Shows
CppCastReflecting on Timur and PhilTimur 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...
2025-10-241h 02
CppCastReflecting on Timur and PhilTimur 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
...
2025-10-241h 02CppCastReflection and C++26, with Herb SutterPhil 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
2025-10-101h 03
CppCastReflection and C++26, with Herb SutterPhil 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
2025-10-101h 03CppCastBrontoSource and Swiss TablesMatt 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
2025-07-0351 min
CppCastBrontoSource and Swiss TablesMatt 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
2025-07-0351 minCppCastFriends-and-Family SpecialPhil 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
2025-06-131h 02
CppCastFriends-and-Family SpecialPhil 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
2025-06-131h 02CppCastFrom Refactoring to (physical) RelocationKristen 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...
2025-05-3051 min
CppCastFrom Refactoring to (physical) RelocationKristen 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
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2025-05-3051 minCppCastlibstdc++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
2025-05-161h 02
CppCastlibstdc++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
2025-05-161h 02
CppCastStandard Library HardeningLouis 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...
2025-04-1158 minCppCastStandard Library HardeningLouis 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 millio...
2025-04-1158 min
CppCastNews and Catch-upTimur 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
2025-03-2143 minCppCastNews and Catch-upTimur 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
2025-03-2143 min
CppCastTease Your C++ BrainAnders 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...
2024-11-1954 minCppCastTease Your C++ BrainAnders 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 ques...
2024-11-1954 min
CppCastRealtime Sanitizer and the Performance Constraints attributesChristoper 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 C...
2024-10-291h 01CppCastRealtime Sanitizer and the Performance Constraints attributesChristoper 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 C...
2024-10-291h 01
CppCastType Erasure, SIMD-Within-a-Register and moreEduardo 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
...
2024-10-201h 04CppCastType Erasure, SIMD-Within-a-Register and moreEduardo 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...
2024-10-201h 04
CppCastParsing and Analysing C++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...
2024-10-041h 01CppCastParsing and Analysing C++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
"...
2024-10-041h 01
CppCastCppCon 2024 Live SpecialPhil 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
2024-09-2054 minCppCastCppCon 2024 Live SpecialPhil 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
2024-09-2054 min
CppCastBenchmarking Language KeywordsBenjamin 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...
2024-09-061h 05CppCastBenchmarking Language KeywordsBenjamin 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...
2024-09-061h 05
CppCastlibunifex and std::executionJessica 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_sc...
2024-06-281h 01CppCastlibunifex and std::executionJessica 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...
2024-06-281h 01
CppCastBoost, The Beman Project and BeyondZach 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
2024-06-141h 04CppCastBoost, The Beman Project and BeyondZach 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
2024-06-141h 04
CppCastSafe, Borrow-Checked, C++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++"...
2024-05-311h 09CppCastSafe, Borrow-Checked, C++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
...
2024-05-311h 09CppCastRust <=> C++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 bo...
2024-05-181h 00
CppCastRust <=> C++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 an...
2024-05-181h 00CppCastJSON for Modern C++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++
2024-05-031h 07
CppCastJSON for Modern C++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...
2024-05-031h 07CppCastPure Virtual C++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...
2024-04-231h 00
CppCastPure Virtual C++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
2024-04-231h 00CppCastHeterogeneous Computing and C++ Language EvolutionErich 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 f...
2024-04-051h 00
CppCastHeterogeneous Computing and C++ Language EvolutionErich 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:
P...
2024-04-051h 00CppCastPsychology and Starting Out as a DeveloperGail 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 Ho...
2024-03-111h 07
CppCastPsychology and Starting Out as a DeveloperGail 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...
2024-03-111h 07CppCastCompiler Explorer RevisitedPatrick 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...
2024-02-231h 00
CppCastCompiler Explorer RevisitedPatrick 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
...
2024-02-231h 00CppCastTeaching and Training Modern C++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++...
2024-02-0952 min
CppCastTeaching and Training Modern C++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...
2024-02-0952 minCppCastReflection for C++26Daveed 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)
2024-01-261h 12
CppCastReflection for C++26Daveed 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...
