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Phil Nash and Timur Doumler

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Carbon, With Richard Smith

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. Show Notes News * Conan 2.0 release * CMake debugger in Visual Studio * Unreal Engine - C++ Complete Guide * The Italian C++ Conference Links * P1881R0 - Epochs proposal * P2137R0 - “Goals and priorities for C++” (from March 2020) * Carbon GitHub org - with lots of links

Issaquah trip report and how the C++ sausage is made

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. Show Notes News * Core C++ (cfp open) * CppIndia cfp * C++ Now - call for volunteers * C++ on Sea (speakers and tickets) * C++ Africa * Zork++ 0.5 Links * Orsen Scott Card’s Beekeeper Analogy * Do Expressions (link coming) * Nina’s user type categoies talk * P2644R1 - “Final Fix of Broken Range‐based for Loop” * P2047R1 - “An allocator aware optional type” * Embracing Modern C++ Safely * P2674R1 - “A trait for implicit lifetime types”

CppNorth and the Forgotten Developers

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". Show Notes News * ACCU Schedule and registration * CMake blog post about the state of C++20 Modules support * P1689R5 "Format for describing dependencies of source files" * "Macro Rules" - compile-time parser library from Max Pasichnyk * Reddit discussion of Macro Rules Links * CppNorth * CppNorth mentoring email * CppNorth mentoring channel on Discord * "The Analogy of the Beekeeper" - please let us know if you find a link for this! * Verse, the new Unreal scripting language * Talk on Verse, by Simon Peyton Jones * "C++ Software Design" (book) - Klaus Iglberger

Val and Mutable Value Semantics with Dimi Racordon

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. Show Notes News * C++ Now Call for Speakers * CppNorth Call for Speakers * Snitch v1.0 - a “Lightweight C++20 testing framework” * “The Year of C++ Successor Languages” - Lucian Radu Teodorescu * “Supporting the Use of Rust in the Chromium Project” - Google Security Blog Links * “I’ll Build Myself” - Phil’s song about building C++ * P2739R0 - “A call to action: Think seriously about “safety”; then do something sensible about it” * P2759R0 - “DG Opinion on Saftety for ISO C++” - “The Rule of Two” * val-lang.dev - the official website for Val

From Healthcare to Automotive with Honey Sukesan

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. News * CppNorth tickets on sale * using std::cpp Call for Speakers * “Cpp2 and cppfront: Year-end mini-update” * “C++ at the end of 2022” - Bartlomiej Filipek * “libstdc++13 gets C++20 ”

Holiday Special with Phil Nash and Timur Doumler

Rob and Jason are back, at least for the holidays, and are joined by Timur Doumler and Phil Nash to talk about some of their recent news, and a super secret new project they are working on together. News * Boost 1.81.0 released * CLion 2022.3 released, with CMake debug and new (opt-in) UI * C++ support in JetBrains' Fleet * C++ passes Java on the TIOBE index * Safety in C++: * "If we must, let's talk about safety" (Corentin Jabot) * P2723R0 "Zero-initialize objects of automatic storage duration" (JF Bastien) * Conferences: * NDC TechTown - Call for Speakers (ends May 19th) * C++ on Sea - Call for Speakers (ends Jan 8th) * ACCU - speakers selected, schedule soon Links * P1774R8 "Portable Assumptions" ([[assume]]) * P2590R2 "Explicit lifetime managerment" (std::start_lifetime_as) * "Type punning in modern C++" (video) * "The Rules of Three, Five and Zero" (article) * "Beyond the Rules of Three, Five and Zero" (article) * "The Power of Clean C++" (webinar) * Jason's C++ eBooks * Jason's C++ print books * Jason's "C++ Weekly" Youtube channel * "Making C++ Fun, Safe, and Accessible" - Jason's C++ on Sea keynote

Podcast News and Updates with Rob and Jason

Rob and Jason discuss various news articles, libraries and announcements. News * Lexy First Beta Release * I made an Online C++ Compiler * GCC 12.1 Release * Join your local user's group

Elements GUI Library with Joel de Guzman

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. News * New C++ features in GCC 12 * April 2022 Mailing * Core C++ Call For Papers * NDC TechTown Call for Papers Links * Elements C++ GUI Library * Artist 2D Canvas Libray * Cycfi Research * Boost Spirit Patreon * CppCast Patreon

Linear Algebra Standardization with Mark Hoemmen

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. News * What's new for C++ debugging in VS Code * Conformance should mean something - fputc, and freestanding * MSVC C++20/23 Update Links * Tpetra parallel linear algebra * P1417R0: Historical lessons for C++ linear algebra library standardization * P1673R7: A free function linear algebra interface based on the BLAS * P1674R1: Evolving a Standard C++ Linear Algebra Library from the BLAS Patreon * CppCast Patreon

Rcpp with Dirk Eddelbuettel

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. News * Crow v1.0 released * C++23 will be really awesome * C isn't A Programming Language Anymore Links * Rcpp * Rcpp: Seamless R and C++ Integration Patreon * CppCast Patreon

CppNorth with Diana Ojeda and Stephanie Brenham

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. News * Sign Up for the Pure Virtual C++ 2022 Conference * wxWidgets 3.1.6 Released * Getting started with Metal-cpp Links * CppNorth * CppNorth Workshops * CppNorth Registration Patreon * CppCast Patreon

Mentorship with Rainer Grimm

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++. News * N2: revisiting ninja * Qt Creator 7 released * Cmake 3.23.0 available * C++20 Ranges: The Key Advantage - Algorithm Composition Links * Modernes C++ * Rainer's German Blog * Mentoring Program Sponsors * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout atJetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Julia with Logan Kilpatrick

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. News * Seer - a new gui frontend to gdb * IDE style autocomplete for your terminal * Nvidia: 'We are a Quantum Computing Company' Links * Julia Sponsors * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout atJetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Zig with Andrew Kelley

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++. News * Happy 25th birthday Visual Studio * GCC Explorer: A utility for exploring GCC error logs * GCC Explorer * Divide & Conquer and Sets: The 114 C++ algorithms series * C++ Best Practices Game Jam Links * Zig Software Language Sponsors * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout atJetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Swift and C++ Interoperability

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++. News * To Save C, We Must Save the ABI * Jluna C++ interop for Julia * Emulating template named arguments in C++ 20 Links * Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement * C++ Interoperability Status * Getting started with C++ Interoperability * Interoperability between Swift and C++ Patreon * CppCast Patreon

New C++ Scope and Debugging Support with René Ferdinand Rivera Morell

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 it's scope to include tooling and other related technologies. News * Execution and Static Analysis Support for MSVC on Compiler Explorer * Cmake-init * C++ Show and Tell experiment Links * New C++ Scope * Attending C++ Standards Committee Meetings During a Pandemic * Debugging Support Sponsors * Indicate the #cppcast hashtag and request your PVS-Studio one-month trial license here https://pvs-studio.com/try_free * C++ tools evolution: static code analyzers: https://pvs-studio.com/0873

Secure Coding and Integers with Robert Seacord

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. News * Wordlexpr: compile-time wordle in C++20 * January ISO Mailing * Constexpr unique_ptr accepted * Rainer's bundle on sale 1/2 off with sales going to support Ukraine Links * Joy of Coding Humble Bundle * Effective C - An Introduction to Professional C Programming * Secure Coding in C and C++, 2nd Edition * The CERT C Coding Standard * SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard * ISO/IEC TS 17961 * ISO/IEC TS 17961 - Review Draft Sponsors * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout atJetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Teaching Embedded Development with Khalil Estell

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. News * CPPP Keynote: C++'s Superpower - Matt Godbolt * Visual Studio 2022 17.1 is now available * Making a cross platform mobile & desktop app with Qt 6.2 * VSCode Map Preview Links * libembeddedhal * San Jose State University GitHub * Khalil's YouTube Channel Sponsors * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout atJetBrains.com for a 25% discount

GDAL and PDAL with Howard Butler

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 Sponsors * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout atJetBrains.com for a 25% discount

5G Network Computing with Yacob Cohen-Arazi

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 Sponsors * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout atJetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Unix and C History with Brian Kernighan

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 #cppcast hashtag and request your PVS-Studio one-month trial license here https://pvs-studio.com/try_free * C++ tools evolution: static code analyzers: https://pvs-studio.com/0873

Docker Development and Modernizing OOD with Yacob Cohen-Arazi

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 2022 Call for Speakers * CppNorth Call for Papers Links * San Diego C++ * Using Docker with CLion Sponsors * Indicate the #cppcast hashtag and request your PVS-Studio one-month trial license here https://pvs-studio.com/try_free * C++ tools evolution: static code analyzers: https://pvs-studio.com/0873

Binary Exploits with Marit Tokle and Christian Ressell

Marit Tokle and Christian Ressell join Rob and Jason. They first talk about a Y2K like bug that unexpectedly hit us in the new year. Then they talk about binary exploits, why they're still relevant, and a particular binary exploit that Marit and Christian demonstrated during their recent talk at NDC Techtown. They also talk about 'Capture The Flag' security competitions. News * YYMMDDHHMM just overflowed a signed 32 bit int * James Web Space Telescope runs on C++ * My Mentoring Program "Fundamentals for C++ Professionals" Links * NDC TechTown: Demonstrating binary exploitation with a recent vulnerability * Demonstrating binary exploitation - Marit Iren Rognli Tokle & Christian Resell * CodeQL * CTF Time * CTF Team bootplug * CTF Learn * Over The Wire Sponsors * Indicate the #cppcast hashtag and request your PVS-Studio one-month trial license here https://pvs-studio.com/try_free * C++ tools evolution: static code analyzers:https://pvs-studio.com/0873

C++ Compile Time Parser Generator with Piotr Winter

Rob and Jason are joined by Piotr Winter. They first talk about include guards vs pragma once, testing for constexpr and the preview of Catch v3. Then they talk to Piotr Winter about CTPG, the C++ Compile Time Parser Generator. News * Include guards or #pragma once * Test an expression for constexpr friendliness * Catch v3 Preview 4 Links * C++ Compile Time Parser Generator * Peter Winter's Blog Sponsors * Indicate the #cppcast hashtag and request your PVS-Studio one-month trial license here https://pvs-studio.com/try_free * C++ tools evolution: static code analyzers: https://pvs-studio.com/0873

Modern C for Absolute Beginners

Rob and Jason are joined by Slobodan Dmitrovic. They first talk about the latest update to the {fmt} library, another Raymond Chen blogpost, and a summary of ISO standardization progress made in 2021. Then they talk to Slobodan about his new book Modern C for Absolute Beginners. News * {fmt} v8.1.0 released * You can't copy code with memcpy * 2021 C++ Standardization Highlights Links * Modern C for Absolute Beginners * C++ and Friends Patreon * CppCast Patreon

News * C++ logging library - something I've been working on, Pt. 2 * Do vectors get more use than what my textbook implies? * This year receive the gift of a free Meson manual * Microsoft VS 2022 and Floating-point to Integer Conversions * Top 10 bugs found in C++ projects in 2021 * Visual Studio Code C++ December 2021 Update: clang-tidy * ImGui Command Palette * Brand new C++20 serialization library (one header) * CLion Bug-Fix Update 2021.3.1 and Roadmap for 2022.1 * C++ on Sea 2022 * Your New Mental Model of constexpr - Jason Turner - CppCon 2021 * C++Now 2022 Call For Submissions * C++ North Sponsors * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Distributing C++ Modules with Daniel Ruoso and Bret Brown

Rob and Jason are joined by Daniel Ruoso and Bret Brown from Bloomberg. They first talk about Jason's new Object Lifetime Puzzle book and a blost post from Kevlin Henney on Agile processes. Then they talk to Daniel and Brett about their research into using Modules at Bloomberg, and some of the changes still needed from compilers and build systems to use Modules in large scale software development. News * Boost v1.78 * Object Lifetime Puzzlers Book 1 * Agility ≠ Speed Links * p2409: Requirements for Usage of C++ Modules at Bloomberg * p2473: Distributing C++ Module Libraries * What Agile is Actually About? * CppCon - Lessons Learned from Packaging 10,000+ C++ Projects - Bret Brown & Daniel Ruoso - CppCon 2021 * CppCon - Modern CMake Modules - Bret Brown - CppCon 2021 Sponsors * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout atJetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Beautiful C++ with Kate Gregory and Guy Davidson

Rob and Jason are joined by Kate Gregory and Guy Davidson. They first talk about a free online game development course and updates to CLion. Then they talk to Kate and Guy about their upcoming book: Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code. News * C++ Game Programming course on YouTube * CLion 2021.3 * Modernizing Your Code With C++20 Links * Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code on Amazon * Kate Gregory's Blog - Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code * Sample Code for Beautiful C++ on Compiler Explorer * C++ North - The Canadian C++ Conference * C++ Reflection TS: A First Look * Total War: Warhammer III Sponsors * Indicate the #cppcast hashtag and request your PVS-Studio one-month trial license here https://pvs-studio.com/try_free * C++ tools evolution: static code analyzers: https://pvs-studio.com/0873

Software Architecture with C++ with Adrian Ostrowski and Piotr Gaczowki

Rob and Jason are joined by Adrian Ostrowski and Piotr Gaczowki. They first talk about profiling tools and reverse iterators. Then they talk to Adrian and Piotr about their book on C++ Software Architecture, and what all C++ developers can learn from it. News * Another way of looking at C++ reverse iterators * C++ Profiling and Benchmarking Tools in 2021 * A footnote on "Three reasons to pass std::string_view by value" Links * Software Architecture with C++ * Software Architecture with C++ on Amazon Sponsors * Indicate the #cppcast hashtag and request your PVS-Studio one-month trial license here https://pvs-studio.com/try_free * C++ tools evolution: static code analyzers: https://pvs-studio.com/0873

Mdspan and Too Cute C++ Tricks with Daisy Hollman

Rob and Conor are joined by Daisy Hollman. They first talk about C++23's approaching feature freeze including Daisy's work on the mdspan proposal. Then they talk to Daisy about her recent 'too cute' CppCon talk and whether you should be writing cute code in production. News * JetBrains CppCon Talks * C++23: Near the Finish Line * Cmake 3.22.0 available for download Links * p0009 mdspan * Daisy Hollman - What you can learn from being too cute - Meeting C++ online * Petrify App * PMD Source Code Analyzer * #include Sponsors * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout atJetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Deducing This with Gašper Ažman

Rob and Conor are joined by Gašper Ažman. They first talk about some resources for learning C++ and learning how to work on the LLVM compiler. Then they talk to Gašper about the Deducing This feature coming to C++23, how the feature worked its way through the ISO committee and what it will change. News * ADSP: The Podcast * The Array Cast * C++ By Example * JetBrains CppCon Early Access * CppCon 2021 trip report * How to learn Compilers LLVM Edition Links * p0847 Deducing This * Defining Contracts Sponsors * PVS-Studio Learns What strlen is All About * PVS-Studio podcast transcripts

Visual Studio 2022 with Sy Brand

Rob and Jason are joined by Sy Brand from Microsoft. They first talk about the recent CppCon conference, the hybrid format and some of their favorite talks. Then they talk to Sy about the upcoming Visual Studio 2022 release, what's new in the IDE and new features and improvements for C++ developers. News * WG21 October Mailing * CppCon 2021 Virtual Trip Report, A User Story * Extending and Simplifying C++: Thoughts on Pattern Matching using is and as - Herb Sutter Links * Visual Studio 2022 Release Notes * Visual Studio 2022 Launch Day Event * C++20 DR tracker Sponsors * PVS-Studio Learns What strlen is All About * PVS-Studio podcast transcripts

C++23 ISO Progress with Bryce Adelstein Lelbach

Rob and Jason are joined by Bryce Adelstein Lelbach. They first talk about SonarLint analysis, and searching algorithm performance and an observation on compiler diversity. Then they talk to Bryce about the proposals that are heading for C++23, including major changes to the executor and networking proposals. News * Supercharge your C++ analysis with SonarLint for Clion * Efficiently searching an array with GCC, Clang and ICC * C++ Committee polling results for asynchronous programming Links * P0443R13 - A Unified Executors Proposal for C++ * P2300R0 - std::execution Sponsors * PVS-Studio Learns What strlen is All About * PVS-Studio podcast transcripts

JIT Compilation and Exascale Computing with Hal Finkel

Rob and Jason are joined by Hal Finkel from the US Department of Energy. They first talk to Hal about the LLVM 13 release and why the release notes were lacking. Then they talk to Hal about his C++ JIT Proposal, the Clang prototype and how it could be used. They also talk about Hal's work at DOE, Exascale computing and more. News * LLVM 13 released * Some lesser-known powers of std::optional * Barbarian, an open and distributed Conan package index! Links * ClangJIT * P1609R1 C++ Should Support Just-in-Time Compilation * Hal Finkel "Faster Compile Times and Better Performance: Bringing Just-in-Time Compilation to C+" * US Department of Energy: Advanced Scientific Computing Research Sponsors * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout atJetBrains.com for a 25% discount

EVE - the Expressive Vector Engine

Rob and Jason are joined by Joël Falcou and Denis Yaroshevskiy. They first talk about the 6.2 release of Qt and the range-based for loop bug that won't be getting fixed in C++23. Then they talk to Joel and Denis about EVE, a C++20 SIMD library that evolved from Boost.SIMD. News * QT 6.2 LTS Released * GDBFrontend * C++ Committee don’t want to fix range-based for loop in C++23 (broken for 10yrs) Links * EVE on GitHub * EVE example on Compiler Explorer * CppCon 2021: SIMD in C++20: EVE of a new Era * Meeting C++ 2021 - EVE: A new, powerful open source C++20 SIMD library * C++Russia EVE Talk * Denis Yaroshevskiy - my first SIMD - Meeting C++ online Sponsors * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout atJetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Autonomous UAS with Brandon Duick and Billy Sisson

Rob and Jason are joined by Brandon Duick and Billy Sisson from Exyn Technologies. They first discuss the upcoming CppCon hybrid conference and a new tuple library for C++20. Then they talk to Brandon and Billy about the autonomous UAS/Drone software they work on at Exyn Technologies. News * CppCon 2021 Program Announced * Tuplet: A lightweight Tuple Library for Modern C++ * Span should have a converting constructor from initializer_list Links * Exyn Technology Careers * Exyn - Autonomy Level 4 * First Dog to Fly a Drone * ExynAI - Modular Autonomy for Mission Critical Data Sponsors * PVS-Studio Learns What strlen is All About * PVS-Studio podcast transcripts

Joedb with Remi Coulom

Rob and Jason are joined by Remi Coulom from Kayufu. They first discuss another blog posts about the ongoing ABI problems in C++ and another on common mistakes with comparison functions. Then they talk to Remi about Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database. News * Dicontinue Sourcetrail * Binary Banshees and Digital Demons * Djinni generator release v1.2.0 * Opzioni * Everybody Makes Mistakes When Writing Comparison Functions Links * Joedb - Journal-Only Embedded Database * Kayufu - Artificial Intelligence in Games Sponsors * PVS-Studio Learns What strlen is All About * PVS-Studio podcast transcripts

CoreCpp 2021 with Amir Kirsh and Avi Lachmish

Rob and Jason are joined by Amir Kirsh and Avi Lachmish from Incredibuild. They first discuss Idle, a new C++ framework, the September ISO mailing and an Algorithm Intuition Chart. Then they talk to Amir and Avi about the recent CoreCpp conference, Bjarne's keynote and other talks from the conference. News * Idle: an asynchronous and hot-reloadable C++ dynamic component framework * September ISO Mailing * Algorithm Intuition Chart Links * Core Cpp Conference * Bjarne Stroustrup Live on Core C++ Conference – Q&A Session * Core C++ 2021: Bjarne Stroustrup - Thriving in a crowded and changing world * Rust vs C++ and Is It Good for Enterprise Sponsors * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout atJetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Dart and Crafting Interpreters with Bob Nystrom

Rob and Jason are joined by Bob Nystrom from Google. They first discuss git commands explained via cats and an analysis of how Visual Studio 2022 could use all your RAM. Then they talk to Bob about some of the programming languages he's created, his two books 'Crafting Interpreters' and 'Game Programming Patterns' and his work on the Dart programming language at Google. News * Safer Usage of C++ in Chrome * Git commands explained with cats * Meeting Embedded 2021 * How Visual Studio 2022 ate up to 100GB of RAM Links * Crafting Interpreters * Game Programming Patterns * Dart Programming Language * Flutter * Robert Nystrom's Blog * Vigil on GitHub Sponsors * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout atJetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Podcasting and Advocating with Phil Nash

Rob and Jason are joined by Phil Nash. They first discuss another C++ podcasts interview with Sean Parent and a blog post from Bungie on their process for creating coding guidelines. Then they talk to Phil Nash about his new role at Sonar Source, his podcasts, C++ On Sea and more. News * Episode 39: How Steve Jobs Saved Sean Parent * Bungie C++ Guidelines & Razors Links * Sonar Source * C++ on Sea * cpp.chat * No Diagnostic Required * Accelerated TDD: For More Productive C++ * Lyra on GitHub Sponsors * C++ Builder

Learning C++ with Serenity with Linus Groh

Rob and Jason are joined by Linus Groh. They first discuss a new feature of Compiler Explorer and some ISO papers. Then they talk to Linus about his involvement in the Serenity project, learning C++ as he became a contributor. News * Compiler Explorer now supports multiple file compilation and linking * August 2021 Mailing * Introduction to Programming with C++ for Engineers Links * Linus' Website * SerenityOS * Andreas Kling's YouTube Channel Sponsors * PVS-Studio Learns What strlen is All About * PVS-Studio podcast transcripts

Insight Toolkit with Matt McCormick

Rob and Matt are joined by Matt McCormick from Kitware. They first discuss a blog post on using C++20 modules with GCC11 and Qt Multimedia support in Web Assembly. Then they talk to Matt about the history of Insight Toolkit, some of its applications and its role in the origin of CMake. News * C++20 modules with GCC11 * JSON for Modern C++ 3.10.0 released * Qt Multimedia has a new friend Links * Insight Toolkit * Insight Toolkit on GitHub * 3D-Slicer * CMake * itk.js * vtk.js * dockcross Sponsors * C++ Builder

Efficient Programming with Components with Justin Meiners

Rob and Matt are joined by Justin Meiners. They first talk about a big boost library update, and whether Valgrind is still useful compared to sanitizers. Then they talk to Justin Meiners about Alex Stepanov, his contribution to the STL and some of his courses that are still relevant to today's C++ programmers. News * Boost v1.77.0 * Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM * Valgrind - A neglected tool from the shadows or a serious debugging tool? Links * Efficient Programming with Components - YouTube Playlist * Efficient Programming with Components - Notes by Justin Meiners * Merge with fewer comparisons (using goto) Sponsors * C++ Builder

News and Catching Up

Rob and Jason talk about C++ news, upcoming conferences, tooling updates and a bit about the C++ projects they work on in their day jobs. News * NDC TechTown Keynote and Class * CppCon Practical Performance Practices CppCon * Big Update with Big Thanks for a Big Program * You're Doing IoT RNG * Remove nodiscard annotations from the standard library specification * std::span is not zero-cost because of the ms abi * /r/cpp - Does anyone ever use goto in their code? * /r/cpp - Github actions to setup gcc/clang/mingw * /r/cpp - Am I going to be burned at the stake for using basic_string as an integer array? * ReSharper C++ 2021.2: Type Conversion Hints, Immutability Inspections, Inline Function * Moving a project to C++ named Modules Sponsors * PVS-Studio Learns What strlen is All About * PVS-Studio podcast transcripts

