CppCast

The first podcast by C++ developers for C++ developers!

JSON for Modern C++ 05/03/2024

JSON for Modern C++ Niels Lohmann joins Timur and Phil. Niels talks to us about his popular JSON library, JSON for Modern C++ (often just known as nlohmann/json, after its github repo). We chat about the history and purpose of the library, with an interesting aside into starting and maintaining a popular OSS library, as well as what Niels is up to today. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/31100373

Pure Virtual C++ 04/23/2024

Pure Virtual C++ Sy Brand joins Phil and Timur. Sy talks about the imminent Pure Virtual C++ conference that they have been running with Microsoft's backing for a few years. Sy also discuss what they have been up to as Developer Advocate at Microsoft, as well as some fascinating outside interests. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/30955613

Heterogeneous Computing and C++ Language Evolution 04/05/2024

Heterogeneous Computing and C++ Language Evolution Erich Keane joins Timur and Phil. Erich chats about the recent WG21 meeting in Tokyo, his roles as chair and co-chair of the Language Evolution and Language Evolution Incubator working groups, respectively, as well as heterogeneous computing and his work at NVidia. Show Notes News Links Tokyo ISO C++ Committee Trip Reports: Papers discussed: /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/30693878

Psychology and Starting Out as a Developer 03/12/2024

Psychology and Starting Out as a Developer Gail Ollis joins Phil and Matt Godbolt. Gail talks to us about why, after two decades of software development, she took a degree in psychology followed by a PhD that researched the psychology of software development - and how she now uses this to help others get started and, hopefully, avoid many of the human issues that can plague our software projects. Show Notes News Gemini refuses to talk about C++ 20 Concepts to someone under the age of 18! Conferences: Links Paper's Gail has co-authored on blending cyber security and software development: /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/30336703

Compiler Explorer Revisited 02/23/2024

Compiler Explorer Revisited Patrick Quist joins Phil and Timur. Patrick chats with us about their work on the Compiler Explorer team and how they got into it. We explore some useful features that may not be as widely known, and take a peek under the hood at how it all runs. News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/30079243

Teaching and Training Modern C++ 02/09/2024

Teaching and Training Modern C++ Rainer Grimm joins Timur and Phil. Rainer talks to us about what he has learnt from many years of teaching C++ as a professional trainer, how training has become more accessible now more people are taking it online, and his thoughts on modern C++. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/29873128

Reflection for C++26 01/26/2024

Reflection for C++26 Daveed Vandevoorde joins Phil and Timur. Daveed talks a bit about his work at EDG, but mostly his efforts to get Reflection into C++26, along with his co-authors, and how that fits into the big picture. Show Notes News How do you correctly implement std::clamp? Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/29659928

Modern C++ with Qt 01/12/2024

Modern C++ with Qt Ville Voutilainen joins Timur and guest co-host, Guy Davidson. Ville talks about Qt, his work a The Qt Company and his work on the C++ standards committee - including how all those things come together. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/29453403

2023 Holiday Special 12/29/2023

2023 Holiday Special Phil and Timur are joined by ... Timur and Phil for a Holiday Special. We look back on the last year, discuss the news, and talk about what we're working on. Show Notes News CppNorth: Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/29268838

SIMD 12/15/2023

SIMD Matthias Kretz joins Phil and Timur. Matthias talks about SIMD, including what it is, how it works, and what its useful for. We also discuss his proposal to introduce SIMD vocabulary types and functionality into the C++ standard and how it relates to what was in the Parallelism TS. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/29097953

Catch2 v3 and Random Numbers 12/01/2023

Catch2 v3 and Random Numbers Martin Hořeňovský joins Timur and Phil. Martin returns to talk about v3 of Catch2 and how it is different to v2. We also revisit the topic of random numbers and how Martin is still working on portable distributions and why that is important to testing and other domains. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/28881183

Physical Units and a System of Quantities 10/20/2023

Physical Units and a System of Quantities Mateusz Pusz joins Phil and new guest co-host, Anastasia Kazakova. Mateusz talks to us about his physical units (and quantities) library, mp-units, why v2 is a complete redesign compared to the previous version, and how incorporating a system of quantities is so central to this new design. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/28373885

AI and Random Numbers 09/15/2023

AI and Random Numbers Frances Buontempo joins Phil and returning guest co-host, Matt Godbolt. Frances talks to us about her new book on modern C++ as well as her the topic of her previous book on machine learning. We discuss the differences between LLM-based AI and more statistical approaches, as well as where random numbers fit into all this and the limitations of their current support in C++. Show Notes News Links () "Program your way out of a paper bag" series: /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/28039917

Automatic Static Analysis 09/01/2023

Automatic Static Analysis Abbas Sabra joins Phil and Timur. Abbas talks to us about static analysis, the challenges - and benefits - of analysing C++ code, and a new feature from Sonar that can scan public repos with zero config. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/27912477

Soagen 08/16/2023

Soagen Mark Gillard joins Timur and guest co-host Jason Turner. Mark talks to us about reflection, SIMD, and his library soagen, a structure-of-arrays generator for C++. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/27775398

