CppCast

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! : r/cpp

Latest News From Upcoming C++ Conferences (2026-01-14) : r/cpp

Call for Papers - NDC TechTown 2026 | Software Conference for Embedded and Systems Programming

Cyrex Optimizing Compiler

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 project use terminating assertions in production?" - from Herb's blog

Links

Episode 376, with Rainer Grimm

Final entry on Rainer's blog :-(

Epsiode 350, with Timur and Phil

ACCU Conference and C++ on Sea, merging:
Announcement post

Tickets - Super Early Bird at time of posting

Catch23 repo

P3846R0 - "C++26 Contract Assertions, Reasserted"

ADSP: The Podcast

Two's Complement - A Programming Podcast by Matt (Godbolt) and Ben (Rady)

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 not being continued

Episode with Sean Baxter

Links

Herb's Reflection talk at CppCon 2025

Herb's Contract's talk at CppCon 2025

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 development on jemalloc

"Amortized O(1) complexity" - Andreas Weiss' lightning talk
Reddit discussion of filter view issue

Links

Acronyms on cppreference/com

Arthur O'Dwyer's acronym glossary

Matt’s Swiss Tables talk at CppCon

Example of BrontoSource integration in Compiler Explorer

Phil and Timur are joined by Jason Turner, Matt Godbolt, Anastasia Kazakova and Guy Davidson to celebrate 400 episodes of CppCast and catch up with the co-hosts that have helped us keep up for the last 50 of them!
News

Boost.Bloom has been accepted into Boost

"Three types of name lookups in C++" - Sandor Dargo

"How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025" - Matt Godbolt

Links

Episode 376 with Rainer Grimm

Rainer's website and blog - with updates on his ALS journey