2024-01-261h 12
CppCastModern C++ with QtVille 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)
2024-01-121h 08CppCastModern C++ with QtVille 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)
2024-01-121h 08CppCast2023 Holiday SpecialPhil 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 B...
2023-12-2959 min
CppCast2023 Holiday SpecialPhil 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, C...
2023-12-2959 minCppCastSIMDMatthias 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
2023-12-151h 09
CppCastSIMDMatthias 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
2023-12-151h 09CppCastCatch2 v3 and Random NumbersMartin 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
...
2023-12-011h 09
CppCastCatch2 v3 and Random NumbersMartin 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
CLi...
2023-12-011h 09CppCastAutomatic Static AnalysisAbbas 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
2023-09-0153 min
CppCastAutomatic Static AnalysisAbbas 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
2023-09-0153 minCppCastSoagenMark 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...
2023-08-1852 min
CppCastSoagenMark 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
...
2023-08-1852 minCppCastHow CLion works under the hoodDmitry 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
2023-08-0458 min
CppCastHow CLion works under the hoodDmitry 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
2023-08-0458 min
CppCastSafety, Security and Modern C++, with Bjarne StroustrupBjarne 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
2023-07-211h 01CppCastSafety, Security and Modern C++, with Bjarne StroustrupBjarne 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
2023-07-211h 01
CppCastSequence-Oriented ProgrammingTristan 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
2023-07-071h 01CppCastSequence-Oriented ProgrammingTristan 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
2023-07-071h 01
CppCastContractsJoshua 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 guaranteed NRVO
How to get NRVO before C++26
XCode 15 beta
Links
P2831 - "Functions having a narrow contract should not be noexcept"
P2521 - The current c...
2023-06-231h 11CppCastContractsJoshua 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 guaranteed NRVO
How to get NRVO before C++26
XCode 15 beta
Links
P2831 - "Functions having a narrow contract should not be noexcept"
P2521 - The current contracts MVP
P2695 - "A...
2023-06-231h 11CppCastModules and build systemsDaniel 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++ Webview UI library
Nui on Reddit
Timur's Undefined Behaviour survey
Links
P2898R0 - "Importable Headers are Not Universally Implementable"
"Clang Automated Refactoring fo...
2023-06-091h 07
CppCastModules and build systemsDaniel 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++ Webview UI library
Nui on Reddit
Timur's Undefined Behaviour survey
Links
P2898R0 - "Importable Headers are Not Universally Im...
2023-06-091h 07
CppCastC++ in FinanceAntony 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++ Call for Speakers (until June 18)
CppCon Call for Speakers (until June 25)
Links
P2547R1 - "Language Support for Customisable Functions"
Maven on C++
"How...
2023-05-2654 minCppCastC++ in FinanceAntony 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++ Call for Speakers (until June 18)
CppCon Call for Speakers (until June 25)
Links
P2547R1 - "Language Support for Customisable Functions"
Maven on C++
"How to get into the...
2023-05-2654 minCppCastC++ in FinanceAntony 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++ Call for Speakers (until June 18)
CppCon Call for Speakers (until June 25)
Links
P2547R1 - "Language Support for Customisable Functions"
Maven on C++
"How to get into the...
2023-05-2654 minCppCastConan 2.0Luis 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 Rust
Timur's Undefined Behaviour survey
Links
Conan 2.0
P2656R2 - "C++ Ecosystem International Standard"
Conan on Twitter
"A Lock-free Atomic shared_ptr" - Timur's C++ Now 2022 talk
"Advanced...
2023-05-1258 min
CppCastConan 2.0Luis 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 Rust
Timur's Undefined Behaviour survey
Links
Conan 2.0
P2656R2 - "C++ Ecosystem International Standard"
Conan on Twitter
"A Lock-free Atomic shared_ptr" - Timur's...
2023-05-1258 min
CppCastAI InfrastructureAshot 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 some impressive numbers behind them.
News
Core C++ (Israel) - 5th-8th June
Meeting C++ 2023 - 12th-14th November
C++ Now 2023 - 7th-12th May
C++ on Sea 2023 schedule announced...
