CppCast

By Mathieu Ropert & Jason Turner

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... more

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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
...more
1h 3min
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
...more
52min
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
...more
1h 3min
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
...more
1h 16min
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
...more
59min
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
...more
44min
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
...more
55min
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
...more
1h 2min
October 20, 2024Type Erasure, SIMD-Within-a-Register and more
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
...more
1h 5min
October 04, 2024Parsing 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
"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++
...more
1h 2min

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