Performance Tuning with Denis Bakhvalov

Rob and Matt are joined by Denis Bakhvalov. They first talk about building Minesweeper in C++ with SFML and a paper on throughput prediction on intel microarchitectures. Then they talk to Denis about his blog, book and video series focusing on C++ performance, and his vision of the future tooling and techniques of writing performant C++ code. News * Making the Classic Minesweeper Game using C++ and SFML * Hot Reload support for C++ Applications * Spdlog 1.9.1 released. Support for compile-time format string validation * Accurate throughput prediction of basic blocks on recent intel microarchitectures Links * easyperf.net * Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs * Performance Ninja Course * LLVM+CGO Performance Workshop - Performance Tuning: Future Compiler Improvements * Proebsting's Law Sponsors * PVS-Studio Learns What strlen is All About * PVS-Studio podcast transcripts

STLab with Sean Parent and Dave Abrahams

Rob and Jason are joined by Sean Parent and Dave Abrahams. They first talk to Dave about his history with C++, Boost and the Swift programming language. Then they talk with Sean and Dave about Adobe's Software Technology Lab and their plans to focus on Concurrency in C++. News * A Neat trick with consteval * Constexpr memory allocation * Comprehensive Catalog of C++ Books Links * stlab * stlab on GitHub Sponsors * C++ Builder

HPX and DLA Future with Hartmut Kaiser and Mikael Simberg

Rob and Jason are joined by Hartmut Kaiser and Mikael Simberg. They first discuss some blog posts on returning multiple values from a function and C++ Ranges. Then they talk to Hartmut Kaiser and Mikael Simberg on the latest version of HPX, how easy it is to gain performance improvements with HPX, and DLA Futures, the Distributed Linear Algebra library built using HPX. News * An Unexpected Article About Our Unicorn: Who Is the PVS-Studio Mascot? * How to Return Several Values from a Function in C++ * C++20 ranges benefits: avoid dangling pointers Links * HPX * HPX on GitHub * HPX 1.7.0 released * DLA Future on GitHub Sponsors * C++ Builder

Improving Performance with Ivica Bogosavljevic

Rob and Jason are joined by Ivica Bogosavljevic from Johny's Software Lab. They first talk about an open sourced 3d game engine and C++ documentation tools. Then they talk to Ivica Bogosavljevic from Johny's Software Lab where he writes about methods to improve performance in C++ applications. News * Open 3D Engine * Doc Tools for C++ Libraries * CppCon 2021 call for submissions * Second set of Meeting C++ AMAs Links * Johny's Software Lab * easyperf Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio Team: Switching to Clang Improved PVS-Studio C++ Analyzer's Performance * COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables

Tipi.build with Damien Buhl and Yannic Staudt

Rob and Jason are joined by Damien Buhl and Yannic Staudt from tipi.build. They first talk about a new text encoding library and whether const should be the default for variables. Then they talk about tipi.build, the Compiler-as-a-Service that understands C++ code and can build it without scripts. News * Any Encoding, Ever - ztd.text and Unicode for C++ * Should every variable be const by default? * Reversing words of a string with ranges -#thatsarotate Links * tipi.build * Join tipi.build beta * tipi.build blog * @TipiBuild Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 * COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables

LFortran with Ondřej Čertík

Rob and Jason are joined by Ondřej Čertík from Los Alamos National Laboratory. They first talk about ISO Papers and Github's CoPilot AI programmer. Then they talk to Ondřej about LFortran, a modern LLVM based Fortran compiler that can compile Fortran code into C++. News * June 2021 ISO Mailing * C++ Library Include Times * GitHub Copilot * CppCon Field Trip Links * LFortran * Fortran * Fortran Package Manager Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 * COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables

Regression Testing with Touca with Pejman Ghorbanzade

Rob and Jason are joined by Pejman Ghorbanzade. They first talk about changes to the format library to enable better compile time errors, and some conference news from CppCon, C++ on Sea and NDC TechTown. Then they talk to Pejman about Touca, a new tool he's created for continuous regression testing. News * Palanteer * A quest for safe text formatting API * C++ On Sea starting soon * CppCon call for submissions * NDC TechTown call for papers Links * Touca * Touca's vision for the future of regression testing * Touca SDK on GitHub Sponsors * Incredibuild

Modernizing DOSBox with Patryk Obara

Rob and Jason are joined by Patryk Obara. They first talk about in Visual Studio 2019 and a Trip Report from Herb Sutter on the Summer ISO meeting. Then they talk to Patryk Obara about the dosbox project itself and the dosbox staging repository where he's been working to modernize dosbox. News * in Visual Studio 2019 v16.10 * Trip report: Summer 2021 ISO C++ Standards meeting (virtual) * Painless coroutines part 4 Links * DOSBox Staging * DOSBox Staging on GitHub * DOSBOX Sponsors * Incredibuild

DAW JSON Link with Darrell Wright

Rob and Jason are joined by Darrell Wright. They first talk about a gameboy emulator written by Ben Smith and a new regression testing tool. Then they talk to Darrell Wright about DAW JSON Link, his JSON serialization library. News * FTXUI * POKEGB gameboy emulator that only plays Pokemon blue (68 lines of C++) * Automated regression testing with Touca Links * DAW JSON Link on GitHub * DAW JSON Link Documentation Sponsors * C++ Builder

Incredibuild in the Cloud with Dana Rochman and Amir Kirsh

Rob and Jason are joined by Dana Rochman and Amir Kirsh from Incredibuild. They first discuss conference news and a blog post from Andreas Kling. Then they talk to Dana and Amir about the latest from Incredibuild, including new support for accelerating builds in the cloud, and build caching. News * C++ On Sea Schedule * Core C++ * I quit my job to focus on Serenity OS Full time * 13 C++ Libraries To Watch Out For Links * Incredibuild Sponsors * C++ Builder

Spack with Todd Gamblin and Greg Becker

Rob and Jason are joined by Todd Gamblin and Greg Becker. They first discuss a documentation tool, a blog post about floating point numbers, and yet another post about ABI changes. Then they talk to Todd and Greg from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) who both work on Spack, the populat open source package manager aimed at HPC. News * Poxy: a Doxygen frontend with extra fancy * Mostly harmless: An account of pseudo-normal floating point numbers * Removing an empty base class can break ABI Links * Spack * Spack on GitHub * Spack Tutorial * Spack Slack * Build all the things with Spack: a package manager for more than C++ - Todd Gamblin - CppCon 2020 * Clingo: A grounder and solver for logic programs * Build: Solving the Software Complexity Puzzle Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 * COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized…

ABI Stability with Marshall clow

Rob and Jason are joined by Marshall Clow. They first discuss some bugs Microsoft found using ASAN in open source projects, and new libraries. Then they talk to Marshall Clow, longtime maintainer of libc++, on his perspective on the C++ ABI, and why stability is important. News * Finding Bugs with AddressSanitizer: Patterns from Open Source Projects * RmlUI 4.0 Release * Not Enough Standards, my C++17/20 library for cross-platform utilities * Meeting C++ 2021 Announced Links * What is an ABI, and Why is Breaking it Bad? - Marshall Clow - CppCon 2020 * P1863 - ABI Now or Never Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 * COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables

Djinni with Harald Achitz

Rob and Jason are joined by Harald Achitz. They first discuss performance updates for debug builds coming in the next version of Visual Studio. Then they talk about Djinni, the cross platform language binding generator tool initially developed by Dropbox that is now being supported by the C++ Mobile Development community. News * 2x-3x Performance Improvements for Debug Builds * Vcpkg site now has search * Should we break ABI is the wrong question Links * Djinni * Djinni on GitHub * Mobile C++ Slack * C++ User Groups of Sweden * C++ Community Organizers Sponsors * C++ Builder

SonarSource Analysis Tools with Loïc Joly

Rob and Jason are joined by Loïc Joly from SonarSource. They first discuss compiler updates in GCC and MSVC as well as survey results of most used C++ features. Then they talk to Loïc about the SonarSource static analysis tools for C++, what sorts of bugs they discover, and what goes into creating a new analysis rule. News * VS 2019 STL is C++20 feature complete * GCC 11.1 Released * Meeting C++ survey results: the most popular C++ standard features Links * SonarSource * The NeverEnding Story of writing a rule for argument passing in C++ Sponsors * C++ Builder

Defer is better then Destructors with JeanHeyd Meneide

Rob and Jason are joined by JeanHeyd Meneide. They first discuss alternative operators in C++, upcoming virtual conferences and papers in the April ISO mailing. Then they talk to JeanHeyd about his work on the C and C++ committees, including embed, defer and more. News * Just discovered C++ has keywords 'and'/'or'/'not' etc. * Pure Virtual C++ * April Mailing Links * Defer Mechanism for C: The Movie * p1967 Preprocessor embed - Binary Resource Inclusion * p0052 Generic Scope Guard and RAII Wrapper for the Standard Library * No Us Without You - elifdef and elifndef * CoSy Tech Con Sponsors * Incredibuild

ScummVM with Eugene Sandulenko

Rob and Jason are joined by Eugene Sandulenko. They first discuss the announcement of Visual Studio 2022 and Facebook open sourcing a new machine learning library. Then they talk to Eugene Sandulenko all about ScummVM, how the project got started and more. News * Visual Studio 2022 coming this summer * Flashlight - a C++ standalone library for machine learning open sourced by Facebook * 2021 Annual C++ Developer Survey "Lite" Links * ScummVM Sponsors * Incredibuild

C++Builder with David Millington

Rob and Jason are joined by David Millington from Embarcadero. They first discuss a blog post on Thread Sanitizer and a very unique implementation of unique_ptr. Then they talk to David Millington from Embarcadero about C++ Builder, it's history and the state of the tool today. Including some of its extensions built into their version of Clang. News * Eliminating Data Races in Firefox * Mathematical constants in C++20 * NFT backed implementation of std::unique_ptr Links * C++Builder * N1384 - PME: Properties, Methods and Events * N1600 - C++/CLI Properties * N1615 - C++ Properties -- a Library Solution Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 * COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables

Rigel Engine with Nikolai Wuttke

Rob and Jason are joined by Nikolai Wuttke. They first discuss a blog post series from Raymond Chen on coroutines and the upcoming pure virtual C++ conference. Then they talk to Nikolai Wuttke about Rigel Engine, a modern C++ reimplementation of Duke Nukem II. News * C++23: -> and :: to be replaced by . operator * C++ coroutines: The mental model for coroutine promises * Mutabah's Rust Compiler * Pure Virtual C++ 2021 Conference Links * Rigel Engine on GitHub * Play Rigel Engine online Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 * COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables

One Lone Coder with David Barr

Rob and Jason are joined by David Barr (aka javidx9). They first discuss Microsoft open sourcing calculator, an update to CMake and the March 2021 ISO Mailing. Then they talk to David about his YouTube channel, One Lone Coder, what inspired him to start it, and PixelGameEngine, the 2D game engine he works on with the One Lone Coder community. News * Freestanding avr-libstdc++ * Calc.exe is now open source * Cmake 3.20.0 available for download * ISO C++ March Mailing Links * javidx9 - One Lone Coder YouTube Channel * javidx9 - Twitch Channel * One Lone Coder Community Sponsors * C++ Builder

Freestanding Update with Ben Craig

Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Craig. They first discuss blog posts detailing how function call resolution works in C++ and algorithm selection. Then they talk to Ben Craig about his efforts with the C++ Freestanding proposal, what progress has been made, what still needs to be done, and more. News * How C++ Resolves a Function Call * List of C++ blogs by individual developers * Algorithm Selection Links * p2268 Freestanding Roadmap * p2013 Freestanding Language: Optional ::operator new * p1642 Freestanding Library: Easy [utilities], [ranges], and [iterators] Sponsors * C++ Builder

Event Streaming with Alex Gallego

Rob and Jason are joined by Alex Gallego. They first discuss blog posts from Visual C++ on Intellisense updates and a tutorial for programming Starcraft AI. Then they talk to Alex Gallego about Red Panda, the event streaming platform written in C++ that's compatible with the Kafka API. Episode Transcripts * PVS-Studio Episode Transcripts News * MTuner * Intellisense Improvements In Visual Studio 2019 * STARTcraft - Complete Beginner Starcraft: Broodwar AI Programming Tutorial with C++ / BWAPI STARTcraft * Git source has a banned.h file that blocks use of certain C functions Links * Vectorized.io * RedPanda on GitHub * The Kafka API is great; now let's make it fast! Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 * COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables

Reducing Memory Allocations with Arnaud Desitter

Rob and Jason are joined by Arnaud Desitter. They first discuss blog posts on parameter passing, fuzzing and push_back vs emplace_back. Then they talk to Arnaud Desitter about his successes improving application performance by reducing memory allocations found using heaptrack. Episode Transcripts * PVS-Studio Episode Transcripts News * Hacking on Clang is surprisingly easy * Parameter Passing in C and C++ * Fuzzing Image Parsing in Windows, Part Two: Uninitialized Memory * Don't blindly prefer emplaceback to pushback Links * Reducing Memory Allocations in a Large C++ Application - Arnaud Desitter [ C++ on Sea 2020 ] * heaptrack Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * The Evil within the Comparison Functions * Top 10 Bugs Found in C++ Projects in 2020

The Old New Thing with Raymon Chen

Rob and Jason are joined by Raymond Chen from Microsoft. They first talk about Herb Sutter's virtual ISO Plenary Trip Report and some new features voted into the C++23 draft. Then they talk to Raymond Chen from Microsoft about his career working on Windows and the Old New Thing blog. News * Trip report: Winter 2021 ISO C++ standards meeting (virtual) * Learn C++, Qt and QML the easy way Links * Raymond’s blog The Old New Thing. Here’s the post that made his July 4 family picnic a little more stressful * Raymond is managing editor of the Windows Universal Samples and the Windows Classic Samples repos on GitHub. * Here’s a YouTube playlist of Raymond’s One Dev Minute short videos. * Raymond can be found on GitHub as @oldnewthing, and his necktie’s Twitter account is @ChenCravat. Sponsors * Visual Assist

Vcpkg Registries with Nicole Mazzuca

Rob and Jason are joined by Nicole Mazzuca from Microsoft. They first talk about a differential equation library, and modules support in build2 and meson. Then they talk to Nicole from Microsoft's vcpkg team about some new features in vcpkg to enable teams to host their own libraries. News * Solving Differential Equations with LLVM * Complete C++20 Modules Support with GCC in build2 * Meson Build System 0.57.0 is out w/ experimental suport for C++ Modules, Qt6, ThinLTO and more Links * Registries: Bring your own libraries to vcpkg * Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * The Evil within the Comparison Functions * Top 10 Bugs Found in C++ Projects in 2020

High Frequency Trading with Carl Cook

Rob and Jason are joined by Carl Cook from Optiver. They first talk discuss an announcement from Khronos that SYCL 2020 has been released, and a blog post from Microsoft on updates to the Visual Studio Code C++ extension. Then they talk to Carl Cook from Optiver about how they use C++ to power everything they do. News * Khronos Releases SYCL 2020 for C++ Heterogeneous Parallel Programming * VS Code C++ Extension: Cross-Compilation IntelliSense Configurations * Modern C++ Tip of the Week Links * Optiver Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * The Evil within the Comparison Functions * Top 10 Bugs Found in C++ Projects in 2020

Going Cross Platform with Sebastian Theophil

Rob and Jason are joined by Sebastian Theophil from Think-Cell. They first talk discuss a blog post on building a 1 billion LOC project with the Threadripper 3990X and a browser extension for easily searching for C++ reference help. Then they talk to Sebastian about his teams efforts to port their Windows C++ codebase onto MacOS and some of the challenges they dealt with, as well as recent efforts to start porting some of the code into Web Assembly. News * Threadripper 3990X: The Quest to Compile 1 Billions lines of C++ on 64 cores * Looking for Approachable Open Source Projects to Contribute to * C++ Search Extension v0.2 released Links * Think-Cell: Join us as a C++ developer * Windows, macOS and the Web: Lessons from cross-platform development at think-cell * tcjs library for generating type-safe JavaScript bindings for C++/Emscripten Sponsors * Visual Assist

Clang Power Tools and C++ Myths with Victor Ciura

Rob and Jason are joined by Victor Ciura. They first talk about different ways to filter a C++ container and a blog post on the Visual C++ blog from the Diablo 4 development team. They then talk to Victor about the Clang Power Tools plugin for Visual Studio which has recently been made free for both open source and commercial use. They also talk about C++ Myths. News * 12 Different Ways to Filter Containers in Modern C++ * More_concepts library * Blizzard Diablo IV debugs Linux core dumps from Visual Studio * Visual Studio's Native Debugging Framework Tutorial Links * Next steps for Clang Power Tools * C++ Mythbusting with Victor and Jason Sponsors * Visual Assist

SOLID Design Principles with Klaus Iglberger

Rob and Jason are joined by Klaus Iglberger. They first talk about changes to make the Win32 API more accessible, some C++20 coroutine examples and ISO news. Then they talk to Klaus Iglberger about the SOLID design principles, why they still matter and what C++ developers should know about them. News * Making Win32 APIs More Accessible to More Languages * Motivated Examples for coroutines * January 2021 ISO Mailing Links * Breaking Dependencies: The SOLID Principles - Klaus Iglberger - CppCon 2020 * Meeting C++ Training: Modern C++ Design Patterns * CppCon 2020: Modern C++ Design Patterns * Cpp On Sea: Modern C++ Design Patterns * YOW! 2013 Kevlin Henney - The SOLID Design Principles Deconstructed Sponsors * Visual Assist

Cheerp with Alessandro Pignotti

Rob and Jason are joined by Alessandro Pignotti. They first talk about a linker project, a better assert for constexpr code. Then they talk about Cheerp, LeaningTech's C++ WebAssembly compiler, how it differs from emscripten, Cheerp optimizations and some of LeaningTech's other Cheerp products. News * mold: A Modern Linker * C++ Jobs Q1 * A slightly better assert using C++20's isconstantevaluated * How can I write a C++ class that iterates over its base classes Links * Cheerp * Extreme WebAssembly 2: the sad state of WebAssembly tail calls * CheerpX: a WebAssembly-based x86 virtual machine in the browser, Yuri Iozzelli * CheerpX repl Sponsors * Visual Assist

Priorities for C++23 with Corentin Jabot

Rob and Jason are joined by Corentin Jabot. They first talk about a Visual Studio blog post on performance improvements in the 'inner build loop', and a ray tracer built into CMake. Then they talk to Corentin about his work in the C++ ISO committee on the Library Evolution Working Group and his thoughts on what could and should make it into C++23. News * f(t) * Faster C++ Iteration Builds * Ray Tracing in pure Cmake * Is Zero a Butterfly? Links * What is the standard Library * P2172 - What do we want from a modularized Standard Library? Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio: analyzing pull requests in Azure DevOps using self-hosted agents * Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Open Frameworks and Creative Coding

Rob and Jason are joined by Zach Lieberman, professor at MIT's Media Lab and co-founder of the School for Poetic Computation. They first talk about Herb Sutter's 2020 wrap up blog post and the ISO mailing from December 2020. Then Zach discusses Open Frameworks, a C++ toolkit he co-created 10 years ago for creative coding. News * Firsts in 2020 * Last 2020 ISO Mailing Links * Open Frameworks * Open Frameworks Book * ofxAddons * ShaderToy * The Book of Shaders * Graffiti Research Lab L.A.S.E.R Tag * A Visual Journery Through Addiction * Connected Worlds * Vera Molnar: Pioneer of Computer Art * Digital Harmony: The Life of John Whitney, Computer Animation Pioneer * Muriel Cooper Sponsors * Visual Assist

Rob and Jason are discuss various news articles, libraries and announcements on the last episode of 2020 before the new year. News * Embo++ 2021 * Runtime access to tuple elements * YouTube C++ Series - Project from Scratch for C++ Beginners * Bona - C++20 based modern file information viewer * Concepts appreciation thread * A new C++ Logging Library Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio: analyzing pull requests in Azure DevOps using self-hosted agents * Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project

TurtleBrowser with Patricia Aas

Rob and Jason are joined by Patricia Aas from TurtleSec. They first talk about updates to a Web Assembly compiler Cheerp and an announcement for a new systems programming language conference. Then they talk to Patricia about her current project building a new web browser using modern C++, Qt 5 and the Chromium engine. They also discuss Patricia's consulting business and managing it during the pandemic. News * Pointers are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs * Cheerp 2.6 - compiling C++ to WebAssembly and JavaScript * Why Another C++ (And More) Conference Links * TurtleBrowser on GitHub * Trying to build an Open Source browser in 2020 - Patricia Aas * TurtleSec Sponsors * Visual Assist

SerenityOS with Andreas Kling

Rob and Jason are joined by Andreas Kling. They first talk about the Qt 6.0 Release as well as another new C++ podcast that has been announced. They then talk to Andreas Kling about SerenityOS, the C++ Operating System he is building along with others in the Open Source community. News * Qt 6.0 Released * How to Make an Operating System using C++ * New Channel from the JetBrains crew * C++20 Published Links * SrenityOS * Serenity on GitHub * Andreas Kling's YouTube Sponsors * Visual Assist

Virtual Teaching and Plenary with Patrice Roy

Rob and Jason are joined by Patrice Roy. They first talk discuss JeanHeyd Meneide's blog post regarding ABI breakage in C and C++. Then they talk to Patrice Roy about his experience teaching C++ during the COVID pandemic, the first ISO Virtual Plenary and more. News * A Special Kind of Hell - intmax_t in C and C++ * Lexy * Clion 2020.3 Released Links * Some Things C++ Does Right - Patrice Roy - CppCon 2020 Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio: analyzing pull requests in Azure DevOps using self-hosted agents * Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project

Networking TS with Robert Leahy

Rob and Jason are joined by Robert Leahy. They first talk about an open source flappy bird clone and the C++ framework it was built with. Then they talk to Robert Leahy about the Networking TS that will hopefully be a major feature of C++23. News * A Small Open Source Game in C++ * The C++20 initialization flowchart * Error codes are far slower than exceptions * Beman Dawes has passed away Links * The Networking TS from Scratch: I/O Objects - Robert Leahy - CppCon 2020 * N3747 - A Universal Model for Asynchronous Operations * P2161 - Remove Default Candidate Executor Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio: analyzing pull requests in Azure DevOps using self-hosted agents * Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Fuzz Testing on the GPU with Artem Dinaburg and Ryan Eberhardt

Rob and Jason are joined by Artem Dinaburg and Ryan Eberhardt. They first talk about a new version of CMake that was just released, an interview with Bjarne Stroustrup and another month of new ISO papers. Then they talk to Artem and Ryan who talk about fuzz testing, including a new fuzz testing project being worked at Trail of Bits to enable fuzz testing on the GPU. News * Cmake 3.19 available for download * How C++ became the invisible foundation for everything, and what's next * November Monthly Mailing Links * Let's build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs! * The Relevance of Classic Fuzz Testing: Have We Solved This One? * Vectorized Emulation: Hardware accelerated taint tracking at 2 trillion instructions per second * DeepState - Parameterized Unit Testing Framework * MCSema - Tool to translate binaries to LLVM bitcode * Remill - Library of CPU instruction semantics * Anvill - Tool to make translated bitcode look closer to what a compiler would emit * R…

Concepts and Algorithm Intuition with Conor Hoekstra

Rob and Jason are joined by Conor Hoekstra. They first talk about new and updated libraries in Boost and Herb Sutter's trip report covering news from the recent virtual ISO plenary meeting where the first new features were voted into C++23. Then they talk to Conor about some of his recent conference talks on Algorithm Intuition and Concepts vs typeclasses. News * Butano: a modern C++ high level engine for the GBA * New Boost libraries in v1.75 * Trip report: Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting (virtual) Links * Conor's Conference Talks * ADSP: The Podcast Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio: analyzing pull requests in Azure DevOps using self-hosted agents * Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Video Games, Robotics and Audio with Joël Lamotte

