C++
About
Shot across 10 locations over 8 months in 2025–2026, The Story of C++ premiered at Metrograph Cinema in New York on May 26, 2026, before its YouTube release on June 4th. Sponsored by Hudson River Trading, produced by Emma Tracey, and directed by Ida Bechtle.
It's one of the most complex stories we've ever told — a language with a nearly 50-year history, a sprawling governance structure, hundreds of contributors, and a feature set that intimidates as much as it
The People
Featuring
Bjarne StroustrupBell Labs, Designer and original implementer of C++
Alexander StepanovDesigner of the Standard Template Library
Anders HejlsbergCreator of C#, TypeScript, and Turbo Pascal
Andrei AlexandrescuPrincipal Research Scientist, Nvidia & C++ Author
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Andrew KoenigBell Labs, Founding member of the C++ Standards Committee, Researcher, C++ Author & Educator
Barbara MooBell Labs, Manager C++ Development Team & C++ Author
Brian KernighanBell Labs, Computer Scientist, Co-author of "The C Programming Language"
Chris LattnerCreator of Mojo, LLVM, Clang & Swift
Danilo PiparoParticle Physicist, CERN, ROOT Framework Project Lead
Eric LubinSoftware Developer - Lead, Hudson River Trading
Gabriel Dos ReisSoftware Engineer and Architect, Microsoft; C++ tools builder; Mathematician
Herb SutterTechnical Fellow, Citadel Securities; Chair, Standard C++ Foundation; Emeritus Chair, ISO C++ Committee
John RomeroVideo Game Developer, Co-Creator of Doom and Quake, Co-Founder id Software
Nina RannsVice-Convener of the ISO C++ Committee
Photo credits
Alexander Stepanov by Paul R. McJones · CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped to fit.
Crew
DirectorIda Bechtle
ProducerEmma Tracey
Sponsors
Hudson River Trading
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Technologies
C++
