Episodes

  • Reflecting on Timur and Phil

    Reflecting on Timur and Phil
    Oct 24 2025
    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
    Links
    • Episode 376, with Rainer Grimm
    • Final entry on Rainer's blog :-(
    • Epsiode 350, with Timur and Phil
    • ACCU Conference and C++ on Sea, merging:
      • Announcement post
      • Tickets - Super Early Bird at time of posting
    • Catch23 repo
    • P3846R0 - "C++26 Contract Assertions, Reasserted"
    • ADSP: The Podcast
    • Two's Complement - A Programming Podcast by Matt (Godbolt) and Ben (Rady)
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Reflection and C++26, with Herb Sutter

    Reflection and C++26, with Herb Sutter
    Oct 10 2025
    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
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • BrontoSource and Swiss Tables

    BrontoSource and Swiss Tables
    Jul 3 2025
    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
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    52 mins
  • Friends-and-Family Special

    Friends-and-Family Special
    Jun 13 2025
    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
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • From Refactoring to (physical) Relocation

    From Refactoring to (physical) Relocation
    May 30 2025
    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
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    51 mins
  • libstdc++

    libstdc++
    May 16 2025
    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
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Software development in a world of AI

    Software development in a world of AI
    May 2 2025
    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
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Standard Library Hardening

    Standard Library Hardening
    Apr 11 2025
    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
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    58 mins