Rob and Jason are joined by Joël Lamotte. They first talk about C++20 Modules support in GCC and MSVC and a micro benchmarking library. Then they talk to Joël about how he got involved in C++, and his experiences working on indie video games, robotics and his recent transition to the audio industry working on a web assembly powered website. News * P0847R5 Deducing This * C++20 Modules Compiler Code Under Review, Could still land for GCC 11 * Criterion micro-benchmarking library * A Tour of C++ Modules in Visual Studio Links * Best of Klaim's Music on Soundcloud * Glacierbound OST on Soundcloud * HomeTeam GameDev * Jellynote Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio: analyzing pull requests in Azure DevOps using self-hosted agents * Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkou…

Unicode Progress and C++/C Study Group

Rob and JeanHeyd are joined by Aaron Ballman and Peter Brett, both members of the ISO C++ committee. They first talk about an extension for Visual Studio and Visual Code for visualizing struct layout and a blog post proposing a safer boolean type. Then they talk about Aaron and Peter about progress being made at virtual ISO meetings and the upcoming virtual Plenary meeting. News * StructLayout Visual C++ Extension * Fun with Concepts: Do You Even Lift, Bool? * Meeting C++: My thoughts on "The... Community?" Links * ISO C++ October 2020 Mailing * P1787: Declarations and where to find them * WG21 SG16 Unicode study group * Editing the C Standard Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio: analyzing pull requests in Azure DevOps using self-hosted agents * Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast dur…

ThinLTO with Teresa Johnson

Rob and Jason are joined by Teresa Johnson from Google. They first discuss the Qt6 beta release and a blog post proposing range_ref, a lightweight view for ranges. Then they talk to Teresa about ThinLTO, the scalable and incremental Link Time Optimization built into LLVM. News * Clang 11.0.0 is out * 17 Smaller but Handy C++17 Features Links * ThinLTO * CppCon 2017: Teresa Johnson "ThinLTO: Scalable and Incremental Link-Time Optimization" * Keynotes at Meeting C++ 2020 Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio: analyzing pull requests in Azure DevOps using self-hosted agents * Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Programming History, JIT Compilations and Generic Algorithms with Ben Deane

Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Deane from Quantlab. They first discuss the 11.0 update of Clang and an a blog post highlighting some of the smaller features that were added in C++17. They then talk to Ben about some of his recent CppCon talks including one on what we can learn from the history of programming languages and another on the ability to JIT C++ code. News * Clang 11.0.0 is out * 17 Smaller but Handy C++17 Features Links * Careers at Quantlab * Constructing Generic Algorithms: Principles and Practice - Ben Deane - CppCon 2020 * Just-in-Time Compilation: The Next Big Thing? - Ben Deane & Kris Jusiak - CppCon 2020 * How We Used To Be - Ben Deane - CppCon 2020 Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! * Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Bazel with Lukács Berki and Julio Merino

Rob and Jason are joined by Lukács Berki and Julio Merino from Google's Bazel team. They discuss CppCon trip reports, the cpp subreddit and a video on C++ 20 Concepts. Then Lukács and Julio talk all about the advantages of Bazel and some of the key features of Google's open source build tool. News * My favorite way to TDD * CppCon Trip Reports * r/cpp status update * Concepts in C++20 Links * Bazel * Bazel on GitHub * The final boss: Bazel's own JNI code

Meeting C++ 2020 with Jens Weller

Rob and Jason are joined by Jens Weller from Meeting C++. They discuss a blog post on Immediately Invoked Function Expressions, a syntactic sugar library and JeanHeyd Meneid's blog and video about the C++ Community. Then they talk with Jens about the upcoming Meeting C++ conference, on line user groups and job fairs and more. News * Coding Cards * Technique: Immediately Invoked Function Expression for Metaprogramming * SugarPP: syntactic  for programming in C++ * The Community Links * Meeting C++ Survey * Meeting C++ 2020 * Meeting C++ Online * Burnout - Jens Weller - Meeting C++ 2019 secret lightning talks Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! * Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers

Performance Matters with Emery Berger

Rob and Jason are joined by Emery Berger from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They first discuss updates to GCC and the September ISO mailing. Then they talk to Emery Berger about Performance tooling and how improvements in Performance should be measured. News * New C++ features in GCC 10 * September C++ ISO Mailing * std::exchange patterns: Fast, Safe, Expressive and Probably Underused * include Meeting C++2020 scholarship Links * Plenary: Performance Matters - Emery Berger - CppCon 2020 * Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection vs. Explicit Memory Management * Stabilizer * Coz Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! * Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers

CppCon 2020 Wrapup with Jon Kalb

Rob and Jason are joined by Jon Kalb. They talk about the first on-line CppCon conference and plans for the future. Links * CppCon * CppCon 2020 YouTube Playlist * C++Now Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! * Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers

Microsoft Announcements at CppCon 2020

Rob and Jason are joined by Julia Reid, Sy Brand and Augustin Popa from Microsoft. They talk about the virtual CppCon, favorite talks and the virtual conference experience. Then they talk about some of the announcements being made by the Microsoft Visual C++ team during the CppCon conference talks. Links * Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2020 * C++ in Visual Studio Code reaches version 1.0! * vcpkg: Accelerate your team development environment with binary caching and manifests * A Multitude of Updates in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3 * Standard C++20 Modules support with MSVC in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 * C++ Coroutines in Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.8 * Debug Linux core dumps in Visual Studio * Project OneFuzz: new open source developer tool to find and fix bugs at scale Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! * Free PVS-Studio for St…

stdpar with David Olsen

Rob and Jason are joined by David Olsen from NVIDIA. They first discuss the news from the ISO Committee that C++20 has been approved and work on C++23 will continue virtually. Then they talk with David about his work on NVIDIA's C++ compiler to run parallel algorithm code on the GPU and a proposal he's working on to introduce 16-bit floats to standard C++. News * C++20 approved, C++23 meetings and schedule update * If everyone hates it, why is OOP still so widely spread? * New safety rules in C++ Core Check Links * Accelerating Standard C++ with GPUs using stdpar * P1467R4 Extended floating-point types and standard names Sponsors * Clang Power Tools

Unit Testing with Oleg Rabaev

Rob and Jason are joined by Oleg Rabaev. They first discuss some papers from the latest ISO mailing and a new feature in Microsoft's vcperf tool. Then they talk to Oleg Rabaev about Unit Testing methodologies and why it's important to write testable code. News * 2020-08 mailing * Introducing vcperf /timetrace for C++ build time analysis * Question regarding optional virtual destructor in C++20 Links * Bloomberg Blog Sponsors * Clang Power Tools

Cross Platform Mobile Telephony with Dave Hagedorn

Rob and Jason are joined by Dave Hagedorn. They first discuss a blog post from JeanHeyd Meneide on exception free containers. Then they talk to Dave Hagedorn from TextNow about his teams efforts to transition an existing iOS/Android app to using a cross platform C++ library. News * Here I Stand, Free - Allocators and an Inclusive STL * Awesome hpp * Standard library development made easy with C++20 * C++ Montreal Meetup Some things C++ does right Links * TextNow Enginering Blog * TextNow Careers Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! * Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers

STX with Basit Ayantunde

Rob and Jason are joined by Basit Ayantunde. They first discuss a blog post on plain old data types and Visual Studio's Address Sanitizer support. Then they talk to Basit about the STX library. News * No more plain old data * AddressSanitizer for Windows: x64 and Debug Build Support * Meeting C++ Online Tickets Available Links * STX * Basit's Patreon Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! * Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers

Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners with Slobodan Dmitrović

Rob and Jason are joined by Slobodan Dmitrović. They first discuss a new C++ compiler from NVIDIA to compile conformant C++ code to GPUs. Then they talk to Slobodan about his book: Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners. News * Approval Tests Training Course * Accelerating Standard C++ with GPUs using stdpar * Sign up for Private Preview of VS support for Codespaces Links * Apress: Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners * Amazon: Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners Sponsors * Clang Power Tools

Go with Ian Taylor

Rob and Jason are joined by Ian Lance Taylor from Google. They first discuss an announcement from Conan and a blog post about embedding files into C++ applications using string literals. Then they talk to Ian Lance Taylor about the Go programming language. News * Join the new Conan 2.0 Tribe * C++ 70x faster file embeds using string literals * Online meetups Links * Go * Go's GitHub repository Sponsors * Clang Power Tools

Visual Effects with Josh Filstrup

Rob and Jason are joined by Josh Filstrup from Netflix. They first discuss an update to wxWidgets and a bug fix update in GCC. Then they talk to Josh about his background in Programming Languages and how he transitioned to work in the Visual Effects industry, including his current job at the studio engineering group at Netflix. News * wxWidgets 3.14 Release * GCC 10.2 Release * C++ On Sea videos coming online Links * USD * VFX Platform * Resurrecting the SuperH architecture * DCDigital - REAL Dreamcast 1080p HDMI Output * CppCon 2014: Chandler Carruth "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures" Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! * Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers

TensorFlow with Andrew Selle

Rob and Jason are joined by Andrew Selle from Google. They first discuss Ranges support being added to Visual Studio, and Compiler Explorer's support for using some libraries. Then they talk to Andrew Selle from Google about Machine Learning with Tensorflow and Tensorflow Lite which he was one of the initial architects for. News * Initial support for Ranges in MSVC * Support for Libraries in Compiler Explorer * Cmake 3.18 Release Links * TensorFlow * TensorFlow users * TensorFlow on small and mobile devices * Eigen library for linear algebra using expression templates * C Bindings for TensorFlow * AI Responsibilities Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! * Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers

LLVM Hacking and CPU Instruction Sets with Bruno Cardoso Lopes

Rob and Jason are joined by Bruno Cardoso Lopes. They first discuss an update to Mesonbuild and CppCon going virtual. Then they talk about Bruno's work on Clang including clang modules and work on a pattern matching implementation. News * Meson Release Notes 0.55 * Writing an LLVM Optimization * CppCon Going Virtual Links * SHRINK: Reducing the ISA complexity via instruction recycling * SPARC16: A New Compression Approach for the SPARC Architecture * P1247R0 - Disabling static destructors Sponsors * Clang Power Tools

Hyperion Renderer with Yining Karl Li and David Adler

Rob and Jason are joined by Yining Karl Li and David Adler from Disney Animation Studios. They first discuss C++ conformance changes in Visual Studio 2019. Then Karl and David talk about the Hyperion Renderer and more. News * C++20 Features and Fixes in VS 2019 16.1 through 16.6 * JSExport: C++ in the browser made easy * Magnum 2020.06 released * Cpp On Sea: Full schedule, Nico Josuttis Keynote and Remo as a platform Links * Disney's Hyperion Renderer * Sorted Deferred Shading for Production Path Tracing * The Design and Evolution of Disney’s Hyperion Renderer * VFX Reference Platform Sponsors * Clang Power Tools

SYCL 2020 with Michael Wong

Rob and Jason are joined by Michael Wong from CodePlay. They first discuss GCC 11 changing its default dialect to C++17 and polymorphic allocators. Then Michael shares an announcement of a new version of SYCL that was just released. And shares information about the multiple standards groups he is a member or chair of. News * GCC 11: Change the default dialect to C++17 * Build Bench * Polymorphic Allocators, std::vector Growth and Hacking Links * SYCL * P2000 * Michael Wong "Writing Safety Critical Automotive C++ Software for High Performance AI Hardware:" * CppCon 2016: Gordon Brown & Michael Wong "Towards Heterogeneous Programming in C++" Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Read the article "Checking the GCC 10 Compiler with PVS-Studio"covering 10 heroically found errors despite the great number of macros in the GCC code.

Azure IoT with Tara Walker

Rob and Jason are joined by Tara Walker from Microsoft. They first discuss the results of JetBrains C++ ecosystem survey and an article about bugs in Command & Conquer. Then Tara tells Rob and Jason all about Azure IoT, including the announcement of a new C++ SDK for embedded MCUs. News * The Developer Ecosystem in 2020: How C++ is Doing * The Code of the Command & Conquer Game: Bugs From the 90's. Volume one * Compile-time Merge Sort [C++] Links * Azure SDK for Embedded C * Azure IoT Hub * Paho * TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Read the article "Checking the GCC 10 Compiler with PVS-Studio"covering 10 heroically found errors despite the great number of macros in the GCC code.

Modules Present and Future with Gabriel Dos Reis

Rob and Jason are joined by Gabriel Dos Reis from Microsoft. They first discuss the recent articles about Microsoft switching from C++ to Rust and let Gaby set the record straight. Then Gaby talks about the final state of Modules, how Microsoft is using them internally, and Gaby's plans for the future of Modules and much more. News * r/cpp comments on Web Assembly Use Cases * Microsoft: Rust is the Industry's 'Best Chance' at Safe Systems Programming * Why is std implementation so damn ugly * Italian C++ Conference 2020 Videos Links * Practical C++20 Modules and the future of tooling around C++ Modules with Cameron DaCamara * Peeking Safely at a Table with Concepts with Gabriel Dos Reis * CppCon 2019: Gabriel Dos Reis "Programming with C++ Modules: Guide for the Working" * CPPP 2019 - C++ Modules: What You Should Know - Gabriel Dos Reis Sponsors * Clang Power Tools * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Web Assembly with Ben Smith

Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Smith from Google, chair of the Web Assembly working group. They first discuss a blog post on how to ask for C++ coding help, conference news and a discussion on C++ IDEs and tools. Then Ben talks to them about the current state of Web Assembly, the future and alternative uses for Web Assembly like Virtual Machines and Emulators. News * Toml++ v1.3.0 released * How to ask for C++ coding help * C++ On Sea Updates * Huge discussion on C++ IDEs and editing tools Links * Web Assembly * Wasmtime * Wasmer * CppCon 2019: Ben Smith "Applied WebAssembly: Compiling and Running C++ in Your Web Browser" * A Talk Near the Future of Python (a.k.a., Dave live-codes a WebAssembly Interpreter) Sponsors * Clang Power Tools * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Move Semantics with Nico Josuttis

Rob and Jason are joined by author and ISO committee member Nico Josuttis. They first discuss a blog post on faster integer parsing and CppCon registration opening up. Then they talk to Nico about the book he is currently finishing on C++ Move Semantics and other books he's written in the past. They also discuss proposals that Nico has worked on for the ISO committee. News * Black Lives Matter * ACLU * 15 Tech Organizations Actively Supporting Black Coders * Black Tech for Black Lives * Faster integer parsing * Bjarna AMA * CppCon Registration Open Links * C++ Move Semantics - The Complete Guide * CppCon 2019: Nicolai Josuttis "When C++ Style Guides Contradict" * p0660 - Stop Tokens and a Joining Thread * The C++ Standard Library * C++ Templates - The Complete Guide * C++17 - The Complete Guide Sponsors * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Rider for Unreal Engine with Anastasia Kazakova

Rob and Jason are joined by Anastasia Kazakova. They first discuss news from Herb Sutter that the November ISO meeting has been postponed and a new Visual Studio preview release. Then they talk to Anastasia Kazakova from JetBrains about Rider for Unreal Engine and other updates to CLion and Resharper for C++ as well as information about the C++ ecosystem. News * MAME Emulation Project * VS 2019 16.7 Preview 1 * New York ISO C++ meeting is postponed * Visual Leak Detector Links * Rider for Unreal Engine * Blog posts with FAQ and some details on Rider for UE * CLion turns 5, birthday tale from Phil Nash * CLion Makefiles prototype * JetBrains turned 20, main news Sponsors * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Catch2 and std::random with Martin Hořeňovský

Rob and Jason are joined by Martin Hořeňovský. They first discuss some ISO papers and Jason learning Rust from his cousin Jonathan. Then Martin tells them about his work maintaining Catch 2, including his plans for future updates of the unit testing library. Martin also talks about SAT solvers and problems with std::random. News * 2020-05 Standards mailing * Jonathan Teach Jason Rust!) * C++ Events affected by Coronavirus Links * Catch2 * CppCon 2019: Martin Hořeňovský "Solve Hard Problems Quickly Using SAT Solvers" * P2058 Make std::random_device Less Inscrutable * P2059 Make Pseudo-random Numbers Portable * P2060 Make Random Number Engines Seedable Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Read the article "Checking the GCC 10 Compiler with PVS-Studio"covering 10 heroically found errors despite the great number of macros in the GCC code. * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during chec…

Physical Units with Mateusz Pusz

Rob and Jason are joined by Mateusz Pusz. They first discuss the 10.1 update of GCC and an article from Raymond Chen. Then they talk to Mateusz about his physical units library and his efforts to get physical units into the standard. News * Worldwide C++ user groups events * C++ Community events * GCC 10.1 Released * The C++ preprocessor doesn't understand anything about C++, and certainly not templates Links * mp-units * A C++ Approach to Physical Units (CppCon talk) * P1935: A C++ Approach to Physical Units * Advanced Modern C++ Training * Meeting C++ Trainings Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Read the article "Checking the GCC 10 Compiler with PVS-Studio"covering 10 heroically found errors despite the great number of macros in the GCC code. * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

MSVC's STL and vcpkg with Billy O'Neal

Rob and Jason are joined by Billy O'Neal from Microsoft. They first discuss some news from various conferences and user groups that are going online. Then they talk to Billy O'Neal from Microsoft's Visual C++ team. He tells them how he joined the team and some of the projects he's worked on, including some recent work on vcpkg. News * Modules the beginner's guide - Daniela Engert - Meeting C++ 2019 * C++ London goes online * We're welcoming you to CoreCpp * C++ On Sea On Line * Useful tools for checking and fixing C/C++ code Links * Envoy Proxy * Microsoft STL Changelog * Vcpkg 2020.04 Update and Product Roadmap * binskim Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Read the article "Checking the GCC 10 Compiler with PVS-Studio"covering 10 heroically found errors despite the great number of macros in the GCC code. * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% d…

Envoy Proxy with Matt Klein

Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Klein from Lyft. They first discuss an update to Microsoft's Guidelines Support Library with changes to span. Then they talk to Matt Klein who dicusses Envoy Proxy and how it's used in Cloud Native applications. News * Tweet re: SPMD Lambdas * CppCon 2020 Call for Submissions * GSL 3.0.0 Release Links * Envoy Proxy * Envoy Proxy on GitHub Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Read the article "Checking the GCC 10 Compiler with PVS-Studio"covering 10 heroically found errors despite the great number of macros in the GCC code. * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Postmodern C++ Revisited with Tony van Eerd

Rob and Jason are joined by Tony Van Eerd. They first discuss some conference news, including Microsoft's upcoming Pure Virtual C++ Conference. Then Tony Van Eerd joins them to discuss his Postmodern C++ talk, and some of his work on the C++ standards committee. News * Sign up for Pure Virtual C++ Conference * ModernCppStarter * Announcing Meeting C++ 2020! Links * Tony van Eerd: Postmodern C++ * p1085R0 Should Span be Regular? Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2 * Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Rosetta with Andrew Leaver-Fay and Jack Maguire

Rob and Jason are joined by Andrew Leaver-Fay from UNC and Jack Maguire from Menten AI. They first discuss a proposal to update both C and C++ and create a unified common core for the languages. Then they talk to Andrew and Jack about Rosetta, a C++ protein modeling library, it's history being ported from Fortran and some of its use cases such as creating HIV vaccines. News * C2x Proposal: A Common C/C++ Core * Clion AMA Session on May 7 * Third Annual C++ Foundation Developer Survey "Lite" Links * Rosetta Commons - Software * Menten AI * Designing Peptides on a Quantum Computer * Rosetta@home * fold.it Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2

Making Nu Languages with Jonathan Turner

Rob and Jason are joined by Jonathan Turner. They first discuss updates to {fmt} and SourceTrail. Then they talk to Jonathan Turner about some of the languages he's worked on; including Chaiscript with Jason, Typescript at Microsoft and Rust at Mozilla. They then talk about his current project: NuShell. News * Stopping A Laser Beam in Mid-Air * Stopping a laser beam in mid-air with Tom Scott (BTS) * {fmt} 6.2 released * Sourcetrail 2020.1 * When is *x also &x Links * Nushell * Typescript * Rust * Growing TypeScript and Rust Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2

Intro to Modules with Daniela Engert

Rob and Jason are joined by Daniela Engert. They first discuss a blog post on a new static analyzer feature in GCC 10 and Jason's plans to port the classic DOOM game to C++. Then Daniela gives Jason and Rob an introduction to Modules in C++20. News * Static analysis in GCC 10 * C++ Annotations v11.4.0 * Jason's live Doom port to C++ Friday morning Links * Modules: The Beginner's Guide Slides * Socializing with {fmt} - Daniela Engert - Meeting C++ 2018 Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2

C++ Build Insights with Kevin Cadieux and Sy Brand

Rob and Jason are joined by Kevin Cadieux and Sy Brand. They first discuss a blog post on Memory Access Patterns and the Clang 10 release. Then they talk about C++ Build Insights, Kevin tells us how vcperf can be used to find places where build performance can be improved in your code. Sy then goes over some of the other recent updates to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. News * Vector of Objects vs Vector of Pointers and Memory Access Patterns * Post-Prague Mailing * Clang 10.0.0 Released Links * Download Visual Studio * Introducing C++ Build Insights * Analyze your builds programmatically with the C++ Build Insights SDK * Have full integration of Build Insights within Visual Studio Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2

Meson and the Meson Manual with Jussi Pakkanen

Rob and Jason are joined by Jussi Pakkanen. They first discuss the ongoing effects that the Corona Virus is having on the C++ Community. Then they talk to Jussi Pakkanen who gives them an update on what's changed in Mesonbuild since he was first on show 201 episodes earlier. Jussi also shares some info about the Meson Manual which is available as an e-book. News * C++ Events affected by Corona Virus * asm-dom * Deleaker review Links * The Meson Build System * The Meson Manual use coupon code: cppcast2020 * "Behind (and under) the scenes of the Meson build system" - Jussi Pakkanen (LCA 2020) Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2

PVS-Studio Static Analysis with Yuri Minaev

Rob and Jason are joined by Yuri Minaev from PVS-Studio. They first discuss a blog posts on ISO's recent decision not to break the C++ ABI in C++23 and getting rid of volatile in the Qt codebase. Then they talk to Yuri Minaev, one of the developers at PVS Studio working on the static analyzer. They discuss some of the forms of analysis that the tool excels at and how it's changed the way Yuri programs. News * HOly Grail of Logging * The Day the Standard Library Died * The Performance Benefits of Final Classes * Getting rid of 'volatile' in (some of) Qt Links * Yuri Minaev Blog Posts Sponsors * PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2

Packs and Pipelines with Barry Revzin

Rob and Jason are joined by Barry Revzin. They first discuss a blog post about how to declare a class's data members and methods. They then discuss some of his contributions to C++20 including some necessary fixes to spaceship operator, and some proposals he is working on for C++23 including pack declaration and a new pipe operator. News * Announcing TCMalloc * How I Declare my class and why * Quill Asynchronous Low Latency Logging Library * Are you ready for C++Now? Links * P1061R1 Structured Bindings can introduce a Pack * P1185R1 * P1858R1 Generalized pack declaration and usage * P2011R0 A pipeline-rewrite operator Sponsors * Backtrace * Software Crash Management for Embedded Devices and IOT Projects * Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

