Job Hunting and Optimizing Compilers with Jamie Pendergast

Jason is joined this week by Jamie Pendergast to discuss the current job market, learning to program, and optimizing compilers.

• Designated Initializers, the best feature of C++20 · Mathieu Ropert (mropert.github.io/2026/01/15/designed_initiali…)

• Support for C++26 Reflection has been merged into GCC trunk! : r/cpp (reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1qdn04o/support_for_…)

• Latest News From Upcoming C++ Conferences (2026-01-14) : r/cpp (reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1qcv3n7/latest_news_…)

• Call for Papers - NDC TechTown 2026 | Software Conference for Embedded and Systems Programming (ndctechtown.com/call-for-papers)

• Cyrex Optimizing Compiler (github.com/glalie362/Optimizing-Compiler)