CppCast

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. Show Notes News * "Why we didn't rewrite our feed handler in Rust" - post from DataBento [https://databento.com/blog/why-we-didnt-rewrite-our-feed-handler-in-rust] * "C++ reflection (P2996) and moc" - from Qt wiki [https://wiki.qt.io/C%2B%2B_reflection_(P2996)_and_moc] * "Poll: Does your project use terminating assertions in production?" - from Herb's blog [https://herbsutter.com/2025/10/13/poll-does-your-project-use-terminating-assertions-in-production/] Links * Episode 376, with Rainer Grimm [https://cppcast.com/teaching_and_training_modern_cpp/] * Final entry on Rainer's blog :-( [https://www.modernescpp.com/index.php/my-als-journey-31-31-the-end/] * Epsiode 350, with Timur and Phil [https://cppcast.com/holiday-special/] * ACCU Conference and C++ on Sea, merging: * Announcement post [https://cpponsea.uk/news/accu-on-sea-a-joint-production-of-accu-and-cpp-on-sea] * Tickets - Super Early Bird at time of posting [https://cpponsea.uk/tickets] * Catch23 repo [http://catch23.dev/] * P3846R0 - "C++26 Contract Assertions, Reasserted" [https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2025/p3846r0.pdf] * ADSP: The Podcast [https://adspthepodcast.com/] * Two's Complement - A Programming Podcast by Matt (Godbolt) and Ben (Rady) [https://www.twoscomplement.org/]

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. Show Notes News * CLion now has a constexpr debugger [https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/09/introducing-constexpr-debugger/] * "CMake for complex projects" - tutorial: * Part one [https://medium.com/respawn-point/cmake-for-complex-projects-part-1-building-a-c-game-engine-from-scratch-for-desktop-and-774426c5f1f7] * Part two [https://medium.com/respawn-point/cmake-for-complex-projects-part-2-building-a-c-game-engine-from-scratch-for-desktop-and-3a343ca47841] * Safe C++ proposal is not being continued [https://sibellavia.lol/posts/2025/09/safe-c-proposal-is-not-being-continued/] Links * Herb's Reflection talk at CppCon 2025 [https://youtube.com/watch?v=7z9NNrRDHQU&si=V_8v6kZMM8_hJrX1] * Herb's Contract's talk at CppCon 2025 [https://youtu.be/oitYvDe4nps]

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. Show Notes News * Herb Sutter's WG21, Bulgaria, trip report [https://herbsutter.com/2025/06/21/trip-report-june-2025-iso-c-standards-meeting-sofia-bulgaria/] * End of active development on jemalloc [https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/] * "Amortized O(1) complexity" - Andreas Weiss' lightning talk [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkz6UrWAgrU] * Reddit discussion of filter view issue [https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1ldfbv7/til_filter_view_has_unimplementable_complexity] Links * Acronyms on cppreference/com [https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/acronyms.html] * Arthur O'Dwyer's acronym glossary [https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2019/08/02/the-tough-guide-to-cpp-acronyms/] * Matt's Swiss Tables talk at CppCon [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHmEUmJZf4] * Example of BrontoSource integration in Compiler Explorer [https://godbolt.org/z/vT61Gbjb5]

Friends-and-Family Special

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! Show Notes News * Boost.Bloom has been accepted into Boost [https://cppalliance.org/joaquin/2025/04/08/Joaquins2025Q1Update.html] * "Three types of name lookups in C++" - Sandor Dargo [https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/05/28/three-ways-of-name-lookups] * "How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025" - Matt Godbolt [https://xania.org/202506/how-compiler-explorer-works] Links * Episode 376 with Rainer Grimm [https://cppcast.com/teaching_and_training_modern_cpp/] * Rainer's website and blog - with updates on his ALS journey [https://www.modernescpp.com/]

From Refactoring to (physical) Relocation

Kristen Shaker joins Timur and Phil. Kristen talks to us about her C++ on Sea keynote about the C++ interview process, her previous work at Google, and why she has made a slightly unusual career change. Show Notes News * libc++ removed the base template for std::char_traits [https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1konb0q/apple_removed_base_template_for_stdchar_traits_in/] * "how to break or continue from a lambda loop?" - Vittoria Romeo [https://vittorioromeo.com/index/blog/controlflow.html] * Results from the 2025 Annual C++ Developer Survey "Lite" (pdf) [https://isocpp.org/files/papers/CppDevSurvey-2025-summary.pdf] Links * C++ on Sea schedule (with Kristen and Timur's keynotes) [https://cpponsea.uk/2025/schedule] * BrontoSource [https://brontosource.dev/] * "What Can We Learn From the Results of C++ Community Surveys?" - Anastasia Kazakova [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rn5UOWIeQA] * "Sorting Resumes" - Joel Spolsky (introducing the idea of filtering) [https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/08/sorting-resumes-2/] * "How to Build Your First C++ Automated Refactoring Tool" - Kristen's CppCon 2023 talk [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=torqlZnu9Ag]