Since 2015 CppCast has been having (almost) weekly conversations with C++ conference speakers, library authors, writers, ISO committee members and more! If you’re interested in being a guest on CppCast please reach out to us at feedback@cppcast.com!
Reflection for C++26
Daveed Vandevoorde joins Phil and Timur. Daveed talks a bit about his work at EDG, but mostly his efforts to get Reflection into C++26, along with his co-authors, and how that fits into the big picture.
News
Meeting C++ 2023 videos (including all keynotes)
"A 2024 Discussion Whether To Convert The Linux Kernel From C To Modern C++"
How do you correctly implement std::clamp?
Blog post
Reddit discussion
C++ Online Workshops
Links
P2996R1 - "Reflection for C++26"
P1240R2 - "Scalable Reflection in C++"
"C++ Templates - The Complete Guide" - book (Vandevoorde, Josuttis)
1/26/2024 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 32 seconds
Modern C++ with Qt
Ville Voutilainen joins Timur and guest co-host, Guy Davidson. Ville talks about his work at The Qt Company and on the C++ standard committee, and about how modern C++ features such as Modules and Sender/Receiver can integrate with the Qt framework.
News
Matt Godbolt on Computerphile
PVS-Studio C++ quiz
Boston C++ meetup
C++ Now
Links
P2300R7 - std::execution (a.k.a. Sender/Receiver)
1/12/2024 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 5 seconds
2023 Holiday Special
Phil and Timur are joined by ... Timur and Phil for a Holiday Special. We look back on the last year, discuss the news, and talk about what we're working on.
News
"The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps" - CISA
Experimental EDG Reflection Support
Boost 1.84.0 released
Cling 1.0 released
"About time - how to unit test code that depends on time" - Björn Fahller
CppNorth:
Call for Speakers
"Earlist Bird" tickets
ACCU Early bird tickets
C++ Online tickets
Links
Phil and Timur speaking at the December meetup in Munich
"Digital Security by Design, CHERI and the Morello Board" - C++ London
P2900R3 - "Contracts for C++"
12/29/2023 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
SIMD
Matthias Kretz joins Phil and Timur. Matthias talks about SIMD, including what it is, how it works, and what its useful for. We also discuss his proposal to introduce SIMD vocabulary types and functionality into the C++ standard and how it relates to what was in the Parallelism TS.
News
MISRA C++ 2023 published
Sonar webinar on MISRA C++ 2023 with Andreas Weis
nlohmann/json 3.11.3 released
reflect-cpp - Reflection library for C++20
Links
P1928R7 - "std::simd — merge data-parallel types from the Parallelism TS 2"
Matthias' CppCon 2023 talk on std::simd
12/15/2023 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 47 seconds
Catch2 v3 and Random Numbers
Martin Hořeňovský joins Timur and Phil. Martin returns to talk about v3 of Catch2 and how it is different to v2. We also revisit the topic of random numbers and how Martin is still working on portable distributions and why that is important to testing and other domains.
News
P2662R3 - "Pack Indexing"
P1673R13 - "A free function linear algebra interface based on the BLAS"
P2546R5 - "Debugging Support"
P2996R0 - "Reflection for C++26"
"Why I think C++ is still a desirable coding platform compared to Rust" - Henrique Bucher
CLion Nova
Links
Martin's NDC TechTown 2021 talk on Catch2 v3
12/1/2023 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 9 seconds
Physical Units and a System of Quantities
Mateusz Pusz joins Phil and new guest co-host, Anastasia Kazakova. Mateusz talks to us about his physical units (and quantities) library, mp-units, why v2 is a complete redesign compared to the previous version, and how incorporating a system of quantities is so central to this new design.
News
clang 17 released
Conference videos released in October
AMA with Abbas Sabra (automatic/ static analysis)
Is it too hard for junior developers to get on the C++ career ladder (Reddit)
Links
mp-units on GitHub
mp-units - Documentation
C++ on Sea 2023 video
The Mars Climate Orbiter crash
p1935 - "A C++ Approach to Physical Units"
p2980 - "A motivation, scope, and plan for a physical quantities and units library"
p2981 - "Improving our safety with a physical quantities and units library"
p2982 - "std::quantity as a numeric type"
p3003 - "The design of a library of number concepts"
10/20/2023 • 57 minutes, 38 seconds
AI and Random Numbers
Frances Buontempo joins Phil and returning guest co-host, Matt Godbolt. Frances talks to us about her new book on modern C++ as well as her the topic of her previous book on machine learning. We discuss the differences between LLM-based AI and more statistical approaches, as well as where random numbers fit into all this and the limitations of their current support in C++.
News
CppCon programme announced
C++ on Sea videos
"Inside STL" - The Old New Things
Open source C++ projects that use modern C++ features (Reddit)
Links
"C++ Bookcamp" (title may change) - Frances' new book
"Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning for Programmers" - Frances' previous book
Overload issues (submit articles on the main ACCU site)
Frances' paper bag escapology certificate
Shannon's mind reading paper
ERNIE (Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment)
P2059R0 - "Make Pseudo-random Numbers Portable" (defunct)
"Using, Generating and Testing with Pseudo-Random Numbers" - Frances' ACCU 2023 talk
"Program your way out of a paper bag" series:
"How to program your way out of a paper bag" (slides)
"How to Evolve Your Way Out of a Paper Bag" (video)
"Diffuse your way out of a paper bag" (video)
"How to Evolve Your Way Out of a Paper Bag" (video)
"Crowd Your Way Out of a Paper Bag" (video)
9/15/2023 • 59 minutes, 12 seconds
Automatic Static Analysis
Abbas Sabra joins Phil and Timur. Abbas talks to us about static analysis, the challenges - and benefits - of analysing C++ code, and a new feature from Sonar that can scan public repos with zero config.
News
Boost 1.83.0 released
fmt 10.1 released
The downsides of C++ Coroutines
Links
"All the defaults are backwards" - Phil's Lightning Talk
"No, C++ static analysis does not have to be painful" - Sonar blog
video showing Sonar's Automatic Analysis in action
Sonar Community Discourse forums
9/1/2023 • 53 minutes, 7 seconds
Soagen
Mark Gillard joins Timur and guest co-host Jason Turner. Mark talks to us about reflection, SIMD, and his library soagen, a structure-of-arrays generator for C++.
News
What is Low Latency C++? C++Now 2023, part 1
What is Low Latency C++? C++Now 2023, part 2
Inside STL: The vector
Inside STL: The string
Experimenting with Modules in Flux
pycmake
cpptrace
Links
Soagen on GitHub
Soagen documentation
Mike Acton: Data-Oriented Design and C++ at CppCon 2014
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach on SoA and reflection at ACCU 2023
Data-Oriented Design and Modern C++ at CppNow 2023
Godbolt's law
toml++ on GitHub
PVS-Studio: 60 terrible tips for a C++ developer
8/18/2023 • 52 minutes, 28 seconds
How CLion works under the hood
Dmitry Kozhevnikov joins Timur and guest co-host Matt Godbolt. Dmitry talks to us about how the CLion IDE works under the hood.
News
mold 2.0.0 released
CLion 2023.2 released
Should we stop writing functions?
Links
C++ Lambda Idioms: technique to separate user-specified and deduced template parameters
The Kotlin Foundation
JetBrains Runtime
CLion data flow analysis engine
PVS-Studio: 60 terrible tips for a C++ developer
8/4/2023 • 58 minutes, 31 seconds
Safety, Security and Modern C++, with Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup joins Phil and Timur. Bjarne talks to us about safety in C++ through profiles, as well as modules and concepts - and looks ahead to what else is coming next.
News
C++ Now 2023 videos
ACCU 2023 videos
JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey 2023
Upcoming Boost 1.83 release
Links
P2739R0 - 'A call to action: Think seriously about “safety"; then do something sensible about it'
P2687R0 - 'Design Alternatives for Type-and-Resource Safe C++'
'Contemporary C++ in Action' (video) - Daniela Engert
7/21/2023 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 48 seconds
Sequence-Oriented Programming
Tristan Brindle joins Timur and Phil. Tristan talks to us about a safer alternative to iterators and his library, Flux, that implements it.
