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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

Honey Sukesan joins Phil and Timur. They first have a couple more conference announcements, an update on Cpp2 and a round-up of C++ in 2022. Then they talk to Honey Sukesan about her journey from working in Healthcare to working in the Automotive industry, and some of the surprising overlaps - as well as her personal journey during along the way.

Rob and Jason discuss various news articles, libraries and announcements.

Joel de Guzman joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about new features in GCC 12 and the latest ISO papers. Then they talk to Joel de Guzman about his history with Open Source and the Boost community, the Elements GUI library and his work with audio software and hardware.

Mark Hoemmen joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an debugging improvements in VS Code and C++20/23 features going into MSVC. Then they talk to Mark Hoemmen about his past work on linear algebra libraries Tpetra and Kokkos, and current efforts to get linear algebra into the standard.

Dirk Eddelbuettel joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an updated C++ web framework, and whether C should be considered a programming language or a protocol. Then they talk to Dirk about the R programming language, and RCPP the R/C++ interop library.

Diana Ojeda from Intel and Stephanie Brenham from Ubisoft join Rob and Jason. They first talk about the upcoming Pure Virtual C++ conference, an update to WxWidgets and Apple's release of a Metal interface for C++. Then they talk to Diana and Stephanie about the upcoming CppNorth conference, how they got involved and much more.

Rainer Grimm joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a new implementation of the ninja build system and updates to Qt Creator and CMake. Then they talk to Rainer Grimm about his mentorship program, and history of teaching C++.

Logan Kilpatrick joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a GDB frontend and an IDE like autocompletion tool for the terminal. Then they talk to Logan Kilpatrick about the Julia programming language. They discuss the origin of the language, and where it fits in today amongst other languages in the scientific computing domain.

Andrew Kelley joins Rob and Jason. They first say Happy 25th Birthday to Visual Studio and discuss a tool for parsing GCC error logs. Then they talk to Andrew Kelley, the president of the Zig Software Foundation. He talks about the Zig language, upcoming changes to its build tooling, and how Zig can be used with C and C++.

Dave Abrahams joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about JeanHeyd Meneid's blog post on saving C's ABI. Then they talk to Dave about his history as a founding contributor of boost and the current workgroup he is a part of to enable bidirectional interop between swift and C++.

René Ferdinand Rivera Morell joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a new cmake initialization project and some projects in the C++ show and tell. Then they talk to René about his open letter to the C++ committee about expanding its scope to include tooling and other related technologies.

Robert Seacord joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a constexpr wordle game and constexpr unique_ptr being added to the standard. Then they talk to Robert Seacord about secure coding and his thoughts on integers.

Khalil Estell joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about Matt Godbolt's recent keynote at CPPP on C++'s Superpower. Then they talk to Khalil about teaching C++ embedded development and some of his thoughts on embedded development, including why not to avoid runtime polymorphism.

Howard Butler joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an announcement from Swift on a C++ interoperability workgroup. Then they talk to Howard Butler about the C++ Geospatial libraries GDAL and PDAL, and his involvement with geospatial development. News Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement The mystery of the crash that seems to be on a std::move operation How we used C++20 to eliminate an entire class of runtime bugs Links hobu GDAL GDAL on GitHub PDAL PDAL on GitHub...

Yacob Cohen-Arazi joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an update to Microsoft's GSL library and the upcoming LLVM v14. Then they talk to Kobi about work he's done at Qualcomm with 5G networks and how 5G is about a lot more then just bandwidth improvements. News GSL 4.0.0 is Available Now gsl-lite I don't know which container to use (and at this point I'm too afraid to ask) LLVM/Clang 14 ends Feature Development with better C++20 support, Armv9 Links San Diego C++ Qualcomm Careers ...

Brian Kernighan joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about the pros and cons of virtual teaching and training during COVID times, and the news that BOLT has been merged into LLVM. Then they talk to Brian about the history of UNIX and C development at Bell Labs. News More than a year of virtual classes experience - The good parts BOLT merged into LLVM C++ Cheat Sheets Links Brian Kernighan Unix: A History and a Memoir (Amazon) The C Programming Language (Amazon) Sponsors Indicate the...

Yacob Cohen-Arazi joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about the first ISO mailing of the year and some upcoming conference dates. Then they talk to Yacob about his experience building and running docker containers for C++ software development and his work updating code examples for an upcoming C++ Object Oriented book. News ISO January Mailing C++ Discord Bot Library CLIon UX Study C++Now 2022 Call For Submissions CppCon 2022 Call for Proposals for CppCon Academy 2022 Classes C++ On Sea...