“C++ classes do not cause code bloat and using inheritance and virtual functions are not inherently slow.” I completely agree. What’s slowing this example down isn’t C++, or C: it’s the ...

C++ has become such a feature-rich and downright overwhelming language over all these years, and with all the additions coming with C++20, ... for example, a function will return a constant value.

C++ 23, a planned upgrade to the popular programming language, is now feature-complete, with capabilities such as standard library module support.On the horizon is a subsequent release, dubbed C++ 26.