The first podcast for C++ developers, by C++ developers!

With hosts Timur Doumler and Phil Nash.

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.

With hosts Timur Doumler and Phil Nash.

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.


Latest episode

Safety Critical C++

Episode 356, published Friday, 17 Mar 2023

Andreas Weis joins Timur and Phil. After some news about Boost, std::format and performance, Andreas talks to us about safety critical application domains, safety in C++ in general, and the difference between safety in security.

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Recent episodes

Carbon, with Richard Smith

Episode 355, published Friday, 03 Mar 2023

Richard Smith joins Timur and Phil. After the usual news round-up, we chat with Richard about the new C++ successor language, Carbon. Richard is one of the three lead contributors to Carbon and he discusses the philosophy and some of the special features that make Carbon different.

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Issaquah trip report and how the C++ sausage is made

Episode 354, published Friday, 17 Feb 2023

Nina Ranns joins Timur and Phil. After community news, including conferences, a new C++ community in Africa and a new project manager and build system, we talk to Nina about the recent ISO committee meeting in Issaquah where the technical work on C++23 was finalised, as well as an inside look at how the committee works and Nina's current project: allocator-friendly library types that don't allocate.

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CppNorth and the Forgotten Developers

Episode 353, published Friday, 03 Feb 2023

Mike Daum joins Phil and Timur. After some community news, including the state of modules support in CMake and a new compile-time parsing library inspired by Rust's macros, we talk to Mike about CppNorth - what it is, how it got started and what makes it different - then about company cultures, a new language from Epic, and the importance of catering to 'Dark Matter Developers'.

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Val and Mutable Value Semantics

Episode 352, published Friday, 20 Jan 2023

Dimi Racordon joins Timur and Phil. They first have a couple more conference speaker calls, a new C++20 test framework, and and some updates about Safety in C++ and the C++ successor languages announced last year. Then they talk to Dimi Racordon about the new language, Val, how it relates to C++, and why mutable value semantics are so powerful.

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