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Some excellent safety improvements in C++26: hardening the standard library against out-of-bounds bugs, and a safer semantics for uninitialised local variables:

The more available information is, the more I find I need to respond sooner. Sure, I could respond to a message about meeting up at any point. But if I don't respond promptly, I rarely have the context to prompt me later. I find "now or never" to be more common!

I really enjoy meeting people who work with APIs that are directly tied to money. Financial services, gambling sites, and similar. They tend to have excellent stories about bugs.