Adobe invited us back into their offices, welcoming us for the third time after hosting our November 2022 and January 2023 meetups.

Bret Brown, Lead of the C++ Infrastructure team at Bloomberg LP, gave an early showing of the talk he will be presenting at the upcoming C++now conference in Aspen, Colorado.

Bret opined on the hurdles that any programming language will need to overcome to be considered a candidate "successor language" to C++.