News
60 terrible tips for a C++ developer
Big, combined, committee trip report from Varna
CLion 2023.2 EAP4: AI Assistant
"Making C++ Memory-Safe Without Borrow Checking, Reference Counting, or Tracing Garbage Collection"
Links
Episode 78 of CppCast, mentioning Cling
Episode of ADSP recorded at C++ on Sea
Episode 152 of CppCast, with Tristan and the C++ London Uni team
Flux on GitHub
7/7/2023 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 52 seconds
Contracts
Joshua Berne joins Phil and Timur. Joshua talks to us about the previous week's ISO C++ meeting in Varna, Bulgaria, then focuses on the current state of the contracts proposal that he has been central to, as well as a bit of its history.
News
ISO C++ trip report's from Varna:
Herb Sutter's trip report
Jonathan Müller's trip report
GCC 14 NRVO enhancements (Reddit)
P2025 proposes guaranteed NRVO
How to get NRVO before C++26
XCode 15 beta
Links
P2831 - "Functions having a narrow contract should not be noexcept"
P2521 - The current contracts MVP
P2695 - "A proposed plan for Contracts in C++"
P2811 - "Contract-Violation Handlers"
P2834 - "Semantic Stability Across Contract-Checking Build Modes"
P2877R0 - "Contract Build Modes, Semantics, and Implementation Strategies"
P2751 - "Evaluation of Checked Contract-Checking Annotations"
P2552 - "On the ignorability of standard attributes"
p2786 - "Trivial relocatability options"
P2839 - "Nontrivial Relocation via a New owning reference Type"
P0843R8 - "inplace_vector"
6/23/2023 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 4 seconds
Modules and build systems
Daniel Ruoso joins Phil and Timur. After covering a couple of blog posts and a new UI library, we welcome Daniel back to talk with us about modules, package and build systems and SG15, the tooling study group. We also revisit the Ecosystem International Standard.
News
Modern C++ In-Depth — Is string_view Worth It?
How to check if a pointer is in a range of memory - Raymond Chen
Nui - new C++ Webview UI library
Nui on Reddit
Timur's Undefined Behaviour survey
Links
P2898R0 - "Importable Headers are Not Universally Implementable"
"Clang Automated Refactoring for everyone with clangmetatool" - Daniel's C++ Now 2019 talk
P1689R5 - "Format for describing dependencies of source files" (Kitware)
6/9/2023 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 14 seconds
C++ in Finance
Antony Peacock joins Timur and Phil. After rounding up the news, we chat with Antony about what it's like to work in finance as a C++ developer, the similarities and differences to games dev and how you can break in to a role in finance. We also discuss what it's like to work in tech as someone with dyslexia.
News
Visual Studio 17.6 released
Valgrind 3.21 released
Snitch 1.1
Meeting C++ Call for Speakers (until June 18)
CppCon Call for Speakers (until June 25)
Links
P2547R1 - "Language Support for Customisable Functions"
Maven on C++
"How to get into the tech industry" (Maven's blog)
Interview question at Maven
"C++ 20 Techniques for Algorithmic Trading" (webinar)
"C++ Concepts and Fireside Chat on Algorithmic Trading" (webinar)
"C++ and Python for Algorithmic Trading" (webinar)
Example algo trading code from webinar series (1)
Example algo trading code from webinar series (2)
Antony's article on Neurodiversity and Dyslexia
Diversita (UK)
P0201R6 - "polymorphic_value: A Polymorphic Value Type for C++"
P1950R2 - "indirect_value: A Free-Store-Allocated Value Type For C++"
EVE - the Expressive Vector Engine
P1385R7 - "Linear Algebra"
P1935R2 - "A C++ Approach to Physical Units"
mp-units - Mateusz Pusz' implementation of physical units
P2547R0 - "Language support for customisable functions"
"Why tag_invoke is not the solution I want" - Barry Revzin
5/26/2023 • 54 minutes, 50 seconds
Conan 2.0
Luis Campos joins Phil and Timur. After some compiler and language news, we chat with Luis about the recent Conan 2.0 release, the state of package management in C++, today and what's happening in the world of C++ standards that may impact it in the future.
News
GCC 13 released
CppFront "spring update"
Mojo - a new language with Python-like syntax but runs like C++
CrabLang - a fork of Rust
Timur's Undefined Behaviour survey
Links
Conan 2.0
P2656R2 - "C++ Ecosystem International Standard"
Conan on Twitter
"A Lock-free Atomic shared_ptr" - Timur's C++ Now 2022 talk
"Advanced Dependencies Model in Conan 2.0" - Diego's ACCU 2022 talk
5/12/2023 • 58 minutes, 9 seconds
AI Infrastructure
Ashot Vardanian joins Timur and Phil. After some conference updates, news about the ISO C++ Developer Survey, Sonar integration in Compiler Explorer and some posts on modules and performance, we chat with Ashot Vardanian about AI and the infrastructure that underpins it. Ashot talks to us about some of the libraries and tools he and his startup have been developing over the past few years with some impressive numbers behind them.
News
Core C++ (Israel) - 5th-8th June
Meeting C++ 2023 - 12th-14th November
C++ Now 2023 - 7th-12th May
C++ on Sea 2023 schedule announced - 27th-30th June
CppNorth - 17th-19th July
2023 ISO C++ Developer Survey
"Sonar ❤️ Compiler Explorer: Write clean C++ code inside your browser"
"C++20 modules in clang"
"Horrible Code, Clean Performance"
Links
Unum (Ash's AI research company)
Unum repos on GitHub
Cpp Armenia User Group
4/28/2023 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 34 seconds
Native Languages (programming and natural)
Mathew Benson joins Phil and Timur. After some news on new dev tool releases and some welcome improvements to iostreams in GCC13, we talk to Mathew Benson about what it's like to learn and use C++ in Africa and the implications for the hardware and our choices in programming language. Mathew also draws an interesting parallel to natural languages.
News
CLion 2023.1 released
Qt Creator 10 released
Buck2 released
"A leaner <iostream> in libstdc++ for GCC 13"
Links
Timur's three-question Undefined Behaviour survey
CppAfrica on Twitter
CppAfrica on Discord
4/14/2023 • 53 minutes, 24 seconds
Cpp2, with Herb Sutter
Herb Sutter joins Phil and Timur. We catch up on the news about LLVM 16 being released, a new book on initialisation in C++ and a couple of new user groups. Then we talk to Herb about his new language/ alternate syntax, Cpp2, which compiles down to C++ in much the same way that C with Classes compiled down to C.
News
LLVM 16.0.0 released
"C++ initialisation story" - a new book by Bartlomiej Filipek
New user group forming in Prague - Miloš Anđelković
New user group forming in Helsinki - Timur Doumler
Links
CppFront - the compiler for Cpp2
"Can C++ be 10x Simpler & Safer?" - Herb's CppCon keynote introducing Cpp2 and CppFront
3/31/2023 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 25 seconds
Safety Critical C++
Andreas Weis joins Timur and Phil. After some news about Boost, std::format and performance, Andreas talks to us about safety critical application domains, safety in C++ in general, and the difference between safety in security.
News
Boost libraries may drop support for older language versions
"Fun with printing tables with std::format and C++20" - Bartlomiej Filipek
"C++20 Formatting Library, Parts 1. 2 and 3" - Gajendra Gulgulia
"Decreasing the Number of Memory Accesses, 1/2" - Ivica Bogosavljevic
using std::cpp (conference in Madrid)
Links
MUC++ (The Munich C++ User Group)
ComicSansMs - Andreas on StackOverflow
The EU's Cyber Resilience Act
"Why not simply implement borrow checking in C++?" - Sean Baxter on Twitter
P2771R0 - "Towards memory safety in C++"
"Rust Safety is not superior to C++" - Bjarne Stroustrup
P2739R0 - "A call to action: Think seriously about 'safety'; then do something sensible about it"
P2759R1 - "DG Opinion on safety for ISO C++"
P2723R1 - "Zero-initialize objects of automatic storage duration"
D2795R0 - "Correct and incorrect code, and 'erroneous behaviour'"
P2809R0 - "Trivial infinite loops are not Undefined Behavior"
MISRA
3/17/2023 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 50 seconds
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.
