C++26 is bringing some long-overdue changes to assert(). But why are those changes needed? And when do we actually use assert, anyway? At its core, assert() exists to validate runtime conditions. If the given expression evaluates to false, the program aborts. I’m almost certain you’ve used it before — at work, in personal projects, or at the very least in examples and code snippets. So what’s the problem? The macro nobody treats like a macro assert() is a macro — and a slightly sneaky one at that. Its name is written in lowercase, so it doesn’t follow the usual SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE…

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