Maintaining QtCore with Thiago Macieira

Rob and Jason are joined by Thiago Macieira from Intel. They first talk about Visual Studio's Qt support, and articles from Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter. They then talk about Thiago's history with Qt, including his former role as Qt Release Manager and his contributions to QtCore, QtNetwork and more. News * Jason's C++ Training Courses in Stuttgart * Fuchsia Programming Language Policy * Qt to support Visual Studio Linux projects * Bjarne Stroustrup on C++20's significance * Move, simply Links * New Features in Qt 5.15 * Clear Linux Project Sponsors * Backtrace * Software Crash Management for Embedded Devices and IOT Projects * Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

Prague Trip Report with Hana Dusíková

Rob and Jason are joined by Hana Dusikova from Avast. They talk about the final changes that went into the C++20 draft which should become the official new standard in 3 or 4 months. They also discuss the direction of C++23 and some of the papers that were proposed in Prague. News * C++20 is here! * 2020-02 Prague ISO C++ Committee Trip Report —  C++20 is Done! Links * To boldly suggest an overall plan for C++23 * ABI - Now or Never * Epochs: a backward-compatible language evolution mechanism * std::embed Sponsors * Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license * Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2

C++ on a Watch with Brad Larson

Rob and Jason are joined by Brad Larson from Garmin. They first talk about some of the papers headed to this week's ISO C++ meeting in Prague. Then they talk about Brad's work at Garmin running C and C++ code on watches and other embedded devices. News * Developer Ecosystem Survey * Five Awesome C++ Papers for the Prague ISO Meeting * Core C++ Announcement Links * Garmin Connect IQ SDK Sponsors * Write the hashtag #cppcast when requesting the license here * One Day from PVS-Studio User Support

Large Scale C++ with John Lakos

Rob and Jason are joined by author John Lakos. They first talk about a funny C++ themed freestyle rap video commissioned by Victor Zverovich and a C++20 reference card produced by Bartlomiej Filipek. Then John discusses his new book, Large Scale C++ Volume I: Process and Architecture. In addition to discussing the book John shares some of his thoughts on allocators, modules, move semantics and contracts. News * Jason's C++ Training Courses in Stuttgart * Freestyle C++ Rap for the next meeting * C++20 Reference card Links * Large-Scale C++ Volume I: Process and Architecture * CppCon 2019: John Lakos "Value Proposition: Allocator-Aware (AA) Software" * C++Now 2019: John Lakos "Value Proposition: Allocator-Aware (AA) Software" * CppCon 2018: John Lakos "C++ Modules and Large-Scale Development" * Local (Arena) Memory Allocators Part 1 - John Lakos - Meeting C++ 2017 * Local (Arena) Allocators Part II - John Lakos - Meeting C++ 2017 * CppCon 2019: Alisdair Meredith,…

WxWidgets with Vadim Zeitlin

Rob and Jason are joined by Vadim Zeitlin one of the maintainers of WxWidgets. They first talk about a blog post describing a fantastic bug and another responding to the changes announced by Qt. Then Vadim tells them about how he got involved contributing to WxWidgets, the cross platform C++ GUI library. News * Fantastic Bugs and Where to Find Them * C++ Modules conformance improvements with MSVC in VS 2019 16.5 * Concepts merged to clang trunk * About Qt Offering Changes 2020 Links * WxWidgets * WxWidgets on GitHub Sponsors * Backtrace * Software Crash Management for Embedded Devices and IOT Projects * Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

Circle with Sean Baxter

Rob and Jason are joined by Sean Baxter. They first talk about a blog post and some papers headed for the upcoming ISO meeting in Prague. Then they discuss Circle, the compiler and language extension for C++17. News * The Hunt for the Fastest Zero * 2D Graphics: A Brief Review * C++ Standards Committee Papers pre-Prague mailing Links * Circle * Circle on GitHub * P2062 The Circle Meta-model Sponsors * Write the hashtag #cppcast when requesting the license here * One Day from PVS-Studio User Support

Conference Organizing with Phil Nash, Adi Shavit and Fred Tingaud

Rob and Jason are joined by Phil Nash, Adi Shavit and Fred Tingaud. They talk with the three meetup and conference organizers about their motivations for launching new C++ conferences last year and discuss some of the work involved in doing so. News * CppCon 2019: Saar Raz "How to Implement Your First Compiler Feature: The Story of Concepts in Clang" * The New ConanCenter Improves Search and Discovery * C++ Inliner Improvements: The Zipliner * Meeting C++ Community Survey Links * C++ on Sea * Core C++ Conference * CPPP 2020 Sponsors * Write the hashtag #cppcast when requesting the license here * One Day from PVS-Studio User Support

Clang Hacking with Saar Raz

Rob and Jason are joined by Saar Raz. They first discuss blog posts covering a new project management tool for C++ and another about improving Clang support for large integer arrays. Then they talk to Saar Raz about his work to add Concepts support to the Clang compiler. Saar Raz is a tech and C++ enthusiast from Israel, Saar programs in C++ mostly in his free time. In late 2017, he volunteered to implement C++20 Concepts in the Clang compiler, and has been working on that since, now in the process of merging the work into mainline clang. Other than C++ and tech, Saar also likes graphic design and playing video games. News * A new decade a new tool * Waiting for std::embed: Very large arrays in clang * C++ Move Semantics * Core C++: May 26-27, 2020 Links * Clang Concepts Repo * Compiler Explorer with Clang Concepts * Hack && Tell Boston * CppCon 2019: Saar Raz "C++20 Concepts: A Day in the Life" * CppCon 2019: Saar Raz "How to Implement Your First Compiler Fe…

Rob and Jason discuss C++ news and the new year after the Holiday season. News * The Merger of MISRA C++ and AUTOSAR C++ * Python Interpreter in GNU Debugger * Holiday fun with template and template * Tabulate * Meeting C++ 2019 Talks * Using std::cpp call for papers * C++ Russia call for proposals * C++Now call for proposals * Core Hard call for proposals * Qt World Summit call * CPPP all for papers * C++Weekly ep 200, Christmas Class 2019 Links * @robwirving * @lefticus Sponsors * Backtrace * Software Crash Management for Embedded Devices and IOT Projects * Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes * JetBrains

OpenVDB with Ken Museth

Rob and Jason are joined by Ken Museth the CEO of Voxel Tech. They first discuss a blog post about std::embed and the new version of Qt that was just released. Then they talk to Ken Museth about OpenVDB a C++ library for working with volumetric data used in Visual Effects, Scientific Simulations and more. Ken Museth is CEO and co-founder of Voxel Tech which contracts to tech companies primarily in the movie and aerospace industries. Ken currently does contract work for SpaceX and Weta Digital. Previously he was director of R&D and Senior Principal Engineer at Dreamworks Animation. He was also a professor in computer graphics at Linkoping University and a visiting faculty member and research scientist at Caltech. He worked on trajectory design for the Genesis space mission at NASA's JPL and in 2015 received an Academy Award for the development of OpenVDB. News * Going Full Circle on Embed in C++ * Qt 5.14 released * C++Now 2020 Accepting Student/Volunteer Applications…

Difficult Bugs with Satabdi Das

Rob and Jason are joined by Satabdi Das. They first discuss a new Visual Studio update and an article written by Bjarne Stroustrup. Then Satabdi talks about debugging and why it's beneficial to write or give conference talks on difficult to fix bugs, she also talks about her work on a hardware emulator and static analyzers. Satabdi has over 10 years of experience in C++. Currently she is working on a cloud based high performance file system in AWS. She has previously worked on an emulator, parser and static analyzer. She is also one of the co-founders of Boston Hack && Tell, a fun meetup for programmers to showcase their work. Long back she contributed to Gnome as an Outreachy intern. And not so long back she spent three months at Recurse Center learning assembly, debugger internals and distributed systems. News * Visual Studio 2019 16.4.0 Released * How can you be so certain? Bjarne Stroustrup * Indicators: Activity Indicators for Modern C++ Links * CppCon 2019: Sa…

Cache Friendliness with Björn Fahller

Rob and Jason are joined by Björn Fahller. They first discuss articles on the C++ ABI and a blog post on performance analysis. Then Björn talks about cache friendliness, C++ contracts and type safety. Björn works for Net Insight, where he wears many hats, including mentor trainer, troubleshooter, networking protocol designer, software architect, and programmer, and he is continuously pushing the codebase to increasingly modern C++. Programming has been his full-time profession since graduating from University in 1994, mostly writing embedded software for networking equipment. Björn first experienced programming when home computers be came popular in the early 80s, and it quickly became a permanent interest of his. Occasionally Björn has been seen tinkering with unorthodox software constructs, pondering "what can be done with this?" He lives in Stockholm. News * C++20 and ReSharper C++ * Clang-format tanks performance * Some intricacies of ABI stability Links * Progr…

The C++ ABI with Titus Winters

Rob and Jason are joined by Titus Winters from Google. They first discuss some news of C++ tools, including Sourcetrail going open source and C++ Build Insights for Visual Studio. Then Titus goes into what the C++ ABI is, what breaking the ABI means, and whether or not we should consider breaking the ABI in future versions of C++. Titus also shares some a preview of his upcoming book 'Software Engineering at Google.' Titus Winters Titus is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, where he has worked since 2010. Today, he is the chair of the subcommittee for the design of the C++ standard library. At Google, he is the library lead for Google’s C++ codebase: 250 million lines of code that will be edited by 12K distinct engineers in a month. For the last 9 years, Titus and his teams have been organizing, maintaining, and evolving the foundational components of Google’s C++ codebase using modern automation and tooling. Along the way he has started several Google projects that are…

Belfast Trip Report with Timur Doumler

Rob and Jason are joined by Timur Doumler. They discuss some of the news that occurred at the C++ ISO meeting in Belfast where the committee responded to some of the National Body comments on the C++20 draft. Timur also goes over some of his proposals and the progress on adding an Audio API to C++. News * Maryland C++ User Group * 2019-11 Belfast ISO C++ Committee Trip Report * p0593r2 - Implicit creation of objects for low-level object manipulation * Trip Report: Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting (Belfast) Links * CppCon 2019: Timur Doumler "Type punning in modern C++" * Timur Doumler — Initialisation in modern C++ * CppCon 2018: Timur Doumler "Can I has grammar?" * p1386 - A Standard Audio API for C++:Motivation, Scope, and Basic Design * p1774 - Portable optimisation hints * p1912 Interconvertible object representations Sponsors * Write the hashtag #cppcast when requesting the license here * One Day from PVS-Studio User Support * JetBrains

CRTP and Israel joining the C++ ISO with Inbal Levi

Rob and Jason are joined by Inbal Levi. They first discuss some news including a new C++20 unit testing framework and Microsoft bringing ASAN to Visual Studio. Then Inbal talks about the Curiously Recurring Template Pattern and her efforts to start an Israel National Body for the C++ ISO Committee. Inbal Levi is a C++ enthusiast. She's an embedded software developer with a passion for high performance, working on real-time Linux based systems. She also makes it a habit to dive into new OS projects whenever she can. Inbal lives in Tel Aviv and has recently traveled to Denver, to give a talk at the Back to basics track at CppCon, hoping to infect newcomers with her passion for cpp. Inbal is part of the Israeli c++ developers community, which makes its first steps in the international cpp world. In addition, she is also part of the organizing committee for the CoreCpp2020 conference, and actively trying to bring new people into cpp world. News * Doubling the speed of std::uniformintd…

Unicode for C++23 with JeanHeyd Meneide

Rob and Jason are joined by JeanHeyd Meneide. They first discuss an ISO paper about the pros and cons of introducing ABI breaking changes into the C++ standard. Then JeanHeyd talks about the talk he gave at CppCon and his efforts to get unicode support into C++23. JeanHeyd also gives an update on his std::embed proposal. JeanHeyd "ThePhD" is a student at Columbia University in New York. Most of their programming is for fun and as a hobby, even if their largest open-source contribution -- sol2 -- is used across many industries. They are currently working towards earning their own nickname, climbing the academic ladder while spending as much time as possible contributing to C++ standardization and development. Their newest and biggest project is Unicode for C++. They very much love dogs and hopes to have their own in a year or so. They also like TWRP's "Feels Pretty Good" from the album Together Through Time. News * ABI Now or Never * Eliminating the Static Overhead of Ranges…

Becoming involved with the C++ committee with Nevin :-) Liber

Rob and Jason are joined by Nevin Liber from Argonne National Lab. They first discuss a blog post discussing issues implementing small buffer optimizations in a constexpr context. Then they talk with Nevin about how he got involved with the ISO C++ committee and some of the proposals he's worked on. Nevin ":-)" Liber is a computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, a C++ Committee member and a veteran C++ developer. He first discovered the language over three decades ago while at Bell Labs when a friend called and asked, “What do you know about C++? You folks invented it!” His professional career has taken him across various industries and platforms: big data, low-latency, operating systems, embedded systems, telephony and now exascale computing, just to name a few. He spends much of his time pushing his peers, colleagues and friends to use modern C++ constructs along the way. Looking to learn more about the language, he got involved with the C++ Committ…

Election Security with Patricia Aas

Rob and Jason are joined by Patricia Aas from TurtleSec. They first discuss blog posts on module linkage and Visual Studio integration of clang tidy. Patricia then talks about her recent efforts to highlight the work of female engineer role models. Lastly they discuss Patricia's efforts to improve election security in her own country and the concept of software independence with election software. Patricia Aas has spoken at conferences on subjects ranging from Sandboxing in Chromium to Vulnerabilities in C++. She has taught a range of subjects in Computer Science at the University of Oslo and is currently teaching "Intro to C on Linux" at a college in Oslo. She has a masters degree in Computer Science and 14 years professional experience as a programmer, most of that time programming in C++. During that time she has worked in codebases with a high focus on security: two browsers (Opera and Vivaldi) and embedded Cisco telepresence systems. Currently she works as a trainer and consulta…

Commodore 64 and Tilt Five AR with Jeri Ellsworth

Rob and Jason are joined by Jeri Ellsworth the CEO of Tilt Five. Jeri and Jason first geek out about the Commodore 64 with Jeri telling her story of building the C64 Direct-to-TV. Then she tells us about her new companies product the Tilt Five AR headset which is built with the tabletop gamer in mind and has SDKs for C++ and Unity. Jeri Janet Ellsworth is an American entrepreneur and an autodidact computer chip designer and inventor. She gained fame in 2004 for creating a complete Commodore 64 system on a chip housed within a joystick, called C64 Direct-to-TV. That "computer in a joystick" runs 30 video games from the early 1980s, and at peak, sold over 70,000 units in a single day via the QVC shopping channel. In September 2019 Jeri Ellsworth initiated a Kickstarter for a new device based on the same principles of the castAR, called Tilt Five. Links * C64 Direct-to-TV * Tilt Five * Kickstarter - Tilt Five: Holographic Tabletop Gaming * Update 1 - Tilt Five…

Vehicle Control Software with Philipp Schrader

Rob and Jason are joined by Philipp Schrader. They first discuss some post CppCon news and the LLVM 9.0 release. Then Phil talks about the work he's doing at Peleton Technology to enable the 'platooning' of trucks with software written in C++. Phil started working in consulting primarily as a C programmer. Very quickly he found himself being tempted by the famous "object-oriented" programming language called C++. He started volunteering at a local high-school robotics program where they used C++ to make their robots competitive. Hooked on C++ he found Peloton Technology where he had the chance to learn and explore what C++ is capable of. He's still exploring :) Links * CppCon 2019 Keynotes * CppCon 2019 Trip Report * LLVM 9.0.0 Release Sponsors * Enter #cppcast in the Message field and get a month-license instead of 7-day license * PVS-Studio * PVS-Studio Twitter * JetBrains

Visual C++ Announcements at CppCon 2019

Rob and Jason are joined by Marian Luparu, Sy Brand and Stephan T Lavavej in this special episode recorded at CppCon. They discuss some of the big announcements made by the Visual C++ team at CppCon. Including the open sourcing of MSVC's STL, adding ASAN support to Visual Studio, C++17 conformance and much more. Links * Open Sourcing MSVC’s STL * Intelligent Productivity and Collaboration, from Anywhere * Sign up for Private Preview of Visual Studio Cloud Environments * Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2019 Sponsors * Enter #cppcast in the Message field and get a month-license instead of 7-day license * PVS-Studio * PVS-Studio Twitter * JetBrains

Provable Functions at CppCon 2019 with Lisa Lippincott

Rob and Jason are joined by Lisa Lippincott in this special episode recorded at CppCon. They first discuss some of the conference highlights and favorite talks so far. Then Lisa gives an overview of her "Truth of a Procedure" talk. Later they talk about Lisa's work on the ISO committee, her thoughts on Contracts and much more. Lisa Lippincott designed the software architectures of Tanium and BigFix, two systems for managing large fleets of computers. She's also a language nerd, and has contributed to arcane parts of the C++ standard. In her spare time, she studies mathematical logic, and wants to make computer-checked proofs of correctness a routine part of programming. Links * C++Now 2019: Lisa Lippincott "The Truth of a Procedure" * C++Now 2018: Lisa Lippincott "The Shape of a Program" * Layout-compatibility and Pointer-interconvertibility Traits * Signed Integers are Two's Complement Sponsors * Backtrace * Announcing Visual Studio Extension - I…

C++ Extensions with Miro Knejp

Rob and Jason are joined by Miro Knejp. They first discuss a blog post from Tanker covering their strategy to successfully use C++ for cross-platform mobile development. Then Miro gives them a preview of his upcoming CppCon talk and tells us about some of the C++ extensions that are out there and probably won't ever be standardized. Miro wrote his first line of C++ code in 1997 at the age of 12, and it has been his programming language of choice ever since. He’s especially passionate about low-level programming, assembly, 3D graphics, and games engineering. Miro holds a Master’s degrees in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich. He has worked on projects ranging from designing 3D rendering libraries to building airport self-boarding control systems. He currently works as freelancer and trainer, with the goal of creating his own video game one day. News * Reacting to Dropbox: another take on cross-platform C++ development * Tool Time 2019 * Ca…

Professional CMake with Craig Scott

Rob and Jason are joined by Craig Scott. They first discuss a recent blog post from PVS-Studio analyzing some bugs in CMake. Then Craig talks about how he got involved in CMake development, and his e-book 'Professional CMake: A Practical Guide.' Craig is a CMake co-maintainer and author of the book ["Professional CMake: A Practical Guide"](https://crascit.com/professional-cmake/). He has been developing cross-platform C++ software since 2001, targeting most major platforms and working on large scale frameworks, scientific algorithm development, Qt GUI applications, backend services and embedded devices. He has been fortunate enough to work in a range of settings including government research, consumer electronics, mid-size enterprise and a startup. He derives unreasonable levels of satisfaction from automating software build and CI processes, making them more efficient, more robust and easier for developers to use. News * CMake: the Case when the Project's Quality is Unforgivable…

C++ Epochs with Vittorio Romeo

Rob and Jason are joined by Vittorio Romeo from Bloomberg. They first discuss some changes in the recent Visual Studio update for cross platform linux development, and some post-Cologne ISO developments. Then Vittorio goes into more detail on his proposal for C++ epochs, which could allow the language to more easily introduce breaking changes in the future. Vittorio Romeo has been a Software Engineer at Bloomberg for more than 3 years, working on mission-critical company C++ infrastructure and providing Modern C++ training to hundreds of fellow employees. He began programming around the age of 8 and quickly became a C++ enthusiast. Vittorio created several open-source C++ libraries and games, published many video courses and tutorials, and actively participates in the ISO C++ standardization process. He is also an active member of the C++ community and has an ardent desire to share his knowledge and learn from others. When he’s not writing code, Vittorio enjoys weightlifting and f…

AWS Lambda with Marco Magdy

Rob and Jason are joined by Marco Magdy from Amazon. They first discuss Dropbox's announcement of abandoning their C++ mobile platform strategy in favor of Swift and Kotlin. Then Marco goes over what AWS Lambda is, what you can do with it and some of the challenges he faced bringing C++ support to AWS Lambda. Marco is a senior software engineer who has been working at AWS for the past four years. He has been programming in C++ on/off since 2001. Before joining Amazon, Marco worked at a few smaller companies building scalable web applications using .NET, GWT and C++. News * The (not so) hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android * Trip report: July 2019 ISO C++ committee meeting, Cologne, Germany Links * Introducing the C++ Lambda Runtime * The Design of the C++ Runtime for AWS Lambda * C++ implementation of the AWS Lambda runtime Sponsors * Backtrace * Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

mdspan and /r/cpp with Bryce Adelstein Lelbach

Rob and Jason are joined by Bryce Adelstein Lelbach. They discuss the mdspan proposal that first introduced Bryce to the C++ ISO committee. They also discuss Bryce's role as moderator for the /r/cpp subreddit and talk about the upcoming CppCon 2019 conference. Bryce Adelstein Lelbach Bryce Adelstein Lelbach has spent nearly a decade developing libraries in C++. Bryce is passionate about C++ evolution and is one of the leaders of the C++ community. He is an officer of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21, the C++ Standards Committee. Bryce chairs both the C++ Committee's Tooling Study Group (SG15) and Library Evolution Incubator (SG18). He is the program chair for the C++Now and CppCon conferences, and the chief organizer of the Bay Area C++ User Group. On the C++ Committee, he has personally worked on the C++17 parallel algorithms, executors, futures, senders/receivers, multidimensional arrays, and modules. Bryce works at NVIDIA, where he leads the CUDA C++ core libraries team. He is one of the…

Secure Coding with Matt Butler

Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Butler to discuss his perspective on the ISO Cologne meeting and Secure Coding. Matthew Butler is a security researcher who has been using C++ professionally since 1990. He has spent the past three decades as a systems architect and software engineer developing systems for network security, law enforcement and national defense. He primarily works in signals intelligence and security on platforms ranging from embedded micro-controllers to FPGAs to large-scale, real-time platforms. He is on the staff of both CppCon and C++Now as well as a member of the C++ Standards Committee. He spends most of his time in EWG, SG12 (Undefined Behavior and Vulnerabilities), SG14 (Low Latency) and, now, SG21 (Contracts). He is also a member of WG23 (Programming Language Vulnerabilities). He prefers the role of predator when dealing with hackers and lives in the Rocky Mountains with his wife and daughter. News * What happened to C++20 Contracts? * Fixing C++ wit…

Approval Tests with Clare Macrae

Rob and Jason are joined by Clare Macrae to discuss Approval Tests and how they can be used to quickly test legacy C++ code. Clare is an independent consultant, helping teams streamline their work with legacy and hard-to-test C++ and Qt code. She has worked in software development for over 30 years, and in C++ for 20 years. Since 2017, she has used her spare time to work remotely with Llewellyn Falco on ApprovalTests.cpp, to radically simplify testing of legacy code. She has enjoyed this so much that she recently went independent, to focus even more on helping others to work more easily with legacy code. Clare was until recently a Principal Scientific Software Engineer at Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. She is the original author of their popular 3D crystal structure visualisation program Mercury. News * Cmake 3.15 available * Clang/LLVM Support for MSBuild Projects * LEAF light-weight error-handling lib seeking Boost review manager Clare Macrae * @ClareMacra…

Cologne Trip Report with Botond Ballo and Tom Honermann

Rob and Jason are joined by Botond Ballo and Tom Honermann to discuss what features were added and removed from the C++20 draft paper at the ISO meeting in Cologne. Botond Ballo is a software engineer at Mozilla, where he has been working on the Firefox web browser's rendering engine for 6 years. He's been attending C++ standards meetings for about the same time, and blogging about them to keep the C++ user community informed about standardization progress. In the committee, his interests include general language evolution, reflection, and tooling. Botond likes to hack on IDEs and other developer tools in his spare time. Offline, you might spot him climbing rocks or reading fantasy novels. Tom Honermann is a software engineer at Synopsys where he has been working on the Coverity static analyzer for the past 8 years. His first C++ standard committee meeting was Lenexa in 2015. He currently chairs the SG16 text and Unicode study group and participates in the SG2 modules, SG13 HM…