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
3/3/2023 • 58 minutes, 18 seconds
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.
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
P2806R0 - "Do Expressions"
Nina's user type categories 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"
2/17/2023 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 10 seconds
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'.
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
Exclusive Discount code for CppNorth registration (while available)
CppNorth mentoring email
CppNorth mentoring channel on Discord
Orsen Scott Card's Beekeeper Analogy
Verse, the new Unreal scripting language
Talk on Verse, by Simon Peyton Jones
"C++ Software Design" (book) - Klaus Iglberger
2/3/2023 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 14 seconds
Val and Mutable Value Semantics
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.
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
1/20/2023 • 48 minutes, 2 seconds
From Healthcare to Automotive
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 "
Links
ToastMasters
"Can software developers draw pictures" (Honey's CppCon 2020 Lightning Talk)
"SOLID Principles Unleashed" (Honey's CppIndia 2022 talk)
1/6/2023 • 53 minutes
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
"If we must, let's talk about safety" (Corentin Jabot)
P2723R0 "Zero-initialize objects of automatic storage duration" (JF Bastien)
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 Assumption" ([[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
12/23/2022 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 43 seconds
Podcast News and Updates
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
5/12/2022 • 1 hour, 41 seconds
Elements GUI Library
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
5/5/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Linear Algebra Standardization
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
4/28/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Rcpp
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
4/21/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
CppNorth
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
4/14/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Mentorship
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 at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
4/7/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Julia
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 at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
3/31/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Zig
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 at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
3/25/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
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
3/17/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
New C++ Scope and Debugging Support
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 its 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
3/10/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Secure Coding and Integers
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
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Effective C - An Introduction to Professional C Programming
Secure Coding in C and C++, 2nd Edition
The CERT C Coding Standard
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ISO/IEC TS 17961
ISO/IEC TS 17961 - Review Draft
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3/3/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Teaching Embedded Development
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
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San Jose State University GitHub
Khalil's YouTube Channel
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2/25/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
GDAL and PDAL
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
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GDAL
GDAL on GitHub
PDAL
PDAL on GitHub
Cloud Optimized Point Cloud
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2/18/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
5G Network Computing
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
Nerd Talk - Doug McIlroy & Brian Kernighan
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
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2/11/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Unix and C History
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)
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2/4/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Docker Development and Modernizing OOD
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
Amazon: Copy and Reference Puzzlers
Leanpub: Copy and Reference Puzzlers
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
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1/27/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Binary Exploits
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 Webb 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
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1/20/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
C++ Compile Time Parser Generator
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
Deadline24 2013 | Future Processing
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1/13/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
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
1/6/2022 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
New Years 2022
Rob and Jason discuss various news articles, libraries and announcements on the last episode of 2021 before the new year.
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
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12/31/2021 • 1 hour, 41 seconds
Distributing C++ Modules
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 Bret 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
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12/16/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Beautiful C++
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
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12/9/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Software Architecture with C++
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
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12/2/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Mdspan and Too Cute C++ Tricks
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
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11/25/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Deducing This
Rob and Jason 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
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11/11/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Visual Studio 2022
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
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11/4/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
C++23 ISO Progress
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
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10/28/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
JIT Compilation and Exascale Computing
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
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10/21/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
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
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10/14/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Autonomous UAS
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
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10/7/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Joedb
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
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9/30/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
CoreCpp 2021
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
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9/23/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Dart and Crafting Interpreters
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
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9/16/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Podcasting and Advocating
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
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9/9/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Learning C++ with Serenity
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
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9/2/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Insight Toolkit
Rob and Jason 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
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8/26/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Efficient Programming with Components
Rob and Jason 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)
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8/19/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
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
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8/12/2021 • 1 hour, 41 seconds
Performance Tuning
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
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8/5/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
STLab
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
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7/29/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
HPX and DLA Future
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
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7/22/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Improving Performance
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
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Beta-Testing of PVS-Studio Plugin for JetBrains CLion
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7/15/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Tipi.build
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
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tipi.build blog
@TipiBuild
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Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables
7/8/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
LFortran
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
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COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables
7/1/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Regression Testing with Touca
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
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6/25/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Modernizing DOSBox
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
<format> 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
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6/18/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
DAW JSON Link
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
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6/11/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Incredibuild in the Cloud
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
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6/4/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Spack
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 popular 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
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Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables
5/28/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
ABI Stability
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
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Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables
5/21/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Djinni
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
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5/14/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
SonarSource Analysis Tools
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++
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5/7/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Defer is better than Destructors
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
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4/30/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
ScummVM
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
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4/23/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
C++Builder
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
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Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables
4/16/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Rigel Engine
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
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Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
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4/9/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
One Lone Coder
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
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4/2/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Event Streaming
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!
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3/19/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Reducing Memory Allocations
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 emplace_back to push_back
Links
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Reducing Memory Allocations in a Large C++ Application - Slides- Arnaud Desitter [ C++ on Sea 2020 ]
heaptrack
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The Evil within the Comparison Functions
Top 10 Bugs Found in C++ Projects in 2020
3/12/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
The Old New Thing
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.
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3/5/2021 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Vcpkg Registries
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
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The Evil within the Comparison Functions
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2/26/2021 • 53 minutes, 53 seconds
Trading Systems
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
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2/19/2021 • 53 minutes, 53 seconds
Going Cross Platform
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
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2/12/2021 • 53 minutes, 53 seconds
Clang Power Tools and C++ Myths
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
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2/5/2021 • 53 minutes, 53 seconds
SOLID Design Principles
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
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1/28/2021 • 53 minutes, 53 seconds
Cheerp
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 is_constant_evaluated
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
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1/21/2021 • 53 minutes, 53 seconds
Priorities for C++23
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?
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1/15/2021 • 53 minutes, 50 seconds
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.
Transcript
Text Broadcast of CppCast 281 from PVS Studio
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
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1/7/2021 • 1 hour, 41 seconds
Goodbye 2020
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
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12/31/2020 • 1 hour, 41 seconds
TurtleBrowser
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
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12/24/2020 • 1 hour, 41 seconds
SerenityOS
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
SerenityOS
Serenity on GitHub
Andreas Kling's YouTube
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12/17/2020 • 56 minutes, 29 seconds
Virtual Teaching and Plenary
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.
Transcript
CppCast 277: Virtual Teaching and Plenary from PVS Studio
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
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12/10/2020 • 56 minutes, 29 seconds
Networking TS
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.
