One Year Later: Continuing Rainer’s Legacy

Dear readers,

Yesterday, October 6, marked one year since Rainer passed away. Today, we want to look ahead, and share with you what comes next for this blog.

Many of you knew Rainer through this blog, his books, his trainings, or his talks. Many of you also followed his ALS journey, which he shared here with the same openness he brought to everything else. On behalf of our family: Thank you for the messages, the memories, and the support you have shown us over this past year.

Rainer Grimm

Founder of Modernes C++

We took a lot of time to decide whether this blog should continue, and we talked with many of Rainer’s longtime friends and colleagues. C++ was a cornerstone of Rainer’s life. Sharing knowledge freely with the community he cared so deeply about was what drove him. So we decided that this blog should remain what it has always been: A place for free, high-quality knowledge about C++.

In times of AI, when every answer seems to be just a prompt away, we expected blogs to lose relevance. To our surprise, the opposite is true. The more than 700 articles here are still read every day, by people directly and through AI tools that reference and link to them.

To keep the quality Rainer stood for, we are working with a collective of authors: longtime friends and colleagues who share his passion for C++. Some names you will recognize, others you will get to know.

Modernes C++ Blog’s Author Collective

Klaus Iglberger

Author

Freelance C++ trainer and consultant focused on clean, safe and maintainable C++. Author of C++ Software Design, Munich C++ user group organiser, and co-organiser of the Back-to-Basics and Software Design tracks at CppCon.

Slobodan Dmitrović

Author

Software development consultant, trainer, and author of Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners. Specialises in C++ training and consulting; founder of Clear Programming LLC.

Mateusz Pusz

Author

Software architect, principal engineer, and security champion with 20+ years of C++ experience. Trainer with 15+ years of teaching, consultant, conference speaker, and active member of WG21.

Ivan Čukić

Author

Author of Functional Programming in C++ (Manning), KDE developer, former university professor, and engineer at KDAB. Co-organiser of the C++ Serbia user group.

Jens Weller

Author

Founder and organiser of the Meeting C++ conference and Meeting Embedded. Programming in C++ since 1998 and organiser of the Düsseldorf C++ user group. C++ evangelist and speaker at conferences and user groups worldwide.

We are also open to new authors. If you have authentic, valuable material you would like to publish, please contact us at marius.grimm@modernescpp.com. We will review your work together with members of the collective and get back to you.

There is no fixed publication schedule yet, as it depends on the availability of our authors.

Next week, we start with the first series, written by Klaus Iglberger.

All the best,
Rainer’s family and the Modernes C++ author collective

Thanks a lot to my Patreon Supporters: Matt Braun, Roman Postanciuc, Tobias Zindl, G Prvulovic, Reinhold Dröge, Abernitzke, Frank Grimm, Sakib, Broeserl, António Pina, Sergey Agafyin, Андрей Бурмистров, Jake, GS, Lawton Shoemake, Jozo Leko, John Breland, Venkat Nandam, Jose Francisco, Douglas Tinkham, Kuchlong Kuchlong, Robert Blanch, Truels Wissneth, Mario Luoni, Friedrich Huber, lennonli, Pramod Tikare Muralidhara, Peter Ware, Daniel Hufschläger, Alessandro Pezzato, Bob Perry, Satish Vangipuram, Andi Ireland, Richard Ohnemus, Michael Dunsky, Leo Goodstadt, John Wiederhirn, Yacob Cohen-Arazi, Florian Tischler, Robin Furness, Michael Young, Holger Detering, Bernd Mühlhaus, Stephen Kelley, Kyle Dean, Tusar Palauri, Juan Dent, George Liao, Daniel Ceperley, Jon T Hess, Stephen Totten, Wolfgang Fütterer, Matthias Grün, Ben Atakora, Ann Shatoff, Rob North, Bhavith C Achar, Marco Parri Empoli, Philipp Lenk, Charles-Jianye Chen, Keith Jeffery, Matt Godbolt, Honey Sukesan, bruce_lee_wayne, Silviu Ardelean, schnapper79, Seeker, and Sundareswaran Senthilvel.

Thanks, in particular, to Jon Hess, Lakshman, Christian Wittenhorst, Sherhy Pyton, Dendi Suhubdy, Sudhakar Belagurusamy, Richard Sargeant, Rusty Fleming, John Nebel, Mipko, Alicja Kaminska, Slavko Radman, and David Poole.

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