A documentary on the 40-year history of C++ premiered on YouTube, featuring interviews with key figures including Bjarne Stroustrup (creator), Alexander Stepanov (STL designer), Anders Hejlsberg, Chris Lattner, John Romero, and many others. The film covers C++'s origins at AT&T Bell Labs, its standardization process, the STL, the C++ winter of the early 2000s, the revival with C++11, and the language's current status as the fastest-growing of the top four programming languages with +90% user growth over the past 3.5 years.

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