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The politics of the committee. The dedication of decades. The flow of solving the unsolvable, featuring some of "the brightest people you'll ever want to meet" 🎬 First audience preview screening 📅 September 16, 2026 📍 Exclusively for @CppCon attendees youtu.be/87jvuDbnwqQ #cpp

"If I were to tell a story about Boost, I'd start with the people." Today we're sharing the official teaser for the Boost documentary. A film about the people, the politics, and the decades of work behind possibly the most important open source library you've never heard of 🎥👇

If you're hand rolling an observer list with raw pointers and manual unsubscribe, stop This exact pattern can take down production systems. A listener gets destroyed, nobody tells the signal, and now you're debugging a segfault at 3 AM. There's a better way 🧵👇

Boost.Decimal — IEEE 754 decimal floating point for C++ Significands stored in base-10, not binary. No more representation errors. No more rounding hacks decimal32_t · decimal64_t · decimal128_t. Plus fast non-IEEE variants for when you need throughput over strict conformance Full <cmath>, <charconv>, <format>, and rounding mode support. Header-only. No dependencies. C++14 and up If you've been using integers or fixed-point to dodge binary FP in finance, embedded, or scientific code, this is the real fix

🚀 NEWS UPDATE: @Google Quantum AI's Tesseract decoder uses Boost.DynamicBitset and Boost.ContainerHash to accelerate quantum error correction, achieving up to 5× speedup on the most demanding configurations. By replacing custom hashing with boost::hash_value and leveraging hardware-accelerated bitwise ops, the team eliminated a key decoding bottleneck across Surface Codes, Color Codes, Bivariate Bicycle Codes & more. The result? Consistent ~2× speedups across code families, with peak gains over 5× – making fault-tolerant quantum computing more practical. Great example of how Boost libraries power cutting-edge research. 🔗 #cpp #OpenSource

Want to learn world-class C++ architecture? Study @Ripple's rippled server. 100% open source. Powers the #XRPL for @XRP_Alerts. Built on Boost: ⚡ Container — memory efficiency ⚡ Beast — HTTP/WebSocket ⚡ Endian — cross-platform reliability ⚡ Smart_ptr — memory safety This is how you build infrastructure that moves billions. $XRP #BuildOnXRPL