Jason Turner & Mathieu Ropert

CppCast

A Technology , Education and How To podcast

About the show

Once a month, Jason sits down with guests from the C++ community to discuss the latest news and what they have been up to. Find us at cppcast.com

Newest episodes

Learning C++ With C++26's Reflection

Nov 2, 2026 56 min

In this episode, Mathieu and Jason are joined by Ryan Keane to discuss his duck library, which allows polymorphism-like behaviour through reflection, along with his journey of learning C++ through exploring C++26's reflection mechanisms. Links rjk::duck - Zero boilerplate generic type erasure, powered by C++26 reflection - Ryan Keane Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection - Ryan Keane A Duck Does More Than Quack: Synthesizing VTables with C++26 Reflection - Ryan Keane (CppCon 2026) P4148: protocol: Structural Subtyping for C++ - Jonathan Coe et al.

Safety and Interoperability with Rust and C++

Oct 5, 2026 1 hr 9 min

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. You can contact Jon via Joncppcast@shumi.org. Links Jon's talks - YouTube playlist P3874R1: Should C++ be a memory-safe language? - Jon Bauman, Timur Doumler, Nevin Liber, Ryan McDougall, Pablo Halpern, Jeff Garland, Jonathan Müller P3874 R1 Should C++ be a memory-safe language? - cplusplus/papers issue #2475 C++ Interoperability Initiative problem statement - Rust Foundation BorrowSanitizer - an LLVM sanitizer for finding aliasing violations across Rust, C and C++ C++/Rust Interop Problem Space Mapping - Rust Project Goals 2025H2 Miri example on the Rust Playground There is no memory safety without thread safety - Ralf Jung RustBelt: Logical Foundations for the Future of Safe Systems Programming - MPI-SWS Understanding and Evolving the Rust Programming Language - Ralf Jung's PhD thesis

Running Conferences and Processing Credit Cards with Kevin Carpenter

Sep 7, 2026 1 hr 7 min

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 assignments for future conferences! News How fast is C++26's std::hive? - Daniel Lemire Tonight, ShadPS4 joins the hunt: uncovering bugs in the most popular PS4 emulator - Nikita Terentev, PVS-Studio

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Learning C++ With C++26's Reflection

Nov 2, 2026 56 min

Safety and Interoperability with Rust and C++

Oct 5, 2026 1 hr 9 min

Running Conferences and Processing Credit Cards with Kevin Carpenter

Sep 7, 2026 1 hr 7 min

From Self Taught to Committee Member's First Accepted Paper

Aug 10, 2026 1 hr 3 min

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 to safety in the July mailing Brno mailing (2026-07) Links Deducing this Clarify the behavior of floating-point overflow

40 Years of Programming and Embeddable Programming Languages with Mark Guidarelli

Jul 13, 2026 1 hr 16 min

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 Links trix - Mark Guidarelli Mazes for Programmers - Jamis Buck Game Oriented Assembly Lisp - Wikipedia OpenGOAL Practical File System Design with the Be File System - Dominic Giampaolo (Internet Archive)

Teaching C++ to Game Development Students in the Age of LLMs with Tom Tesch

Jun 22, 2026 1 hr 11 min

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 discussed in the episode (itch.io) Game Education Case Study Microtalks - Tom Tesch et al. (GDC Vault)

GPU Programming and HLSL with Chris Bieneman

May 18, 2026 1 hr 8 min

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 Computations - Mateusz Pusz, mp-units Let's check vibe code that acts like optimized C++ but is actually a mess - Andrey Karpov, PVS-Studio Links Developer Toolchain for the PlayStation 4 - Paul Robinson (2013 LLVM US Dev Meeting) HLSL: Decades in the Making - Chris Bieneman (Khronos Shading Languages Symposium 2026) GLSL: Origins, Observations and Opportunities - Randi Rost (Khronos Shading Languages Symposium 2026) Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI - Mark Russinovich & Scott Hanselman (ACM) Two Compilers, One Language, No Specification - Chris Bieneman (2024 LLVM Developers' Meeting) Ecma TC57 - HLSL Standardization Committee (GitHub) microsoft/hlsl-specs - HLSL Specifications (GitHub)

Compiler Warnings as Errors with Keith Stockdale

Apr 20, 2026 1 hr 4 min

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 Out the Gate

Building a Compiler Inside the C++ Compiler with Daniel Nikpayuk

Apr 6, 2026 59 min

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 multimedia programming language for Indigenous storytelling. Cache-Explorer TeaScript C++ Library imrefl autocereal

Job Hunting and Optimizing Compilers with Jamie Pendergast

Feb 23, 2026 52 min

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 Embedded and Systems Programming Cyrex Optimizing Compiler

