The following is a conversation with Bjorn Strolstrom.

He is the creator of C++.

Programming language that after 40 years,

is still one of the most popular and powerful languages in the world.

It's focused on fast, stable, robust code,

underlies many of the biggest systems in the world

that we have come to rely on as a society.

If you're watching this on YouTube, for example,

many of the critical backhand components of YouTube

are written in C++.

St. Ghosts for Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter,

most Microsoft applications, Adobe applications,

most database systems, and most physical systems that operate in the real world,

like cars, robots, rockets that launch into space,

and one day, we'll land us on Mars.

C++ also happens to be the language that I use more than any other in my life.

I've written several hundred thousand lines of C++ source code.

Of course, lines of source code don't mean much,

but they do give hints of my personal journey through the world of software.

I've enjoyed watching the development of C++ as a programming language,

leading up to the big update in the standard in 2011,

and those that followed in 14, 17,

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