I'm going to disagree with sibling and say that a lot has changed since 2007. The biggest game changers arrived in C++11 like auto and move semantics, but C++17

I'm going to disagree with sibling and say that a lot has changed since 2007. The biggest game changers arrived in C++11 like auto and move semantics, but C++17 also introduced some interesting stuff like optionals, destructuring, folding expressions and lambda capturing this by value. Here's a list with code samples: https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features As much as I enjoy hating on C++, I have to admit most of the new features are great.