CppCast

Safety and Interoperability with Rust and C++ Oct 5, 2026 01:09:22 Mathieu and Jason are joined by Jon Bauman to discuss safety and interoperability between Rust and C++. They dig into what "safety" really means (there are several categories of safety), what can and can't be guaranteed, how C++ could become a memory-safe language, and the challenges of making Rust and C++ work well together. Jon is currently looking for sponsorship to continue this important work

Running Conferences and Processing Credit Cards with Kevin Carpenter Sep 7, 2026 01:07:33 Mathieu and Jason are joined by Kevin Carpenter to discuss all aspects of being involved with a conference: from regular attendee, to volunteering, to speaker, volunteer coordinator, and catering concerns. Kevin also shares some of his insights into how credit card processing works, along with some of the challenges he's encountered. In this episode Jason also gives the guest some homework assignm

From Self Taught to Committee Member's First Accepted Paper Aug 10, 2026 01:03:08 Jason and Mathieu are joined by the self-taught Alex (Waffl3x) to discuss the C++ standards committee, defaulted post-fix operators, and self-taught computer engineering. Alex shares his experience of joining the C++ Committee and his efforts to get more people involved. News Mateusz needs help with his logarithmic unit design EuroLLVM 2026 security related talks A set of papers related t

40 Years of Programming and Embeddable Programming Languages with Mark Guidarelli Jul 13, 2026 01:16:57 Jason and Mathieu are joined by Mark Guidarelli to discuss the history of C++ and esoteric programming languages, Mark's own development history spanning four decades, and what "merging" used to mean before source control. News The code::dive 2026 call for papers is open Gor Nishanov, author of C++ coroutines, recently passed away C++ Documentary was released Check out the C++ Perf Quiz

Teaching C++ to Game Development Students in the Age of LLMs with Tom Tesch Jun 22, 2026 01:11:23 Jason and Mathieu are joined by Tom Tesch to discuss teaching C++ to game development students, how LLMs and chatbots are reshaping programming education and assessment, and the lessons that come from teaching on retro hardware like the NES. News Sourcetrail - interactive source explorer for C++/Java, fork maintained by Peter Most Links The Creature of Wellstown - student NES game discu

GPU Programming and HLSL with Chris Bieneman May 18, 2026 01:08:28 Jason and Mathieu are joined by Chris Bieneman to discuss GPU programming and the evolution of HLSL, the challenges of floating-point determinism on GPUs, and lessons from over a decade of shading language and compiler work. News Sure, xor'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out, but why not sub? - Raymond Chen, The Old New Thing Preventing Integer Overflow in Physical

Compiler Warnings as Errors with Keith Stockdale Apr 20, 2026 01:04:52 Jason and Mathieu are joined by Keith Stockdale to discuss C++26 news, his experience upgrading Sea of Thieves from C++14 to C++20 across compilers, and the practical challenges of raising compiler warning levels and enabling warnings as errors. C++26 is Done - Trip Report, March 2026 ISO C++ Standards Meeting Announcing Meeting C++ 2026 Dear ImGui Explorer Common Package Specification Is

Building a Compiler Inside the C++ Compiler with Daniel Nikpayuk Apr 6, 2026 00:59:00 Daniel Nikpayuk joins Jason to talk about ccTMP, his C++17 template metaprogramming library that builds a functional type system at compile time by encoding bytecode as template parameters in continuation-passing style — letting the C++ compiler itself optimise away the interpretation layer. They also cover Daniel's path into C++, from typesetting Inuktitut in LaTeX to his longer-term goal of a mu

Job Hunting and Optimizing Compilers with Jamie Pendergast Feb 23, 2026 00:52:16 Jason is joined this week by Jamie Pendergast to discuss the current job market, learning to program, and optimizing compilers. Designated Initializers, the best feature of C++20 · Mathieu Ropert Support for C++26 Reflection has been merged into GCC trunk! : r/cpp Latest News From Upcoming C++ Conferences (2026-01-14) : r/cpp Call for Papers - NDC TechTown 2026 | Software Conference for E