GitKraken with Tyler Ang-Wanek

Rob and Jason are joined by Tyler Ang-Wanek to discuss leveraging C++ in an ElectronJS app like GitKraken. Tyler Ang-Wanek has been developing software professionally for the past 3.5 years. He works as a senior developer at Axosoft, on the GitKraken team. His work primarily shifts among developing native node modules for use in GitKraken, architectural work for code and APIs around GitKraken, and developing new features for GitKraken. He is the creator of the node module Node Sentinel File Watcher (NSFW), a native file watcher written for GitKraken that has made its way into Atom and VSCode. One of his major accomplishments includes taking leadership of the open source native node module NodeGit. After much hard work on the NodeGit repo and within the community, Tyler joined the leadership group for LibGit2. News * Expressive C++ Template Metaprogramming * Bring your C++ Code to the Web * Voting results for Meeting C++ 2019 Tyler Ang-Wanek * @twwanek Links * GitKra…

CMake and VTK with Robert Maynard

Rob and Jason are joined by Robert Maynard from Kitware to discuss CMake and VTK. Robert Maynard is a principal engineer at Kitware and spends most of his time as a primary developer of VTK-m. VTK-m is a HPC toolkit of scientific visualization algorithms for highly concurrent processor and accelerator architectures. It uses a fine-grained concurrency model for data analysis and visualization algorithms allowing for seamless execution on GPU's or many-core CPUs. When not working on VTK-m, Robert is either; writing CMake code, teaching CMake, or working to improve CMake. News * In support of P1485 "Better keywords for coroutines" * The power of Hidden Friends in C++ * CppCon Poster Submissions 2019 * To Save The Science Poster, Researchers Want To Kill It And Start Over Robert Maynard * @robertjmaynard Links * CMake * CMake 3.15 Release Notes * VTK Sponsors * PVS-Studio Facebook * PVS-Studio Telegram * PVS-Studio Twitter Hosts * @robwirving…

Functional Programming in C++ with Ivan Čukić

Rob and Jason are joined by Ivan Čukić to discuss his book on Functional Programming with C++. Ivan Čukić is the author of "Functional Programming in C++" published by Manning. He is one of the core developers of KDE, the largest free/libre open source C++ project. He is also teaching modern C++ techniques and functional programming at the Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade and has been using C++ for more than 20 years. He has been researching functional programming in C++ before and during his PhD studies, and uses the techniques in real-world projects. News * Rust and C++ Cardiff * State of Developer Ecosystem 2019 * Voting on the talks for Meeting C++ 2019 * Pre-Cologne Mailing Ivan Čukić * @ivan_cukic Links * Functional Programming in C++ * p0798R3 Monadic operations for std::optional * p0323R8 std::expected * Immer library * Ranges for distributed and asynchronous systems - Ivan Čukić - ACCU 2019 * Functional reactive programming in C++…

Movable Iterators with Corentin Jabot

Rob and Jason are joined by Corentin Jabot to discuss some of his proposals for C++20. Corentin Jabot is a freelancer developer and member of the French National Body and the C++ committee where he participates in the tooling, Unicode and library evolution working groups. He has been doing C++ for about 10 years and currently works with Mobsya, a swiss non-profit making educational robots for kids. News * Catch v2.9.0 released * Core C++ 2019 Videos * Space Game: A std::variant Based State Machine Corentin Jabot * @Cor3ntin * cor3ntin Links * p1207: Movability of Single-pass iterators * p1206: ranges::to: A function to convert any range to a container * p1634: Naming guidelines for modules * p1628: Unicode character properties Sponsors * PVS-Studio Facebook * PVS-Studio Telegram * PVS-Studio Twitter * JetBrains Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Factorio with Michal Kovařík

Rob and Jason are joined by Michal Kovařík to discuss his work creating the Factorio video game with C++. Michal is 34 years old and started programming when he was 11. C (and C++ soon after) became his favorite language soon afterwards. After quitting University after 2 years he was a regular programmer in a company for 4 years. He then started his own computer game project, which he's been working on for 7 years already. The game is much more successful than anticipated (with more than 1.7 million sales) while still in early access. We are close to finishing the game and deciding what to do next. News * C++Now 2019 Videos being uploaded * Clear, Functional C++ Docs with Sphinx + Breathe + Doxygen + Cmake * Fuzzing Unit Tests with DeepState and Eclipser Michal Kovařík * Michal Kovařík's GitHub Links * Factorio Sponsors * PVS-Studio Facebook * PVS-Studio Telegram * PVS-Studio Twitter * JetBrains Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Pattern Matching with Michael Park

Rob and Jason are joined by Michael Park to discuss his Pattern Matching library and standards proposal. Michael Park is a software engineer at Facebook, working on the C++ libraries and standards team. His focus for C++ is to introduce pattern matching to facilitate better code. News * Initialization in C++ the Matrix * CMake 3.14 and Performance Improvements * Compiler Explorer Execution Support Michael Park * @mcypark * Michael Park's GitHub * Michael Park's Blog Links * C++Now Pattern Matching: Match Me If You Can * P1371R0 * CppCon 2017: Michael Park "MPark.Patterns: Pattern Matching in C++" * MPark.Patterns Sponsors * PVS-Studio Facebook * PVS-Studio Telegram * PVS-Studio Twitter * JetBrains Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Simplifying C++ with Herb Sutter

Rob and Jason are joined by Herb Sutter to discuss C++20 and some of his proposals that aim to Simplify C++. Herb Sutter is an author, chair of the ISO C++ committee, and a systems languages architect at Microsoft. News * No one knows the type of char + char * C++ Now 2019 Trip Report, Extension Points and Summer Opportunities * JSON Link Herb Sutter * @herbsutter * Herb Sutter's GitHub * Sutter's Mill Links * P1000 - C++ IS Schedule * P1185 - <=> != == * P1186 - When do you actually use <=> * Keynote: De-fragmenting C++: Making exceptions more affordable and usable - Herb Sutter * CppCon 2018: Herb Sutter "Thoughts on a more powerful and simpler C++ (5 of N) * C++ Coding Standars: 101 Rules, Guidelines, and Best Practices Sponsors * PVS-Studio Facebook * PVS-Studio Telegram * PVS-Studio Twitter * JetBrains Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Constexpr Evaluation with Daveed Vandevoorde

Rob and Jason are joined by Daveed Vandevoorde to discuss his contributions to the C++ standard and his recent work on constexpr evaluation. David ("Daveed") Vandevoorde is a Belgian computer scientist who lives near Princeton, NJ, USA. He is vice-president of engineering at the Edison Design Group (EDG), where he contributes primarily to the implementation of their C++ compiler front end. He is an active member of the C++ standardization committee where he is primarily active in the core language evolution work. His recent work in that context has primarily been about extending the capabilities of “constexpr evaluation”. Daveed is also one of the five members of the committee’s “direction group”. He is the primary author of the well-regarded “C++ Templates: A Complete Guide” (now available in its second edition). News * Report from using std::cpp 2019 * Exploring undefined behavior using constexpr * Linux Development with C++ in Visual Studio 2019: WSL, AS…

Mutation Testing with Mull

Rob and Jason are joined by Alex Denisov to discuss the Mutation Testing in general and the clang based Mull project. Alex is a Software Engineer who is working at PTScientists GmbH, a German aerospace startup that is planning to land a spacecraft on the Moon. After work, he is organizing LLVM Social in Berlin and researching the topic of mutation testing. He is generally interested in developer tools, low-level development, and software hardening. News * Converting from Boost to std::filesystem * Kate Gregory ACCU trip report * GCC 9.1 Released Alex Denisov * @1101_debian * Alex Denisov's GitHub * Alex Denisov's Blog Links * Mull Project * Awesome Mutation testing * 2019 EuroLLVM Developers' Meeting: A. Denisov "Building an LLVM-based tool: lessons learned" Sponsors * Backtrace * Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Reflection TS with David Sankel

Rob and Jason are joined by David Sankel to discuss the Reflection TS and more. David Sankel is a Software Engineering Manager/TL at Bloomberg and an active member of the C++ Standardization Committee. His experience spans microservice architectures, CAD/CAM, computer graphics, visual programming languages, web applications, computer vision, and cryptography. He is a frequent speaker at C++ conferences and specializes in large-scale software engineering and advanced C++ topics. David’s interests include dependently typed languages, semantic domains, EDSLs, and functional reactive programming. He is the project editor of the C++ Reflection TS, a member of the Boost steering committee, and an author of serveral C++ proposals including pattern matching and language variants. News * ReSharper C++ 2019.1 More Responsive, Better for Unreal Engine, and with New Language Features * Top 25 C++ API design mistakes and how to avoid them * 2019 Annual C++ Developer Survey David…

CPPP with Fred Tingaud and Joël Falcou

Rob and Jason are joined by Fred Tingaud and Joel Falcou to discuss the CPPP conference, quick-bench and more. Fred Tingaud is a Principal Software Engineer at Murex where he maintains the C++ UI and front-end APIs. He is also the creator of quick-bench.com, co-organizer of CPPP conference, co-host of Paris C++ Meetup and an organizer of #include . His interests range from code efficiency and readability to UI ergonomics. Computer Science Engineer, PhD, Associate professor at University Paris Saclay, Joël Falcou is the creator and president of C++FrUG, C++ Meetup host and an International speaker. Joel has been actively participating in the C++ international community with more than 7 years of international talks at BoostCon, C++Now, C++Russia, C++Con and Meeting-C++. He is also a member of the C++Now and CppCon Program Committee. He is a member of the French National Body of the ISO Standard Committee for C++ since 2014. News * ClangJIT Enhancing C++ with Just in Time co…

fmt with Victor Zverovich

Rob and Jason are joined by Victor Zverovich to discuss the fmt modern formatting library and the proposal to bring it to C++20. Victor Zverovich is a software engineer at Facebook working on the Thrift RPC framework. Before joining Facebook in 2016, he worked for several years on modeling systems for mathematical optimization. He is an active contributor to open-source projects, an author of the {fmt} library and the ISO proposal P0645 to add a new formatting facility to C++. News * eclipsecon: Docker Container Build/Run/Debug Support for C/C++ Projects * Professional, zero-cost setup for C++ projects (1 of N) * In-Editor Documentation for Cmake in Visual Studio * Understanding when not to std::move in C++ * Announcing CPPP - Paris 2019 Victor Zverovich * @vzverovich * Victor Zverovich's GitHub Links * fmt - A modern formatting library * P0645 - Text Formatting * P1361 - Integration of chrono with text formatting Sponsors * Wanna Play a Detectiv…

Linear Algebra and Audio with Guy Davidson

Rob and Jason are joined by Guy Davidson to talk about his work with the ISO C++ committee including proposals for a linear algebra library and audio api. Guy Davidson is the Principal Coding Manager of Creative Assembly, makers of the Total War franchise, Alien: Isolation and Halo Wars 2, Guy has been writing games since the early 1980s. He is now also a contributor to SG14, the study group devoted to low latency, real time requirements, and performance/efficiency especially for Games, Financial/Banking, and Simulations, and to SG13, the HMI study group. He speaks at schools, colleges and universities about programming and likes to help good programmers become better programmers. News * NFHTTP a cross platform C++ HTTP library * Understanding C++ Modules part 2 * Blend2D - 2D Vector Graphics Powered by a JIT Compiler * C++ Lambda Story Free Ebook Guy Davidson * @hatcat01 Links * linear.algebra - A proposal to add linear algebra support to the C++ standard li…

Boden Cross-Platform Framework with Marcus Tillmanns and Tobias Lensing

Rob and Jason are joined by Marcus Tillmanns and Tobias Lensing to talk about the Boden Cross-Platform Framework. Marcus is currently the main software developer of Boden. He has a strong background in C++ graphics and UI development. He worked with Qt for more than 10 years on audio software and embedded projects. Tobias is currently working as a software developer and product manager on Boden. He’s passionate about start-ups and entrepreneurship. Tobias also has a background as CTO in audio software, cloud technology, and web development. News * Visual Studio 2019 goes live * C++23 fullptr to replace nullptr * Conan 1.14 Release Marcus Tillmanns * @Maddimax3 Tobias Lensing * @tobiaslensing Links * Boden * @bodenhq Sponsors * Backtrace * Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Reverse Engineering C++ with Gal Zaban

Rob and Jason are joined by Gal Zaban to talk about Reverse Engineering C++. Gal is currently working as a Security Researcher. Her passion is Reverse Engineering with a particular interest in C++ code. In her spare time, when not delving into low-level research, she designs and sews her own clothes and loves to play the Clarinet. News * LLVM Clang 8.0 Released * C++Now Keynote Announcement: Hana Dusíková on Compile Time Regular Expressions * Nameof operator for modern C++ * The 3 least secure programming languages Gal Zaban * @0xgalz * Gal Zaban's GitHub Links * Virtuailor * IDAPython * CoreC++: Behind Enemy Lines - Reverse Engineering C++ in Modern Ages * When Virtual Hell Freezes Over - Reversing C++ Code Sponsors * Wanna Play a Detective? Find the Bug in a Function from Midnight Commander * False Positives in PVS-Studio: How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Visual C++ Updates with Marian Luparu, Simon Brand, Tara Raj and Bob Brown

Rob talks to several members of the Visual C++ team about both Visual Studio Code and the upcoming Visual Studio 2019 release and more. Marian Luparu is the Lead Program Manager of the C++ team responsible for the C++ experience in Visual Studio, VS Code as well as Vcpkg. Simon Brand is Microsoft’s C++ Developer Advocate. Their background is in compilers and debuggers for embedded accelerators, but they’re also interested in generic library design, metaprogramming, functional-style C++, undefined behaviour, and making our communities more welcoming and inclusive. Tara Raj is the Program Manager for the C++ experience in Visual Studio Code and Vcpkg. She is interested in developer tools and Linux. Bob Brown is the engineering manager for C++ experiences in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. Marian Luparu, Simon Brand, Tara Raj and Bob Brown * @mluparu * @TartanLlama * @tara_msft * Bob Brown Links * Visual Studio 2019 Launch Event * Visual Studio 2019 Prev…

Rob and Jason catch up on some news at the end of a week of traveling. News * Usability improvements in GCC 9 * Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading * Counting Bugs in Windows Calculator * Understanding C++ Modules: Part 1: Hello Modules, and Module Units * Modern CMake Examples * CMake 3.14.0 available for download * Introduction into Logging with Loguru * Little-known C++: function-try-block Links * @robwirving * @lefticus Sponsor * Backtrace * Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

RxCpp and Executors with Kirk Shoop

Rob and Jason are joined by Kirk Shoop to talk about the RxCpp library and the future of Executors in C++. Kirk stumbled into an internship at Microsoft in the 90s that turned into contracting and eventually employment at Microsoft. At Microsoft Kirk sometimes pushed the compiler to its knees in the pursuit of libraries that prevent common errors. In 2013 Kirk joined Microsoft Open Technologies Inc to work on open source. Kirk began investing heavily in rxcpp in the belief that it is a better abstraction for async than the primitives commonly used. Now Kirk works at Facebook with Eric Niebler and Lewis Baker to build async range concepts and algorithms (with coroutines) into the c++ std library. News * Kona: A trip report * Are C++ Modules DOA 2 * C++ Breaking the Rules with Inline Variables and Functions Kirk Shoop * @kirkshoop * Kirk Shoop's GitHub * Kirk Shoop's Blog Links * RxCpp * ReactiveX * CppCon 2016: Kirk Shoop "Algorithm Design For Values Dis…

Kona Trip Report with Peter Bindels

Rob and Jason are joined by Peter Bindels to talk about features approved at the ISO C++ Kona meeting for C++20 including Modules, Coroutines and much more. Peter Bindels is a C++ software engineer who prides himself on writing code that is easy to use, easy to work with and well-readable to anybody familiar with the language. Since the last time he's been on CppCast he presented at multiple conferences about build tooling and simple code. In combining both, he created the build tool Evoke from cpp-dependencies and other smaller projects, leading to a simple to use build system presented at CppCon 2018. Earlier this year he presented its companion 2D Graphics library for absolute called Pixel at CppOnSea. He's active in both standards development as well as helping out with various things at conferences. News * 2019-02 Kona ISO C++ Committee Trip Report * All Meeting C++ 2018 talks on youtube * Core C++ Speaker List Peter Bindels * @dascandy42 * Peter Bindels' GitHub…

Analyzing Undefined Behavior with John Regehr

Rob and Jason are joined by John Regehr to talk about his job as a professor at the University of Utah teaching C++ courses and some of his research projects including souper and csmith. John Regehr is a professor at the University of Utah where he's been on the faculty since 2003. He likes to work on compilers and software correctness, but used to work on real-time and embedded systems. When he has free time he likes to go hiking in the desert with his kids. News * Five Awesome C++ Papers for Kona 2019 ISO Meeting * The future of Catch2 * Some C++ on Sea videos already available * Between linear and binary search John Regehr * @johnregehr * John Regehr's Personal Page * John Regehr's Blog Links * Souper * Csmith * C-Reduce * C++Now 2018: John Regehr "Closing Keynote: Undefined Behavior and Compiler Optimizations" Sponsors * Download PVS-Studio * Technologies used in the PVS-Studio code analyzer for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities…

Leaf and "What is Programming?" with Edaqa Mortoray

Rob and Jason are joined by Edaqa Mortoray to talk about his experience designing the Leaf language and writing it's compiler in C++, and his book "What is Programming?" Edaqa Mortoray grew up programming. From interface design to scientific simulations, including video games and development products, he's coded a bit of everything. He's got a successful programming blog and is the author of the book "What is Programming?" News * Moving iterators in C++ * C++ 3D Game Tutorial Series * Legacy Code Programmer's Toolbox * C++17 - The Complete Guide * C++17 in Detail Edaqa Mortoray * @edaqa * Edaqa's Blog Links * What is Programming? * Edaqa & Stephane (Podcast) * Leaf Programming Language * dev.to * Awesome Podcasts Sponsors * Backtrace Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

libc++ with Eric Fiselier

Rob and Jason are joined by Eric Fiselier to talk about libc++ and his contributions to the library. Eric is a Software Engineer at Google working on Abseil and other core libraries. He is also a maintainer of libc++ and active member of the standards committee. In addition to writing C++ libraries, Eric enjoys hacking on Clang. Most recently Eric has been interested in using tooling to make C++ code healthier. News * C++ Productivity Improvements in VS 2019 Preview 2 * Pre-Kona 2019 C++ Standards Mailing * Italian C++ Conference 2019 Call for sessions * Core C++ Early Bird Tickets End Tomorrow Eric Fiselier * @Eric01 * Eric Fiselier's GitHub Links * libc++ documentation * constinit proposal * P1337 Aliasing the standard library as a means to save C++ * C++Now Volunteer/Student Program Sponsors * Backtrace Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

SG20 with Christopher Di Bella

Rob and Jason are joined by Christopher Di Bella to talk about SG20, the C++ Education Study Group. Christopher is a Staff Software Engineer on the ComputeCpp Runtime for Codeplay Software and a co-founding member of SG20. He is passionate about teaching people how to write programs using idiomatic C++, and also advocates for developers to consider adopting algorithms and ranges. When not thinking about C++, Chris is often playing games, watching films, or trying something new. News * I implemented a proposed C++ paper * Raytracing in 256 lines of bare C++ * How McSema Handles C++ Exceptions * Core C++ 2019 in TLV: Tickets Available Christopher Di Bella * @cjdb_ns * Christopher Di Bella's GitHub Links * P1231: Proposal for Study Group: C++ Education * SG20 Education and Recommended Videos for Teaching C++ * D1389R0 Standing Document for SG20: Guidelines for Teaching C++ to Beginners * CppCon 2018: Christopher Di Bella "How to Teach C++ and Influence a…

[Boost] DI and SML with Kris Jusiak

Rob and Jason are joined by Kris Jusiak to discuss [Boost].DI and [Boost].SML libraries. Kris is a C++ Software Engineer who currently lives a couple of doors down from CppCon 2019. He has worked in different industries over the years including telecommunications, games and most recently finance for Quantlab Financial. He has an interest in modern C++ development with a focus on performance and quality. He is an open source enthusiast with multiple open source libraries where he uses template metaprogramming techniques to support the C++ rule - "Don't pay for what you don't use" whilst trying to be as declarative as possible with a help of domain-specific languages. Kris is also a keen advocate of extreme programming techniques, test/behaviour driven development and truly believes that 'the only way to go fast is to go well!'. News * Meeting C++ 2018 Playlist * C++Now Submission Deadline Jan 23 * If constexpr isn't broken Kris Jusiak * @krisjusiak * Kris Jusiak's…

Trivially Relocatable with Arthur O'Dwyer

Rob and Jason are joined by Arthur O'Dwyer to discuss board games, his 3 ISO C++ papers and much more! Arthur O'Dwyer started his career writing pre-C++11 compilers for Green Hills Software; he currently writes C++14 for Akamai Technologies. Arthur is the author of "Colossal Cave: The Board Game," "Mastering the C++17 STL" (the book), and "The STL From Scratch" (the training course). He is occasionally active on the C++ Standards Committee and has a blog mostly about C++. News * Add an interactive command line to your applications * "Modern" C++ Ruminations * Initialization in C++ is Seriously Bonkers * cppfeatureflags Arthur O'Dwyer * @ColossalCaveTBG * Arthur O'Dwyer's Blog Links * Adventure * Colossal Cave: The Board Game * CppCon 2018: Arthur O'Dwyer "Return Value Optimization: Harder Than It Looks" * C++Now 2018: Jason Turner "Initializer Lists Are Broken, Let's Fix Them" * CppCon 2018: Arthur O'Dwyer "An Allocator is a Handle to a Heap" * C++Now…

ISO Papers and Merged Modules with Isabella Muerte

Rob and Jason are joined by Isabella Muerte to discuss her experience presenting multiple papers at her first ISO meeting in San Diego and her thoughts on Merged Modules. Isabella Muerte is a C++ Bruja, Build System Titan, and an open source advocate. She cares deeply about improving the workflow and debugging experience the C++ community currently has and is designing and implementing an experimental next-generation build system called Coven based on ideas mentioned in her CppCon 2017 talk "There Will Be Build Systems", while also simultaneously ripping CMake apart and putting it back together again with a library titled IXM. She recently launched aliasa.io, a small URL routing service intended for the CMake FetchContent module. She enjoys playing Destiny 2, acquiring tattoos, and is currently trying to master the five elements of earth, wind, water, fire, and gun (but she makes no promises). She bows to no entity but the terrifying Eldritch Daystar we call the "sun", and hopes to o…

Semantic Merge with Pablo Santos

Rob and Jason are joined by Pablo Santos from Codice Software to discuss Semantic Merge, Plastic SCM and more. Prior to entering start-up mode to launch Plastic SCM back in 2005, Pablo worked as R&D engineer in fleet control software development (GMV, Spain) and later digital television software stack (Sony, Belgium). Then he moved to a project management position (GCC, Spain) leading the evolution of an ERP software package for industrial companies. During these years he became an expert in version control and software configuration management working as a consultant and participating in several events as a speaker. Pablo founded Codice Software in 2005 and since then is focused on his role as chief engineer designing and developing Plastic SCM and SemanticMerge among other SCM products. News * Boden Cross-platform Framework * SG20 Education and Recommend Videos for Teaching C++ * C++ Now Call for Submissions * C++ on Sea Volunteer and Student Programmes Pablo Santos * P…

