
CppCast
Every two weeks, or so, we sit down with guests from the C++ community to discuss the latest news and what they have been up to. Find us at cppcast.com
Latest episodes

Jan 9, 2020 • 50min
Clang Hacking
Rob and Jason are joined by Saar Raz. They first discuss blog posts covering a new project management tool for C++ and another about improving Clang support for large integer arrays. Then they talk to Saar Raz about his work to add Concepts support to the Clang compiler.
News
A new decade a new tool
Waiting for std::embed: Very large arrays in clang
C++ Move Semantics
Core C++: May 26-27, 2020
Links
Clang Concepts Repo
Compiler Explorer with Clang Concepts
Hack && Tell Boston
CppCon 2019: Saar Raz "C++20 Concepts: A Day in the Life"
CppCon 2019: Saar Raz "How to Implement Your First Compiler Feature: The Story of Concepts in Clang"
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Jan 2, 2020 • 43min
C++ 2020 News
Rob and Jason discuss C++ news and the new year after the Holiday season.
News
The Merger of MISRA C++ and AUTOSAR C++
Python Interpreter in GNU Debugger
Holiday fun with template and template
Tabulate
Meeting C++ 2019 Talks
Using std::cpp call for papers
C++ Russia call for proposals
C++Now call for proposals
Core Hard call for proposals
Qt World Summit call
CPPP all for papers
C++Weekly ep 200, Christmas Class 2019
Links
@robwirving
@lefticus
Sponsors
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Software Crash Management for Embedded Devices and IOT Projects
Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes
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Dec 19, 2019 • 57min
OpenVDB
Rob and Jason are joined by Ken Museth the CEO of Voxel Tech. They first discuss a blog post about std::embed and the new version of Qt that was just released. Then they talk to Ken Museth about OpenVDB a C++ library for working with volumetric data used in Visual Effects, Scientific Simulations and more.
News
Going Full Circle on Embed in C++
Qt 5.14 released
C++Now 2020 Accepting Student/Volunteer Applications
Links
OpenVDB
OpenVDB's GitHub Repository
2014 Sci-Tech Awards: Ken Museth, Peter Cucka and Mihai Aldén
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Dec 12, 2019 • 44min
Difficult Bugs
Rob and Jason are joined by Satabdi Das. They first discuss a new Visual Studio update and an article written by Bjarne Stroustrup. Then Satabdi talks about debugging and why it's beneficial to write or give conference talks on difficult to fix bugs, she also talks about her work on a hardware emulator and static analyzers.
News
Visual Studio 2019 16.4.0 Released
How can you be so certain? Bjarne Stroustrup
Indicators: Activity Indicators for Modern C++
Links
CppCon 2019: Satabdi Das "A Series of Unfortunate Bugs"
How to debug long running programs
Hack && Tell Boston
The Recurse Center
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Dec 4, 2019 • 42min
Cache Friendliness
Rob and Jason are joined by Björn Fahller. They first discuss articles on the C++ ABI and a blog post on performance analysis. Then Björn talks about cache friendliness, C++ contracts and type safety.
News
C++20 and ReSharper C++
Clang-format tanks performance
Some intricacies of ABI stability
Links
Programming with Contracts in C++20 - Björn Fahller [C++ on Sea 2019]
Type safe C++ – LOL! :-) - Bjorn Fahller [ACCU 2018]
Sponsors
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Nov 21, 2019 • 52min
The C++ ABI
Rob and Jason are joined by Titus Winters from Google. They first discuss some news of C++ tools, including Sourcetrail going open source and C++ Build Insights for Visual Studio. Then Titus goes into what the C++ ABI is, what breaking the ABI means, and whether or not we should consider breaking the ABI in future versions of C++. Titus also shares some a preview of his upcoming book 'Software Engineering at Google.'
News
Pittsburgh C++ Meetup Group
Sourcetrail is now free and open source
Guide to Performance Analysis and Tuning
Introducing C++ Build Insights
Links
ABI Now or Never
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
CppCon 2019: Titus Winters "Maintainability and Refactoring Impact of Higher-Level Design Features"
CppCon 2019: Chandler Carruth, Titus Winters "What is C++"
Hyrum's Law
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Nov 14, 2019 • 54min
Belfast Trip Report
Rob and Jason are joined by Timur Doumler. They discuss some of the news that occurred at the C++ ISO meeting in Belfast where the committee responded to some of the National Body comments on the C++20 draft. Timur also goes over some of his proposals and the progress on adding an Audio API to C++.
News
Maryland C++ User Group
2019-11 Belfast ISO C++ Committee Trip Report
p0593r2 - Implicit creation of objects for low-level object manipulation
Trip Report: Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting (Belfast)
Links
CppCon 2019: Timur Doumler "Type punning in modern C++"
Timur Doumler — Initialisation in modern C++
CppCon 2018: Timur Doumler "Can I has grammar?"
p1386 - A Standard Audio API for C++:Motivation, Scope, and Basic Design
p1774 - Portable optimisation hints
p1912 Interconvertible object representations
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Nov 7, 2019 • 50min
CRTP and Israel joining the C++ ISO
Rob and Jason are joined by Inbal Levi. They first discuss some news including a new C++20 unit testing framework and Microsoft bringing ASAN to Visual Studio. Then Inbal talks about the Curiously Recurring Template Pattern and her efforts to start an Israel National Body for the C++ ISO Committee.
News
Doubling the speed of std::uniform_int_distribution in the GNU C++ library
Benchmarking is hard: processors learn to predict branches
Boost.UT C++20 macro-free Unit Testing Framework
C++20 The Big Four
ASAN for Windows with MSVC
Links
CppCon 2019: Inbal Levi "Back to Basics: Virtual Dispatch and its Alternatives"
Core C++ 2019
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Oct 31, 2019 • 1h 1min
Unicode for C++23
Rob and Jason are joined by JeanHeyd Meneide. They first discuss an ISO paper about the pros and cons of introducing ABI breaking changes into the C++ standard. Then JeanHeyd talks about the talk he gave at CppCon and his efforts to get unicode support into C++23. JeanHeyd also gives an update on his std::embed proposal.
News
ABI Now or Never
Eliminating the Static Overhead of Ranges
The Case for C++
C++ On Sea CFP
Links
CppCon 2019: JeanHeyd Meneide "Catch ⬆️: Unicode for C++23"
Text for C++
Embed (Library)
Embed on Godbolt
Support (Patreon/GitHub Sponsors)
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Oct 24, 2019 • 54min
Becoming involved with the C++ committee
Rob and Jason are joined by Nevin Liber from Argonne National Lab. They first discuss a blog post discussing issues implementing small buffer optimizations in a constexpr context. Then they talk with Nevin about how he got involved with the ISO C++ committee and some of the proposals he's worked on.
News
Pack the Bits - Adventures in small_bit_vector
ISO 2019-10 Mailing
Meetup: Payment changes comings soon
C++ On Sea Registration
Links
Argonne National Lab
Sponsors
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Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes
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