CppCast

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

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#410
August 10 · 1 hr 3 min
From Self Taught to Committee Member's First Accepted Paper
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 mo...
#409
July 13 · 1 hr 16 min
40 Years of Programming and Embeddable Programming Languages with Mark Guidarelli
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.
#408
June 22 · 1 hr 11 min
Teaching C++ to Game Development Students in the Age of LLMs with Tom Tesch
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.
#407
May 18 · 1 hr 8 min
GPU Programming and HLSL with Chris Bieneman
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.
#406
April 20 · 1 hr 4 min
Compiler Warnings as Errors with Keith Stockdale
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.
#405
April 6 · 59 min
Building a Compiler Inside the C++ Compiler with Daniel Nikpayuk
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...
#404
February 23 · 52 min
Job Hunting and Optimizing Compilers with Jamie Pendergast
Jason is joined this week by Jamie Pendergast to discuss the current job market, learning to program, and optimizing compilers.
#403
Oct 24, 2025 · 1 hr 2 min
Reflecting on Timur and Phil
Timur and Phil reflect on Phil and Timur. We share some personal updates as well as news from the community.
#402
Oct 10, 2025 · 1 hr 3 min
Reflection and C++26, with Herb Sutter
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.
#401
Jul 3, 2025 · 51 min
BrontoSource and Swiss Tables
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.
#400
Jun 13, 2025 · 1 hr 2 min
Friends-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!
#399
May 30, 2025 · 51 min
From 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.
#398
May 16, 2025 · 1 hr 2 min
libstdc++
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.
#397
May 2, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min
Software 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).
#396
Apr 11, 2025 · 58 min
Standard 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...
#395
Mar 21, 2025 · 43 min
News and Catch-up
Timur and Phil return after an extended break with news and updates
#394
Nov 19, 2024 · 54 min
Tease 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.
#393
Oct 29, 2024 · 1 hr 1 min
Realtime 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.
#392
Oct 20, 2024 · 1 hr 4 min
Type 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 c...
#391
Oct 4, 2024 · 1 hr 1 min
Parsing 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.

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