CppCast

Jason Turner & Mathieu Ropert

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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#413
Yesterday · 56 min
Learning C++ With C++26's Reflection
In this episode, Mathieu and Jason are joined by Ryan Keane to discuss his duck library, which allows polymorphism-like behaviour through reflection, along with his journey of learning C++ through exploring C++26's reflection mechanisms.
#412
October 5 · 1 hr 9 min
Safety and Interoperability with Rust and C++
Mathieu and Jason are joined by Jon Bauman to discuss safety and interoperability between Rust and C++. They dig into what "safety" really means (there are several categories of safety), what can and can't be guaranteed, how C++ could become a memory-s...
#411
September 7 · 1 hr 7 min
Running Conferences and Processing Credit Cards with Kevin Carpenter
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 ho...
#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.

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