Cppcast

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 more

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. News The code::dive 2026 call fo

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. News Sourcetr

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. News Sure, xor'ing a register

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. C++26 is

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 op

Jason is joined this week by Jamie Pendergast to discuss the current job market, learning to program, and optimizing compilers. Designated Initializers, the best feature of C++20 Mathieu Ropert Support for C++26 Reflection has been merged into GCC trunk!

Timur and Phil reflect on Phil and Timur. We share some personal updates as well as news from the community. News "Why we didn't rewrite our feed handler in Rust" - post from DataBento "C++ reflection (P2996) and moc" - from Qt wiki "Poll: Does your proje

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. News CLion now has a constexpr debugger "CMake for complex projects" - tutorial: Part one Part two Safe C++ proposal is no

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. News Herb Sutter's WG21, Bulgaria, trip report End of active develo