CppCast

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• Safety and Interoperability with Rust and C++

  October 5, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

  Mathieu and Jason are joined by Jon Bauman to discuss safety and interoperability between Rust and C++. They dig into what "safety" really means (there are several categories of safety), what can and can't be guaranteed, how C++ could…

• Running Conferences and Processing Credit Cards with Kevin Carpenter

  September 7, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

  Mathieu and Jason are joined by Kevin Carpenter to discuss all aspects of being involved with a conference: from regular attendee, to volunteering, to speaker, volunteer coordinator, and catering concerns. Kevin also shares some of his…

• From Self Taught to Committee Member's First Accepted Paper

  August 10, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

  Jason and Mathieu are joined by the self-taught Alex (Waffl3x) to discuss the C++ standards committee, defaulted post-fix operators, and self-taught computer engineering. Alex shares his experience of joining the C++ Committee and his…

• 40 Years of Programming and Embeddable Programming Languages with Mark Guidarelli

  July 13, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

  Jason and Mathieu are joined by Mark Guidarelli to discuss the history of C++ and esoteric programming languages, Mark's own development history spanning four decades, and what "merging" used to mean before source control. News The…

• Teaching C++ to Game Development Students in the Age of LLMs with Tom Tesch

  June 22, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

  Jason and Mathieu are joined by Tom Tesch to discuss teaching C++ to game development students, how LLMs and chatbots are reshaping programming education and assessment, and the lessons that come from teaching on retro hardware like the…

• GPU Programming and HLSL with Chris Bieneman

  May 18, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

  Jason and Mathieu are joined by Chris Bieneman to discuss GPU programming and the evolution of HLSL, the challenges of floating-point determinism on GPUs, and lessons from over a decade of shading language and compiler work. News Sure…

• Compiler Warnings as Errors with Keith Stockdale

  April 20, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

  Jason and Mathieu are joined by Keith Stockdale to discuss C++26 news, his experience upgrading Sea of Thieves from C++14 to C++20 across compilers, and the practical challenges of raising compiler warning levels and enabling warnings as…

• Building a Compiler Inside the C++ Compiler with Daniel Nikpayuk

  April 6, 2026 · 59 min

  Daniel Nikpayuk joins Jason to talk about ccTMP, his C++17 template metaprogramming library that builds a functional type system at compile time by encoding bytecode as template parameters in continuation-passing style — letting the C++…