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CppCast episodes

October 10, 2025Reflection and C++26, with Herb Sutter
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
1 hr 4 min
July 03, 2025BrontoSource and Swiss Tables
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
52 min
June 13, 2025Friends-and-Family Special
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
1 hr 3 min
May 30, 2025From Refactoring to (physical) Relocation
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
52 min
May 16, 2025libstdc++
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
1 hr 3 min
May 02, 2025Software development in a world of AI
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
1 hr 16 min
April 11, 2025Standard Library Hardening
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
59 min
March 21, 2025News and Catch-up
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
44 min
November 19, 2024Tease Your C++ Brain
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
55 min
October 29, 2024Realtime Sanitizer and the Performance Constraints attributes
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
1 hr 2 min