2025 marks the second year of working on the Beman project at C++Now.

Adobe hosted an exciting and intense half-day Beman hackathon where we worked on adding new Beman libraries, addressed infrastructure issues, and brainstormed designs for the Beman website.

David Sankel’s talk on Beman at 2024 CppCon is now online! The presentation answers many questions about the project purpose and policies.

I met Beman Dawes when I attended my first C++ committee meeting in 1997. I wasn’t even a committee member at that time; I showed up at the meeting because I was trying to get exception safety into the C++ standard and Andrew Koenig had made it clear that arguing for it over email wasn’t going to cut it; I needed to show my face.