CppCast

CppCast episodes:

• 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...

  
• 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...

  
• 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...

  
• 03.11.2024

  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...

  
• 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...

  
• 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...

  
• 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.

  
• 01.12.2024

  Modern C++ with Qt

  Ville Voutilainen joins Timur and guest co-host, Guy Davidson. Ville talks about his work at The Qt Company and on the C++ standard committee, and about how modern C++ features such as Modules and Sender/Receiver can integrate with the Qt...

  
• 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.

  
• 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...

  
• 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...

  
• 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...

  
• 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...

  
• 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.

  
• 08.18.2023

  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++.

  
• 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 What is Low Latency C++? C++Now 2023, part 1 What is...

  
• 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.

  
• 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.

  
• 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.

  
• 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...

  
• 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...

  
• 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...

  
• 05.12.2023

  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...

  
• 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...

  
• 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...

  
• 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...

  
• 04.11.2023

  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...

  
• 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/...

  
• 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.

  
• 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...

  
• 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...

  
• 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...

  
• 01.20.2023

  Val and Mutable Value Semantics

  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...

  
• 01.06.2023

  From Healthcare to Automotive

  Honey Sukesan joins Phil and Timur. They first have a couple more conference announcements, an update on Cpp2 and a round-up of C++ in 2022. Then they talk to Honey Sukesan about her journey from working in Healthcare to working...

  
• 12.23.2022

  Holiday Special with Phil Nash and Timur Doumler

  Rob and Jason are back, at least for the holidays, and are joined by Timur Doumler and Phil Nash to talk about some of their recent news, and a super secret new project they are working on together.

  
• 05.12.2022

  Podcast News and Updates

  Rob and Jason discuss various news articles, libraries and announcements.

  
• 05.05.2022

  Elements GUI Library

  Joel de Guzman joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about new features in GCC 12 and the latest ISO papers. Then they talk to Joel de Guzman about his history with Open Source and the Boost community, the Elements...

  
• 04.28.2022

  Linear Algebra Standardization

  Mark Hoemmen joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an debugging improvements in VS Code and C++20/23 features going into MSVC. Then they talk to Mark Hoemmen about his past work on linear algebra libraries Tpetra and Kokkos, and...

  
• 04.21.2022

  Rcpp

  Dirk Eddelbuettel joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an updated C++ web framework, and whether C should be considered a programming language or a protocol. Then they talk to Dirk about the R programming language, and RCPP the...

  
• 04.14.2022

  CppNorth

  Diana Ojeda from Intel and Stephanie Brenham from Ubisoft join Rob and Jason. They first talk about the upcoming Pure Virtual C++ conference, an update to WxWidgets and Apple's release of a Metal interface for C++. Then they talk to...

  
• 04.07.2022

  Mentorship

  Rainer Grimm joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a new implementation of the ninja build system and updates to Qt Creator and CMake. Then they talk to Rainer Grimm about his mentorship program, and history of teaching C++.

  
• 03.31.2022

  Julia

  Logan Kilpatrick joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a GDB frontend and an IDE like autocompletion tool for the terminal. Then they talk to Logan Kilpatrick about the Julia programming language. They discuss the origin of the language,...

  
• 03.25.2022

  Zig

  Andrew Kelley joins Rob and Jason. They first say Happy 25th Birthday to Visual Studio and discuss a tool for parsing GCC error logs. Then they talk to Andrew Kelley, the president of the Zig Software Foundation. He talks about...

  
• 03.17.2022

  Swift and C++ Interoperability

  Dave Abrahams joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about JeanHeyd Meneid's blog post on saving C's ABI. Then they talk to Dave about his history as a founding contributor of boost and the current workgroup he is a part...

  
• 03.10.2022

  New C++ Scope and Debugging Support

  René Ferdinand Rivera Morell joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a new cmake initialization project and some projects in the C++ show and tell. Then they talk to René about his open letter to the C++ committee about...

  
• 03.03.2022

  Secure Coding and Integers

  Robert Seacord joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a constexpr wordle game and constexpr unique_ptr being added to the standard. Then they talk to Robert Seacord about secure coding and his thoughts on integers.

  
• 02.25.2022

  Teaching Embedded Development

  Khalil Estell joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about Matt Godbolt's recent keynote at CPPP on C++'s Superpower. Then they talk to Khalil about teaching C++ embedded development and some of his thoughts on embedded development, including why not...

  
• 02.18.2022

  GDAL and PDAL

  Howard Butler joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an announcement from Swift on a C++ interoperability workgroup. Then they talk to Howard Butler about the C++ Geospatial libraries GDAL and PDAL, and his involvement with geospatial development.

  
• 02.11.2022

  5G Network Computing

  Yacob Cohen-Arazi joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an update to Microsoft's GSL library and the upcoming LLVM v14. Then they talk to Kobi about work he's done at Qualcomm with 5G networks and how 5G is about...

  
• 02.04.2022

  Unix and C History

  Brian Kernighan joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about the pros and cons of virtual teaching and training during COVID times, and the news that BOLT has been merged into LLVM. Then they talk to Brian about the history...