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
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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
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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!
News
Boost.Bloom has been accepted into Boost
"Three types of name lookups in C++" - Sandor Dargo
"How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025" - Matt Godbolt
Links
Episode 376 with Rainer Grimm
Rainer's website and blog - with updates on his ALS journey
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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.
News
libc++ removed the base template for std::char_traits
"how to break or continue from a lambda loop?" - Vittoria Romeo
Results from the 2025 Annual C++ Developer Survey "Lite" (pdf)
Links
C++ on Sea schedule (with Kristen and Timur's keynotes)
BrontoSource
"What Can We Learn From the Results of C++ Community Surveys?" - Anastasia Kazakova
"Sorting Resumes" - Joel Spolsky (introducing the idea of filtering)
"How to Build Your First C++ Automated Refactoring Tool" - Kristen's CppCon 2023 talk
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libstdc++
Jonathan Wakely joins Phil and Timur. Jonathan talks to us about libstdc++ (GCC's standard library implementation), of which he is the lead maintainer, and tackles some tough questions like ABI compatibility - and how GCC and libstdc++ approach it.
News
GCC 15 released (release notes)
Boost.OpenMethod review (finished)
2025 Annual C++ Developer Survey "Lite" (closed)
Links
GCC Mailing Lists
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