CppCast
Every two weeks, or so, we sit down with guests from the C++ community to discuss the latest news and what they have been up to. Find us at cppcast.com
Episodes
October 24, 2025 • 62 mins
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
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October 10, 2025 • 63 mins
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:
- Safe C++ proposal is not being continued
- Episode with Sean Baxter
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July 3, 2025 • 51 mins
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
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June 13, 2025 • 62 mins
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
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May 30, 2025 • 51 mins
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)
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May 16, 2025 • 62 mins
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)
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May 2, 2025 • 75 mins
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).
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April 11, 2025 • 58 mins
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.
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March 21, 2025 • 43 mins
Timur and Phil return after an extended break with news and updates
News
- Bjarne Stroustrup on How He Sees C++ Evolving
- Conferences round-up:
- New Meetups:
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November 19, 2024 • 54 mins
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.
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October 29, 2024 • 61 mins
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.
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October 20, 2024 • 64 mins
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.
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October 4, 2024 • 61 mins
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
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CppCon 2024 keynotes on YouTube (via CppCon site):
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September 20, 2024 • 54 mins
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.
News
- Clang 19.1 released
- Sean Baxter's "Safe C++"
- P3390R0: "Safe C++" - Sean's work written up as a proposal
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September 6, 2024 • 65 mins
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.
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August 9, 2024 • 64 mins
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.
News
- "cppfront: Midsummer update"
- AutoConfig: C++ Code Analysis Redefined (Sonar)
- “
noexceptCan (Sometimes) Help (or Hurt) Performance” - Ben Summerton
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July 27, 2024 • 62 mins
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++.
News
- "Memory Safety in C++ vs Rust vs Zig" - B Shyam Sundar
- C++ under the Sea workshops announced
- mp-units 2.2.0 released
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July 12, 2024 • 61 mins
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.
News
- WG21 St. Luis trip reports:
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June 28, 2024 • 61 mins
Jessica 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.
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June 14, 2024 • 64 mins
Zach 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
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