Transcript
CppCast 276: Networking TS Transcript from PVS Studio
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
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12/3/2020 • 56 minutes, 29 seconds
Fuzz Testing on the GPU
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
Rellic - Translates LLVM bitcode to C using Clang's AST library
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11/27/2020 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 21 seconds
Concepts and Algorithm Intuition
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
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11/19/2020 • 59 minutes, 38 seconds
Video Games, Robotics and Audio
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
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11/12/2020 • 59 minutes, 38 seconds
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
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11/5/2020 • 59 minutes, 42 seconds
ThinLTO
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
Qt 6.0 Beta Released
Range_ref
Rob and Jason AMA
Links
ThinLTO
CppCon 2017: Teresa Johnson "ThinLTO: Scalable and Incremental Link-Time Optimization"
Meeting C++ 2020 - ThinLTO Whole Program Optimization: Past, Present and Future
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10/30/2020 • 52 minutes, 12 seconds
Programming History, JIT Compilations and Generic Algorithms
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
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10/23/2020 • 53 minutes, 39 seconds
Bazel
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
10/16/2020 • 52 minutes, 9 seconds
Meeting C++ 2020
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
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10/9/2020 • 48 minutes, 13 seconds
Performance Matters
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
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10/1/2020 • 56 minutes, 17 seconds
CppCon 2020 Wrapup
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
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9/23/2020 • 56 minutes, 17 seconds
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
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9/17/2020 • 57 minutes, 35 seconds
stdpar
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
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9/10/2020 • 46 minutes
Unit Testing
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
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9/3/2020 • 58 minutes, 51 seconds
Cross Platform Mobile Telephony
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
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8/27/2020 • 51 minutes, 57 seconds
STX
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
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8/20/2020 • 28 minutes, 48 seconds
Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners
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
Amazon: Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners
Apress: Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners
Sponsors
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8/13/2020 • 46 minutes, 3 seconds
Go
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
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8/6/2020 • 43 minutes, 48 seconds
Visual Effects
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"
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7/30/2020 • 1 hour, 49 seconds
TensorFlow
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
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7/23/2020 • 51 minutes, 34 seconds
LLVM Hacking And CPU Instruction Sets
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
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7/16/2020 • 52 minutes, 9 seconds
Hyperion Renderer
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
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7/9/2020 • 52 minutes, 9 seconds
SYCL 2020
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++"
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7/2/2020 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 16 seconds
Azure IoT
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
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6/25/2020 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 49 seconds
Modules Present and Future
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
RustSec Advisory Database
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6/18/2020 • 58 minutes, 39 seconds
Web Assembly
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)
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6/11/2020 • 57 minutes, 34 seconds
Move Semantics
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
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6/4/2020 • 55 minutes, 16 seconds
Rider for Unreal Engine
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
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5/28/2020 • 53 minutes, 33 seconds
Catch2 and std::random
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
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5/21/2020 • 53 minutes, 49 seconds
Physical Units
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
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5/14/2020 • 52 minutes, 13 seconds
MSVC's STL and vcpkg
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
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5/7/2020 • 59 minutes, 18 seconds
Envoy Proxy
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
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4/30/2020 • 54 minutes, 13 seconds
Postmodern C++ Revisited
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?
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4/23/2020 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 6 seconds
Rosetta
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
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4/16/2020 • 52 minutes, 23 seconds
Making Nu Languages
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
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4/9/2020 • 58 minutes, 16 seconds
Intro to Modules
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
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4/2/2020 • 57 minutes, 57 seconds
C++ Build Insights
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
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Introducing C++ Build Insights
Analyze your builds programmatically with the C++ Build Insights SDK
Have full integration of Build Insights within Visual Studio
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3/26/2020 • 42 minutes, 7 seconds
Meson and the Meson Manual
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)
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3/19/2020 • 55 minutes
PVS-Studio Static Analysis
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
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3/12/2020 • 40 minutes, 53 seconds
Packs and Pipelines
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
P1185R2 <=> != ==
P1858R1 Generalized pack declaration and usage
P2011R0 A pipeline-rewrite operator
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3/5/2020 • 53 minutes, 26 seconds
Maintaining QtCore
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
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2/27/2020 • 57 minutes, 20 seconds
Prague Trip Report
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
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2/21/2020 • 45 minutes, 22 seconds
C++ on a Watch
Brad started programming in BASIC when he was 9, primarily on the Apple IIe, transitioning to QBASIC in high school. He graduated from Kansas State University in 2005 with a BS in Computer Science and a minor in Embedded Systems. While at K-State he enjoyed working on the solar car racing team, which built and raced a vehicle across the US and Canada. After graduating in 2005, Brad started work at Garmin, where he has worked on a variety of projects including Palm PDAs, Brew phone platforms, Android, iOS, and Automotive devices. He currently leads a team focused on bike computers and fitness watches. In his free time Brad enjoys working on home improvement projects, spending time with his wife and their 5 kids, and hobby programming.
News
Developer Ecosystem Survey
Five Awesome C++ Papers for the Prague ISO Meeting
Core C++ Announcement
Links
Garmin Connect IQ SDK
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2/13/2020 • 52 minutes, 39 seconds
Large Scale C++
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, Pablo Halpern "Getting Allocators out of Our Way"
CppCon 2019: Joshua Berne "Contract use: Past, Present, and Future"
CppCon 2019: Rostislav Khlebnikov "Avoid Misuse of Contracts!"
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2/6/2020 • 58 minutes, 45 seconds
WxWidgets
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
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1/30/2020 • 31 minutes, 53 seconds
Circle
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
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1/23/2020 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 20 seconds
Conference Organizing
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
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1/16/2020 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 26 seconds
Clang Hacking
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.
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 Feature: The Story of Concepts in Clang"
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1/9/2020 • 49 minutes, 46 seconds
C++ 2020 News
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
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1/2/2020 • 43 minutes, 16 seconds
OpenVDB
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.
News
Going Full Circle on Embed in C++
Qt 5.14 released
C++Now 2020 Accepting Student/Volunteer Applications
Links
OpenVDB
OpenVDB's GitHub Repository
2014 Sci-Tech Awards: Ken Museth, Peter Cucka and Mihai Aldén
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12/19/2019 • 57 minutes, 16 seconds
Difficult Bugs
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.
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: Satabdi Das "A Series of Unfortunate Bugs"
How to debug long running programs
Hack && Tell Boston
The Recurse Center
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12/12/2019 • 44 minutes, 2 seconds
Cache Friendliness
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.
News
C++20 and ReSharper C++
Clang-format tanks performance
Some intricacies of ABI stability
Links
Programming with Contracts in C++20 - Björn Fahller [C++ on Sea 2019]
Type safe C++ – LOL! :-) - Bjorn Fahller [ACCU 2018]
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12/4/2019 • 42 minutes, 23 seconds
The C++ ABI
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.'
News
Pittsburgh C++ Meetup Group
Sourcetrail is now free and open source
Guide to Performance Analysis and Tuning
Introducing C++ Build Insights
Links
ABI Now or Never
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
CppCon 2019: Titus Winters "Maintainability and Refactoring Impact of Higher-Level Design Features"
CppCon 2019: Chandler Carruth, Titus Winters "What is C++"
Hyrum's Law
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11/21/2019 • 51 minutes, 57 seconds
Belfast Trip Report
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
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11/14/2019 • 54 minutes, 7 seconds
CRTP and Israel joining the C++ ISO
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.
News
Doubling the speed of std::uniform_int_distribution in the GNU C++ library
Benchmarking is hard: processors learn to predict branches
Boost.UT C++20 macro-free Unit Testing Framework
C++20 The Big Four
ASAN for Windows with MSVC
Links
CppCon 2019: Inbal Levi "Back to Basics: Virtual Dispatch and its Alternatives"
Core C++ 2019
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11/7/2019 • 50 minutes, 4 seconds
Unicode for C++23
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.
News
ABI Now or Never
Eliminating the Static Overhead of Ranges
The Case for C++
C++ On Sea CFP
Links
CppCon 2019: JeanHeyd Meneide "Catch ⬆️: Unicode for C++23"
Text for C++
Embed (Library)
Embed on Godbolt
Support (Patreon/GitHub Sponsors)
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10/31/2019 • 1 hour, 44 seconds
Becoming involved with the C++ committee
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.
News
Pack the Bits - Adventures in small_bit_vector
ISO 2019-10 Mailing
Meetup: Payment changes comings soon
C++ On Sea Registration
Links
Argonne National Lab
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10/24/2019 • 53 minutes, 49 seconds
Election Security
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.
Links
NDC TechTown 2019 Keynote: Elections: Trust and Critical Infrastructure - Patricia Aas
TurtleSec
Tech Women Norway
Oslo C++ Users Group
#include discord
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10/17/2019 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 46 seconds
Commodore 64 and Tilt Five AR
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.
Links
C64 Direct-to-TV
Tilt Five
Kickstarter - Tilt Five: Holographic Tabletop Gaming
Update 1 - Tilt Five SDK
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10/10/2019 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 42 seconds
Vehicle Control Software
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 Peloton Technology to enable the 'platooning' of trucks with software written in C++.