2023-04-281h 10CppCastAI InfrastructureAshot 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 some impressive numbers behind them.
News
Core C++ (Israel) - 5th-8th June
Meeting C++ 2023 - 12th-14th November
C++ Now 2023 - 7th-12th May
C++ on Sea 2023 schedule announced - 27th-30...
2023-04-281h 10CppCastNative Languages (programming and natural)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 released
Buck2 released
"A leaner in libstdc++ for GCC 13"
Links
Timur's three-question Undefined Behaviour survey
CppAfrica on Twitter
CppAfrica on Discord
2023-04-1453 min
CppCastNative Languages (programming and natural)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 released
Buck2 released
"A leaner in libstdc++ for GCC 13"
Links
Timur's three-question Undefined Behaviour survey
CppAfrica on Twitter
CppAfrica on Discord
2023-04-1453 minCppCastCpp2, with Herb SutterHerb 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 Bartlomiej Filipek
New user group forming in Prague - Miloš Anđelković
New user group forming in Helsinki - Timur Doumler
Links
CppFront - the com...
2023-03-311h 10CppCastCpp2, with Herb SutterHerb 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 Bartlomiej Filipek
New user group forming in Prague - Miloš Anđelković
New user group forming in Helsinki - Timur Doumler
Links
CppFront - the com...
2023-03-311h 10
CppCastCpp2, with Herb SutterHerb 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 Bartlomiej Filipek
New user group forming in Prague - Miloš Anđelković
New user group forming in Helsinki - Timur Doumler
Links
...
2023-03-311h 10CppCastSafety Critical C++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 Library, Parts 1. 2 and 3" - Gajendra Gulgulia
"Decreasing the Number of Memory Accesses, 1/2" - Ivica Bogosavljevic
using std::cpp (conference in Madrid)
Links
MUC++ (The Munich C++ User Group)
ComicSansMs - Andreas on StackOverflow
The EU's Cyber...
2023-03-171h 11
CppCastSafety Critical C++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 Library, Parts 1. 2 and 3" - Gajendra Gulgulia
"Decreasing the Number of Memory Accesses, 1/2" - Ivica Bogosavljevic
using std::cpp (conference in Madrid)
Links
MUC++ (The Munich C++ User Group)
ComicSansMs - Andreas on...
2023-03-171h 11CppCastCarbon, with Richard SmithRichard 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++ Conference
Links
P1881R0 - Epochs proposal
P2137R0 - "Goals and priorities for C++" (from March 2020)
Carbon GitHub org - with lots of links
2023-03-0358 min
CppCastCarbon, with Richard SmithRichard 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++ Conference
Links
P1881R0 - Epochs proposal
P2137R0 - "Goals and priorities for C++" (from March 2020)
Carbon GitHub org - with lots of links
2023-03-0358 minCppCastIssaquah trip report and how the C++ sausage is madeNina 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 allocate.
News
Core C++ (cfp open)
CppIndia cfp
C++ Now - call for volunteers
C++ on Sea (speakers and tickets)
C++ Africa
Zork++ 0.5
Links
Orsen Scott Card's Beekeeper Analogy
P2806R0...
2023-02-171h 04
CppCastIssaquah trip report and how the C++ sausage is madeNina 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 allocate.
News
Core C++ (cfp open)
CppIndia cfp
C++ Now - call for volunteers
C++ on Sea (speakers and tickets)
C++ Africa
Zork++ 0.5
Links
Orsen Scott Card's...
2023-02-171h 04
CppCastCppNorth and the Forgotten DevelopersMike 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 Schedule and registration
CMake blog post about the state of C++20 Modules support
P1689R5 "Format for describing dependencies of source files"
"Macro Rules" - compile-time parser library...
2023-02-031h 10CppCastCppNorth and the Forgotten DevelopersMike 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 Schedule and registration
CMake blog post about the state of C++20 Modules support
P1689R5 "Format for describing dependencies of source files"
"Macro Rules" - compile-time parser library from Max...