How CLion works under the hood 08/04/2023

How CLion works under the hood Dmitry Kozhevnikov joins Timur and guest co-host Matt Godbolt. Dmitry talks to us about how the CLion IDE works under the hood. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/27651588

Safety, Security and Modern C++, with Bjarne Stroustrup 07/21/2023

Safety, Security and Modern C++, with Bjarne Stroustrup Bjarne Stroustrup joins Phil and Timur. Bjarne talks to us about safety in C++ through profiles, as well as modules and concepts - and looks ahead to what else is coming next. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/27528366

Sequence-Oriented Programming 07/07/2023

Sequence-Oriented Programming Tristan Brindle joins Timur and Phil. Tristan talks to us about a safer alternative to iterators and his library, Flux, that implements it. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/27397275

Contracts 06/23/2023

Contracts Joshua Berne joins Phil and Timur. Joshua talks to us about the previous week's ISO C++ meeting in Varna, Bulgaria, then focuses on the current state of the contracts proposal that he has been central to, as well as a bit of its history. Show Notes News ISO C++ trip report's from Varna: Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/27243492

Modules and build systems 06/09/2023

Modules and build systems Daniel Ruoso joins Phil and Timur. After covering a couple of blog posts and a new UI library, we welcome Daniel back to talk with us about modules, package and build systems and SG15, the tooling study group. We also revisit the Ecosystem International Standard. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/27090246

C++ in Finance 05/26/2023

C++ in Finance Antony Peacock joins Timur and Phil. After rounding up the news, we chat with Antony about what it's like to work in finance as a C++ developer, the similarities and differences to games dev and how you can break in to a role in finance. We also discuss what it's like to work in tech as someone with dyslexia. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/26960580

Conan 2.0 05/11/2023

Conan 2.0 Luis Campos joins Phil and Timur. After some compiler and language news, we chat with Luis about the recent Conan 2.0 release, the state of package management in C++, today and what's happening in the world of C++ standards that may impact it in the future. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/26819292

AI Infrastructure 04/28/2023

AI Infrastructure Ashot Vardanian joins Timur and Phil. After some conference updates, news about the ISO C++ Developer Survey, Sonar integration in Compiler Explorer and some posts on modules and performance, we chat with Ashot Vardanian about AI and the infrastructure that underpins it. Ashot talks to us about some of the libraries and tools he and his startup have been developing over the past few years with some impressive numbers behind them. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/26681130

Native Languages (programming and natural) 04/14/2023

Native Languages (programming and natural) Mathew Benson joins Phil and Timur. After some news on new dev tool releases and some welcome improvements to iostreams in GCC13, we talk to Mathew Benson about what it's like to learn and use C++ in Africa and the implications for the hardware and our choices in programming language. Mathew also draws an interesting parallel to natural languages. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/26542383

Cpp2, with Herb Sutter 03/31/2023

Cpp2, with Herb Sutter Herb Sutter joins Phil and Timur. We catch up on the news about LLVM 16 being released, a new book on initialisation in C++ and a couple of new user groups. Then we talk to Herb about his new language/ alternate syntax, Cpp2, which compiles down to C++ in much the same way that C with Classes compiled down to C. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/26400993

Safety Critical C++ 03/17/2023

Safety Critical C++ Andreas Weis joins Timur and Phil. After some news about Boost, std::format and performance, Andreas talks to us about safety critical application domains, safety in C++ in general, and the difference between safety in security. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/26257998

Carbon, With Richard Smith 03/03/2023

Carbon, With Richard Smith Richard Smith joins Timur and Phil. After the usual news round-up, we chat with Richard about the new C++ successor language, Carbon. Richard is one of the three lead contributors to Carbon and he discusses the philosophy and some of the special features that make Carbon different. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/26115768

Issaquah trip report and how the C++ sausage is made 02/17/2023

Issaquah trip report and how the C++ sausage is made Nina Ranns joins Timur and Phil. After community news, including conferences, a new C++ community in Africa and a new project manager and build system, we talk to Nina about the recent ISO committee meeting in Issaquah where the technical work on C++23 was finalised, as well as an inside look at how the committee works and Nina’s current project: allocator-friendly library types that don’t allocate. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/25961193

CppNorth and the Forgotten Developers 02/03/2023

CppNorth and the Forgotten Developers Mike Daum joins Phil and Timur. After some community news, including the state of modules support in CMake and a new compile-time parsing library inspired by Rust's macros, we talk to Mike about CppNorth - what it is, how it got started and what makes it different - then about company cultures, a new language from Epic, and the importance of catering to "Dark Matter Developers". Show Notes News Links "The Analogy of the Beekeeper" - please let us know if you find a link for this! /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/25808259

Val and Mutable Value Semantics with Dimi Racordon 01/20/2023

Val and Mutable Value Semantics with Dimi Racordon Dimi Racordon joins Timur and Phil. They first have a couple more conference speaker calls, a new C++20 test framework, and and some updates about Safety in C++ and the C++ successor languages announced last year. Then they talk to Dimi Racordon about the new language, Val, how it relates to C++, and why mutable value semantics are so powerful. Show Notes News Links - /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/25663341

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