San Diego EWGI Trip Report with JF Bastien

Rob and Jason are joined by JF Bastien from Apple to discuss the San Diego C++ Committee meeting from his perspective as the chair of the new Evolution Working Group Incubator. JF Bastien is the C++ lead for Apple's clang front-end, where he focuses on new language features, security, and optimizations. He’s an active participant in the C++ standards committee, where he chairs the Language Evolution Working Group Incubator (“oogie” for short). He previously worked on WebKit’s JavaScriptCore Just-in-Time compiler, on Chrome’s Portable Native Client, on a CPU's dynamic binary translator, and on flight simulators. News * Exploring C++20 Designated initialisers * std::embed for the poor (C++17) * RangeOf: A better span JF Bastien * @jfbastien Links * 2018 San Diego ISO C++ Committee Trip Report * C++ Current Status Sponsors * Download PVS-Studio * Technologies used in the PVS-Studio code analyzer for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities * JetB…

Performance Analysis and Optimization with Denis Bakhvalov

Rob and Jason are joined by Denis Bakhvalov from Intel to discuss C++ performance analysis and optimization techniques. Denis is C++ developer with almost 10 years of experience. Denis started his journey as a developer of desktop applications, then moved to embedded and now he works at Intel, doing C++ compiler development. He enjoys writing the fastest-possible code and staring at the assembly. Denis is a father of 2, he likes to play soccer and chess. News * Meeting C++ / Embedded conan trip report * Introducing the C++ Lambda Runtime * SIMD Visualiser * Announcing Live Share for C++: Real-Time Sharing Denis Bakhvalov * @dendibakh Links * emBO++ 2018 Denis Bakhvalov about Dealing with performance analysis in C and C++ * Code alignment issues * Basics of profiling with perf * Performance analysis vocabulary Sponsors * Backtrace * JetBrains Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

TDD, BDD, Low Latency and CppCon with Lenny Maiorani

Rob and Jason are joined by Lenny Maiorani from Quantlab to discuss high performance computing, pair programming, volunteering for CppCon and the site of next year's CppCon. Lenny has been using C++ off and on since 1995. Since graduating from SUNY Plattsburgh with a degree in Computer Science, he has been working at startups focused on high-throughput applications. About 2 years ago he joined Quantlab and discovered a different type of high-performance computing in low latency systems. Lenny lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife Lexey and their dog. He can be found hiking in the Colorado mountains while thinking about container access patterns and wondering if std::map can be renamed to std::ordered_map. News * Better template support and error detection in C++ Modules with MSVC 2017 15.9 * What's new in Clion 2018.3 * Std::string is not a Container for Raw Data * Counterpoint Lenny Maiorani * @lennymaiorani Links * Quantlab * CppCon 2014: Lightning Talks - L…

SIMD Wrapper Libraries with Jeff Amstutz

Rob and Jason are joined by Jeff Amstutz to discuss SIMD and SIMD wrapper libraries. Jeff is a Software Engineer at Intel, where he leads the open source OSPRay project. He enjoys all things ray tracing, high performance and heterogeneous computing, and code carefully written for human consumption. Prior to joining Intel, Jeff was an HPC software engineer at SURVICE Engineering where he worked on interactive simulation applications for the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, implemented using high performance C++ and CUDA. News * Freestanding in San Diego * Getting Started Qt with WebAssembly * Trip Report: Fall ISO C++ standards meeting (San Diego) Jeff Amstutz * @jeffamstutz Links * CppCon 2018: Jefferson Amstutz "Compute More in Less Time Using C++ SIMD Wrapper Libraries" * tsimd - Fundamental C++ SIMD types for Intel CPUs (sse to avx512) * OSPRay Sponsors * Download PVS-Studio * We Checked the Android Source Code by PVS-Studio, or Nothing is Perfect * Je…

San Diego LEWG Trip Report with Ashley Hedberg

Rob and Jason are joined by Ashley Hedberg to discuss the San Diego C++ Committee meeting from her perspective on the Library Evolution Working Group. Ashley Hedberg has been working at Google for the last three years. She currently works on Abseil, an open-source collection of C++ library code designed to augment the C++ standard library. San Diego was her second WG21 meeting. News * How to Write a Good Proposal to C++ * TL:DR for #CppSan * CppCon Videos and Lightning Talks Ashley Hedberg * Ashley Hedberg * Ashley's GitHub Links * 2018 San Diego ISO C++ Committee Trip Report * C++ Current Status * Abseil * #include Sponsors * Download PVS-Studio * We Checked the Android Source Code by PVS-Studio, or Nothing is Perfect * JetBrains Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Learning C++ with Devon Labrie

Rob and Jason are joined by Devon Labrie to discuss his experience learning C++ at Augusta Tech and being a first time attendee at CppCon. Adi is an entrepreneur, speaker, consultant, software architect and a computer vision and machine learning expert with an emphasis on real-time applications. He specializes in building cross-platform, high-performance software combined with high production quality and maintainable code-bases. Adi is the founder of the Core C++ users group in Israel. Having worked on proprietary software for most of his career, his most visible contribution to the world of open-source software is, somewhat ironically, the design of the OpenCV logo. News * Common Package specification * Modules are not a tooling opportunity * Herb Pre-trip report Devon Labrie * @labrie_devon Links * Augusta Technical College * SFML * C++ Game Programming Udemy Course Sponsors * Backtrace Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

C++ Bestiary with Adi Shavit

Rob and Jason are joined by Adi Shavit to discuss his spooky C++ Bestiary Blog post, CppCon talks and an announcement from the Core C++ User Group in Israel. Adi is an entrepreneur, speaker, consultant, software architect and a computer vision and machine learning expert with an emphasis on real-time applications. He specializes in building cross-platform, high-performance software combined with high production quality and maintainable code-bases. Adi is the founder of the Core C++ users group in Israel. Having worked on proprietary software for most of his career, his most visible contribution to the world of open-source software is, somewhat ironically, the design of the OpenCV logo. News * What Happens in 2098 with C++? * JSON For Modern C++ version 3.3.0 released * Meeting C++ 2018 Schedule * San Diego Pregame - Optional Choices to Make Adi Shavit * @AdiShavit * Adi Shavit's Blog Links * The C++ Bestiary * Core C++ Conference * C++ Cryptozoology - A Com…

Meeting C++ and Embedded with Jens Weller

Rob and Jason are joined by Jens Weller to discuss the upcoming Meeting C++ and Meeting Embedded conferences as well as some new from the Meeting C++ platform. Jens Weller is the organizer and founder of Meeting C++. Doing C++ since 1998, he is an active member of the C++ Community. From being a moderator at c-plusplus.de and organizer of his own C++ User Group since 2011 in Düsseldorf, his roots are in the C++ Community. Today his main work is running the Meeting C++ Platform (conference, website, social media and recruiting). His main role has become being a C++ evangelist, as this he speaks and travels to other conferences and user groups around the world. News * Why optional references didn't make it into C++17 * 2018-10 pre-San Diego mailing available * CppCon 2018 Contest Results: the most awful, surprising, horrific, inventive, well-formed C++ construct you can fit in a tweet * CppCon 2018 Videos Jens Weller * @meetingcpp * Jens Weller's GitHub Links * M…

Compile Time Regular Expressions with Hana Dusíková

Hana is working as a senior researcher in Avast Software. Her responsibility is exploring new ideas and optimizing existing ones. She also propagates modern C++ techniques and libraries in internal techtalks and gives talks at local C++ meetups. She studied computer science at Mendel university and subsequently taught several courses there, including: Data Structures, Computability and Complexity, and Formal Languages and Automata. News * ACCU 2019 Call For Papers * "auto to stick" * GNU Tools Cauldron 2018 Videos online * Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac Support Updates Hana Dusíková * @hankadusikova * Hana's GitHub Links * Compile Time Regular Expression v2 * Compile Time Regular Expressions Presentation Slides * Avast Prague C++ Meetup * P1235R0: Implicit constexpr Sponsors * Download PVS-Studio * We Checked the Android Source Code by PVS-Studio, or Nothing is Perfect Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

WebAssembly and nxxm with Damien Buhl

Rob and Jason are joined by Damien Buhl to discuss the current state of WebAssembly, nxxm and the belle::vue library. Damien was a Qt on Android Contributor which he presented at Droidcon 2011 in Berlin. He maintains ADAPT_STRUCT and Boost.Fusion. For a long time Damien worked for a 100 year old IoT company and now works on nxxm. He has a passion for C++ and JavaScript. News * An Introduction to Torch (PyTorch) C++ front end * CppQuiz Android App now available * Std::any: How, when and why Damien Buhl * @daminetreg Links * nxxm * C++ Everywhere with WebAssembly * C++ Everywhere with WebAssembly Slidedeck * Calls between Javascript and WebAssembly are finally fast Sponsors * Backtrace Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

CppCon Lightning Interviews

Rob and Jason give a brief trip report of CppCon before being joined by several guests who gave Lightning Talks at CppCon 2018. Lightning Talkers * Anastasia Kazakova * Timur Doumler * Phil Nash * Staffan Tjernström * Matthew von Arx * Tony Wasserka * Jens Weller * Anny G. * Borislav Stanimirov * Ezra Chung (@eracpp on slack) * Jean-Louis Leroy Links * CppCon 2019 will be in Denver, Colorado from September 15 to 20th * CppCon 2018: Bjarne Stroustrup "Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming (the future is here)" * CppCon 2018: Mark Elendt "Patterns and Techniques Used in the Houdini 3D Graphics Application" * CppCon 2018: Kate Gregory "Simplicity: Not Just For Beginners" * CppCon 2018: Herb Sutter "Thoughts on a more powerful and simpler C++ (5 of N)" * CppCon 2018: Chandler Carruth "Spectre: Secrets, Side-Channels, Sandboxes, and Security" Sponsors * Backtrace Patreon * CppCast Patreon Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

CppCon Preview with Bryce Adelstein Lelbach

Rob and Jason are joined by Bryce Adelstein Lelbach to discuss his work on the upcoming CppCon conference, his thoughts on the graphics proposal and more. Bryce Adelstein Lelbach is a software engineer on the CUDA driver team at NVIDIA. Bryce is passionate about parallel programming. He maintains Thrust, the CUDA C++ core library. He is also one of the initial developers of the HPX C++ runtime system. He spent five years working on HPX while he was at Louisiana State University's Center for ComCppputation and Technology, and three years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (a US Department of Energy research facility) developing and analyzing new parallel programming models for exascale and post-Moore architectures. He also helped start the LLVMLinux initiative, and has occasionally contributed to the Boost C++ libraries. Bryce is an organizer for the C++Now and CppCon conferences as well as the Bay Area C++ user group, and he is passionate about C++ community development. He is…

CppQuiz with Anders Knatten

Rob and Jason are joined by Anders Knatten to discuss the CppQuiz.org website, it's inspiration, recent updates and more. Anders is here as the author of cppquiz.org. He's been working as a programmer since 2001, in fields ranging from multiphase flow simulations to web development. He’s been doing everything from working on compilers to being CTO, and has been using a wide variety of languages. C++ is closest to his heart, but he’s been doing other things for the last five years. He’s very happy to be back as a C++ developer from October 1, in his new job at Zivid Labs. Anders is also a father of two, and in his spare time he’s the producer and frontman of the futurepop band Modulo One. News * C++ Alliance Sponsors Cpplang slack and more * CMakeRC A standalone Cmake based C++ Resource Compiler Anders Knatten * @knatten * C++ on a Friday Links * C++Quiz * Non-virtual destructors * Destroy All Software Lightning Talk * Zivid Labs * Oslo C++ Users Grou…

CppCon Poster Program and Interface Design with Bob Steagall

Rob and Jason are joined by Bob Steagall to discuss his history with C++, the CppCon poster program and his upcoming talks. Bob is a Principal Engineer with GliaCell Technologies. He's been working almost exclusively in C++ since discovering the second edition of The C++ Programming Language in a college bookstore in 1992. The majority of his career was spent in medical imaging, where he led teams building applications for functional MRI and CT-based cardiac visualization. After a brief detour through the worlds of DNS and analytics, he's now working in the area of distributed stream processing. Bob is a relatively new member of the C++ Standardization Committee, and launched a blog earlier this year to write about C++ and topics related to software engineering. He holds BS and MS degrees in Physics, is an avid cyclist, and lives in fear of his wife's cats. News * Frama-C * Frama-C Tutorial * Frama-Clang plugin * The Errata Evaluation Problem * Use Boost.Hana with MSVC 20…

Formal Verification with Matt Fernandez

Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Fernandez from Intel Labs to discuss Formal Verification. Matthew Fernandez is a Research Scientist with Intel Labs. Matt began his programming career building Windows GUI applications and designing databases, before moving into operating system architecture and security. He has a PhD in formal verification of operating systems from the University of New South Wales in Australia, and worked with the Australian research group Data61. In the past, he has worked on compilers, device drivers and hypervisors, and now spends his days exploring new tools and techniques for functional correctness and verification of security properties. On the weekends, you can usually find Matt in a park with a good book, hunting for good coffee or helping a newbie debug their code. He hopes to avoid saying “monad” on this podcast. News * C++17 in Detail now available * Cross-language interfaces between C and C++ * Spaceship Operator Links * The sel4 Mi…

SYCL with Gordon Brown

Rob and Jason are joined by Gordon Brown to discuss his work on SYCL the OpenCL abstraction layer for C++. Gordon is a senior software engineer at Codeplay Software in Edinburgh, specialising in designing and implementing heterogeneous programming models for C++. Gordon spends his days working on ComputeCpp; Codeplay's implementation of SYCL and contributing to various standards bodies including the Khronos group and ISO C++. Gordon also co-organises the Edinburgh C++ user group and occasionally blogs about C++. In his spare time, Gordon enjoys dabbling in game development, board games and walking with his two dogs. News * CppCon 2018 Poster Program Announced * A bug in the C++ Standard * Synapse submitted for Boost review * New C++ London Uni Course Sept 18 Gordon Brown * @AerialMantis * Gordon Brown's blog Links * SYCL * ComputeCpp * Parallel Programming with Modern C++: from CPU to GPU * P0443r7: A Unified Executors Proposal for C++ * CppCon 2017: Gor…

Sourcetrail with Eberhard Gräther

Rob and Jason are joined by Eberhard Gräther to discuss his work on Sourcetrail, a cross-platform source explorer for C++ code. Eberhard Gräther is software developer, user experience designer and founder at Coati Software. He started programming C++ during his undergraduate CS degree at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, majoring in game development. During multiple internships in the Google Chrome Team he worked on tools for rendering performance analysis. He then specialized in Human Computer Interaction and developer tooling during a Master's degree, where he started working on Sourcetrail, a cross-platform source explorer for faster understanding of unfamiliar source code. News * Interactive Websites: Using Boost.Beast WebSockets and Networking TS * New Educational Video Series: How to CMake Good * Using MSVC in a Docker Container for your C++ projects * Win a free ticket to C++ on Sea! Eberhard Gräther * @egraether * egraether.com Links * Sourcetr…

The Art of C++ Libraries with Colin Hirsch

Rob and Jason are joined by Colin Hirsch to discuss his work on The Art of C++ collection of libraries including PEGTL, json and more. Dr. Colin Hirsch studied Computer Science at the University of Technology in Aachen, Germany in 1993 and later got a PhD in Mathematics from the same university. He worked for two years as a consultant for T-Mobile, developing back-end server applications in C++ and Lua. Later Colin moved to Italy, opened his own business and continued working for T-Mobile (now Deutsche Telekom) as well as working for some other interesting projects like Greenpeace and the Austrian ministry of ecology. In his free time he enjoys photography, being in nature, science fiction and spending time with his daughter. News * Google Open Sources Filament rendering engine * CppCon 2018 Program * C++ Foundation Survey 2018-08 * C++ on Sea Early Bird Tickets Available Colin Hirsch * Colin Hirsch's GitHub Links * The Art of C++ * UmbriaLogic * PEGTL * j…

Expectations and Exceptions with Simon Brand

Rob and Jason are joined by Simon Brand to discuss his upcoming CppCon talks covering exceptions, value wrappers, debuggers and more. Simon is a GPGPU toolchain developer at Codeplay Software in Edinburgh. He turns into a metaprogramming fiend every full moon, when he can be found bringing compilers to their knees with template errors and debating undefined behaviour on the C++ Slack channel. He co-organises the Edinburgh C++ user group and contributes to various programming standards bodies. Outside of programming, he enjoys experimental films, homebrewing, and board games. News * The value of undefined behavior * Qt Creator 4.7 released * Coroutines and Qt Simon Brand * @TartanLlama * Simon Brand's GitHub Links * CppCon 2018: How to Write Well-Behaved Value Wrappers * CppCon 2018: How C++ Debuggers Work * CppCon 2018: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? A Tale of Expectations and Exceptions * CppCon 2018: Overloading: The Bane of All Higher-Order Function…

Parallel Ranges with Christopher Di Bella

Rob and Jason are joined by Christopher Di Bella to discuss using Ranges with Parallel algorithms and much more. Christopher Di Bella is a Staff Software Engineer for Codeplay’s ComputeCpp Runtime Technology and a C++ teacher. He advocates for including the Concepts TS and the Ranges TS in C++20. Chris spends his days working on ComputeCpp, Codeplay’s implementation of SYCL, a Khronos Standard for heterogeneous programming in C++; the Khronos implementation for the Parallel STL (using SYCL); and researching Parallel Ranges, which is an attempt to fuse ranges together with the parallel STL. Chris was previously a software developer for Nasdaq, and a tutor for UNSW Sydney’s advanced C++ and compiler courses. In his spare time, Chris enjoys poking at things involving Ranges, snowboarding, playing games, and watching films. News * Italian C++ Conference Videos Available * Conan 1.6 Release * Webview proposal * C++/CLI support comes to ReSharper C++ Christopher Di Be…

Design Patterns in Modern C++ with Dmitri Nesteruk

Rob and Jason are joined by Dmitri Nesteruk to discuss Design Patterns with Modern C++. Dmitri Nesteruk is a quantitative analyst, developer, course and book author, and an occasional conference speaker. His interests lie in software development and integration practices in the areas of computation, quantitative finance and algorithmic trading. His technological interests include C# and C++ programming as well high-performance computing using technologies such as CUDA and FPGAs. News * Coroutine types * Easy::jit Just-In-Time compilation for C++ * Tool to recommend noexcept and constexpr Dmitri Nesteruk * @dnesteruk Links * Udemy: Design Patterns in Modern C++ * Design Patterns in Modern C++ * Design Patterns in C# Sponsors * PVS-Studio * February 31 Patreon * CppCast Patreon Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Future of 2D Graphics Proposal with Guy Davidson

Rob and Jason are joined by Guy Davidson from Creative Assembly to discuss the future of the 2D Graphics proposal after the C++ meeting in Rapperswil. Guy Davidson is the Coding Manager of Creative Assembly, makers of the Total War franchise, Alien: Isolation and Halo Wars 2, Guy has been writing games since the early 1980s. He is now also a contributor to SG14, the study group devoted to low latency, real time requirements, and performance/efficiency especially for Games, Financial/Banking, and Simulations. He speaks at schools, colleges and universities about programming and likes to help good programmers become better programmers. News * MSVC Preprocessor progress towards conformance * Support for Unity Files in VS 2017 15.8 (Experimental) * Announcing student and support tickets for Meeting C++ 2018 * CppCon 2018 Call for Poster Submissions Guy Davidson * @hatcat01 Links * 2D or not 2D: that is the question: Rapperswil trip report * io2d Sponsors *…

Modern C++ in Embedded Systems with Michael Caisse

Rob and Jason are joined by Michael Caisse from Ciere consulting to discuss Modern C++ in Embedded Systems, boostache and his work at Ciere Consulting and in the C++ Community. Michael Caisse has been crafting code in C++ for 28-years. He is a regular speaker at various conferences and is passionate about teaching and training. Michael is the owner of Ciere Consulting which provides software consulting and contracting services, C++ training, and Project Recovery for failing multidisciplinary engineering projects. When he isn't fighting with compilers or robots, he enjoys fencing with a sabre. News * Herb Sutter Trip Report * Announcing C++ Just My Code Stepping in Visual Studio * cmake release manager AMA * C++ On Sea call for speakers still open Michael Caisse * @MichaelCaisse Links * ciere consulting * C++Now 2018: Michael Caisse "Modern C++ in Embedded Systems" * boostache * El Dorado Hills C++ Meetup Sponsors * Backtrace Patreon * CppCast Patre…

SG15 Tooling Group with Titus Winters

Rob and Jason are joined by Titus Winters from Google to discuss the SG15 Tooling Study Group and revisiting the concept of regular types. Titus Winters has spent the past 7 years working on Google's core C++ libraries. He's particularly interested in issues of large scale software engineer and codebase maintenance: how do we keep a codebase of over 100M lines of code consistent and flexible for the next decade? Along the way he has helped Google teams pioneer techniques to perform automated code transformations on a massive scale, and helps maintain the Google C++ Style Guide. News * Dependencies * C++ 20 in Tony Tables * Announcing Template Intellisense * East const Central * Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Rapperswil, June 2018 Titus Winters * Titus Winters Links * Tooling - WG21 Tooling Study Group SG15 * Revisiting Regular Types Sponsors * PVS-Studio * February 31 Patreon * CppCast Patreon Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

C++ Insights with Andreas Fertig

Rob and Jason are joined by Andreas Fertig to discuss C++ Insights, the Rapperswil ISO meeting and more. Andreas Fertig holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. Since 2010 he has been a software developer and architect for Philips Medical Systems focusing on embedded systems. He has a profound practical and theoretical knowledge of C++ at various operating systems. He works freelance as a lecturer and trainer. Besides this he develops macOS applications and is the creator of cppinsights.io. News * Post Rapperswil C++ Draft * Cpp Taskflow * std::embed updated proposal * JetBrains Rapperswil Trip Report * What's all the C Plus Fuss? Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++ Andreas Fertig * @andreas__fertig * Andreas Fertig's website Links * C++ Insights * C++ Insights Store Sponsors * PVS-Studio * February 31 Patreon * CppCast Patreon Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Rapperswil Trip Report

Rob and Jason discuss the Rapperswil trip report and other C++ news. News * What's next for Visual Studio * Visual Studio Roadmap * Build the future of the web with WebAssembly and more (Google I/O '18) * WebAssembly Physics and DOM objects * "Core Coroutines" proposal * Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction Links * @robwirving * @lefticus Sponsors * Backtrace Patreon * CppCast Patreon Listener Survey * CppCast Listener Survey

Vcpkg with Robert Schumacher

Rob and Jason are joined by Robert Schumacher from Microsoft to discuss the vcpkg package manager and more. Robert Schumacher is a developer on the Microsoft Visual C++ Libraries team and the lead developer for vcpkg. He has previously worked on the MSVC implementation of the Modules TS and is the current maintainer of Cpprestsdk. Besides work, he occasionally indulges in functional programming and arguments about whether inheritance is fundamentally flawed. News * Teach yourself C++ Where to start * Macro Expansions in Quick Info Tooltips * Call for a more diverse program at Meeting C++ 2018 * Conan 1.4 released Robert Schumacher * Robert Schumacher's GitHub Links * vcpkg * vcpkg Quick Start Sponsors * Backtrace Patreon * CppCast Patreon Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

