This document summarizes Bjarne Stroustrup's keynote at Cppcon 2016 and new features in Visual Studio 2015. It discusses improvements to build times with features like whole program optimization and linker optimizations. It also covers compiler optimizations like vectorization of control flow and loop-if unswitching. New C++17 language features and the standalone Visual C++ build tools are also mentioned. Finally, it demonstrates debugging and profiling improvements in Visual Studio 2015.