During the ISO WG21 C++ Meeting in Sofia, June 2025, we hosted an in-person Beman - Evening Session — a mix of short presentations, a hands-on hackathon, and plenty of big ideas for the future of C++. What started as a relaxed gathering quickly turned into a productive (and caffeinated) brainstorming hub, where we explored potential C++29 library proposals, shared early-stage experiments, and even wrote code live. It was part workshop, part jam session, and fully in the spirit of what makes the C++ community so unique: collaboration, creativity, and a shared passion for pushing the language forward.

Adobe hosted an exciting and intense half-day Beman hackathon where we worked on adding new Beman libraries, addressed infrastructure issues, and brainstormed designs for the Beman website.

David Sankel’s talk on Beman at 2024 CppCon is now online! The presentation answers many questions about the project purpose and policies.

I met Beman Dawes when I attended my first C++ committee meeting in 1997. I wasn’t even a committee member at that time; I showed up at the meeting because I was trying to get exception safety into the C++ standard and Andrew Koenig had made it clear that arguing for it over email wasn’t going to cut it; I needed to show my face.