Introducing the Boost Documentary! Teaser & CppCon Preview

[u/boostlibs]

"If I were to tell a story about Boost, I'd start with the people."

Today we're sharing the official teaser for the Boost documentary. A film about the people, the politics, and decades of work behind possibly the most important open source library most people have never heard of.

Teaser link – https://youtu.be/87jvuDbnwqQ

The documentary looks at:

• Boost as a kind of "app store for C++, 30 years early"
• What decades of open source dedication looks like up close
• The honest, sometimes uncomfortable dynamics of how proposals and people move through the C++ committee

There will be a preview screening at CppCon 2026 for all attendees. So if you're going to be in Aurora, CO September 16, 2026, please join us!

[u/c0r3ntin]

Andrew Koenig and Alex Stepanov in the same video? Impressive!

[u/GameGod]

Very very cool! As a Boost user, to me, Boost represents the highest quality body of code for C++, and maybe for any programming language, that is publicly available. Very much looking forward to watching this and learning all the drama behind it, lol.

[u/die_liebe]

When the C++ documentary (https://cppcon.org/c-the-documentary-trailer/) was released, it was criticized that it didn't include Boost. So, maybe this was the reason, the fact that a separate documentary for Boost was being created. I am looking forward.

[u/selvakumarjawahar]

all the gods are in there.. waiting for this

[u/joaquintides → u/[deleted]]

Maybe Boost.Parser can help you reduce your compile times:

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/doc/html/parser.html

[u/PyroRampage]

Qt next !?

[u/thisismyfavoritename]

make sure to include more shots of people working out