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Frances explains her teaching philosophy of using small, self-contained game examples to make concepts approachable and memorable. They also touch on upcoming C++26 features like static reflection, the challenges of writing coroutines from scratch versus using std::generator, and the value of learning C++ even if you primarily use other languages. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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