Reflecting on Timur and Phil

Oct 24, 2025 1 hr 2 min

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 :-( Epsiode 350, with Timur and Phil ACCU Conference and C++ on Sea, merging: Announcement post Tickets - Super Early Bird at time of posting Catch23 repo P3846R0 - "C++26 Contract Assertions, Reasserted" ADSP: The Podcast Two's Complement - A Programming Podcast by Matt (Godbolt) and Ben (Rady)

Reflection and C++26, with Herb Sutter

Oct 10, 2025 1 hr 3 min

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 51 min

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 on cppreference/com Arthur O'Dwyer's acronym glossary Matt’s Swiss Tables talk at CppCon Example of BrontoSource integration in Compiler Explorer

Friends-and-Family Special

Jun 13, 2025 1 hr 2 min

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 Rainer Grimm Rainer's website and blog - with updates on his ALS journey

From Refactoring to (physical) Relocation

May 30, 2025 51 min

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) Links C++ on Sea schedule (with Kristen and Timur's keynotes) BrontoSource "What Can We Learn From the Results of C++ Community Surveys?" - Anastasia Kazakova "Sorting Resumes" - Joel Spolsky (introducing the idea of filtering) "How to Build Your First C++ Automated Refactoring Tool" - Kristen's CppCon 2023 talk

libstdc++

May 16, 2025 1 hr 2 min

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 Lists

Software development in a world of AI

May 2, 2025 1 hr 15 min

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 Sea 2025 - speakers C++ under the Sea 2025 Links "Not your Grandparent's C++" - Phil's talk "Robots Are After Your Job: Exploring Generative AI for C++" - Andrei Alexandrescu's closing CppCon 2023 keynote

Standard Library Hardening

Apr 11, 2025 58 min

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 remove .h recommendation for headers Reddit discussion “Note to the C++ standards committee members” - Bjarne Stroustrup Links P3471R4 - "Standard Library Hardening" "Retrofitting spatial safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++" - Google Blog

News and Catch-up

Mar 21, 2025 43 min

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 talk

Tease Your C++ Brain

Nov 19, 2024 54 min

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++ interoperability via non-escapable types and lifetimes” - from the Swift Forums Links C++ Brain Teasers - Anders' new book C++ Quiz C++ Quiz repo and getting involved Submit your own C++ Quiz questions Modulo One - Anders' band IncludeOS - Episode #63 of CppCast

Realtime Sanitizer and the Performance Constraints attributes

Oct 29, 2024 1 hr 1 min

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 { requires }" - Jonathan Müller Links RealtimeSanitizer docs Performance Constraints docs RealtimeSanitizer helper repo (including how to run it "standalone" and find the team on discord) slides from Chris and David Trevelyan's CppCon 2024 talk

Type Erasure, SIMD-Within-a-Register and more

Oct 20, 2024 1 hr 4 min

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 released "Named Loops" proposal adopted into C - will C++ follow? C++ Online Call for Speakers is open Links The Zoo libraries "C++ Software Design" (book) - Klaus Iglberger Klaus Iglberger's talks on Type Erasure: "A Design Analysis" "The Implementation Details" (Some of ) Ed's talks: "Using Integers as Arrays of Bitfields a.k.a. SWAR Techniques - CppCon 2019" "Rehashing Hash Tables And Associative Containers" - C++ Now 2022" "Empowerment with the C++ Generic Programming Paradigm" - C++ Online 2024

Parsing and Analysing C++

Oct 4, 2024 1 hr 1 min

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 Adversarial Mindset for C++ Security" David Gross - "Ultrafast Trading Systems in C++" Daveed Vandevoorde - "Gazing Beyond Reflection for C++26" Coros - task-based parallelism library built on C++20 Coroutines "The case of the crash when destructing a std::map" - Raymond Chen ACCU 2025 Call for Speakers and (super) Early Bird Tickets Links C++ Under the Sea PVS-Studio (download) PVS-Studio Blog Yuri's Webinar: Parsing C++

CppCon 2024 Live Special

Sep 20, 2024 54 min

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 After Your Job: Exploring Generative AI for C++" - Andrei Alexandrescu's CppCon 2023 talk

Benchmarking Language Keywords

Sep 6, 2024 1 hr 5 min

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 binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime" Links Join us for the CppCast CppCon Special Previous episodes covering std lib implementations: Stephan T. Lavavej (MSVC) Stephan T. Lavavej and Sy Brand (MSVC) Billy O'Neil (MSVC) Marshall Clow (libc++) Eric Fiselier (libc++) "noexcept affects libstdc++’s unordered_set" - Arthur O'Dwyer Episode with Martin Hořeňovský, discussing non-portal random distribution Episode with Frances Buontempo, also mentioning random numbers and the portable distribution issue "Free Your Functions" (video) - Klaus Iglberger (timed link to the bit that talks about performance) Ben's PSRayTracing repo