C++ London Uni with Tom Breza, Oliver Ddin and Tristan Brindle

Tom arrived in London at age 22 with £200 to his name, not knowing a single person. After 6 months Tom managed to start business - PC Service, that provides IT support to SMBs and runs it since then. Tom's team help many customers from small businesses to top celebrities and Royal Families. Now with over 20 years of experience, Tom set his mind on new challenges and decided to learn software development, specifically C++ and helps others to learn through C++ London Uni. Oliver has been a C++ hater since 2008 - fortunately, that all changed with C++11 and he's firmly an enthusiast now. He's spent his time doing everything from embedded devices to network engineering and now Internet security related endeavours. He's a big proponent of writing software in a style driven by some form of testing and its place in pushing you towards well-architected, maintainable code. In his spare time he also co-organises C++ London Uni which provides free lessons for people wanting to get into develop…

sol2 and std::embed with JeanHeyd Meneide

Rob and Jason are joined by JeanHeyd Meneide to discuss the sol2 library and his proposal for std::embed. ThePhD -- known in meatspace as JeanHeyd -- is a Computer Science undergraduate at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering in Columbia University. They are currently working on Open Source C++ and C++ Standardization projects, as well as exploring graphics programming. They are currently dabbling with Haskell and Elm for fun, and are attempting to wrangle their biggest open source project -- sol2 -- into a newer, better version of itself. The nickname is a std::promise<> on their std::future<>. News * Superconstructing super elider, Pt2 * Matthew Butler's C++Now 2018 Trip Report * Ben Deane's C++Now 2018 Trip Report * A CPPNow Travel Guide * Matt Godbolt's C++Now Trip Report * ThePHD's C++Now 2018 Trip Report JeanHeyd Meneide * @thephantomderp * JeanHeyd's Blog Links * sol2 * p1040R0 std::embed Sponsors * PVS-Studio * The Evil within the Compari…

Freestanding Proposal with Ben Craig

Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Craig to discuss his proposal for a freestanding C++ Library. Ben is a Principal Software Engineer at National Instruments, primarily developing device drivers for various operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac, OpenRTOS, vxWorks, ETS Pharlap), and occasionally tinkering with the firmware side of things. Ben is an occasional contributor to libc++ and Apache Thrift. News * Convert Macro to Constexpr in VS 2017 * CppCon 2018 Registration is Open * How to Adopt Modern C++17 into your C++ Code * 7++ Reasons to Move Your C++ Code into Visual Studio 2017 * Effective C++/WinRT for UWP and Win32 * C++ Insights * P0709 Zero overhead deterministic exceptions Ben Craig * Ben Craig's GitHub Links * Freestanding Proposal * Freestanding Trip Report: emBO++ and Jacksonville wg21 2018 experience Sponsors * PVS-Studio * The Evil within the Comparison Functions Patreon * CppCast Patreon Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

CppChat with Phil Nash

Rob and Jason are joined by Phil Nash to discuss the rebooted CppChat show, test driven development, a conference announcement and much more. Phil has spent the last year and a half doing things that might sound interesting for the next time he’s interviewed on CppCast. He might have overdone it. Aside from that he’s most commonly known as the original author of the test framework, Catch2. He’s been in or around C++ since the early 90s, but started coding in 1981 on a ZX-81 that he borrowed for six months. He’s worked in many domains, including finance and mobile and is now developer advocate for C++ and Swift tools at JetBrains. News * Safely extract a method in any C++ code * Pacific++ Call for Speakers until June 17 * Meeting Embedded Call for Speakers until June 10 * MeetingC++ Call for Speakers until June 10 * CppCon call for submissions until May 11 Phil Nash * @phil_nash * Level of Indirection * Extra Level of Indirection * Another Level of Indir…

C++ Simplicity with Kate Gregory

Kate Gregory has been using C++ since before Microsoft had a C++ compiler, and has been paid to program since 1979. She loves C++ and believes that software should make our lives easier. That includes making the lives of developers easier! She'll stay up late arguing about deterministic destruction or how C++ these days is not the C++ you remember. Kate runs a small consulting firm in rural Ontario and provides mentoring and management consultant services, as well as writing code every week. She has spoken all over the world, written over a dozen books, and helped thousands of developers to be better at what they do. Kate is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Visual C++ MVP, an Imagine Cup judge and mentor, and an active contributor to StackOverflow and other StackExchange sites. She develops courses for Pluralsight, primarily on C++ and Visual Studio. Since 2014 she was Open Content Chair for CppCon, the largest C++ conference ever held, where she also delivered sessions. News * C…

C++ Patterns with Kevlin Henney

Rob and Jason are joined by Kevlin Henney to discuss C++ Patterns and things every programmer should know. Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. He has been a columnist for a number of magazines and sites, including C++ Report and C/C++ Users Journal, and has been on far too many committees (it has been said that "a committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled"), including the the BSI C++ panel and the ISO C++ standards committee. He is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and the forthcoming 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know. He lives in Bristol and online. News * Spectre diagnostic in VS 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 4 * Microsoft MakeCo…

CppDock and nbdl with Jason Rice

Jason is a web applications programmer with an appetite for C++ metaprogramming having made small contributions to Boost.Hana. He is actively working on the library Nbdl, waiting for the day when C++ takes over the web. News * #include * Blast from the Past: Borland C++ on Windows 98 * Boost 1.67.0 Released Jason Rice * @JasonRice_ * Jason Rice's GitHub Links * CppDock * Nbdl * C++Now 2017: Jason Rice "Nbdl: A library that uses metaprogramming... A lot" Sponsors * PVS-Studio * JetBrains * CppCast Patreon Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Blogging and Text Processing with Bartłomiej Filipek

Rob and Jason are joined by Bartłomiej Filipek to discuss blogging, Simplifying C++ Code with C++17, and the work he's doing at Xara. Bartłomiej Filipek (Bartek as a shorter version) is a C++ software developer at Xara where he works mostly on text features for advanced document editors. He works remotely from Cracow/Poland. Apart from graphics applications, Bartek also has experience with game development, large-scale systems for aviation, writing graphics drivers and even biofeedback. For seven years Bartek has been regularly blogging. In the early days the topic revolved around graphics programming, and now he focuses on Core C++. In his spare time, he loves assembling trains and Lego with his little son. And he's a collector of large Lego Star Wars models. News * CppCon 2018 call for submissions * Developing Talk Ideas * SG13 graphics why it failed * Source to windows file manager released (not C++, it is C) * Octal Zero considered harmful * CppCast Gear Bartło…

Rob and Jason discuss Jacksonville trip reports, April Fools posts and more. News * Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20 * No new new: Raw pointers removed from C++ * C++ will no longer have pointers * HPX 1.1.0 Released * Freestanding trip report: emBO++ and Jacksonville * Oh, lock-free circular buffers, yay! Hey, no 2D graphics? Jacksonville trip report * JetBrains Trip Report * Clion 2018.1 release * Cmake 3.11 Release * Configuring C++ Intellisense and Browsing Links * @robwirving * @lefticus Sponsor * JetBrains Listener Survey * CppCast Listener Survey

C++ and Typescript at Ubisoft Massive with Ólafur Waage

Rob and Jason are joined by Ólafur Waage to discuss the work done at Ubisoft Massive using C++ and Typescript for application development and much more. Ólafur Waage is a Generalist Programmer at Ubisoft Massive where he works on the Uplay PC client and services. His work focuses mainly on programming with C++ but Python and C# do appear from time to time. In his spare time he plays video games which is not surprising given his job but he also likes puzzles, non fiction audio books and it would be a very strange day if it were not filled with music in some way. News * Explore the design of a modern C++ library: MemCache++ case study * Usability improvements in GCC 8 * My Little Optimization: The Compiler is Magic * Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing! Ólafur Waage * @olafurw * Ólafur Waage's GitHub Links * Malmö C++ User Group * Massive Entertainment Sponsors * Backtrace * JetBrains Listener Survey * CppCast Listener Survey Hosts * @r…

Jacksonville Trip Report with Patrice Roy

Rob and Jason are joined by Patrice Roy to discuss the Jacksonville C++ Committee meeting and the state of features that may make it into C++20, new Study Groups and much more. Patrice Roy has been playing with C++, either professionally, for pleasure or (most of the time) both for over 20 years. After a few years doing R&D and working on military flight simulators, he moved on to academics and has been teaching computer science since 1998. Since 2005, he’s been involved more specifically in helping graduate students and professionals from the fields of real-time systems and game programming develop the skills they need to face today’s challenges. The rapid evolution of C++ in recent years has made his job even more enjoyable. He’s been a participating member in the ISO C++ Standards Committee since late 2014 and has been involved with the ISO Programming Language Vulnerabilities since late 2015. He has five kids, and his wife ensures their house is home to a continuously cha…

Rob and Jason discuss catch up on two weeks' worth of C++ news on a very special Pi day episode. News * WG21 pre-Jacksonville telecon * Results summary: C++ Foundation Developer Survey * ClangFormat Support in Visual Studio 2017 * C++ Code Analysis Improvements for Visual Studio 2017 * Linux C++ Workload improvements to the Project System, Console Window, rsync and Attach to Process * LLVM 6.0 Release * Profiling: Optimisation * Simplify code with 'if constexpr' in C++17 * Lvalues, rvalues, glvalues, prvalues, xvalues, help! * Tip of the Week #55: Name Counting and unique_ptr Links * @robwirving * @lefticus Sponsor * JetBrains

Conference News and CppChat with Jon Kalb

Rob and Jason are joined by Jon Kalb to discuss upcoming C++ conferences, CppChat and east const. Jon does onsite training in C++ and chairs C++Now, CppCon, and the Boost Steering Committee. Next month he will be speaking at the ACCU conference in Bristol, and keynoting the C++ Russia conference in Saint Petersburg. News * Market share of the most used C/C++ IDEs in 2018 * A cake for your cherry, what should go in the C++ standard library * Batteries not included: what should go in the C++ standard library? * CMake 3.11: "addlibrary() and addexecutable() commands can now be called without any sources and will not complain as long as sources are added later via the target_sources() Jon Kalb * @_jonkalb * // info - Jon Kalb's blog Links * C++Now * C++Now 2018 Registration is Open * C++Now Accepting Student/Volunteer Applications * CppCon * C++ Community Events * A Foolish Consistency Sponsors * think-cell software * Embo++ Hosts * @robwirvi…

Competitive Coding with Conor Hoekstra

Rob and Jason are joined by Conor Hoekstra to discuss Competive Coding websites and competitions Conor Hoekstra works at Moody's Analytics as a C++ Software Developer helping maintain and develop an insurance software program called AXIS. Wanting to develop better algorithm and data structure knowledge he started using online sites like HackerRank and LeetCode to do so. He now has a YouTube channel where he reviews the contests from the last week of Competitive Coding sites like HackerRank, LeetCode, topcoder and Codeforces) and also covers solutions to the trickier problems. News * Announcing Tensor Comprehensions * Google summer of code for GCC * Pacific++ 2018 location and dates confirmed * 59+ videos now up from Meeting C++ 2017 * CppNow Registration Open Conor Hoekstra * @code_report Links * Code_Report YouTube Channel * HackerRank * LeetCode * TopCoder * CodeForces Sponsors * think-cell software * Embo++ Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticu…

API & ABI Versioning with Mathieu Ropert

Rob and Jason are joined by Mathieu Ropert to discuss C++ API & ABI compatibility issues and Modern CMake. Mathieu is a french C++ expert with an eclectic background. He's worked in various fields including kernels, virtualization, web development, databases, REST microservices, build systems and package management, all those in (or about) C or C++. He is presently awaiting his next challenge in the video game industry that should come up next May in Stockholm, Sweden. Until then, Mathieu lives and works in Paris, France where he is also host of the C++ French User Group. News * C++ in 2018 * Inspector - A drop-anywhere C++ REPL * The 15 C++11 features you must really use in your project Mathieu Ropert * @MatRopert Links * CppCon 2017: Mathieu Ropert "API & ABI Versioning..." * CppCon 2017: Mathieu Ropert "Using Modern CMake Patterns to Enforce a Good Modular Design" * Meeting C++ 2017: Mathieu Ropert "The need for a package manager interface" * The Ultimate G…

Qt Mobile Development with Sarah Smith

Rob and Jason are joined by Sarah Smith to talk about her career in Mobile Development with C++ and Qt. Sarah Smith comes to mobile development & entrepreneurship with a background in Software Engineering for companies like Nokia & Google, and over a decade of mobile device experience. She builds on a love of game development since creating Dungeons & Dragons modules on her own web-server while studying for a BSc (Comp Sci) in the late 90's. Realizing a goal to develop independent games & apps, Sarah opened Smithsoft in 2012. In January 2016 development went to the next level with Sarah moving to The Coterie (Brisbane's premier creative co-working space) to set up a studio as Smithsoft Games. The new studio's first title Pandora's Books was developed by Sarah and her team of part-time collaborators through 2016. In 2017 Sarah founded Artlife Solutions Pty Ltd with a team out of the Creative Startup Weekend, winning first prize there, going on to win a spot in Collider Accelerat…

foonathan/type_safe and more with Jonathan Müller

Rob and Jason are joined by Jonathan Müller to talk about his experience at University and some of his recent projects. Jonathan is a CS student passionate about C++. In his spare time he writes libraries like foonathan/memory which provides memory allocator implementations. He is also working on standardese which is a documentation generator specifically designed for C++. Jonathan tweets at @foonathan and blogs about various C++ and library development related topics at foonathan.net. News * GCC 7.3 Released * C++ Tip: Erase-remove Idiom Revisited * Beast: A Non-Traditional Source Code Review * Inclusiveness, accessibility and CppCon 2017 videos Jonathan Müller * @foonathan * foonathan::blog() Links * type_safe library * cppast library * Jonathan Müller's Patreon Sponsors * Backtrace * Embo++ Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Think-Cell Ranges with Arno Schödl

Rob and Jason are joined by Arno Schödl to talk about the work he does at think-cell with C++ and their custom range library. Arno Schödl, Ph.D. is the Co-Founder and Technical Director of think-cell Software GmbH, Berlin. think-cell is the de facto standard when it comes to professional presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint. Arno is responsible for the design, architecture and development of all our software products. He oversees think-cell’s R&D team, Quality Assurance and Customer Care. Before founding think-cell, Arno worked at Microsoft Research and McKinsey & Company. Arno studied computer science and management and holds a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a specialization on Computer Graphics. News * Pacific++ 2017: Sarah Smith "Postcards from the Cross-platform Frontier" * Outcome v2 Boost peer review begins * CppCMS C++ Web Framework version 1.2.0 released under MIT license * Spectre mitigations in MSVC Arno Schödl * Arno Schödl…

Data Oriented Design with Balázs Török

Rob and Jason are joined by Balázs Török to talk about his work in the Video Game Industry and his thoughts on Data Oriented Design. Balázs Török is a Senior Tech Programmer at Techland. He has more than 10 years of experience in the games industry. Balázs learned the ropes at Hungarian companies by making smaller titles and then moved to Poland to work on The Witcher series. He was the Lead Engine programmer on The Witcher 3 and now he is working at Techland on another promising project. News * Matt Godbolt: Meltdown and Spectre * CppCast YouTube Channel * Free ebook on C++ Notes for Professionals * Conan C/C++ Package Manager hits 1.0 * Meltdown checker/PoC written in C++ * Guy Davidson - Diversity and Inclusion - Secret Lightning Talks @ Meeting C++ 2017 Balázs Török * @m0radin Links * CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++" * StackOverflow: What is Data Oriented Design? Sponsors * Backtrace * Embo++ Hosts * @robwirvin…

Meltdown and Spectre with Matt Godbolt

Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Godbolt to talk about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities and how they affect C++ Programmers. Matt is a developer at trading firm DRW. Before that he's worked at Google, run a C++ tools company, and spent over a decade in the games industry making PC and console games. He is fascinated by performance and created Compiler Explorer, to help understand how C++ code ends up looking to the processor. When not performance tuning C++ code he enjoys writing emulators for 8-bit computers in Javascript. News * More C++ Idioms * C++ Tips of the Week (Abseil) * Retpoline: a software construct for preventing branch-target-injection * GCC 8.0 supports std::filesystem now Matt Godbolt * @mattgodbolt * Matt Godbolt's blog Links * Compiler Explorer * CppCon 2017: Matt Godbolt "What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid" * GOTO 2016: Matt Godbolt "Emulating a 6502 system in Javascript" * GOTO 2014: Matt…

Boost Application Development with Antony Polukhin

Rob and Jason are joined by Antony Palukhin to talk about some of the Boost libraries he's contributed to including Any, Conversion, DLL, LexicalCast, Stacktrace, TypeTraits and Variant; as well as his Boost Application Development book. Antony Polukhin was born in Russia. Since university days he started contributing to Boost and became a maintainer of the Boost.LexicalCast library. Today, he works for Yandex, helps Russian speaking people with C++ standardization proposals, consults Russian companies in C++, continues to contribute to the open source and to the C++ language in general. You may find his code in Boost libraries such as Any, Conversion, DLL, LexicalCast, Stacktrace, TypeTraits, Variant, and others. News * Clang Running in Browser (Web Assembly) * Kate Gregory - It's Complicated - Meeting C++ 2017 Keynote * Speeding up the Build of C and C++ Projects * C++17 constexpr everything (or as much as the compiler can) Antony Polukhin * Antony Polukhin's Gi…

C++ Object Model with Nicole Mazzuca

Rob and Jason are joined by Nicole Mazzuca to talk about the C++ Object Model, and some of the differences between Rust and C++. Nicole is someone who's thought a bit too much about object models and error handling. She started in C, moved to Rust, and then fell into C++ a year ago. She also loves coffee, and latte art. News * Meson 0.44.0 is out * C++Now 2018 Call for submissions * MSVC code optimizer improvements in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 and 15.3 * Broken warnings theory Nicole Mazzuca * @ubsanitizer * Nicole Mazzuca's GitHub Links * CppCon 2017: Nicole Mazzuca "Values, Objects, and References, oh my: The C++ Object Model, and Why it Matters to You" Sponsors * Undo * Audible Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Reverse Debugging with Greg Law

Rob and Jason are joined by Dr. Greg Law from Undo to talk about the magic of reverse debugging and how it is becoming more widely known in the programming community. Greg is the co-founder and CEO of Undo. He is a coder at heart, but likes to bridge the gap between the business and software worlds. (Sadly, these days most of Greg's coding is done on aeroplanes.) Greg has 20 years’ experience in the software industry and has held development and management roles at companies including the pioneering British computer firm Acorn, as well as fast-growing start ups, NexWave and Solarflare. It was at Acorn that Greg met Julian and on evenings and weekends, they invented the core technology that would eventually become UndoDB. Greg left Solarflare in 2012 to lead Undo as CEO and has overseen the company as it transitioned from the shed in his back garden to a scalable award-winning business. Greg holds a PhD from City University, London, that was nominated for the 2001 British C…

C++ Tour, Compilers and FASTBuild with Arvid Gerstmann

Rob and Jason are joined by Arvid Gerstmann from Appico to talk about bringing his new C++ Tour project, building your own C Compiler, using FASTBuild and more. Arvid Gerstmann is a passionate programmer and computer enthusiast, with a focus on writing high-performance C++. His area of expertise include, but is not limited to, writing compilers, implementing the included standard libraries, and creating game engines and games. He is currently the CTO of Appico. If he is not programming, he enjoys reading books while drinking a nice cup of self-brewed coffee. He currently lives in the sunny Hamburg, Germany. News * Intel offers Parallel STL implementation to GNU libstdc++ * Exceptions vs expected: Let's find a compromise * Interactive workflows for C++ with Jupyter * C++17 published * C++Now Call for Submissions * Embo++ call for papers and ticket are for sale Arvid Gerstmann * @ArvidGerstmann * Arvid Gerstmann's blog * Arvid Gerstmann's GitHub Links *…

Clang Power Tools with Victor Ciura

Rob and Jason are joined by Victor Ciura from Caphyon to talk about bringing clang tidy magic to Visual Studio C++ Developers with Clang Power Tools Victor Ciura is a Senior Software Engineer at CAPHYON and Technical Lead on the Advanced Installer team. For over a decade, he designed and implemented several core components and libraries of Advanced Installer such as: IIS, Repackager, OS virtualization and others. He’s a regular guest at Computer Science Department of his Alma Mater, University of Craiova, where he gives student lectures & workshops on “Using C++STL for Competitive Programming and Software Development”. Currently, he spends most of his time working with his team on improving and extending the repackaging and virtualization technologies in Advanced Installer, helping clients migrate their Win32 desktop apps to the Windows Store (AppX). News * Simon Brand Meeting C++ Trip Report * C++ Coroutines: Understanding operator co_await * Cmake 3.1.0 released * L…

Oculus Research with Dave Moore

Rob and Jason are joined by Dave Moore from Oculus Research to talk about the Oculus C++ SDK and Augmented Reality. Dave Moore started programming after getting fired from his college work study job. This worried his parents, but it seems to have worked out in the end. After spending 17 years in and around the computer games industry, most recently at RAD Game Tools, he's now a software engineer at Oculus Research, working to advance the computer vision technology underlying virtual and augmented reality. News * Cheerp the C++ compiler for the Web * The wrong way of benchmarking the most efficient integer comparison function * Programming Accelerators with C++ (PACXX) * What should be part of the C++ standard library Dave Moore * @dmmfix Links * Oculus Developer Center * Oculus Research Sponsors * Backtrace * JetBrains * Oculus Connect 3 Opening Keynote: Michael Abrash Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

VS Code with Rong Lu

Rob and Jason are joined by Rong Lu to talk about C++ support with the Visual Studio Code Editor and some of the recent improvements made to it. Rong Lu is a Program Manager in the Visual C++ team at Microsoft. She has been on the Visual Studio team since she graduated with her master degree in computer science 10 years ago. She currently works on Visual Studio tools for games, C++ mobile, and the C++ experience in Visual Studio Code. Before joining the C++ team, she spent 4 years building the VS SharePoint and architecture tools. News * Trip Report: Fall ISO C++ Standards meeting (Albuquerque) * Pacific++ Videos Available * C++/WinRT is now included in the Windows SDK * Don't use C++ auto? * Catch2 released * London and Sweden distributed meetup writeup Rong Lu * @davorabbit Links * Visual Studio Code * C++ for Visual Studio Code * CppCon 2017: Rong Lu "C++ Development with Visual Studio Code" * Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension Nov 2017 Update - Multi-roo…

Pacific++ Road Show

Rob and Jason discuss recent news and the first ever Pacific++ conference in New Zealand. News * Next Pacific++ Location * Does C++ need a universal package manager * Petra: C++17 runtime to compile-time mappings * Bjarne Stroustrup Interview at CppCon 2017 * C++17 is Here: Interview with Herb Sutter * CppCon 2017 Talks * CppCon 2017 Lightning Talks Links * @robwirving * @lefticus Sponsor * JetBrains

Build Systems and Modules with Isabella Muerte

Rob and Jason are joined by Isabella Muerte to talk about her recent talk at CppCon 2017 where she discussed some of her concerns with the Modules TS. Isabella Muerte is a C++ Bruja and Build System Trash Goblin. She taught herself to program by writing a build system and immediately regretting the decision. Her first computer ran Windows Millennium Edition and her parents forbade her from upgrading to anything else for 5 years. She is still bitter about this. In her spare time, she is into open source software, tattoos, computer keyboards, and making fake cover bands like 'Rage Against the Abstract Machine' News * A use for the poop emoji in C++ * C++ Core Guidelines: Class Hierarchies * Partitioning with the STL * The Coming Software Apocalypse Isabella Muerte * @slurpsmadrips Links * Millennials Are Killing the Modules TS * CppCon 2017: Isabella Muerte "There Will Be Build Systems: I Configure Your Milkshake" (Video currently offline due to Audio Sync issues) Sp…

