CppCast

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 code::dive 2026 call for papers is open

Gor Nishanov, author of C++ coroutines, recently passed away

C++ Documentary was released

Check out the C++ Perf Quiz

Links

trix - Mark Guidarelli

Mazes for Programmers - Jamis Buck

Game Oriented Assembly Lisp - Wikipedia

OpenGOAL

Practical File System Design with the Be File System - Dominic Giampaolo (Internet Archive)

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 NES.
News

Sourcetrail - interactive source explorer for C++/Java, fork maintained by Peter Most

Links

The Creature of Wellstown - student NES game discussed in the episode (itch.io)

Game Education Case Study Microtalks - Tom Tesch et al. (GDC Vault)

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, xor'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out, but why not sub? - Raymond Chen, The Old New Thing

Preventing Integer Overflow in Physical Computations - Mateusz Pusz, mp-units

Let's check vibe code that acts like optimized C++ but is actually a mess - Andrey Karpov, PVS-Studio

Links

Developer Toolchain for the PlayStation 4 - Paul Robinson (2013 LLVM US Dev Meeting)

HLSL: Decades in the Making - Chris Bieneman (Khronos Shading Languages Symposium 2026)

GLSL: Origins, Observations and Opportunities - Randi Rost (Khronos Shading Languages Symposium 2026)

Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI - Mark Russinovich & Scott Hanselman (ACM)

Two Compilers, One Language, No Specification - Chris Bieneman (2024 LLVM Developers' Meeting)

Ecma TC57 - HLSL Standardization Committee (GitHub)

microsoft/hlsl-specs - HLSL Specifications (GitHub)

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 errors.

C++26 is Done - Trip Report, March 2026 ISO C++ Standards Meeting

Announcing Meeting C++ 2026

Dear ImGui Explorer

Common Package Specification Is Out the Gate

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++ compiler itself optimise away the interpretation layer. They also cover Daniel's path into C++, from typesetting Inuktitut in LaTeX to his longer-term goal of a multimedia programming language for Indigenous storytelling.

Cache-Explorer

TeaScript C++ Library

imrefl

autocereal