Links
CppCon 2019 Keynotes
CppCon 2019 Trip Report
LLVM 9.0.0 Release
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10/3/2019 • 56 minutes, 4 seconds
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
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9/26/2019 • 42 minutes, 50 seconds
Provable Functions at CppCon 2019
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.
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
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9/19/2019 • 41 minutes, 36 seconds
C++ Extensions
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.
News
Reacting to Dropbox: another take on cross-platform C++ development
Tool Time 2019
Call for Open Content Sessions
Student and Support Tickets for Meeting C++ 2019
Links
Non-conforming C++: the Secrets the Committee is Hiding From You
pinned_vector - Miro Knejp & Jakob Schweißhelm - Meeting C++ 2018
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9/12/2019 • 42 minutes, 54 seconds
Professional CMake
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.'
News
CMake: the Case when the Project's Quality is Unforgivable
PVS Studio The Last Line Effect
Serenity: Graphical x86 operating system written entirely in C++
Talks and Speakers of Meeting C++ 2019 are online
Links
"Professional CMake: A Practical Guide"
CppCon: Deep CMake for Library Authors
Publishing Effective Modern C++, Part 1
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9/5/2019 • 46 minutes, 44 seconds
C++ Epochs
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.
News
C++ Cross-Platform Development with VS 2019 16.3 vcpkg, Cmake config, remote headers and WSL
Post-Cologne mailing
Links
Fixing C++ with Epochs
C++ 11/14 for C++03 Developers
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8/29/2019 • 55 minutes, 45 seconds
AWS Lambda
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.
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
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8/22/2019 • 45 minutes, 36 seconds
mdspan and /r/cpp
Rob and Jason are joined by Bryce Adelstein Lelbach from NVIDIA. They discuss the mdspan proposal that first introduced Bryce to the C++ ISO committee. They also review Bryce's role as moderator for the /r/cpp subreddit and talk about the upcoming CppCon 2019 conference.
News
Resharper 2019.2 released
Game Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2019 16.2
The German Center for Aerospace (DLR) just open sourced CosmoScout VR, which is a universe 'simulator' written in modern C++
Links
P0009r9: mdspan: A Non-Owning Multidimensional Array Reference
P1684r0: mdarray: An Owning Multidimensional Array Analog of mdspan
P1767r0: Packaging C++ Modules
/r/cpp/
CppCon 2019
CppCon 2018: Bryce Adelstein Lelbach "The C++ Execution Model"
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8/15/2019 • 52 minutes, 37 seconds
Secure Coding
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++ with epochs
Child Care at CppCon
Matt Butler
Matt Butler's Blog
Links
CppCon 2018: Matthew Butler "Secure Coding Best Practices: Your First Line is the Last Line of Defense"
C++Now 2019: Matthew Butler "Secure Coding Best Practices - Threat Hunting"
P1705 - Enumerating Undefined Behavior
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8/8/2019 • 58 minutes, 54 seconds
Approval Tests
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
@ClareMacraeUK
Clare Macrae's Blog
Links
C++ Approval Tests
Approval Tests
#include
Happy one-of-our-birthdays #include!
Sponsoring Diverse CppCon 2019 Attendees
#include sponsorship for CppCon 2019
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8/1/2019 • 52 minutes, 28 seconds
Cologne Trip Report
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 HMI/IO, and SG15 tooling study groups. His contributions to C++20 include the new char8_t builtin type. A C++ minion with 20 years professional experience. Husband and father of two awesome boys.
Botond Ballo
@BotondBallo
Botond Ballo's Blog
Tom Honermann
@tahonermann
Tom Honermann's Blog
Links
2019-07 Cologne ISO C++ Committee Trip Report
p1607 - Minimizing Contracts
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7/25/2019 • 1 hour, 47 seconds
GitKraken
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
GitKraken
Axosoft
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7/11/2019 • 57 minutes, 5 seconds
CMake and VTK
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
CppCheck detect more uninitalized variable usage
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
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@lefticus
7/4/2019 • 57 minutes, 32 seconds
Functional Programming in C++
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++ - Ivan Čukić - Meeting C++ 2016
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@lefticus
6/27/2019 • 45 minutes, 17 seconds
Movable Iterators
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
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@lefticus
6/20/2019 • 48 minutes, 33 seconds
Factorio
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
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@lefticus
6/14/2019 • 1 hour, 2 minutes
Pattern Matching
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
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6/5/2019 • 52 minutes, 19 seconds
Simplifying C++
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
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5/28/2019 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 39 seconds
Constexpr Evaluation
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, ASAN for Linux, Seperation of Build and Debug
EnTT v3 is release
Announcing C++Now 2020
Daveed Vandevoorde
Daveed Vandevoorde
Links
C++ Russia 2018: Daveed Vandevoorde, Reflective Metaprogramming in C++
C++ Templates: The Complete Guide
Direction for ISO C++
Scalable Reflection in C++
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5/23/2019 • 54 minutes, 1 second
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"
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5/9/2019 • 43 minutes, 10 seconds
Reflection TS
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 Sankel
David Sankel's GitHub
Links
C++ Reflection TS
C++Now 2018: David Sankel "C++17's std::pmr Comes with a Cost"
CppCon 2017: David Sankel "So, you inherited a large code base..."
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5/2/2019 • 41 minutes, 41 seconds
CPPP
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 compilation
C++ 17/20 Features and Fixes in VS 2019
ACCU Trip Report
CppCon 2019 Call for Submissions
Registration for CppCon 2019 is Open
Fred Tingaud
@FredTingaudDev
Fred Tingaud's GitHub
Joël Falcou
@joel_f
Joël Falcou's GitHub
Links
CPPP
Quick C++ Benchmark
Practical C++ Metaprogramming
CppCon 2018: Fred Tingaud "A Little Order: Delving into the STL algorithms"
CppCon 2017: Joël Falcou "I Wish I could Use C++ 1x/y/z"
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4/25/2019 • 55 minutes, 53 seconds
fmt
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
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False Positives in PVS-Studio: How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes
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@lefticus
4/18/2019 • 41 minutes, 58 seconds
Linear Algebra and Audio
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 library
A Standard Audio API for C++:Motivation, Scope, and Basic Design
CppCon 2018: Guy Davidson "Lightweight 2D graphics with io2d"
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Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes
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@robwirving
@lefticus
4/11/2019 • 46 minutes, 20 seconds
Boden Cross-Platform Framework
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
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@robwirving
@lefticus
4/4/2019 • 48 minutes, 49 seconds
Reverse Engineering C++
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
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@lefticus
3/28/2019 • 45 minutes, 23 seconds
Visual C++ Updates
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.
Sy 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, Sy Brand, Tara Raj and Bob Brown
@mluparu
@TartanLlama
@tara_msft
Bob Brown
Links
Visual Studio 2019 Launch Event
Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 Blog Rollup
Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension: January 2019 Update
Sponsors
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False Positives in PVS-Studio: How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes
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@lefticus
3/21/2019 • 49 minutes, 10 seconds
News Roundup
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
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@lefticus
3/15/2019 • 36 minutes, 11 seconds
RxCpp and Executors
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 Distributed In Time"
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3/7/2019 • 54 minutes, 29 seconds
Kona Trip Report
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
Links
CppCon 2018: Peter Bindels "Build Systems: a Simple Solution to a Complicated Problem"
C++Now 2018: Peter Bindels "A View to a View"
Concerns about module toolability
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2/28/2019 • 57 minutes, 36 seconds
Analyzing Undefined Behavior
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"
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2/21/2019 • 54 minutes, 14 seconds
Leaf and 'What is Programming?'
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
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2/14/2019 • 44 minutes, 20 seconds
libc++
Rob and Jason are joined by Eric Fiselier to talk about libc++ and his contributions to the library.