Reflecting on Timur and Phil Oct 24, 2025 01:02:18 Timur and Phil reflect on Phil and Timur. We share some personal updates as well as news from the community. News "Why we didn't rewrite our feed handler in Rust" - post from DataBento "C++ reflection (P2996) and moc" - from Qt wiki "Poll: Does your project use terminating assertions in production?" - from Herb's blog Links Episode 376, with Rainer Grimm Final entry on Rainer's blog :-

Reflection and C++26, with Herb Sutter Oct 10, 2025 01:03:12 Phil and Timur are joined by Herb Sutter to catch up on what's going in to C++26 which, let's be honest, is dominated by reflection. News CLion now has a constexpr debugger "CMake for complex projects" - tutorial: Part one Part two Safe C++ proposal is not being continued Episode with Sean Baxter Links Herb's Reflection talk at CppCon 2025 Herb's Contract's talk at CppCon 2025

BrontoSource and Swiss Tables Jul 3, 2025 00:51:46 Matt Kulukundis joins Timur and Phil. Matt talks to us about BrontoSource, his start-up focused on refactoring, updating or migrating large codebases, as well as his work on Swiss Tables. News Herb Sutter's WG21, Bulgaria, trip report End of active development on jemalloc "Amortized O(1) complexity" - Andreas Weiss' lightning talk Reddit discussion of filter view issue Links Acronyms

Friends-and-Family Special Jun 13, 2025 01:02:40 Phil and Timur are joined by Jason Turner, Matt Godbolt, Anastasia Kazakova and Guy Davidson to celebrate 400 episodes of CppCast and catch up with the co-hosts that have helped us keep up for the last 50 of them! News Boost.Bloom has been accepted into Boost "Three types of name lookups in C++" - Sandor Dargo "How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025" - Matt Godbolt Links Episode 376 with

From Refactoring to (physical) Relocation May 30, 2025 00:51:24 Kristen Shaker joins Timur and Phil. Kristen talks to us about her C++ on Sea keynote about the C++ interview process, her previous work at Google, and why she has made a slightly unusual career change. News libc++ removed the base template for std::char_traits "how to break or continue from a lambda loop?" - Vittoria Romeo Results from the 2025 Annual C++ Developer Survey "Lite" (pdf)

libstdc++ May 16, 2025 01:02:11 Jonathan Wakely joins Phil and Timur. Jonathan talks to us about libstdc++ (GCC's standard library implementation), of which he is the lead maintainer, and tackles some tough questions like ABI compatibility - and how GCC and libstdc++ approach it. News GCC 15 released (release notes) Boost.OpenMethod review (finished) 2025 Annual C++ Developer Survey "Lite" (closed) Links GCC Mailing

Software development in a world of AI May 2, 2025 01:15:17 Daisy Hollman joins Phil and Anastasia. Daisy talks to us about the current state of the art in using LLM-based AI agents to help with software development, as well as where that is going in the future, and what impacts it is having (good and bad). News Clang 20 released Boost 1.88 released JSON for Modern C++ 3.12.0 Conferences: Pure Virtual C++ 2025 Full schedule C++ Now 2025 C++ on Se

Standard Library Hardening Apr 11, 2025 00:58:28 Louis Dionne joins Phil and Timur. Louis talks to us about his role as code owner of libc++ (clang's standard library implementation) and the standard library hardening proposal that was just accepted into C++26, why this is important, and what you can do even today. News GDC 2025: How Build Insights Reduced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II’s Build Times by 50% C++ Core Guidelines issue to

News and Catch-up Mar 21, 2025 00:43:07 Timur and Phil return after an extended break with news and updates News Bjarne Stroustrup on How He Sees C++ Evolving Conferences round-up: ACCU Conference 2025 C++ Now 2025 C++ on Sea 2025 C++ North 2025 CppCon New Meetups: Singapore C++ USers Group ACCU Cambridge Links "Contracts and Safety for C++26" - C++ London January event "Not Your Grandparent's C++" - Phil's ACCU Cambridge

Tease Your C++ Brain Nov 19, 2024 00:54:06 Anders Knatten joins Phil and Timur. Anders reminds us about cppquiz.org and tells to us about his new book, C++ Brain Teasers, how that relates to the site and why it's has good practical applicability. News New report by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) C++ Safe Buffers - a new Clang20 feature CppFront version 0.8 is out “Safe and efficient C++ interoperab

