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. News C++ Foundation's C++ 2024 Developer survey results P3236R0: "Pl…

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. News CppCon - Call for Speakers ACCU 2024 Online Bjarne Stroustrup responds to White…

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 pro…

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 "C++ Package Managers: The Ultimate Roundup" - blog post by Christopher McArthur "Demystifying Lak…

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++. News The C++ Iceberg "C++20 Concepts applied - Safe bitmasks using scoped enums" - blog post by Andrea…

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. News Meeting C++ 2023 videos (including all keynotes) "A 2024 Discussion Whether To Convert The Linux Kernel From C To Modern C++" How do you corre…

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 framework. News Matt Godbolt on Computerphile PVS-Studio C++ quiz Boston C++ meetup C++ Now Links P2300R7 - std…

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. News "The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps" - CISA Experimental EDG Reflection Support Boost 1.84.0 released Cling 1.0 released "About time - how to unit test code that depends on time" - Björn F…

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. News MISRA C++ 2023 published Sonar webinar on MISRA C++ 2023 with …

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. News P2662R3 - "Pack Indexing" P1673R13 - "A free function linear algebra inter…

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. News clang 17 released Conference videos released in Octobe…

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 thei…

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. News Boost 1.83.0 released fmt 10.1 released The downsides of C++ Coroutines Links "All the defaults are backwards" - Phil's Lightning Talk "No, C…

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++. News What is Low Latency C++? C++Now 2023, part 1 What is Low Latency C++? C++Now 2023, part 2 Inside STL: The vector Inside STL: The string Experimenting with Modules in Flux pycmake cpp…

Dmitry Kozhevnikov joins Timur and guest co-host Matt Godbolt. Dmitry talks to us about how the CLion IDE works under the hood. News mold 2.0.0 released CLion 2023.2 released Should we stop writing functions? Links C++ Lambda Idioms: technique to separate user-specified and deduced template parameters The Kotlin Foundation JetBrains Runtime CLion d…

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. News C++ Now 2023 videos ACCU 2023 videos JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey 2023 Upcoming Boost 1.83 release Links P2739R0 - 'A call to action: Think seriously about “safe…

Tristan Brindle joins Timur and Phil. Tristan talks to us about a safer alternative to iterators and his library, Flux, that implements it. News 60 terrible tips for a C++ developer Big, combined, committee trip report from Varna CLion 2023.2 EAP4: AI Assistant "Making C++ Memory-Safe Without Borrow Checking, Reference Counting, or Tracing Garbage …

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. News ISO C++ trip report's from Varna: Herb Sutter's trip report Jonathan Müller's trip report GCC 14 NRVO enhan…

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. News Modern C++ In-Depth — Is string_view Worth It? How to check if a pointer is in a …

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. News Visual Studio 17.6 released Valgri…

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. News GCC 13 released CppFront "spring update" Mojo - a new language with Python-like syntax …

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 hav…

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. …

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. News LLVM 16.0.0 released "C++ initi…

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. News Boost libraries may drop support for older language versions "Fun with printing tables with std::format and C++20" -…

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. News Conan 2.0 release CMake debugger in Visual Studio Unreal Engin…

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: a…

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 cateri…

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. New…

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 in the Automotive industry, and some of the surprising overlaps - as well as her personal journey during along the way. N…

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. News Boost 1.81.0 released CLion 2022.3 released, with CMake debug and new (opt-in) UI C++ support in JetBrains' Fleet C++ passes Java on the TIOBE ind…

Rob and Jason discuss various news articles, libraries and announcements. News Lexy First Beta Release I made an Online C++ Compiler GCC 12.1 Release Join your local user's groupBy Phil Nash & Timur Doumler

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 GUI library and his work with audio software and hardware. News New C++ features in GCC 12 April 2022 Mailing Core C++ Call For Papers N…

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 current efforts to get linear algebra into the standard. News What's new for C++ debugging in VS Code Conformance sh…

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 R/C++ interop library. News Crow v1.0 released C++23 will be really awesome C isn't A Programming Language Anymore L…

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 Diana and Stephanie about the upcoming CppNorth conference, how they got involved and much more. News Sign Up for the…

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++. News N2: revisiting ninja Qt Creator 7 released Cmake 3.23.0 available C++20 Ranges: The Key Advantage - Algorithm Compo…

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, and where it fits in today amongst other languages in the scientific computing domain. News Seer - a new gu…

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 the Zig language, upcoming changes to its build tooling, and how Zig can be used with C and C++. News Happy 25th birthday …

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 of to enable bidirectional interop between swift and C++. News To Save C, We Must Save the ABI Jluna C++ interop for Julia Emulatin…

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 expanding its scope to include tooling and other related technologies. News Execution and Static Analysis Support for MSVC on C…

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. News Wordlexpr: compile-time wordle in C++20 January ISO Mailing Constexpr unique_ptr accepted Rainer's bundle on sale 1/2 off with…

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 to avoid runtime polymorphism. News CPPP Keynote: C++'s Superpower - Matt Godbolt Visual Studio 2022 …

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. News Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement The mystery of the crash that seems to …

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 a lot more then just bandwidth improvements. News Nerd Talk - Doug McIlroy & Brian Kernighan GSL 4.0.0 is Available Now gsl-lite I d…

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 of UNIX and C development at Bell Labs. News More than a year of virtual classes experience - The good parts BOLT merged into LL…

Yacob Cohen-Arazi joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about the first ISO mailing of the year and some upcoming conference dates. Then they talk to Yacob about his experience building and running docker containers for C++ software development and his work updating code examples for an upcoming C++ Object Oriented book. News Amazon: Copy and Refere…

Marit Tokle and Christian Ressell join Rob and Jason. They first talk about a Y2K like bug that unexpectedly hit us in the new year. Then they talk about binary exploits, why they're still relevant, and a particular binary exploit that Marit and Christian demonstrated during their recent talk at NDC Techtown. They also talk about 'Capture The Flag'…

Rob and Jason are joined by Piotr Winter. They first talk about include guards vs pragma once, testing for constexpr and the preview of Catch v3. Then they talk to Piotr Winter about CTPG, the C++ Compile Time Parser Generator. News Include guards or #pragma once Test an expression for constexpr friendliness Catch v3 Preview 4 Links C++ Compile Tim…

Rob and Jason are joined by Slobodan Dmitrovic. They first talk about the latest update to the {fmt} library, another Raymond Chen blogpost, and a summary of ISO standardization progress made in 2021. Then they talk to Slobodan about his new book Modern C for Absolute Beginners. News {fmt} v8.1.0 released You can't copy code with memcpy 2021 C++ St…