Eric is as 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
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@robwirving
@lefticus
1/31/2019 • 51 minutes, 48 seconds
SG20
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 Generation"
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1/24/2019 • 46 minutes, 32 seconds
Boost DI and SML
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 GitHub
Kris Jusiak's Website
Links
[Boost].DI
[Boost].SML
CppCon 2018: Kris Jusiak "State Machines Battlefield - Naive vs STL vs Boost"
CppCon 2018: Kris Jusiak "[Boost].DI - Inject all the things!"
C++Now 2016: Kris Jusiak: A C++14 Dependency Injection Library
Concepts driven design - Kris Jusiak - Meeting C++ 2017
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1/17/2019 • 55 minutes, 36 seconds
Trivially Relocatable
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
cpp_feature_flags
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 2018: Arthur O'Dwyer "The Best Type Traits that C++ Doesn't Have"
CppCon 2018: Arthur O'Dwyer "Trivially Relocatable"
Trivially Relocatable on Compiler Explorer
P1154R0 Type traits for structural comparison
P1155R1 More implicit moves
P1144R1 Object relocation in terms of move plus destroy
Mastering the C++17 STL
Sponsors
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1/10/2019 • 1 hour, 45 seconds
ISO Papers and Merged Modules
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 one day own two german shepherds named Rip and Tear.
News
Modern C++ Lamentations
C++ at the end of 2018
Getting you there - your C++ standardization efforts in 2019
Visual Studio Intellicode
Isabella Muerte
@slurpsmadrips
Isabella's Twitch
Isabella's GitHub
Isabella's Blog
Links
aliasa.io
P0468R1 An Intrusive Smart Pointer
P1272R0 Byteswapping for fun&&nuf
P1275R0 Desert Sessions: Improving hostile environment interactions
P1276R0 Void Main
P1279R0 std::breakpoint
P1280R0 Integer Width Literals
CppCon 2017: Isabella Muerte "There Will Be Build Systems: I Configure Your Milkshake"
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1/3/2019 • 1 hour, 9 seconds
Semantic Merge
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
Pablo Santos
Links
Semantic Merge
Plastic SCM
gmaster
Plastic SCM Blog
Sponsors
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JetBrains
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@lefticus
12/21/2018 • 49 minutes, 29 seconds
San Diego EWGI Trip Report
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
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JetBrains
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@robwirving
@lefticus
12/13/2018 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 6 seconds
Performance Analysis and Optimization
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
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@lefticus
12/6/2018 • 54 minutes, 9 seconds
TDD, BDD, Low Latency and CppCon
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 - Lenny Maiorani "Test-Drive Performance"
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@lefticus
11/29/2018 • 56 minutes, 32 seconds
SIMD Wrapper Libraries
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
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@lefticus
11/22/2018 • 59 minutes, 45 seconds
San Diego LEWG Trip Report
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
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@lefticus
11/15/2018 • 52 minutes, 34 seconds
Learning C++
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.
Devon is a 26 year old coming from a military family, he enjoys challenges physically and mentally, playing video games and creating them, learning, watching tv, puzzles, art, science, comedy, philosophy, programming and of course C++.
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
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11/8/2018 • 50 minutes, 23 seconds
C++ Bestiary
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
C++ on Sea Schedule
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 Compendium of Cryptic Characters
The Salami Method of Cross Platform Development
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11/1/2018 • 52 minutes, 45 seconds
Meeting C++ and Embedded
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
Meeting C++ 2018
Meeting Embedded 2018
Meeting C++ Recruiting
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10/26/2018 • 46 minutes, 46 seconds
Compile Time Regular Expressions
Rob and Jason are joined by Hana Dusíková to discuss her compile time regular expressions library, the Prague user group and her proposal for implicit constexpr.
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
CppCon 2018: Hana Dusíková "Compile Time Regular Expressions"
Compile Time Regular Expressions Presentation Slides
Avast Prague C++ Meetup
P1235R0: Implicit constexpr
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10/19/2018 • 45 minutes, 39 seconds
WebAssembly and nxxm
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
belle::vue open source project
C++ Everywhere with WebAssembly
C++ Everywhere with WebAssembly Slidedeck
Calls between Javascript and WebAssembly are finally fast
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10/12/2018 • 53 minutes, 22 seconds
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"
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10/4/2018 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 32 seconds
CppCon Preview
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 a member of the ISO C++ standard committee. He worked on the C++17 parallel algorithms; today, he works on standardizing better futures, executors, and multi-dimensional arrays.
News
Crash course in Qt for C++ developers
Using C++ 17 Parallel Algorithms for Better Performance
CppCon Lightning Talks and Challenge
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach
@blelbach
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach's GitHub
Links
CppCon
p1062R0 Diet Graphics
Sponsors
Download PVS-Studio
We Checked the Android Source Code by PVS-Studio, or Nothing is Perfect
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
9/20/2018 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 42 seconds
CppQuiz
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 Group
Sponsors
Download PVS-Studio
We Checked the Android Source Code by PVS-Studio, or Nothing is Perfect
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
9/13/2018 • 57 minutes, 31 seconds
CppCon Poster Program and Interface Design
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 2017 Update 8
Function poisoning in C++
Bob Steagall
Bob Steagall's GitHub
The State Machine
Links
C++Now 2018: Bob Steagall "If I had My 'Druthers: A Proposal for Improving Containers in C++2x"
Fancy Pointers for Fun and Profit
Fast Conversion From UTF-8 with C++, DFAs, and SSE Intrinsics
Interface Design for Modern C++
Sponsors
Backtrace
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
9/7/2018 • 59 minutes, 30 seconds
Formal Verification
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
Matt Fernandez
@wattsamata
Links
The sel4 Microkernel
Isabelle - Generic Proof Assistant
The Coq Proof Assistant
Dafny - Microsoft language and program verifier
Z3 Theorem Prover
Sponsors
Backtrace
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
8/31/2018 • 55 minutes, 10 seconds
SYCL
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: Gordon Brown "Designing a Unified Interface for Execution"
SYCL building blocks for C++ libraries - Gordon Brown - Meeting C++ 2016
Sponsors
PVS-Studio
February 31
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
8/24/2018 • 46 minutes, 29 seconds
Sourcetrail
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
Sourcetrail
Sourcetrail 2018.3
C++Now 2018: Eberhard Gräther "The Untapped Potential of Software Visualization"
Sponsors
PVS-Studio
February 31
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
8/17/2018 • 53 minutes, 5 seconds
The Art of C++ Libraries
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
json
postgres
Sponsors
Backtrace
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
8/9/2018 • 56 minutes, 26 seconds
Expectations and Exceptions
Rob and Jason are joined by Sy Brand to discuss his upcoming CppCon talks covering exceptions, value wrappers, debuggers and more.
News
The value of undefined behavior
Qt Creator 4.7 released
Coroutines and Qt
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 Functions
Sponsors
Backtrace
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
8/2/2018 • 49 minutes, 18 seconds
Parallel Ranges
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 Bella
@cjdb_ns
Christopher Di Bella's GitHub
Links
cpp.standardisation.au@gmail.com
Generic Programming 2.0 with Concepts and Ranges
P0836R1 Introduce Parallelism to the
Ranges TS
SYCL Parallel STL
Sponsors
PVS-Studio
February 31
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
7/26/2018 • 53 minutes, 51 seconds
Design Patterns in Modern C++
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
7/19/2018 • 46 minutes, 14 seconds
Future of 2D Graphics Proposal
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
The 2D Graphics TS
2D or not 2D: that is the question: Rapperswil trip report
io2d
Sponsors
Backtrace
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
7/12/2018 • 46 minutes, 37 seconds
Modern C++ in Embedded Systems
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 Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
7/5/2018 • 46 minutes, 48 seconds
SG15 Tooling Group
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
6/28/2018 • 54 minutes, 44 seconds
C++ Insights
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
6/21/2018 • 50 minutes, 1 second
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
6/15/2018 • 45 minutes, 34 seconds
Vcpkg
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 Docs
Sponsors
Backtrace
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
6/7/2018 • 47 minutes, 55 seconds
C++ London Uni
Rob and Jason are joined by Tom Breza, Oliver Ddin and Tristan Brindle to discuss the C++ London Uni group and their approach to teaching C++ to the community.
