This week we chat with Harald Achitz about a new ISO mirror in Sweden, the C++ community - in Sweden, and worldwide - and other topics (which may or may not include Cobol)We explore the underbelly of getting involved with standards work - not

Did You Really Learn from All the C++ Mistakes?

Dec 27th, 2021 1h 5m

We're back! Again! And so is Dave Abrahams, after a long period outside the C++ community. So we thought we should hear about what he's been up to and what he's doing now.We end up getting some fascinating insights into the design and evoluti

I Can't Believe I'm Here

Nov 9th, 2021 1h 13m

This week, err... month, no, episode, we're joined by Anastasia Kazakova for a cross-over show with No Diagnostic Required - the other show that Phil co-hosts with Anastasia. We cover articles on static analysis, move semantics and expressive

The Future of C++ (KDAB interview)

Jun 18th, 2021 39m 23s

This episode is slightly different to the normal.Rather than being a pure cpp.chat session, it's a recording of an interview, conducted by KDAB, of a panel of C++ experts, including our own Jon Kalb - but also past cpp.chat guests Ivan Čukić

The Answer Is, It Depends

Apr 20th, 2021 1h 11m

In this episode we welcome back Tony and Klaus to talk about the [SOLID](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID) Principles, and how they relate (or not), to C++.Tony is about to give a keynote at C++ Now about his take on the SOLID Principles.

Required to Warn You, Unless It’s Hard

Apr 15th, 2021 1h 4m

This week we get back on track and chat with Christopher Di Bella from Google about working on the Chrome OS toolchain - including his newly finished concepts implementation. We talk a bit about the practicalities of bringing C++ 20 features

I'm a Bit Rusty

Apr 13th, 2021 1h 9m

This week we have a special panel made up of members of the C++ community, joined by members of the Rust community. We have a round table discussion of how the two languages relate, differ - and how entwined their fates may be.We also learn

Izzy's 'Fine' With Modules

Jan 12th, 2021 1h 9m

This week we chat with Isabella (Izzy) Muerte about modules, build systems and more. We talk about xyr new job (which, at the time of recording, was with Netlify), and how that still involves working on build systems - but particularly CMake,

Chairs Around a Tony Table

Nov 12th, 2020 1h 10m

This week we chat with Tony Van Eerd about what comes after Post Modern C++,what the single most important principle for good code is, and what Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare have to do with all this.The off-by-one jokes are regular, or at least s

I Really like Sugar

Oct 8th, 2020 1h 5m

This week we chat with a Conor Hoekstra, about dreaming in algorithms, being a programming language addict and writing beautiful code.We look at what Conor is jealous of in other languages, why his competitive coding entry came dead last, and

My Friends Call Me Bool

Jun 21st, 2020 1h 4m

This week we chat with a vector-of-bool (a.k.a. Colby Pike).We talk about pseudonyms, modules, build systems and his standard layout proposal, Pitchfork.At the last minute we branch into TDD and what makes good design. But what prompts Micha

It Doesn’t Get Bored and It Doesn’t Get Tired

May 26th, 2020 1h 6m

This week we chat with a Yuri Minaev, of PVS Studio, about static analysis - and why you shouldn't be skipping on this essential part of software development.Why is using a static analysis tool better than peer review (the clue is in the title

The Problem Is, They Expect Answers

May 10th, 2020 1h 7m

This week we chat with a panel of C++ trainers from around the world (but mostly from Germany, for some reason) - Nicolai Josuttis, Jason Turner, Rainer Grimm, Klaus Iglberger and Mateusz Pusz.We talk about how bringing in a good trainer will

Willing to Steal Good Ideas

Apr 17th, 2020 1h 8m

This week we chat with Bryce Adelstein Lelbach about how the ISO C++ WG21 committee is evolving - and his roles within it (and beyond) are evolving, too.We also look at the cross-over and interaction with the C standard, and even other languag

We’re Not Going to Allow You to Throw 💩 Anymore

Apr 2nd, 2020 59m 4s

This week we chat with five members of the SG16 Unicode Study Group, Zach Laine, Tom Honermann, Steve Downey, Peter Brett and Corentin Jabot.We talk about their efforts to get all things Unicode into the C++ standard in a tour that takes us fr

Colour Is Not Black and White

Mar 5th, 2020 1h 1m

This week we chat with James Berrow about colo(u)r, and how we're doing it all wrong (and not just the spelling).We look at why colour management is complicated, how RGB doesn't exist, and how everybody (well, almost everybody) gets it all wro

Ranting Is Optional

Feb 26th, 2020 58m 40s

This week we chat with JeanHeyd Meneide (A.K.A. ThePhD) about coming full circle on std::embed, as well as whether optional references should rebind or assign-through.Packed with edge-of-the-seat stories of interesting proposals adventures thr

Copperspice Is Your Middle Name?

Feb 5th, 2020 1h 4m

This week we chat with Ansel Sermersheim and Barbara Geller about Copperspice, Doxypress, csLibGuarded and kitchen utensils.We find out that Barbara and Ansel are not just library people but are actually programmers - and programmers that know

Set a Breakpoint in the Past

Jan 17th, 2020 1h 1m

This week we chat with Greg Law about debugging and going back in time!How do things change when we can wait for something to go wrong, then go back to any point in time and examine the program state, like The Matrix's 'Bullet Time'? How is th

We Almost Always Get the Default Wrong

Dec 19th, 2019 57m 50s

This week we chat with Vittorio Romeo about the pros and cons of backwards compatibility in C++, and his proposal to get the best of both worlds: Epochs.As well as language compatibility, we also discuss _ABI_ compatibility - why breaking thes

If You Change It and You Break It, You’ll Know

Nov 21st, 2019 58m 56s

This week we chat with Clare Macrae about Approval Testing, testing in general, the challenges (and some solutions to) testing legacy code - as well as highly visual environments like Qt GUIs or image processing apps.Working with an existing c

All the C++30 Features - but Right Now

Nov 6th, 2019 59m 33s

This week, in a cpp.chat exclusive, we chat with Sean Baxter about Circle - the C++ compiler that he wrote. That’s a C++ compiler. That he wrote. Oh, and it does meta-programming in a way that we’re only dreaming of part of for C++23 or 26!So

I’m Surprised You Brought up Rotate

Oct 17th, 2019 45m 43s

In our second live CppCon 2019 episode we chat with Sean Parent about relationships, working with Alexander Stepanov, over-object-orientizing things and, yes, even rotate.Sean tells us stories from his years at Adobe, including how he first ca

You Get to Fix It the next Time

Oct 12th, 2019 40m 37s

The first of our two, live, CppCon 2019 episodes - this time we sit with Andrei Alexandrescu and Herb Sutter to introspect about introspection and take exception to exceptions.We also talk about the 'Engage, Entertain, Educate: Technical Speak

The Shape of the Value

Sep 28th, 2019 52m 40s

This week we chat with David Sankel and Michael Park about their Pattern Matching proposal, as well as a language level variant. We look at how some judicious use of syntactic sugar can improve even the ugliest part of the sausage.Pattern Matc