C++26 got its verdict today, and it was not the one the committee planned. Elsewhere the theme is trust: in certificate roots, in benchmarks, in citations, and in the models people now ask to pick their candidates.
Jonathan Turner explains how the Rust team organises itself around RFCs, community surveys and regular releases. On the day C++26 stalled in an ISO national-body ballot, it is a useful contrast in how a language can be governed, and how quickly it can ship.
IncrementDavid J. Lumb weighs the payoffs and risks of moving a codebase to a new language. With agents making rewrites cheap and Sean Goedecke arguing that design, not language, makes software slow, it is a good checklist to run before you start.
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