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 developing C++ and the wider ecosystem around it.
Tristan is an independent contractor and C++ enthusiast based in London. He’s particularly interested in standardisation and making C++ an easier language to use and teach. He can be found on Twitter @tristanbrindle and occasionally blogs about C++ at tristanbrindle.com.
News
Bjarne Stroustrup P0977r0 "Remember the Vasa"
Celebration of Towel Day with awesome pieces of code that print 42
Pacific++ Call for Speakers
CppCon Call for Program Committee Members
Tom Breza
@TomBreza
Oliver Ddin
@olipro
Tristan Brindle
@tristanbrindle
Links
C++ London Uni
Sponsors
PVS-Studio
The Evil within the Comparison Functions
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
5/31/2018 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 17 seconds
sol2 and std::embed
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 Comparison Functions
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
5/24/2018 • 58 minutes, 18 seconds
Freestanding Proposal
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
5/17/2018 • 58 minutes, 41 seconds
CppChat
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 Indirection
Links
CppChat
Modern C++ testing with Catch2 - Phil nash - Meeting C++ 2017
C++ on Sea
Sponsors
PVS-Studio
The Evil within the Comparison Functions
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
5/10/2018 • 45 minutes, 4 seconds
C++ Simplicity
Rob and Jason are joined by Kate Gregory to discuss her recent talk at ACCU, Pluralsight courses and include C++.
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
CppChat
Design Patterns in Modern C++
Announcing a single C++ library manager for linux, macOS and Windows: vcpkg
Conan 1.3.0 released
March 2018 ISO C++ Meeting Trip Report (SG1 Concurrency and Parallelism)
Kate Gregory
@gregcons
Kate Gregory's Blog
Links
Meeting C++ 2017 - Kate Gregory: "It's Complicated"
ACCU 2018 - Kate Gregory: "Simplicity: not just for beginners"
Meeting C++ 2017 - Kate Gregory: "5 Things I figured out while..."
Pluralsight: C++ Fundamentals Including C++17
Sponsors
PVS-Studio
The Evil within the Comparison Functions
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
5/3/2018 • 53 minutes
C++ Patterns
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 MakeCode: from C++ to TypeScript and Blockly (and Back)
Introduction to web development in C++ with WT 4
Kevlin Henney
@KevlinHenney
Kevlin Henney's Blog
Links
Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
ACCU 2018 - Kevlin Henney: "Procedural Programming: It's Back? It Never Went Away"
Sponsors
PVS-Studio
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
4/26/2018 • 58 minutes, 25 seconds
CppDock and nbdl
Rob and Jason are joined by Jason Rice to discuss C++ Web Application Development and his libraries CppDock and nbdl.
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 C++
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
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
4/19/2018 • 46 minutes, 36 seconds
Blogging and Text Processing
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
Bartłomiej Filipek
@fenbf
Bartek's coding blog
Links
C++17 Resources
Xara
Xara Cloud: Getting Started
C++ User Group Krakow
Sponsors
JetBrains
CppCast Patreon
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
4/12/2018 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 38 seconds
News Roundup
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
4/5/2018 • 32 minutes, 15 seconds
C++ and Typescript at Ubisoft Massive
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
@robwirving
@lefticus
3/29/2018 • 55 minutes, 48 seconds
Jacksonville Trip Report
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 changing number of cats, dogs and other animals.
News
C++Now 2018 schedule online
Text Formatting at the ISO C++ Standards meeting in Jacksonville
2018 Jacksonville ISO C++ Committee Reddit Trip Report
Patrice Roy
@PatriceRoy1
Patrice Roy's Blog
Links
ISO C++ Jacksonville Agenda
Sponsors
Backtrace
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
3/22/2018 • 1 hour, 58 seconds
News Roundup
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
3/15/2018 • 31 minutes, 23 seconds
Conference News and CppChat
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: "add_library() and add_executable() 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
@robwirving
@lefticus
3/1/2018 • 50 minutes, 51 seconds
Competitive Coding
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
@lefticus
2/23/2018 • 54 minutes, 33 seconds
API & ABI Versioning
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 Guide to Modern CMake
Bincrafters Blog
Sponsors
think-cell software
Embo++
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
2/16/2018 • 52 minutes, 33 seconds
Qt Mobile Development
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 Accelerator 2017. Currently working on Sortal - the startup's revolutionary AI powered photo software - Sarah is responsible for all things tech including the scalable architecture, mobile implementation and deep-learning technology.
Sarah is an international speaker and expert in creative teams and agile projects; mobile development and technical architecture for apps. She has worked for a decade in her discretionary time on diversity in hiring and helping women coders.
News
Outcome accepted into Boost
C++ Modules, Working Draft N4720
Dr Bjarne Stroustrup Named Recipient of the 2018 IEEE-CS Computer Pioneer Award
Sarah Smith
@sarah_j_smith
Sarah Smith on LinkedIn
Sarah Smith's GitHub
Links
Pacific++ 2017: Sarah Smith "Postcards from the Cross-platform Frontier"
Qt DevDays 2011, 3D-Programming Using Qt Quick on N9, Part 2: Sarah Smith
Sortal
Smithsoft
Sponsors
think-cell software
Embo++
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
2/9/2018 • 54 minutes, 50 seconds
foonathan/type_safe and more
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
2/1/2018 • 40 minutes, 45 seconds
Think-Cell Ranges
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 in 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
Links
think-cell range library
think-cell Talks and Publications
think-cell Funds the Working Group for Programming Languages of the German Institute for Standardization (DIN)
think-cell Sponsors the Standard C++ Foundation
think-cell C++ Jobs
Work Life at think-cell
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
1/25/2018 • 45 minutes, 50 seconds
Data Oriented Design
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
@robwirving
@lefticus
1/18/2018 • 1 hour, 17 seconds
Meltdown and Spectre
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 Godbolt "x86 Internals for Fun & Profit"
Patreon: Matt Godbolt is creating Compiler Explorer
Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360
Meltdown and Spectre
Vulnerability Note VU#584653
Sponsors
Backtrace
Embo++
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
1/11/2018 • 54 minutes, 42 seconds
Boost Application Development
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 GitHub
Antony Polukhin's Blog
Links
Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook
Boost C++ Libraries
StdCppRu
Telegram C++ Channel
Sponsors
Undo
Embo++
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
1/4/2018 • 40 minutes, 12 seconds
C++ Object Model
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
12/21/2017 • 56 minutes, 7 seconds
Reverse Debugging
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 Computer Society Distinguished Dissertation Award. He lives in Cambridge, UK with his wife and two children and in his spare time, catches up on email.
News
Building a C++ SIMD abstraction
C++17 Feature Removals and Deprecations
A call for data on exceptions
Greg Law
@gregthelaw
Links
Undo
Undo Blog
Reverse debugging / time-travel debugging: a brief history of time
CppCon 2016: Greg Law "GDB - A Lot More Than You Knew"
CppCon 2017: J. McNellis, J. Mola, K. Sykes "Time Travel Debugging"
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
12/14/2017 • 49 minutes, 51 seconds
C++ Tour, Compilers and FASTBuild
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
Appico
Cpp Tour
FASTBuild
Kai Wolf's Effective CMake Book
Sponsors
Undo
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
12/7/2017 • 58 minutes, 33 seconds
Clang Power Tools
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
Sy Brand Meeting C++ Trip Report
C++ Coroutines: Understanding operator co_await
Cmake 3.1.0 released
Launching Tech Talks in your workplace
2017 Coding Toys
Victor Ciura
@ciura_victor
Links
Advanced Installer
Caphyon
Clang Power Tools
Clang Power Tools GitHub
CppCon 2017: Victor Ciura "Bringing Clang-tidy Magic to Visual Studio C++ Developers"
Sponsors
Backtrace
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
11/30/2017 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 12 seconds
Oculus Research
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
Oculus Connect 3 Opening Keynote: Michael Abrash
Sponsors
Backtrace
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
11/23/2017 • 53 minutes, 37 seconds
VS Code
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-root workspaces support is here!
