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.

This was my second time attending CppCon. The first time I attended was in 2019, when I gave my first CppCon presentation in two parts, Algorithm Intuition - although I personally recommend the C++Now 2019 version which is 30 minutes shorter.

I recently watched the extended version of Sean Parent’s amazing C++ Seasoning talk, which was given at Amazon’s A9 and posted on the A9 YouTube Channel. I highly recommend the extended version, which can be watched in two parts: