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C++26 is here. Your tooling shouldn't be the bottleneck.

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June 17, 2026
To all C++ devs: If you haven’t heard C++26 is official. WG21 signed it off in March, and the pieces are already showing up in compiler trunk: static reflection, contracts, a new async model, a real push on memory safety. The language didn’t just pick up a few features. Its surface area grew, and the code your team writes against it will grow right along with it. Here’s the part…
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AI in Your IDE: What's Real, What's Hype, and Where C++ Fits In

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March 25, 2026
It’s been roughly three years since AI tools and large language models (LLMs) hit the mainstream in a real, unavoidable way. In that time, people have put them to work writing emails, summarizing legal documents, generating marketing copy, composing music, tutoring students, answering medical questions, planning vacations — and yes, generating entire recipes for whatever’s left in…
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Catching up with VA: Our most recent performance updates

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July 21, 2024
Throughout its long lifetime, Visual Assist (VA) has been a top-of-the-line productivity plugin with a performance advantage over Visual Studio and other plugins. Performance and speed has been a bread-and-butter factor for choosing VA—and we’ve doubled down with updates focused on cutting interruptions and load times. VA had significant improvements in 2024, particularly in the initial…
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Visual Assist 2024.3 release post

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May 2, 2024
Another Visual Assist update?! VA 2024.3 is headlined by a dramatic improvement to the performance of Find References. This release also features both a fix and an improvement related to Move Implementation. We also have some key features exiting their beta phase (try them…
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See you at San Francisco for GDC 2024!

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March 7, 2024
Whole Tomato will be at the Game Developers Conference 2024! The makers and developers of Visual Assist will make their return to Moscone Center in San Francisco from March 18-22 for GDC 2024! Whole Tomato will be at booth number P1769 sharing space with a sister company…
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What's New in Visual Assist 2024—Featuring lightning fast parser performance [Webinar]

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February 21, 2024
Webinar overview: In this webinar, we discuss the latest developments in Visual Assist with a focus on the latest release. Get an inside look at what the developers added for VA 2024.1 and what you can expect to be added to the toolset in the upcoming months. . The Visual Assist team showcases the new features and improvements featuring the newly improved parser time for initial project…
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