Realtime Sanitizer and the Performance Constraints attributes Oct 29, 2024 01:01:02 Christoper Apple joins Timur and Phil. Chris talks to us about his work on the new Realtime Sanitizer in the Clang20 release, as well as the associated Performance Constraints attributes, how they differ, and how they work together. News The C++23 Standard has finally been released by ISO "Why Safety Profiles Failed" - draft of new paper from Sean Baxter "if constexpr requires requires {

Type Erasure, SIMD-Within-a-Register and more Oct 20, 2024 01:04:07 Eduardo Madrid joins Phil and Timur. Eduardo talks to us about the Zoo libraries, including his advanced type-erasure library, as well as the SWAR library which simulates ad-hoc SIMD within a register. We also discuss how he has taken inspiration and cues from the worlds of Biology and Physics to arrive at new thinking around software development, design and architecture. News QT 6.8 is r

Parsing and Analysing C++ Oct 4, 2024 01:01:30 Yuri Minaev joins Timur and Phil. Yuri talks to us about static analysis and how PVS Studio helps. Then we chat about his work on a custom C++ parser, and what challenges he's encountered. News CppCon 2024 keynotes on YouTube (via CppCon site): Herb Sutter - "Peering Forward: C++'s Next Decade" Khalil Estell - "C++ Exceptions for Smaller Firmware" Amanda Rousseau - "Embracing an Adversa

CppCon 2024 Live Special Sep 20, 2024 00:54:41 Phil and Timur are joined by a live audience at CppCon as we chat about Safety in C++, AI and the running of CppCast itself. News Clang 19.1 released Sean Baxter's "Safe C++" P3390R0: "Safe C++" - Sean's work written up as a proposal partnership announcement from C++ Alliance Summary article on The Register Links Core C++ (Israel) - Call for Speakers closes 22nd Sept! "Robots Are Afte

Benchmarking Language Keywords Sep 6, 2024 01:05:48 Benjamin Summerton joins Timur and Phil. Ben talks to us about what led him to benchmark the impact of the final and noexcept keywords, how to interpret his results, and the project that inspired him to do so in the first place. News Boost 1.86 released RealtimeSanitizer - new real-time safety testing tool for C and C++ projects that comes with Clang 20 "Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing bi

Reducing Binary Sizes Aug 9, 2024 01:04:28 Sándor Dargó joins Phil and Anastasia Kazakova. Sándor talks to us about why and how to reduce the final binary sizes your code produces, as well as the importance of clean code. News "cppfront: Midsummer update" Reddit Thread cpp2 episode from last year AutoConfig: C++ Code Analysis Redefined (Sonar) “noexcept Can (Sometimes) Help (or Hurt) Performance” - Ben Summerton Links Binary S

Swift for C++ Developers Jul 27, 2024 01:02:57 Doug Gregor joins Phil and Kevin Carpenter. Doug talks to us about his work on Swift at Apple, what the language is like and how it can interoperate with C++. News "Memory Safety in C++ vs Rust vs Zig" - B Shyam Sundar C++ under the Sea workshops announced mp-units 2.2.0 released Links "Swift for C++ Practioners" - first in blog series from Doug Gregor Episode 341, with Dave Abraham tal

QuantLib Jul 12, 2024 01:01:00 Luigi Ballabio joins Phil and Matt Godbolt. Luigi talks to us about QuantLib, an open-source library for financial models that he co-founded and now maintains. News WG21 St. Luis trip reports: "Official" report, collated by Inbal Levy Herb Sutter's trip report Links QuantLib home page Episode about borrow-checked C++ with Sean Baxter "QuantLib Python Cookbook" - book by Luigi "Impleme

libunifex and std::execution Jun 28, 2024 01:01:55 Jessica Wong and Ian Petersen join Timur and Phil. Ian and Jessica talk to us about libunifex and other async code projects at Meta, how it has evolved in the proposed std::execution and what structured concurrency is. News XCode 16 beta The std library that ships with XCode 16 supports "hardening" libc++ hardening modes "What’s the deal with std::type_identity?" - Raymond Chen "C++ pro

Boost, The Beman Project and Beyond Jun 14, 2024 01:04:05 Zach Laine joins Phil and Timur. Zach talks to us about the Boost collection of libraries, his contributions to it, a little of its history and where it's going, and a new project that aims to get back to Boost's original roots. News Timing vulnerability in Kyber due to compiler optimization pass JUCE 8 released C++ Under the Sea - new conference in The Netherlands Links Boost

