CppCast· Folge 410

From Self Taught to Committee Member's First Accepted Paper

Montag, 10. August 2026 · 1 h 03

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Shownotes

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 efforts to get more people involved.
News

• Mateusz needs help with his logarithmic unit design (mpusz.github.io/mp-units/latest/blog/2026/07/2…)

• EuroLLVM 2026 security related talks (reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1v0ut9j/euro_llvm_20…)

• A set of papers related to safety in the July mailing (reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1v0hynk/a_set_of_pap…)

• Brno mailing (2026-07) (open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2026/#…)

Links

• Deducing this (wg21.link/P0847R7)

• Clarify the behavior of floating-point overflow (wg21.link/P3899)

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