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

C++ in Finance

Episode 361, published Friday, 26 May 2023

Antony Peacock joins Timur and Phil. After rounding up the news, we chat with Antony about what it's like to work in finance as a C++ developer, the similarities and differences to games dev and how you can break in to a role in finance. We also discuss what it's like to work in tech as someone with dyslexia.

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Recent episodes

Conan 2.0

Episode 360, published Friday, 12 May 2023

Luis Campos joins Phil and Timur. After some compiler and language news, we chat with Luis about the recent Conan 2.0 release, the state of package management in C++, today and what's happening in the world of C++ standards that may impact it in the future.

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AI Infrastructure

Episode 359, published Friday, 28 Apr 2023

Ashot Vardanian joins Timur and Phil. After some conference updates, news about the ISO C++ Developer Survey, Sonar integration in Compiler Explorer and some posts on modules and performance, we chat with Ashot Vardanian about AI and the infrastructure that underpins it. Ashot talks to us about some of the libraries and tools he and his startup have been developing over the past few years with some impressive numbers behind them.

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Native Languages (programming and natural)

Episode 358, published Friday, 14 Apr 2023

Mathew Benson joins Phil and Timur. After some news on new dev tool releases and some welcome improvements to iostreams in GCC13, we talk to Mathew Benson about what it's like to learn and use C++ in Africa and the implications for the hardware and our choices in programming language. Mathew also draws an interesting parallel to natural languages.

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Cpp2, with Herb Sutter

Episode 357, published Friday, 31 Mar 2023

Herb Sutter joins Phil and Timur. We catch up on the news about LLVM 16 being released, a new book on initialisation in C++ and a couple of new user groups. Then we talk to Herb about his new language/ alternate syntax, Cpp2, which compiles down to C++ in much the same way that C with Classes compiled down to C.

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For the complete back catalog of episodes, go to our dedicated episodes page.