Safe, Borrow-Checked, C++ May 31, 2024 01:09:10 Sean Baxter joins Timur and Phil. Sean explains how he has managed to implement a borrow checker for C++ in his Circle compiler. In fact his implementation addresses all the same safety issues that Rust addresses. News "Noisy: The Class You Wrote a Hundred Times" Reddit discussion "Addressing That Post About final" Conference News: Pure Virtual C++ 2024 videos C++ on Sea 2024 - full sch

Rust <=> C++ May 18, 2024 01:00:21 Mara Bos joins Phil and Timur. Mara talks to us about her work on the Rust evolution team and how she uses embedded Rust for drone flight controllers. We chat about some of the differences and similarities between C++ and Rust, and what the two languages can, and should, learn from each other. News GCC 14 released Changes Reddit discussion "An informal comparison of the three major impl

JSON for Modern C++ May 3, 2024 01:07:58 Niels Lohmann joins Timur and Phil. Niels talks to us about his popular JSON library, JSON for Modern C++ (often just known as nlohmann/json, after its github repo). We chat about the history and purpose of the library, with an interesting aside into starting and maintaining a popular OSS library, as well as what Niels is up to today. News "The Performance Impact of C++'s final Keyword" -

Pure Virtual C++ Apr 23, 2024 01:00:29 Sy Brand joins Phil and Timur. Sy talks about the imminent Pure Virtual C++ conference that they have been running with Microsoft's backing for a few years. Sy also discuss what they have been up to as Developer Advocate at Microsoft, as well as some fascinating outside interests. News C++ Foundation's C++ 2024 Developer survey results P3236R0: "Please reject P2786 and adopt P1144" P2786R

Heterogeneous Computing and C++ Language Evolution Apr 5, 2024 01:00:51 Erich Keane joins Timur and Phil. Erich chats about the recent WG21 meeting in Tokyo, his roles as chair and co-chair of the Language Evolution and Language Evolution Incubator working groups, respectively, as well as heterogeneous computing and his work at NVidia. News CppCon - Call for Speakers ACCU 2024 Online Bjarne Stroustrup responds to White House warning against C++ David Sankel's

Psychology and Starting Out as a Developer Mar 11, 2024 01:07:41 Gail Ollis joins Phil and Matt Godbolt. Gail talks to us about why, after two decades of software development, she took a degree in psychology followed by a PhD that researched the psychology of software development - and how she now uses this to help others get started and, hopefully, avoid many of the human issues that can plague our software projects. News "Contracts MVP is Feature Com

Compiler Explorer Revisited Feb 23, 2024 01:00:32 Patrick Quist joins Phil and Timur. Patrick chats with us about their work on the Compiler Explorer team and how they got into it. We explore some useful features that may not be as widely known, and take a peek under the hood at how it all runs. News "C++ Package Managers: The Ultimate Roundup" - blog post by Christopher McArthur "Demystifying Lakos Rule via Visualization and How It Coul

Teaching and Training Modern C++ Feb 9, 2024 00:52:47 Rainer Grimm joins Timur and Phil. Rainer talks to us about what he has learnt from many years of teaching C++ as a professional trainer, how training has become more accessible now more people are taking it online, and his thoughts on modern C++. News The C++ Iceberg "C++20 Concepts applied - Safe bitmasks using scoped enums" - blog post by Andreas Fertig ACCU conference: Early-bird tick

Reflection for C++26 Jan 26, 2024 01:12:32 Daveed Vandevoorde joins Phil and Timur. Daveed talks a bit about his work at EDG, but mostly his efforts to get Reflection into C++26, along with his co-authors, and how that fits into the big picture. News Meeting C++ 2023 videos (including all keynotes) "A 2024 Discussion Whether To Convert The Linux Kernel From C To Modern C++" How do you correctly implement std::clamp? Blog post Red

Modern C++ with Qt Jan 12, 2024 01:08:05 Ville Voutilainen joins Timur and guest co-host, Guy Davidson. Ville talks about his work at The Qt Company and on the C++ standard committee, and about how modern C++ features such as Modules and Sender/Receiver can integrate with the Qt framework. News Matt Godbolt on Computerphile PVS-Studio C++ quiz Boston C++ meetup C++ Now Links P2300R7 - std::execution (a.k.a. Sender/Receiver)