2023-02-031h 10CppCastVal and Mutable Value SemanticsDimi 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 for Speakers
Snitch v1.0 - a "Lightweight C++20 testing framework"
"The Year of C++ Successor Languages" - Lucian Radu Teodorescu
"Supporting the Use of Rust in the Chromium Project"...
2023-01-2048 minCppCastFrom Healthcare to AutomotiveHoney 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::cpp Call for Speakers
"Cpp2 and cppfront: Year-end mini-update"
"C++ at the end of 2022" - Bartlomiej Filipek
"libstdc++13 gets C++20 "
Links
ToastMasters
"Can software developers draw pictures" (Honey's CppCon 2020...
2023-01-0653 minCppCastHoliday Special with Phil Nash and Timur DoumlerRob 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" (Corentin Jabot)
P2723R0 "Zero-initialize objects of automatic storage duration" (JF Bastien)
NDC TechTown - Call for Speakers (ends May 19th)
C++ on Sea - Call for Speakers (ends...
2022-12-231h 05
CppCastHoliday Special with Phil Nash and Timur DoumlerRob 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" (Corentin Jabot)
P2723R0 "Zero-initialize objects of automatic storage duration" (JF Bastien)
NDC TechTown - Call for Speakers (ends May 19th)
C++ on Sea - Call for...
2022-12-231h 05CppCastBelfast Trip ReportRob and Jason are joined by Timur Doumler. They discuss some of the news that occurred at the C++ ISO meeting in Belfast where the committee responded to some of the National Body comments on the C++20 draft. Timur also goes over some of his proposals and the progress on adding an Audio API to C++.
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Maryland C++ User Group
2019-11 Belfast ISO C++ Committee Trip Report
p0593r2 - Implicit creation of objects for low-level object manipulation
Trip Report: Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting (Belfast)
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CppCon 2019: Timur Doumler "Type...
2019-11-1454 minCppCastBelfast Trip ReportRob and Jason are joined by Timur Doumler. They discuss some of the news that occurred at the C++ ISO meeting in Belfast where the committee responded to some of the National Body comments on the C++20 draft. Timur also goes over some of his proposals and the progress on adding an Audio API to C++.
News
Maryland C++ User Group
2019-11 Belfast ISO C++ Committee Trip Report
p0593r2 - Implicit creation of objects for low-level object manipulation
Trip Report: Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting (Belfast)
Links
CppCon 2019: Timur Doumler "Type punning in modern C++"
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2019-11-1454 min
CppCastCppCon Lightning InterviewsRob and Jason give a brief trip report of CppCon before being joined by several guests who gave Lightning Talks at CppCon 2018.
Lightning Talkers
Anastasia Kazakova
Timur Doumler
Phil Nash
Staffan Tjernström
Matthew von Arx
Tony Wasserka
Jens Weller
Anny G.
Borislav Stanimirov
Ezra Chung (@eracpp on slack)
Jean-Louis Leroy
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CppCon 2019 will be in Denver, Colorado from September 15 to 20th
CppCon 2018: Bjarne Stroustrup "Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming (the future is here)"
CppCon 2018: Mark Elendt "Patterns and Techniques Used in the Houdini 3D Graphics Application"
CppCon 2018: Kate Gregory "Simplicity: N...
2018-10-041h 08CppCastCppCon Lightning InterviewsRob and Jason give a brief trip report of CppCon before being joined by several guests who gave Lightning Talks at CppCon 2018.
Lightning Talkers
Anastasia Kazakova
Timur Doumler
Phil Nash
Staffan Tjernström
Matthew von Arx
Tony Wasserka
Jens Weller
Anny G.
Borislav Stanimirov
Ezra Chung (@eracpp on slack)
Jean-Louis Leroy
Links
CppCon 2019 will be in Denver, Colorado from September 15 to 20th
CppCon 2018: Bjarne Stroustrup "Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming (the future is here)"
CppCon 2018: Mark Elendt "Patterns and Techniques Used in the Houdini 3D Graphics Application"
CppCon 2018: Kate Gregory "Simplicity: Not Just For Beginners"
C...
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