CppCast
The first podcast for C++ developers, by C++ developers!
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jason is joined this week by Jamie Pendergast to discuss the current job market, learning to program, and optimizing compilers.
Timur and Phil reflect on Phil and Timur. We share some personal updates as well as news from the community.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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).
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.
Timur and Phil return after an extended break with news and updates
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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++.
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.
