CppCast

Jason Turner & Mathieu Ropert

Once a month, Jason sits down with guests from the C++ community to discuss the latest news and what they have been up to. Find us at cppcast.com

  1. 1 day ago

    Teaching C++ to Game Development Students in the Age of LLMs with Tom Tesch

    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 Sourcetrail - interactive source explorer for C++/Java, fork maintained by Peter Most Links The Creature of Wellstown - student NES game discussed in the episode (itch.io) Game Education Case Study Microtalks - Tom Tesch et al. (GDC Vault)

    1hr 11min

  2. 18 May

    GPU Programming and HLSL with Chris Bieneman

    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 with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out, but why not sub? - Raymond Chen, The Old New Thing Preventing Integer Overflow in Physical Computations - Mateusz Pusz, mp-units Let's check vibe code that acts like optimized C++ but is actually a mess - Andrey Karpov, PVS-Studio Links Developer Toolchain for the PlayStation 4 - Paul Robinson (2013 LLVM US Dev Meeting) HLSL: Decades in the Making - Chris Bieneman (Khronos Shading Languages Symposium 2026) GLSL: Origins, Observations and Opportunities - Randi Rost (Khronos Shading Languages Symposium 2026) Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI - Mark Russinovich & Scott Hanselman (ACM) Two Compilers, One Language, No Specification - Chris Bieneman (2024 LLVM Developers' Meeting) Ecma TC57 - HLSL Standardization Committee (GitHub) microsoft/hlsl-specs - HLSL Specifications (GitHub)

    1hr 8min

  3. 20 Apr

    Compiler Warnings as Errors with Keith Stockdale

    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 Done - Trip Report, March 2026 ISO C++ Standards Meeting Announcing Meeting C++ 2026 Dear ImGui Explorer Common Package Specification Is Out the Gate

    1hr 5min

  4. 6 Apr

    Building a Compiler Inside the C++ Compiler with Daniel Nikpayuk

    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 optimise away the interpretation layer. They also cover Daniel's path into C++, from typesetting Inuktitut in LaTeX to his longer-term goal of a multimedia programming language for Indigenous storytelling. Cache-Explorer TeaScript C++ Library imrefl autocereal

    59 min

  5. 23 Feb

    Job Hunting and Optimizing Compilers with Jamie Pendergast

    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

    52 min

  6. 24/10/2025

    Reflecting on Timur and Phil

    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)

    1hr 2min

  7. 10/10/2025

    Reflection and C++26, with Herb Sutter

    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

    1hr 3min

  8. 03/07/2025

    BrontoSource and Swiss Tables

    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

    52 min
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Once a month, Jason sits down with guests from the C++ community to discuss the latest news and what they have been up to. Find us at cppcast.com

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  • Creator
    Jason Turner & Mathieu Ropert
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2026
  • Episodes
    407
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    CppCast

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