CppCast
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
Episodes
September 7, 2026 • 67 mins
Mathieu and Jason are joined by Kevin Carpenter to discuss all aspects of being involved with a conference: from regular attendee, to volunteering, to speaker, volunteer coordinator, and catering concerns. Kevin also shares some of his insights into how credit card processing works, along with some of the challenges he's encountered. In this episode Jason also gives the guest some homework assignments for future conferences!
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August 10, 2026 • 63 mins
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.
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July 13, 2026 • 76 mins
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.
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- The code::dive 2026 call for papers is open
- Gor Nishanov, author of C++ coroutines, recently passed away
- C++ Documentary was released
- Check out the C++ Perf Quiz
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June 22, 2026 • 71 mins
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.
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May 18, 2026 • 68 mins
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.
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April 20, 2026 • 64 mins
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.
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April 6, 2026 • 59 mins
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...
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February 23, 2026 • 52 mins
Jason is joined this week by Jamie Pendergast to discuss the current job market, learning to program, and optimizing compilers.
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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.
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- "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.
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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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