Intro

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.

News

• GDC 2025: How Build Insights Reduced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II’s Build Times by 50%
• C++ Core Guidelines issue to remove .h recommendation for headers
  • Reddit discussion
• “Note to the C++ standards committee members” - Bjarne Stroustrup

Links

• P3471R4 - "Standard Library Hardening"
• "Retrofitting spatial safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++" - Google Blog