Timur and Phil reflect on Phil and Timur. We share some personal updates as well as news from the community.
        <h3>News</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://databento.com/blog/why-we-didnt-rewrite-our-feed-handler-in-rust">"Why we didn't rewrite our feed handler in Rust" - post from DataBento</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.qt.io/C%2B%2B_reflection_(P2996)_and_moc">"C++ reflection (P2996) and moc" - from Qt wiki</a></li>
<li><a href="https://herbsutter.com/2025/10/13/poll-does-your-project-use-terminating-assertions-in-production/">"Poll: Does your project use terminating assertions in production?" - from Herb's blog</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cppcast.com/teaching_and_training_modern_cpp/">Episode 376, with Rainer Grimm</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.modernescpp.com/index.php/my-als-journey-31-31-the-end/">Final entry on Rainer's blog :-(</a></li>
<li><a href="https://cppcast.com/holiday-special/">Epsiode 350, with Timur and Phil</a></li>
<li>ACCU Conference and C++ on Sea, merging:<ul>
<li><a href="https://cpponsea.uk/news/accu-on-sea-a-joint-production-of-accu-and-cpp-on-sea">Announcement post</a></li>
<li><a href="https://cpponsea.uk/tickets">Tickets - Super Early Bird at time of posting</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://catch23.dev">Catch23 repo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2025/p3846r0.pdf">P3846R0 - "C++26 Contract Assertions, Reasserted"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://adspthepodcast.com">ADSP: The Podcast</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.twoscomplement.org">Two's Complement - A Programming Podcast by Matt (Godbolt) and Ben (Rady)</a></li>
</ul>

<description>Timur and Phil reflect on Phil and Timur. We share some personal updates as well as news from the community.
        &lt;h3&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://databento.com/blog/why-we-didnt-rewrite-our-feed-handler-in-rust"&gt;"Why we didn't rewrite our feed handler in Rust" - post from DataBento&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://wiki.qt.io/C%2B%2B_reflection_(P2996)_and_moc"&gt;"C++ reflection (P2996) and moc" - from Qt wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://herbsutter.com/2025/10/13/poll-does-your-project-use-terminating-assertions-in-production/"&gt;"Poll: Does your project use terminating assertions in production?" - from Herb's blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Links&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://cppcast.com/teaching_and_training_modern_cpp/"&gt;Episode 376, with Rainer Grimm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.modernescpp.com/index.php/my-als-journey-31-31-the-end/"&gt;Final entry on Rainer's blog :-(&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://cppcast.com/holiday-special/"&gt;Epsiode 350, with Timur and Phil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;ACCU Conference and C++ on Sea, merging:&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://cpponsea.uk/news/accu-on-sea-a-joint-production-of-accu-and-cpp-on-sea"&gt;Announcement post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://cpponsea.uk/tickets"&gt;Tickets - Super Early Bird at time of posting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://catch23.dev"&gt;Catch23 repo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2025/p3846r0.pdf"&gt;P3846R0 - "C++26 Contract Assertions, Reasserted"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://adspthepodcast.com"&gt;ADSP: The Podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.twoscomplement.org"&gt;Two's Complement - A Programming Podcast by Matt (Godbolt) and Ben (Rady)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description>

Timur and Phil reflect on Phil and Timur. We share some personal updates as well as news from the community.

Reflecting on Timur and Phil

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.
        <h3>News</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/09/introducing-constexpr-debugger/">CLion now has a constexpr debugger</a> </li>
<li>"CMake for complex projects" - tutorial:<ul>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/respawn-point/cmake-for-complex-projects-part-1-building-a-c-game-engine-from-scratch-for-desktop-and-774426c5f1f7">Part one</a></li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/respawn-point/cmake-for-complex-projects-part-2-building-a-c-game-engine-from-scratch-for-desktop-and-3a343ca47841">Part two</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://sibellavia.lol/posts/2025/09/safe-c-proposal-is-not-being-continued/">Safe C++ proposal is not being continued</a></li>
<li><a href="https://cppcast.com/safe-borrow-checked-cpp/">Episode with Sean Baxter</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=7z9NNrRDHQU&amp;si=V_8v6kZMM8_hJrX1">Herb's Reflection talk at CppCon 2025</a></li>
<li><a href="https://youtu.be/oitYvDe4nps">Herb's Contract's talk at CppCon 2025</a></li>
</ul>

<description>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.
        &lt;h3&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/09/introducing-constexpr-debugger/"&gt;CLion now has a constexpr debugger&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;"CMake for complex projects" - tutorial:&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://medium.com/respawn-point/cmake-for-complex-projects-part-1-building-a-c-game-engine-from-scratch-for-desktop-and-774426c5f1f7"&gt;Part one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://medium.com/respawn-point/cmake-for-complex-projects-part-2-building-a-c-game-engine-from-scratch-for-desktop-and-3a343ca47841"&gt;Part two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://sibellavia.lol/posts/2025/09/safe-c-proposal-is-not-being-continued/"&gt;Safe C++ proposal is not being continued&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://cppcast.com/safe-borrow-checked-cpp/"&gt;Episode with Sean Baxter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Links&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=7z9NNrRDHQU&amp;amp;si=V_8v6kZMM8_hJrX1"&gt;Herb's Reflection talk at CppCon 2025&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://youtu.be/oitYvDe4nps"&gt;Herb's Contract's talk at CppCon 2025&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description>

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.