2023 Holiday Special Dec 29, 2023 00:59:53 Phil and Timur are joined by ... Timur and Phil for a Holiday Special. We look back on the last year, discuss the news, and talk about what we're working on. News "The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps" - CISA Experimental EDG Reflection Support Boost 1.84.0 released Cling 1.0 released "About time - how to unit test code that depends on time" - Björn Fahller CppNorth: Call for Speakers "Ear

SIMD Dec 15, 2023 01:09:47 Matthias Kretz joins Phil and Timur. Matthias talks about SIMD, including what it is, how it works, and what its useful for. We also discuss his proposal to introduce SIMD vocabulary types and functionality into the C++ standard and how it relates to what was in the Parallelism TS. News MISRA C++ 2023 published Sonar webinar on MISRA C++ 2023 with Andreas Weis nlohmann/json 3.11.3 release

Catch2 v3 and Random Numbers Dec 1, 2023 01:09:09 Martin Hořeňovský joins Timur and Phil. Martin returns to talk about v3 of Catch2 and how it is different to v2. We also revisit the topic of random numbers and how Martin is still working on portable distributions and why that is important to testing and other domains. News P2662R3 - "Pack Indexing" P1673R13 - "A free function linear algebra interface based on the BLAS" P2546R5 - "Debugg

Physical Units and a System of Quantities Oct 20, 2023 00:57:38 Mateusz Pusz joins Phil and new guest co-host, Anastasia Kazakova. Mateusz talks to us about his physical units (and quantities) library, mp-units, why v2 is a complete redesign compared to the previous version, and how incorporating a system of quantities is so central to this new design. News clang 17 released Conference videos released in October AMA with Abbas Sabra (automatic/ static

AI and Random Numbers Sep 15, 2023 00:59:12 Frances Buontempo joins Phil and returning guest co-host, Matt Godbolt. Frances talks to us about her new book on modern C++ as well as her the topic of her previous book on machine learning. We discuss the differences between LLM-based AI and more statistical approaches, as well as where random numbers fit into all this and the limitations of their current support in C++. News CppCon pro

Automatic Static Analysis Sep 1, 2023 00:53:07 Abbas Sabra joins Phil and Timur. Abbas talks to us about static analysis, the challenges - and benefits - of analysing C++ code, and a new feature from Sonar that can scan public repos with zero config. News Boost 1.83.0 released fmt 10.1 released The downsides of C++ Coroutines Links "All the defaults are backwards" - Phil's Lightning Talk "No, C++ static analysis does not have to be

Soagen Aug 18, 2023 00:52:28 Mark Gillard joins Timur and guest co-host Jason Turner. Mark talks to us about reflection, SIMD, and his library soagen, a structure-of-arrays generator for C++. News What is Low Latency C++? C++Now 2023, part 1 What is Low Latency C++? C++Now 2023, part 2 Inside STL: The vector Inside STL: The string Experimenting with Modules in Flux pycmake cpptrace Links Soagen on GitHub Soagen doc

How CLion works under the hood Aug 4, 2023 00:58:31 Dmitry Kozhevnikov joins Timur and guest co-host Matt Godbolt. Dmitry talks to us about how the CLion IDE works under the hood. News mold 2.0.0 released CLion 2023.2 released Should we stop writing functions? Links C++ Lambda Idioms: technique to separate user-specified and deduced template parameters The Kotlin Foundation JetBrains Runtime CLion data flow analysis engine PVS-Studio: 60

Safety, Security and Modern C++, with Bjarne Stroustrup Jul 21, 2023 01:01:48 Bjarne Stroustrup joins Phil and Timur. Bjarne talks to us about safety in C++ through profiles, as well as modules and concepts - and looks ahead to what else is coming next. News C++ Now 2023 videos ACCU 2023 videos JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey 2023 Upcoming Boost 1.83 release Links P2739R0 - 'A call to action: Think seriously about “safety"; then do something sensible about i

