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

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.

Other Boost libraries are or will be beneficiaries of this effort as well. First, Boost.Charconv now supports boost::charconv::from_chars and boost::charconv::to_chars for integers being run on device. This can give you up to an order of magnitude improvement in performance.

This quarter, I focused on two areas of Mr.Docs: adding first-class support for function objects, the pattern behind C++20 Niebloids and Ranges CPOs, and overhauling how the tool turns C++ metadata into documentation output (the reflection layer).

I gave my talk “The Mathematical Mind of a C++ Programmer” at the using std::cpp 2026 conference taking place in Madrid during March 16-19. I had a lot of fun preparing the presentation and delivering the actual talk, and some interesting discussions were had around it.

A major effort this quarter and continuing on since it was mentioned in the last newsletter is the development of codecov-like coverage reports that run in GitHub Actions and are hosted on GitHub Pages. Instructions: Code Coverage with Github Actions and Github Pages .

The C++ Alliance is proud to support attendance at WG21 committee meetings. We believe that facilitating the attendance of domain experts produces better outcomes for C++ and for the broader ecosystem, and we are committed to making participation more accessible.

The C++ Alliance is releasing the Corosio beta, a networking library designed from the ground up for C++20 coroutines. We are inviting serious C++ developers to use it, break it, and tell us what needs to change before it goes to Boost formal review.

Do you know Boost.MySQL? If you’ve been reading my posts, you probably do. Many people have wondered ‘why not Postgres?’. Well, the time is now. TL;DR: I’m writing the equivalent of Boost.MySQL, but for PostgreSQL. You can find the code here .

The pull request to isomorphic-git “Support git commands run in submodules” was merged, and released in the latest version. (See previous post for an explanation). The commit modified 153 files, all the git api commands, and tests applying to each one.

Written an article explaining the usage and implementation of the recently introduced bulk operations.

After two reviews the Decimal ( https://github.com/cppalliance/decimal ) library has been accepted into Boost. Look for it to ship for the first time with Boost 1.91 in the Spring.