Grace Hopper Conference with Gina Stephens

Rob and Jason are joined by Gina Stephens to talk about the C++ Foundations presence at the Grace Hopper Conference, the St Louis C++ Meetup and a proposal for a new access specifier. Gina Stephens is a software engineer with over 20 years' experience, 13 of those years leading development teams. Most of her experience has been with C++, in addition to Java, .NET and various scripting language. The breadth of her development experience includes DOD, FDA, DOI, Hospitality, and Finance. Gina has a Bachelors in Computer Science from MS&T in Rolla, MO and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Missouri – STL. She also founded and runs the STL C++ User Group. Gina is also a Desert Storm Air Force veteran during which she worked on the B-52 bombers that were carpet-bombing Iraq. She is happily married with 2 sons, both of whom are serving in the US Navy. News * Facebook Has Been Working On C++ Modules Support For GCC * A Branchless UTF-8 Decoder * Interactive Aurali…

Abseil with Titus Winters

Rob and Jason are joined by Titus Winters from Google to talk about the Open Sourcing of Google's Abseil library. Titus Winters has spent the past 6 years working on Google's core C++ libraries. He's particularly interested in issues of large scale software engineer and codebase maintenance: how do we keep a codebase of over 100M lines of code consistent and flexible for the next decade? Along the way he has helped Google teams pioneer techniques to perform automated code transformations on a massive scale, and helps maintain the Google C++ Style Guide. News * CppCon 2017 Trip Report * My CppCon 2017 Trip Report - 10 great talks to watch and learn from * Kdevelop 5.2 beta 1 released Titus Winters * Titus Winters Links * Abseil * CppCon 2017: Titus Winters C++ as a "Live at Head Language" Sponsor * Backtrace

PLF List with Matt Bentley

Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Bentley to talk about his work on plf::list and discuss some updates from the SG14 Working Group. Matt Bentley was born in 1978 and never recovered from the experience. He started programming in 1986, completing a BSc Computer Science 1999, before spending three years working for a legal publishing firm, getting chronic fatigue syndrone, quitting, building a music studio, recovering, getting interested in programming again, building a game engine, and stumbling across some generalized solutions to some old problems. News * From Algorithms to Coroutines in C++ * A Beginner's Guide to CppCon 2017 * CppCon2017 videos online Matt Bentley * @xolvenz * Matt Bentley on GitHub Links * PLF C++ Library Sponsors * Backtrace * JetBrains Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Java with Patricia Aas

Rob and Jason are joined by Patricia Aas to talk about Java and some of the similarities and differences between the Managed language and C++, she also talks about her work on the Vivaldi Browser. Patricia has been a C++ programmer for 12 years. Currently she is working on the Vivaldi Browser. Previously she has worked on the Opera Browser, on embedded telepresence systems at Cisco and even did a two year stint as a Java consultant. She is passionate about learning and teaching, as well as trying to make the world in general and tech in particular, a more inclusive place. News * Bjarne Stroustrup awarded 2017 Faraday Medal * Orbit C Performance Profiler * Introducing Abseil, a new common libraries project * CppCon Videos Patricia Aas * @pati_gallardo Links * C++ for Java Developers (Slides) * C++ for Java Developers (Video) * Java * Vivaldi Browser Sponsors * Backtrace * JetBrains Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

C# and IL2CPP with Josh Peterson

Rob and Jason are joined by Josh Peterson to talk about C# and some of the similarities and differences between the Managed language and C++, he also talks about his work at Unity 3D on IL2CPP. Josh is a programmer working at Unity Technologies, where he focuses on integration and development of scripting runtimes for the Unity 3D game engine. He enjoys learning about CPU architectures and assembly language, including the recent development of an MOS 6510 emulator in C#. In his free time, he coaches a number of youth soccer teams and reads philosophy and theology. News * Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages * C++ World Café * Useful GCC warning options not enabled by -Wall -Wextra Josh Peterson * @petersonjm1 Links * Microsoft C# Guide * Unity 3D * An introduction to IL2CPP internals Sponsors * Backtrace * JetBrains Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

FluentC++ with Jonathan Boccara

Rob and Jason are joined by Jonathan Boccara to talk about the FluentC++ blog and the benefit of doing daily C++ talks at your office. Jonathan Boccara is a passionate C++ developer working for Murex on a large codebase of financial software. His interests revolve around making code expressive. He regularly blogs on Fluent C++, where he explores how to use the C++ language to write expressive code, make existing code clearer, and also about how to keep your spirits up when facing unclear code. Jonathan loves writing, making videos, reading programming books, hanging out at conferences, meeting people, learning new languages and making trainings and presentations. News * C++17 is formally approved * Clang 5.0.0 Released (already on the compiler explorer) * Two-phase name lookup support comes to MSVC * CppCast compiles on godbolt Olivier Giroux * @JoBoccara Links * FluentC++ * FluentC++: STL Learning Resource * Murex * Going Native 2013: Sean Parent "C++ Seasoning…

DebugView++ with Jan Wilmans

Rob and Jason are joined by Jan Wilmans to talk about the DebugView++ debug and logging tool and some of his other open source projects. Jan is a Software Engineer at Promexx, contracted by ThermoFisher Scientific to work on integration of motion controller in Transmission Electron Microscopes. He has been programming for 25 years, started with basic, z80 assembly and later C++. He is now a C++ enthusiast, an open source developer and likes to keep up to date on new c++ developments. In his free time he enjoys playing video games and watching science fiction together with his wife Babette. News * CppCon Call for Volunteers * Live++ C++ Live Coding * Build your first C++ app * Why undefined behavior may call a never-called function Olivier Giroux * @janwilmans * Jan Wilmans' GitHub Links * DebugView++ * LibIdentify * OpenCanary * Executors Proposal Sponsors * Backtrace * JetBrains Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Volta and Cuda C++ with Olivier Giroux

Rob and Jason are joined by Olivier Giroux from NVidia to talk about programming for the Volta GPU. Olivier Giroux has worked on eight GPU and four SM architecture generations released by NVIDIA. Lately, he works to clarify the forms and semantics of valid GPU programs, present and future. He was the programming model lead for the new NVIDIA Volta architecture. He is a member of WG21, the ISO C++ committee, and is a passionate contributor to C++'s forward progress guarantees and memory model. News * Visual C++ for Linux Development with Cmake * Sourcetrail 2017.3 released - cross platform source explorer * Call for CppCon Lightning Talks and Open Content * C++17 STL Cookbook Book Review Olivier Giroux * @simt Links * CppCon: Designing C++ Hardware * Inside Volta: The World’s Most Advanced Data Center GPU * Inside Volta Slidedeck * NVidia Dev Blog Sponsors * Backtrace * JetBrains Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Meeting C++ and cpp_review with Jens Weller

Rob and Jason are joined by Jens Weller to talk about the upcoming Meeting C++ conference, the /r/cpp_review community and more. Jens Weller is the organizer and founder of Meeting C++. Doing C++ since 1998, he is an active member of the C++ Community. From being a moderator at c-plusplus.de and organizer of his own C++ User Group since 2011 in Düsseldorf, his roots are in the C++ Community. Today his main work is running the Meeting C++ Platform (conference, website, social media and recruiting). His main role has become being a C++ evangelist, as this he speaks and travels to other conferences and user groups around the world. News * Aqua Math - Android game developed in C++ with Cocos2d-x * Cocos2d-x * LLVM on Windows now supports PDB Debug Info * Ranges, Coroutines, and React: Early Musings on the Future of Async in c++ * An Intro to Compilers Jens Weller * @meetingcpp * Jens Weller's GitHub Links * Meeting C++ * Meeting C++ 2017 Conference * /r/cpp_revie…

Building Debuggers and Keyboards with Simon Brand

Rob and Jason are joined by Simon Brand from Codeplay Software to talk about building C++ debuggers and the hardware and C++ firmware of a custom keyboard. Simon is a GPGPU toolchain developer at Codeplay Software in Edinburgh. He turns into a metaprogramming fiend every full moon, when he can be found bringing compilers to their knees with template errors and debating undefined behaviour on the C++ Slack channel. He co-organises the Edinburgh C++ user group and contributes to various programming standards bodies. Outside of programming, he enjoys experimental films, homebrewing, and board games. News * N3886: A Proposal to add a Database Access Layer to the Standard Library * C++ London "University" * C++17 Features and STL Fixes in VS 2017 15.3 * The reviews have begun Simon Brand * @TartanLlama * Simon Brand's GitHub Links * minidbg - A mini x86 linux debugger for teaching purposes * Building my first custom keyboard * Accelerating your C++ on GPU with SYCL…

Synchronization Primitives with Samy Bahra

Rob and Jason are joined by Samy Bahra from Backtrace to talk about lesser known synchronization primitives and his work on the Concurrency Kit. Samy Al Bahra is the cofounder of Backtrace, where he is helping build a modern debugging platform for today’s complex applications. Prior to Backtrace, Samy was a principal engineer at AppNexus, where he played a lead role in the architecture and development of many mission-critical components of the ecosystem. His work at AppNexus was instrumental in scaling the system to 18 billion impressions with orders of magnitude in efficiency improvements. Prior to AppNexus, Samy was behind major performance improvements to the core technology at Message Systems. At the George Washington University High Performance Computing Laboratory, Samy worked on the UPC programming language, heterogeneous computing, and multicore synchronization. Samy is also the founder of the Concurrency Kit project, which several leading technology companies rely on for sc…

GCC Compiler Development with Krister Walfridsson

Rob and Jason are joined by Krister Walfridsson to talk about some of his contributions to GCC. Krister got introduced to low-level programming by the C64/Amiga demo scene in the 80s. This led to an interest in operating systems and compilers, and he has been involved in the NetBSD and GCC projects for more than 20 years. His career has been split between OS-level development on embedded platforms and compiler development, and he most enjoys working with "strange" custom-made architectu News * libq * Metaclasses: Thoughts on generative C++ * 6 Reasons Why We Distribute C++ Libraries as Source Code * Undefined Behavior in 2017 Patrice Roy * @kwalfridsson * Krister Walfridsson's Blog Links * Why volatile is hard to specify and implement * Branch prediction * Designing a CPU in VHDL, Part 1: Rationale, tools, methods Sponsors * Backtrace Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Toronto Trip Report with Patrice Roy

Rob and Jason are joined by Patrice Roy to talk about the changes made to the C++20 Draft at the Toronto C++ Standards Committee Meeting. Patrice Roy has been playing with C++, either professionally, for pleasure or (most of the time) both for over 20 years. After a few years doing R&D and working on military flight simulators, he moved on to academics and has been teaching computer science since 1998. Since 2005, he’s been involved more specifically in helping graduate students and professionals from the fields of real-time systems and game programming develop the skills they need to face today’s challenges. The rapid evolution of C++ in recent years has made his job even more enjoyable. He’s been a participating member in the ISO C++ Standards Committee since late 2014 and has been involved with the ISO Programming Language Vulnerabilities since late 2015. He has five kids, and his wife ensures their house is home to a continuously changing number of cats, dogs and other anim…

Coroutines with Gor Nishanov

Rob and Jason are joined by Gor Nishanov to talk about the C++ Coroutines proposal. Gor Nishanov is a Principal Software Design Engineer on the Microsoft C++ team. He works on design and standardization of C++ Coroutines, and on asynchronous programming models. Prior to joining C++ team, Gor was working on distributed systems in Windows Clustering team. News * Verdigris: Qt without moc * Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting * A C++ review community * Future Ruminations Gor Nishanov * @gornishanov * Gor Nishanov's GitHub Links * CppCon 2015: Gor Nishanov "C++ Coroutines - a negative overhead abstraction" * CppCon 2016: Gor Nishanov "C++ Coroutines: Under the covers" * Wandbox: Coroutines with Ranges * Compiler Explorer: Coroutines clang demo Sponsors * Backtrace Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

CopperSpice with Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim

Rob and Jason are joined by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim to talk about the CopperSpice C++ GUI Library. Barbara is an independent consultant working as a programmer and software developer for over 25 years. She has been a featured speaker at more than a dozen trade shows and computer conferences in the US and on two separate occasions Barbara taught an extended class in software architecture and GUI design for the Panama Canal Commission in Panama. Ansel has been working as a programmer for over 15 years. Ansel worked for 8 years at a communications company designing scalable, high performance, multi-threaded network daemons in C++ and he is currently a software consultant for RealityShares in San Francisco. News * 5 years of Meeting C++ * Why you should really care about C/C++ static analysis * Hotspot a GUI for the linux perf profiler Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim * Barbara Geller's GitHub * Ansel Sermersheim's GitHub Links * Copperspice * Coppersp…

Teaching Concepts with Christopher Di Bella

Rob and Jason are joined by Christopher Di Bella to talk about his experience teaching C++ and his proposed changes to Concepts. Christopher Di Bella will soon be a Runtime Technology Engineer at Codeplay, and was previously university tutor (teaching assistant) for the course 'Advanced C++ Programming', at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is an avid C++ programmer, and also enjoys film, board games, and snowboarding in his spare time. News * CppCon Last Call for Early Bird Pricing * Introducing the Splash Damage C++ Tech Blog * Security features in Microsoft Visual C++ * Meeting Embedded * Catch Survey Christopher Di Bella * @cjdb_ns * Christopher Di Bella's GitHub Links * Concepts TS * Range v3 Library * Range TS/STL2 * C++ Extension for Ranges * C++ Extension for Ranges * Advanced C++ Programming Course Notes Sponsors * Backtrace Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus * Better C++/Chicago

chrono and more with Howard Hinnant

Rob and Jason are joined by Howard Hinnant from Ripple to talk about , his date & time library (and proposal) and his work on move semantics. Howard Hinnant is a Senior Software Engineer at Ripple and the lead author of several C++11/14 features including: move semantics, uniqueptr, chrono, conditionvariableany, sharedmutex and std::lock. He is also the lead author of two LLVM projects libc++ and libc++abi. News * Noexcept: lightweight error handling library for C++11 * 7 Ways to Get Better at C++ During this Summer * After 17 yrs of active development, does the Boost C++ library meet its original vision Howard Hinnant * Howard Hinnant Links * CppCon 2016: Howard Hinnant "A Tutorial" * CppCon 2016: Howard Hinnant "Welcome To The Time Zone" * A Proposal to Add Move Semantics Support to the C++ Language Sponsors * Backtrace Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus * Better C++/Chicago

system_error and Boost Outcome Review with Charley Bay

Rob and Jason are joined by Charley Bay from F5 Networks to talk about his recent CppNow talk on system_error and the Boost Outcome review. Charley Bay is a Software developer at F5 Networks with 25+ years experience in large-scale and distributed systems for low-latency C and C++. News * C++ Web Frameworks * Full Http/WebSocket Server framework using Beast and Boost.Asio * Quick-Bench.com Simple Online C++ Performance Benchmark * Turing Tumble Kickstarter Charley Bay * Charley Bay Links * C++Now 2017: Charles Bay "C++11's Quiet Little Gem: " * Boost Formal Review Process * Boost Outcome * Boost Outcome Review Report Sponsors * Backtrace Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus * Better C++/Chicago

stlab Concurrency with Felix Petriconi

Rob and Jason are joined by Felix Petriconi to talk about his contributions to the stlab Concurrency library and the future of C++ futures. Felix Petriconi is working as professional programmer since 1993 after he had finished his study of electrical engineering. He started his career as teacher for intellectually gifted children, freelance programmer among others in telecommunication and automotive projects. Since 2003 he is employed as programmer and development manager at the MeVis Medical Solutions AG in Bremen, Germany. He is part of a team that develops and maintains radiological medical devices. His focus is on C++ development, training of modern C++, and application performance tuning. He is a regular speaker at the C++ user group in Bremen and a member of the ACCU’s conference committee. News * CppCon 2017 Keynote Speakers * ACCU: Kotlin for C++ Developers * Configure-cmake * Beast v52 released, 3 weeks until Boost review Felix Petriconi * @felixpetriconi * F…

Postmodern C++ with Tony Van Eerd

Rob and Jason are joined by Tony Van Eerd to talk about his recent award winning C++Now talk on Postmodern C++ and his views on lock-free programming. Tony Van Eerd has been coding for well over 25 years, and hopefully coding well for some of that. Mostly in graphics/video/film/broadcast (at Inscriber & Adobe), writing low level pixel++, high level UI, threading, and everything else. He now enables painting with light at Christie Digital. He is on the C++ Committee. He is a Ninja and a Jedi. News * C++ News Sources: * /r/cpp * C++ Enthusiasts * Meeting C++ Blogroll * IsoCpp * Announcing C++Now 2018 * C++Now 2017 Playlist * C++ Coding Guidelines (Howard Hinnant) * Why I Put const On The Right * Speakers announced for pacific++ Tony Van Eerd * @tvaneerd * Tony Van Eerd's GitHub Links * Christie Digital * Christie Digital Projection Mapping Videos * C++Now 2017: Tony Van Eerd "Postmodern C++" Sponsors * Backtrace Hosts * @robwirving * @leftic…

Travis CI with Richel Bilderbeek

Rob and Jason are joined by Richel Bilderbeek to talk about the benefits of using Travis CI for C++ developers and the role of C++ in theoretical biology. Richel Bilderbeek is a C++ developer for 17 years. He is mostly interested in what the literature has to say about good C++ practices, then teaching children and to adults, additionally writing articles, blog posts and tutorials. In his professional life, he is a PhD in theoretical biology. News * Writing a Really, Really Fast JSON Parser * C++ Online Compilers * Looking for Proofreaders for my new Book: Concurrency with Modern C++ Richel Bilderbeek * @rjcbilderbeek * Richel Bilderbeek's GitHub * Richel Bilderbeek's homepage Links * Travis CI * Travis CI Tutorial * Science and Hi-Tech Day (Dutch) Sponsors * Conan.io Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus * Better C++/Chicago

Boost Outcome with Niall Douglas

Rob and Jason are joined by Niall Douglas to talk about Google Summer of Code, Boost and his proposed Outcome library. Niall Douglas is a consultant for hire, is one of the authors of the proposed Boost.AFIO v2 and Boost Outcome, he is also currently the primary Google Summer of Code administrator for Boost. News * C++Now 2017 Report * Error Handing in C++ or: Why You Should Use Eithers in Favor of Exceptions and Error-Codes * JavaScript/C++ Rosetta Stone * CppCon 2017 Call for Submissions Niall Douglas * @ned14 * Niall Douglas' blog Links * Google Summer of Code * Boost.Outcome * Boost.AFIO v2 * CppCon 2015: Niall Douglas "Racing the File System" * CppCon 2016: Niall Douglas "Better mutual exclusion on the filesystem using Boost.AFIO Sponsors * Conan.io Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus * Better C++/Chicago

Build 2017 with Kenny Kerr and Marian Luparu

Rob travels to the Microsoft Build Developer's Conference to interview Kenny Kerr from the Windows team and Marian Luparu from the Visual Studio C++ team. Kenny Kerr is an engineer on the Windows team at Microsoft, an MSDN Magazine contributing editor, Pluralsight author, and creator of moderncpp.com (C++/WinRT). He writes at kennykerr.ca and you can find him on Twitter at @kennykerr. Marian Luparu is currently leading the team responsible for making Visual Studio more productive for C++ developers. News * Better C++/Chicago Kenny Kerr * @kennykerr Marian Luparu * @mluparu Links * Microsoft Build (Channel 9 Recordings) * C++ at Microsoft Build 2017 * Channel 9 C++ Panel Interview (STL, Kenny Kerr, Marian Luparu, Gaby dos Reis) * C++/WinRT Available on GitHub * 7++ reasons to move your C++ code to Visual Studio 2017 Sponsors * Backtrace Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus

Past, Present and Future of C++ with Bjarne Stroustrup

Rob and Jason are joined by Bjarne Stroustrup, designer and original implementer of C++ to discuss the current state of C++, his vision for the future as well as some discussion of the past. Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++ as well as the author of The C++ Programming Language (Fourth Edition) and A Tour of C++, Programming: Principles and Practice using C++ (Second Edition), and many popular and academic publications. Dr. Stroustrup is a Managing Director in the technology division of Morgan Stanley in New York City as well as a visiting professor at Columbia University. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and an IEEE, ACM, and CHM fellow. His research interests include distributed systems, design, programming techniques, software development tools, and programming languages. To make C++ a stable and up-to-date base for real-world software development, he has been a leading figure with the ISO C++ standards effort for more than 2…

Intel C++ Compiler with Udit Patidar and Anoop Prabha

Rob and Jason are joined by Udit Patidar and Anoop Prabha from Intel to discuss Intel's C++ Compiler and suite of Performance tuning Software Development Tools. Anoop Prabha is currently a Software Engineer in Software and Services Group at Intel working with Intel® C++ Compiler Support. He played paramount role in driving customer adoption for features like Intel® Cilk™ Plus, Explicit Vectorization, Compute Offload to Intel® Processor Graphics across all Intel targets by creating technical articles and code samples, educating customers through webinars and 1-on-1 engagements. He is currently driving the Parallel STL feature adoption (new feature in 18.0 beta Compiler). Before joining Intel, Anoop worked at IBM India Private Ltd as a Software Developer for 3 years in Bangalore, India and later completed his graduation from State University of New York at Buffalo. Udit Patidar works in the Developer Products Division of Intel, where he is a product manager for Intel software tool…

Hippomocks and cpp-dependencies with Peter Bindels

Rob and Jason are joined by Peter Bindels to discuss the Hippomocks mocking library and the cpp-dependencies analyzer. Peter Bindels is a C++ software engineer who prides himself on writing code that is easy to use, easy to work with and well-readable to anybody familiar with the language. He's worked for a contractor for a few years and then made the switch to work at Tomtom, where he's been working on various parts of the software chain, last of which was a major cleanup in the navigation code base. In doing so he developed a tool to determine, check and improve dependencies between components, which allows quicker structural insight in complicated systems. He also created HippoMocks in 2008, one of the first full fledged C++ mocking frameworks that is still a relevant choice today. He has given two talks at Meeting C++ 2016 and will be giving his third talk, on Mocking in C++, at CppNow 2017. News * Fluent C++ - The Design of the STL * Fluent C++ - Inserting several elements i…

Vcsn with Akim Demaille

Rob and Jason are joined by Akim Demaille to discuss VCSN, a platform for automata and rational expressions, and some of the interesting problems he faced while working on the library. Akim has been participating in free software for about 20 years, starting with a2ps, an anything to PostScript tool written in C. In order to ensure its portability, he became a major contributor to GNU Autoconf, GNU Automake and GNU Bison. Akim has been teaching and researching at EPITA, a French CS Graduate School, for eighteen years. He has taught formal languages, logics, OO design, C++ and compiler constructions, which includes the Tiger compiler, an educational project where students implement a compiler in C++. This project, whose assignment is regularly updated, keeps track of the C++ eveolutions, and this year's version uses C++17 features. Akim's recent research interests are focused on the Vcsn platform, dedicated to automata and rational expressions. He's recently been recruited by former…

Jewelbots with Sara Chipps

Rob and Jason are joined by Sara Chipps to discuss Jewelbots, Arduino and getting girls interested in STEM fields. Sara Chipps is a JavaScript developer based in NYC. She has been working on Software and the Open Source Community since 2001. She’s been obsessed with hardware and part of Nodebots since 2012. She is the CEO of Jewelbots, a company dedicated towards drastically changing the number of girls entering STEM fields using hardware. She was formerly the CTO of Flat Iron School, a school dedicated to teaching people of all ages how to build software and launch careers as software developers. In 2010 she cofounded Girl Develop It, a non-profit focused on helping more women become software developers. Girl Develop It is in 45 cities, and has taught over 17,000 women how to build software. News * The C++ Annotations, a free up-to-date learners book/reference manual * Choosing "Some C++" Over C * GCC's move to C++ * PacifiC++ Sara Chipps * @SaraJChipps * Sara…