Sequence-Oriented Programming Jul 7, 2023 01:01:52 Tristan Brindle joins Timur and Phil. Tristan talks to us about a safer alternative to iterators and his library, Flux, that implements it. News 60 terrible tips for a C++ developer Big, combined, committee trip report from Varna CLion 2023.2 EAP4: AI Assistant "Making C++ Memory-Safe Without Borrow Checking, Reference Counting, or Tracing Garbage Collection" Links Episode 78 of CppCast

Contracts Jun 23, 2023 01:11:04 Joshua Berne joins Phil and Timur. Joshua talks to us about the previous week's ISO C++ meeting in Varna, Bulgaria, then focuses on the current state of the contracts proposal that he has been central to, as well as a bit of its history. News ISO C++ trip report's from Varna: Herb Sutter's trip report Jonathan Müller's trip report GCC 14 NRVO enhancements (Reddit) P2025 proposes guarant

Modules and build systems Jun 9, 2023 01:07:14 Daniel Ruoso joins Phil and Timur. After covering a couple of blog posts and a new UI library, we welcome Daniel back to talk with us about modules, package and build systems and SG15, the tooling study group. We also revisit the Ecosystem International Standard. News Modern C++ In-Depth — Is string_view Worth It? How to check if a pointer is in a range of memory - Raymond Chen Nui - new

C++ in Finance May 26, 2023 54:50 Antony Peacock joins Timur and Phil. After rounding up the news, we chat with Antony about what it's like to work in finance as a C++ developer, the similarities and differences to games dev and how you can break in to a role in finance. We also discuss what it's like to work in tech as someone with dyslexia. News Visual Studio 17.6 released Valgrind 3.21 released Snitch 1.1 Meeting C++ C

Conan 2.0 May 12, 2023 58:09 Luis Campos joins Phil and Timur. After some compiler and language news, we chat with Luis about the recent Conan 2.0 release, the state of package management in C++, today and what's happening in the world of C++ standards that may impact it in the future. News GCC 13 released CppFront "spring update" Mojo - a new language with Python-like syntax but runs like C++ CrabLang - a fork of Ru

AI Infrastructure Apr 28, 2023 1:10:34 Ashot Vardanian joins Timur and Phil. After some conference updates, news about the ISO C++ Developer Survey, Sonar integration in Compiler Explorer and some posts on modules and performance, we chat with Ashot Vardanian about AI and the infrastructure that underpins it. Ashot talks to us about some of the libraries and tools he and his startup have been developing over the past few years with som

Native Languages (programming and natural) Apr 14, 2023 53:24 Mathew Benson joins Phil and Timur. After some news on new dev tool releases and some welcome improvements to iostreams in GCC13, we talk to Mathew Benson about what it's like to learn and use C++ in Africa and the implications for the hardware and our choices in programming language. Mathew also draws an interesting parallel to natural languages. News CLion 2023.1 released Qt Creator 10

Cpp2, with Herb Sutter Mar 31, 2023 1:10:25 Herb Sutter joins Phil and Timur. We catch up on the news about LLVM 16 being released, a new book on initialisation in C++ and a couple of new user groups. Then we talk to Herb about his new language/ alternate syntax, Cpp2, which compiles down to C++ in much the same way that C with Classes compiled down to C. News LLVM 16.0.0 released "C++ initialisation story" - a new book by Bartlomi

Safety Critical C++ Mar 17, 2023 1:11:50 Andreas Weis joins Timur and Phil. After some news about Boost, std::format and performance, Andreas talks to us about safety critical application domains, safety in C++ in general, and the difference between safety in security. News Boost libraries may drop support for older language versions "Fun with printing tables with std::format and C++20" - Bartlomiej Filipek "C++20 Formatting Lib

Carbon, with Richard Smith Mar 3, 2023 58:18 Richard Smith joins Timur and Phil. After the usual news round-up, we chat with Richard about the new C++ successor language, Carbon. Richard is one of the three lead contributors to Carbon and he discusses the philosophy and some of the special features that make Carbon different. News Conan 2.0 release CMake debugger in Visual Studio Unreal Engine - C++ Complete Guide The Italian C++ Co