Reflection and C++26, with Herb Sutter

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.
        <h3>News</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://herbsutter.com/2025/06/21/trip-report-june-2025-iso-c-standards-meeting-sofia-bulgaria/">Herb Sutter's WG21, Bulgaria, trip report</a></li>
<li><a href="https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/">End of active development on jemalloc</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkz6UrWAgrU">"Amortized O(1) complexity" - Andreas Weiss' lightning talk</a><ul>
<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1ldfbv7/til_filter_view_has_unimplementable_complexity">Reddit discussion of filter view issue</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/acronyms.html">Acronyms on cppreference/com</a></li>
<li><a href="https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2019/08/02/the-tough-guide-to-cpp-acronyms/">Arthur O'Dwyer's acronym glossary</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHmEUmJZf4">Matt’s Swiss Tables talk at CppCon</a></li>
<li><a href="https://godbolt.org/z/vT61Gbjb5">Example of BrontoSource integration in Compiler Explorer</a></li>
</ul>

<description>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.
        &lt;h3&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://herbsutter.com/2025/06/21/trip-report-june-2025-iso-c-standards-meeting-sofia-bulgaria/"&gt;Herb Sutter's WG21, Bulgaria, trip report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/"&gt;End of active development on jemalloc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkz6UrWAgrU"&gt;"Amortized O(1) complexity" - Andreas Weiss' lightning talk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1ldfbv7/til_filter_view_has_unimplementable_complexity"&gt;Reddit discussion of filter view issue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Links&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/acronyms.html"&gt;Acronyms on cppreference/com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2019/08/02/the-tough-guide-to-cpp-acronyms/"&gt;Arthur O'Dwyer's acronym glossary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHmEUmJZf4"&gt;Matt’s Swiss Tables talk at CppCon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://godbolt.org/z/vT61Gbjb5"&gt;Example of BrontoSource integration in Compiler Explorer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description>

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.

BrontoSource and Swiss Tables

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!
        <h3>News</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cppalliance.org/joaquin/2025/04/08/Joaquins2025Q1Update.html">Boost.Bloom has been accepted into Boost</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/05/28/three-ways-of-name-lookups">"Three types of name lookups in C++" - Sandor Dargo</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://xania.org/202506/how-compiler-explorer-works">"How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025" - Matt Godbolt</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cppcast.com/teaching_and_training_modern_cpp/">Episode 376 with Rainer Grimm</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.modernescpp.com/">Rainer's website and blog - with updates on his ALS journey</a></li>
</ul>

<description>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!
        &lt;h3&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://cppalliance.org/joaquin/2025/04/08/Joaquins2025Q1Update.html"&gt;Boost.Bloom has been accepted into Boost&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/05/28/three-ways-of-name-lookups"&gt;"Three types of name lookups in C++" - Sandor Dargo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://xania.org/202506/how-compiler-explorer-works"&gt;"How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025" - Matt Godbolt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Links&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://cppcast.com/teaching_and_training_modern_cpp/"&gt;Episode 376 with Rainer Grimm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.modernescpp.com/"&gt;Rainer's website and blog - with updates on his ALS journey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description>

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!


        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!
      

Friends-and-Family Special

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.
        <h3>News</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1konb0q/apple_removed_base_template_for_stdchar_traits_in/">libc++ removed the base template for std::char_traits</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vittorioromeo.com/index/blog/controlflow.html">"how to break or continue from a lambda loop?" - Vittoria Romeo</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://isocpp.org/files/papers/CppDevSurvey-2025-summary.pdf">Results from the 2025 Annual C++ Developer Survey "Lite" (pdf)</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cpponsea.uk/2025/schedule">C++ on Sea schedule (with Kristen and Timur's keynotes)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://brontosource.dev">BrontoSource</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rn5UOWIeQA">"What Can We Learn From the Results of C++ Community Surveys?" - Anastasia Kazakova</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/08/sorting-resumes-2/">"Sorting Resumes" - Joel Spolsky (introducing the idea of filtering)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=torqlZnu9Ag">"How to Build Your First C++ Automated Refactoring Tool" - Kristen's CppCon 2023 talk</a></li>
</ul>

<description>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.
        &lt;h3&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1konb0q/apple_removed_base_template_for_stdchar_traits_in/"&gt;libc++ removed the base template for std::char_traits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://vittorioromeo.com/index/blog/controlflow.html"&gt;"how to break or continue from a lambda loop?" - Vittoria Romeo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://isocpp.org/files/papers/CppDevSurvey-2025-summary.pdf"&gt;Results from the 2025 Annual C++ Developer Survey "Lite" (pdf)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Links&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://cpponsea.uk/2025/schedule"&gt;C++ on Sea schedule (with Kristen and Timur's keynotes)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://brontosource.dev"&gt;BrontoSource&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rn5UOWIeQA"&gt;"What Can We Learn From the Results of C++ Community Surveys?" - Anastasia Kazakova&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/08/sorting-resumes-2/"&gt;"Sorting Resumes" - Joel Spolsky (introducing the idea of filtering)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=torqlZnu9Ag"&gt;"How to Build Your First C++ Automated Refactoring Tool" - Kristen's CppCon 2023 talk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description>

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.


        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.
      

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