Gor Nishanov (1971-2026)

I am deeply saddened to report that this weekend, far too soon, we lost Gor Nishanov: a friend and colleague, an extraordinary software engineer, and a long-serving member of the C++ standards committee. Gor was always intelligent and witty, but above all he was kind and generously helpful to others. I especially appreciated the times that he quietly took me aside to offer advice when he could see I was making mistakes at work or in the ISO C++ committee we both attended; Gor’s frank advice, delivered with deep kindness, always helped me to do better. I had the great privilege of working with Gor on the Microsoft Visual C++ team for about a decade, while he was working on coroutines and other projects. After sustained design and programming success during his years in the Windows division, he first came to our C++ team excited to take the “await for C++” work forward, and that he did: For many of you, Gor’s biggest impact on your careers will be that he was the architect of C++…