Issaquah trip report and how the C++ sausage is made Feb 17, 2023 01:04:10 Nina Ranns joins Timur and Phil. After community news, including conferences, a new C++ community in Africa and a new project manager and build system, we talk to Nina about the recent ISO committee meeting in Issaquah where the technical work on C++23 was finalised, as well as an inside look at how the committee works and Nina's current project: allocator-friendly library types that don't allocat

CppNorth and the Forgotten Developers Feb 3, 2023 01:10:14 Mike Daum joins Phil and Timur. After some community news, including the state of modules support in CMake and a new compile-time parsing library inspired by Rust's macros, we talk to Mike about CppNorth - what it is, how it got started and what makes it different - then about company cultures, a new language from Epic, and the importance of catering to 'Dark Matter Developers'. News ACCU

Val and Mutable Value Semantics Jan 20, 2023 48:02 Dimi Racordon joins Timur and Phil. They first have a couple more conference speaker calls, a new C++20 test framework, and and some updates about Safety in C++ and the C++ successor languages announced last year. Then they talk to Dimi Racordon about the new language, Val, how it relates to C++, and why mutable value semantics are so powerful. News C++ Now Call for Speakers CppNorth Call

From Healthcare to Automotive Jan 6, 2023 53:00 Honey Sukesan joins Phil and Timur. They first have a couple more conference announcements, an update on Cpp2 and a round-up of C++ in 2022. Then they talk to Honey Sukesan about her journey from working in Healthcare to working in the Automotive industry, and some of the surprising overlaps - as well as her personal journey during along the way. News CppNorth tickets on sale using std::c

Holiday Special with Phil Nash and Timur Doumler Dec 23, 2022 01:05:43 Rob and Jason are back, at least for the holidays, and are joined by Timur Doumler and Phil Nash to talk about some of their recent news, and a super secret new project they are working on together. News Boost 1.81.0 released CLion 2022.3 released, with CMake debug and new (opt-in) UI C++ support in JetBrains' Fleet C++ passes Java on the TIOBE index "If we must, let's talk about safety"

Podcast News and Updates May 12, 2022 01:00:41 Rob and Jason discuss various news articles, libraries and announcements. News Lexy First Beta Release I made an Online C++ Compiler GCC 12.1 Release Join your local user's group

Elements GUI Library May 5, 2022 00:59:53 Joel de Guzman joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about new features in GCC 12 and the latest ISO papers. Then they talk to Joel de Guzman about his history with Open Source and the Boost community, the Elements GUI library and his work with audio software and hardware. News New C++ features in GCC 12 April 2022 Mailing Core C++ Call For Papers NDC TechTown Call for Papers Links Eleme

Linear Algebra Standardization Apr 28, 2022 00:59:53 Mark Hoemmen joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an debugging improvements in VS Code and C++20/23 features going into MSVC. Then they talk to Mark Hoemmen about his past work on linear algebra libraries Tpetra and Kokkos, and current efforts to get linear algebra into the standard. News What's new for C++ debugging in VS Code Conformance should mean something - fputc, and freestan

Rcpp Apr 21, 2022 00:59:53 Dirk Eddelbuettel joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an updated C++ web framework, and whether C should be considered a programming language or a protocol. Then they talk to Dirk about the R programming language, and RCPP the R/C++ interop library. News Crow v1.0 released C++23 will be really awesome C isn't A Programming Language Anymore Links Rcpp Rcpp: Seamless R and C++ Inte

CppNorth Apr 14, 2022 00:59:53 Diana Ojeda from Intel and Stephanie Brenham from Ubisoft join Rob and Jason. They first talk about the upcoming Pure Virtual C++ conference, an update to WxWidgets and Apple's release of a Metal interface for C++. Then they talk to Diana and Stephanie about the upcoming CppNorth conference, how they got involved and much more. News Sign Up for the Pure Virtual C++ 2022 Conference wxWidge

Mentorship Apr 7, 2022 00:59:53 Rainer Grimm joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a new implementation of the ninja build system and updates to Qt Creator and CMake. Then they talk to Rainer Grimm about his mentorship program, and history of teaching C++. News N2: revisiting ninja Qt Creator 7 released Cmake 3.23.0 available C++20 Ranges: The Key Advantage - Algorithm Composition Links Modernes C++ Rainer's Ger