Reducing Binary Sizes

Aug 9, 2024 1 hr 4 min

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 Sizes posts on Sándor's blog Sándor's books "Parameterized testing with GTest" - Sándor Dargó "How to keep your binaries small?" - Sándor's C++ on Sea talk(s) (will add video links when available)

Swift for C++ Developers

Jul 27, 2024 1 hr 2 min

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 talking about Swift/ C++ interop "Start with a Protocol" - blog post from Rob Napier (but link to Dave Abraham's "Crusty" talk no longer works) "Option(al) is not a Failure" - Phil's talk about Swift Error Handling "Option(al) is not a Failure" (yes, same name) - Phil's talk about past, present and possible future C++ error handling "Swift Concurrency"

QuantLib

Jul 12, 2024 1 hr 1 min

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 "Implementing QuantLib" - book by Luigi

libunifex and std::execution

Jun 28, 2024 1 hr 1 min

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++ programmer's guide to undefined behavior: part 1 of 11" - PVS Studio "C++ Brain Teasers: Exercise Your Mind" - Anders Schau Knatten Links "std::execution" - P2300R9 "async_scope – Creating scopes for non-sequential concurrency" - P3149R3 "Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful" Folly Coro

Boost, The Beman Project and Beyond

Jun 14, 2024 1 hr 4 min

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 1 hr 9 min

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 scheduled published Links Jet Propulsion Lab Circle homepage "Safe C++" - Sean's video covering the implementation discussed on the episode P2687R0 - "Design Alternatives for Type-and-Resource Safe C++" - Stroustrup & Dos Reis P2771R0 - "Towards memory safety in C++" Clang's "Lifetime Extensions for C++" RFC

Rust C++

May 18, 2024 1 hr 0 min

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 implementations of std::string" (updated) - Raymond Chen BugInsight – New memory leak and deadlock finder for C and C++ on Windows Reddit discussion Links "Rust Atomics and Locks" - Mara's book "driveway moment" (Wiktionary)

JSON for Modern C++

May 3, 2024 1 hr 7 min

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" - Benjamin Summerton Reddit discussion Kris Jusiak: Meta-meta programming! (Reddit) Links "Tips on Surveying the C++ Community" - Anastasia Kazakova's talk JSON for Modern C++

Pure Virtual C++

Apr 23, 2024 1 hr 0 min

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" P2786R5: "Trivial Relocatability For C++26" P1144R10: "std::is_trivially_relocatable" P1029R3: "move = bitcopies" (earlier alt paper) "C++20 modules and Boost: an analysis" "Boston C++ April 2024 online meetup" Links Sy's short films Pure Virtual C++ 2024 conference 'BF' written in DWARF debug info

Heterogeneous Computing and C++ Language Evolution

Apr 5, 2024 1 hr 0 min

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 post on Boost split Links New C++ meetup in Vienna, Austria Tokyo ISO C++ Committee Trip Reports: In-depth status report Herb Sutter's report Think-Cell's trip report (Jonathan Müller) Papers discussed: P2900R6 - "Contracts for C++" P2996R2 - "Reflection for C++26" P2688R1 - "Pattern Matching: match Expression" P2830R1 - "Standardized Type Ordering"

Psychology and Starting Out as a Developer

Mar 11, 2024 1 hr 7 min

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 Complete" - Reddit "Contracts for C++" Timur's C++ London talk Gemini refuses to talk about C++ 20 Concepts to someone under the age of 18! Hacker News thread Twitch streamer's reaction (ThePrimeTime) “White House urges developers to dump C and C++” - InfoWorld Conferences: C++ on Sea Early Bird tickets and option, CfP closes soon (3rd-5th July) using std::cpp, Madrid (24th-26th April) C++ Now (29th April - 3rd May) ACCU full schedule and volunteers programme (17th-20th April) Links "Early Careers Day: A mini-conference for junior developers" - Gail's ACCU 2024 workshop "The kids are alright" - Gail's ACCU 2024 session showcasing her students Paper's Gail has co-authored on blending cyber security and software development: Putting the Sec in DevSecOps: Using Social Practice Theory to Improve Secure Software Development Dancing, not Wrestling: Moving from Compliance to Concordance for Secure Software Development "Helping developers to help each other: a technique to facilitate understanding among professional software developers" - Gail's PhD thesis

