This will be a short “trip report” on the talks I watched over the week of the virtual GTC 2022 (March 21 - 24). All talks a freely available online.

This trip report is a bit delayed, but better late than never. HOPL stands for History of Programming Languages and is a conference that happens roughly once every 14 years. The past HOPL conferences happened in the following years:

One of my favorite tweets is by Ben Deane:

Yesterday, a contributor to one of my open source projects (Robert) pointed out to me that std::find_if(f, l, pred) != l is just std::any_of(f, l, pred). I totally missed this while refactoring even though it is implicitly covered in my STL Algorithm Cheatsheet:

This was my second time attending Meeting C++. The first time I attended was in 2019, when I gave my first Meeting C++ presentation, Better Algorithm Intuition.