Julia Mar 31, 2022 00:59:53 Logan Kilpatrick joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a GDB frontend and an IDE like autocompletion tool for the terminal. Then they talk to Logan Kilpatrick about the Julia programming language. They discuss the origin of the language, and where it fits in today amongst other languages in the scientific computing domain. News Seer - a new gui frontend to gdb IDE style autocomplete

Zig Mar 25, 2022 00:59:53 Andrew Kelley joins Rob and Jason. They first say Happy 25th Birthday to Visual Studio and discuss a tool for parsing GCC error logs. Then they talk to Andrew Kelley, the president of the Zig Software Foundation. He talks about the Zig language, upcoming changes to its build tooling, and how Zig can be used with C and C++. News Happy 25th birthday Visual Studio GCC Explorer: A utility for

Swift and C++ Interoperability Mar 17, 2022 00:59:53 Dave Abrahams joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about JeanHeyd Meneid's blog post on saving C's ABI. Then they talk to Dave about his history as a founding contributor of boost and the current workgroup he is a part of to enable bidirectional interop between swift and C++. News To Save C, We Must Save the ABI Jluna C++ interop for Julia Emulating template named arguments in C++ 20 Lin

New C++ Scope and Debugging Support Mar 10, 2022 00:59:53 René Ferdinand Rivera Morell joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a new cmake initialization project and some projects in the C++ show and tell. Then they talk to René about his open letter to the C++ committee about expanding its scope to include tooling and other related technologies. News Execution and Static Analysis Support for MSVC on Compiler Explorer Cmake-init C++ Show and

Secure Coding and Integers Mar 3, 2022 00:59:53 Robert Seacord joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a constexpr wordle game and constexpr unique_ptr being added to the standard. Then they talk to Robert Seacord about secure coding and his thoughts on integers. News Wordlexpr: compile-time wordle in C++20 January ISO Mailing Constexpr unique_ptr accepted Rainer's bundle on sale 1/2 off with sales going to support Ukraine Links J

Teaching Embedded Development Feb 25, 2022 00:59:53 Khalil Estell joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about Matt Godbolt's recent keynote at CPPP on C++'s Superpower. Then they talk to Khalil about teaching C++ embedded development and some of his thoughts on embedded development, including why not to avoid runtime polymorphism. News CPPP Keynote: C++'s Superpower - Matt Godbolt Visual Studio 2022 17.1 is now available Making a cross plat

GDAL and PDAL Feb 18, 2022 00:59:53 Howard Butler joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an announcement from Swift on a C++ interoperability workgroup. Then they talk to Howard Butler about the C++ Geospatial libraries GDAL and PDAL, and his involvement with geospatial development. News Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement The mystery of the crash that seems to be on a std::move operation How we used C

5G Network Computing Feb 11, 2022 00:59:53 Yacob Cohen-Arazi joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an update to Microsoft's GSL library and the upcoming LLVM v14. Then they talk to Kobi about work he's done at Qualcomm with 5G networks and how 5G is about a lot more then just bandwidth improvements. News Nerd Talk - Doug McIlroy & Brian Kernighan GSL 4.0.0 is Available Now gsl-lite I don't know which container to use (and

Unix and C History Feb 4, 2022 00:59:53 Brian Kernighan joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about the pros and cons of virtual teaching and training during COVID times, and the news that BOLT has been merged into LLVM. Then they talk to Brian about the history of UNIX and C development at Bell Labs. News More than a year of virtual classes experience - The good parts BOLT merged into LLVM C++ Cheat Sheets Links Brian Kernigh

Docker Development and Modernizing OOD Jan 27, 2022 00:59:53 Yacob Cohen-Arazi joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about the first ISO mailing of the year and some upcoming conference dates. Then they talk to Yacob about his experience building and running docker containers for C++ software development and his work updating code examples for an upcoming C++ Object Oriented book. News Amazon: Copy and Reference Puzzlers Leanpub: Copy and Reference

Binary Exploits Jan 20, 2022 00:59:53 Marit Tokle and Christian Ressell join Rob and Jason. They first talk about a Y2K like bug that unexpectedly hit us in the new year. Then they talk about binary exploits, why they're still relevant, and a particular binary exploit that Marit and Christian demonstrated during their recent talk at NDC Techtown. They also talk about 'Capture The Flag' security competitions. News YYMMDDHHMM j

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