2013 C++ //free\\ May 2026

It was ugly in places. It was over-engineered in others. But for the first time in over a decade, C++ felt alive .

Review by a recovering C++98 programmer

Systems programmers who want speed without sacrificing sanity. Game devs tired of manual memory management. Embedded engineers who just discovered constexpr . And nostalgic millennials who remember when std::make_unique finally arrived in 2013 (yes, it was added via a defect report). 2013 c++