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Software development in a world of AI 05/02/2025

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). Show Notes News Conferences: Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/36409295

Standard Library Hardening 04/11/2025

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 do even today. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/36098375

News and Catch-up 03/21/2025

News and Catch-up Timur and Phil return after an extended break with news and updates Show Notes News Conferences round-up: New Meetups: Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/35813980

Tease Your C++ Brain 11/19/2024

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. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/33992897

Realtime Sanitizer and the Performance Constraints attributes 11/03/2024

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. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/33761247

Type Erasure, SIMD-Within-a-Register and more 10/21/2024

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 cues from the worlds of Biology and Physics to arrive at new thinking around software development, design and architecture. Show Notes News Links Klaus Iglberger's talks on Type Erasure: (Some of ) Ed's talks: /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/33543717

Parsing and Analysing C++ 10/04/2024

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. Show Notes News CppCon 2024 keynotes on YouTube (via CppCon site): Links This episode sponsored by... /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/33333512

CppCon 2024 Live Special 09/21/2024

CppCon 2024 Live Special Phil and Timur are joined by a live audience at CppCon as we chat about Safety in C++, AI and the running of CppCast itself. Show Notes News Sean Baxter's "Safe C++" Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/33150602

Benchmarking Language Keywords 09/06/2024

Benchmarking Language Keywords Benjamin Summerton joins Timur and Phil. Ben talks to us about what led him to benchmark the impact of the final and noexcept keywords, how to interpret his results, and the project that inspired him to do so in the first place. Show Notes News Links Previous episodes covering std lib implementations: /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/32944102

Reducing Binary Sizes 08/09/2024

Reducing Binary Sizes Sándor Dargó joins Phil and Anastasia Kazakova. Sándor talks to us about why and how to reduce the final binary sizes your code produces, as well as the importance of clean code. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/32516642

Swift for C++ Developers 07/27/2024

Swift for C++ Developers Doug Gregor joins Phil and Kevin Carpenter. Doug talks to us about his work on Swift at Apple, what the language is like and how it can interoperate with C++. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/32316227

QuantLib 07/12/2024

QuantLib Luigi Ballabio joins Phil and Matt Godbolt. Luigi talks to us about QuantLib, an open-source library for financial models that he co-founded and now maintains. Show Notes News WG21 St. Luis trip reports: Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/32109992

libunifex and std::execution 06/28/2024

libunifex and std::execution Jessica Wong and Ian Peterson join Timur and Phil. Ian and Jessica talk to us about libunifex and other async code projects at Meta, how it has evolved in the proposed std::execution and what structured concurrency is. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/31930612

Boost, The Beman Project and Beyond 06/14/2024

Boost, The Beman Project and Beyond Zach Laine joins Phil and Timur. Zach talks to us about the Boost collection of libraries, his contributions to it, a little of its history and where it's going, and a new project that aims to get back to Boost's original roots. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/31744732

Safe, Borrow-Checked, C++ 05/31/2024

Safe, Borrow-Checked, C++ Sean Baxter joins Timur and Phil. Sean explains how he has managed to implement a borrow checker for C++ in his Circle compiler. In fact his implementation addresses all the same safety issues that Rust addresses. Show Notes News Conference News: Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/31546762

Rust C++ 05/18/2024

Rust C++ Mara Bos joins Phil and Timur. Mara talks to us about her work on the Rust evolution team and how she uses embedded Rust for drone flight controllers. We chat about some of the differences and similarities between C++ and Rust, and what the two languages can, and should, learn from each other. Show Notes News Links /episode/index/show/cppcast/id/31365317

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

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