on the Agenda: sdcppmu Youtube recording: Event page from meetup.com Summary of the discussions: Next part of the meeting talked about “Adding Default Constructor using […]