Compiler Explorer Revisited

Feb 23, 2024 1 hr 0 min

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 Could Relate to Constexpr" blog post by Miro Palmu "A Year of C++ Improvements in Visual Studio, VS Code, and vcpkg" - blog post by Sy Brand NVidia interview question - Reddit thread Links History of Delphi Compiler Explorer Also Compiler Explorer Compiler Explorer Public Dashboard (live stats)

Teaching and Training Modern C++

Feb 9, 2024 52 min

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 tickets and workshops Links Reddit thread on Episode 375 with Daveed Vandervoorde Rainer's website and blog Rainer at Meeting C++ online, Feb 21st Rainer's "Concurreny in Modern C++" workshop at C++ Online, March 14th

Reflection for C++26

Jan 26, 2024 1 hr 12 min

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 Reddit discussion C++ Online Workshops Links P2996R1 - "Reflection for C++26" P1240R2 - "Scalable Reflection in C++" "C++ Templates - The Complete Guide" - book (Vandevoorde, Josuttis)

Modern C++ with Qt

Jan 12, 2024 1 hr 8 min

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 59 min

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 "Earlist Bird" tickets ACCU Early bird tickets C++ Online tickets Links Phil and Timur speaking at the December meetup in Munich "Digital Security by Design, CHERI and the Morello Board" - C++ London P2900R3 - "Contracts for C++"

SIMD

Dec 15, 2023 1 hr 9 min

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 released reflect-cpp - Reflection library for C++20 Links P1928R7 - "std::simd — merge data-parallel types from the Parallelism TS 2" Matthias' CppCon 2023 talk on std::simd

Catch2 v3 and Random Numbers

Dec 1, 2023 1 hr 9 min

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 - "Debugging Support" P2996R0 - "Reflection for C++26" "Why I think C++ is still a desirable coding platform compared to Rust" - Henrique Bucher CLion Nova Links Martin's NDC TechTown 2021 talk on Catch2 v3

Physical Units and a System of Quantities

Oct 20, 2023 57 min

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 analysis) Is it too hard for junior developers to get on the C++ career ladder (Reddit) Links mp-units on GitHub mp-units - Documentation C++ on Sea 2023 video The Mars Climate Orbiter crash p1935 - "A C++ Approach to Physical Units" p2980 - "A motivation, scope, and plan for a physical quantities and units library" p2981 - "Improving our safety with a physical quantities and units library" p2982 - "std::quantity as a numeric type" p3003 - "The design of a library of number concepts"

AI and Random Numbers

Sep 15, 2023 59 min

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 programme announced C++ on Sea videos "Inside STL" - The Old New Thing (August archive) Open source C++ projects that use modern C++ features (Reddit) Links "C++ Bookcamp" (title may change) - Frances' new book "Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning for Programmers" - Frances' previous book Overload issues (submit articles on the main ACCU site) Frances' paper bag escapology certificate Shannon's mind reading paper ERNIE (Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment) P2059R0 - "Make Pseudo-random Numbers Portable" (defunct) "Using, Generating and Testing with Pseudo-Random Numbers" - Frances' ACCU 2023 talk "Program your way out of a paper bag" series: "How to program your way out of a paper bag" (slides) "How to Evolve Your Way Out of a Paper Bag" (video) "Diffuse your way out of a paper bag" (video) "How to Evolve Your Way Out of a Paper Bag" (video) "Crowd Your Way Out of a Paper Bag" (video)

Automatic Static Analysis

Sep 1, 2023 53 min

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 painful" - Sonar blog video showing Sonar's Automatic Analysis in action Sonar Community Discourse forums

Soagen

Aug 18, 2023 52 min

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 documentation Mike Acton: Data-Oriented Design and C++ at CppCon 2014 Bryce Adelstein Lelbach on SoA and reflection at ACCU 2023 Data-Oriented Design and Modern C++ at CppNow 2023 Godbolt's law toml++ on GitHub PVS-Studio: 60 terrible tips for a C++ developer

How CLion works under the hood

Aug 4, 2023 58 min

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 terrible tips for a C++ developer

Safety, Security and Modern C++, with Bjarne Stroustrup

Jul 21, 2023 1 hr 1 min

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 it' P2687R0 - 'Design Alternatives for Type-and-Resource Safe C++' 'Contemporary C++ in Action' (video) - Daniela Engert

Sequence-Oriented Programming

Jul 7, 2023 1 hr 1 min

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, mentioning Cling Episode of ADSP recorded at C++ on Sea Episode 152 of CppCast, with Tristan and the C++ London Uni team Flux on GitHub

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Created by: Jason Turner & Mathieu Ropert
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Latest episode: Nov 2, 2026
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