CppCast

01:07:33

Running Conferences and Processing Credit Cards with...

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2026/09/07

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,

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01:03:08

From Self Taught to Committee Member's First Accepted...

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2026/08/10

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

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01:16:57

40 Years of Programming and Embeddable Programming...

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2026/07/13

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 -

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01:11:23

Teaching C++ to Game Development Students in the Age...

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2026/06/22

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)

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01:08:28

GPU Programming and HLSL with Chris Bieneman

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2026/05/18

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

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01:04:52

Compiler Warnings as Errors with Keith Stockdale

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2026/04/20

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

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00:59:00

Building a Compiler Inside the C++ Compiler with...

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2026/04/06

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++

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00:52:16

Job Hunting and Optimizing Compilers with Jamie...

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2026/02/23

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

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01:02:18

Reflecting on Timur and Phil

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2025/10/24

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 -

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01:03:12

Reflection and C++26, with Herb Sutter

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2025/10/10

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

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00:51:46

BrontoSource and Swiss Tables

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2025/07/03

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

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01:02:40

Friends-and-Family Special

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2025/06/13

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

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00:51:24

From Refactoring to (physical) Relocation

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2025/05/30

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

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01:02:11

libstdc++

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2025/05/16

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

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01:15:17

Software development in a world of AI

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2025/05/02

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

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00:58:28

Standard Library Hardening

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2025/04/11

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”

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00:43:07

News and Catch-up

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2025/03/21

Timur and Phil return after an extended break with news and updatesNews 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

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00:54:06

Tease Your C++ Brain

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2024/11/19

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'

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01:01:02

Realtime Sanitizer and the Performance Constraints...

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2024/10/29

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

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01:04:07

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

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2024/10/20

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

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