Visual C++ Team Blog
Sponsors
Backtrace
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
11/16/2017 • 54 minutes, 43 seconds
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
11/2/2017 • 37 minutes, 42 seconds
Build Systems and Modules
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"
Sponsors
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
10/26/2017 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 22 seconds
Grace Hopper Conference
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 Auralization and Visualization of Sorting Algorithms
Trip Report JetBrains at CppCon
Gina Stephens
Gina Stephens
Links
Grace Hopper Celebration
St Louis C++ Meetup
Sponsors
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
10/19/2017 • 42 minutes, 28 seconds
Abseil
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"
Sponsors
Backtrace
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
10/12/2017 • 52 minutes, 27 seconds
PLF List
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
10/5/2017 • 48 minutes, 8 seconds
Java
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
9/28/2017 • 48 minutes, 8 seconds
C# and IL2CPP
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
9/21/2017 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 34 seconds
FluentC++
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
Jonathan Boccara
@JoBoccara
Links
FluentC++
STL Learning Resource
Spread Knowledge in Your Company with Your "Daily C++"
Murex
Going Native 2013: Sean Parent "C++ Seasoning"
Sponsors
Backtrace
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
9/14/2017 • 59 minutes, 30 seconds
DebugView++
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 controllers 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
Jan Wilmans
@janwilmans
Jan Wilmans' GitHub
Links
DebugView++
LibIdentify
OpenCanary
Executors Proposal
Sponsors
Backtrace
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
9/8/2017 • 59 minutes, 35 seconds
Volta and Cuda C++
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
9/1/2017 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 49 seconds
Meeting C++ and /r/cpp_review
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_review
Meeting Embedded
Ultimate List of Developer Podcasts
Dlib - a modern C++ toolkit containing machine learning algorithms
The Cherno Project
Sponsors
Backtrace
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
8/24/2017 • 59 minutes, 52 seconds
Building Debuggers and Keyboards
Rob and Jason are joined by Sy Brand from Codeplay Software to talk about building C++ debuggers and the hardware and C++ firmware of a custom keyboard.
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
Links
minidbg - A mini x86 linux debugger for teaching purposes
Building my first custom keyboard
Accelerating your C++ on GPU with SYCL
Codeplay Software
Sponsors
Backtrace
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
8/17/2017 • 48 minutes, 41 seconds
Synchronization Primitives
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 scalability and performance. Samy serves on the ACM Queue Editorial Board.
News
ReactiveX
Beast accepted to Boost
A summary of the metaclasses proposal for C++
C++17 in details: Filesystem
CppCon 2017 Schedule
Samy Bahra
@0xF390
Links
C++Now 2017: Samy Bahra "Multicore Synchronization: The Lesser-Known Primitives"
"Multicore Synchronization: The Lesser-Known Primitives" Slides
Concurrency Kit
Sponsors
Backtrace
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
8/10/2017 • 44 minutes, 39 seconds
GCC Compiler Development
Rob and Jason are joined by Krister Walfridsson to talk about some of his contributions to the GCC Compiler.
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 architectures.
News
libq
Metaclasses: Thoughts on generative C++
6 Reasons Why We Distribute C++ Libraries as Source Code
Undefined Behavior in 2017
Krister Walfridsson
@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
8/3/2017 • 51 minutes, 46 seconds
Toronto Trip Report
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 animals.
News
Diagnostic Improvements in VS 2017 15.3.0
Boost to move to cmake build and test
Trip Report: My first ISO C++ Standards meeting
Patrice Roy
@PatriceRoy1
Patrice Roy's Blog
Links
Patrice's Trip Report (French)
CppCon Course: Practical Modern C++
Sponsors
Backtrace
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
7/27/2017 • 53 minutes, 33 seconds
Coroutines
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
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Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
7/19/2017 • 56 minutes, 33 seconds
CopperSpice
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
CopperSpice GitHub
CopperSpice YouTube Channel
DoxyPress
CppCon 2015: Barbara Geller & Ansel Sermersheim "CopperSpice: A Pure C++ GUI Library"
CppCon 2015: Barbara Geller & Ansel Sermersheim "Doxygen to DoxyPress"
Sponsors
Backtrace
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
7/10/2017 • 1 hour, 48 seconds
Teaching Concepts
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
CppCon: Exploring the C++ Standard Library
Concepts TS
Range v3 Library
Range TS/STL2
C++ Extension for Ranges
Advanced C++ Programming Course Notes
Book: "Writing Secure Code"
Book: "Code Complete"
Book: "A Tour of C++"
Seth Bling "Hacking the Super Mario World"
Sponsors
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Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
Better C++/Chicago
7/5/2017 • 53 minutes, 42 seconds
<chrono> and more
Rob and Jason are joined by Howard Hinnant from Ripple to talk about <chrono>, 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, unique_ptr, chrono, condition_variable_any, shared_mutex 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 \<chrono> Tutorial"
CppCon 2015: Howard Hinnant “A C++14 approach to dates and times"
CppCon 2016: Howard Hinnant "Welcome To The Time Zone"
A Proposal to Add Move Semantics Support to the C++ Language
Sponsors
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Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
Better C++/Chicago
6/28/2017 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
system_error and Boost Outcome Review
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
6/21/2017 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 57 seconds
stlab Concurrency
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
Felix Petriconi's GitHub
Links
stlab concurrency
stlab GitHub
ACCU 2017 'The Art of Writing Reasonable Concurrent Code'
ACCU 2016 'Leaving The Dark Side - Developing a C++ Based Medical Device'
Sponsors
Backtrace
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
Better C++/Chicago
6/14/2017 • 53 minutes, 7 seconds
Postmodern C++
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
@lefticus
Better C++/Chicago
6/8/2017 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 41 seconds
Travis CI
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
6/1/2017 • 49 minutes, 49 seconds
Boost Outcome
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
ACCU 2017: Niall Douglas "Mongrel Monads, Dirty, Dirty, Dirty"
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
5/25/2017 • 55 minutes, 19 seconds
Build 2017
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
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Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
5/12/2017 • 56 minutes, 48 seconds
Past, Present and Future of C++
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 25 years. He holds a master’s in Mathematics from Aarhus University and a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University, where he is an honorary fellow of Churchill College.
News
C++ Montreal
HPX V1.0 Released
A serious bug in GCC
What's New in ReSharper C++ 2016.3 and 2017.1
Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup's homepage
Links
A Tour of C++
The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition)
CppCon 2016: Bjarne Stroustrup "The Evolution of C++ Past, Present and Future"
Sponsors
Backtrace
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus
5/4/2017 • 50 minutes, 35 seconds
Intel C++ Compiler
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 tools. He was previously a developer working on Intel compilers, focusing on OpenMP parallel programming model for technical and scientific computing workloads. He has extensive experience in high performance computing, both at Intel and previously. Udit holds an MBA in General Management from Cornell University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Houston.
News
Sandstorm
Cap'n Proto
cppast - A library to parse and work with the C++ AST
Exposing containers of unique pointers
Clang-include-fixer
Anoop Prabha
Anoop Prabha
Udit Patidar
Udit Patidar
Links
Free Intel Software Development Tools
Intel Parallel Studio XE Suite Page
Intel System Studio Suite Page
Intel C++ Compiler Product Page
C++11 support
C++14 support
C++17 support
Intel C++ Compiler Forum
Sponsors
Conan.io
JetBrains
4/27/2017 • 57 minutes, 41 seconds
Hippomocks and cpp-dependencies
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 into an STL container efficently
2017 Keynote - Ryan Newton - Haskell Taketh Away
CLion 2017.1 released: C++14, C++17, PCH, disassembly view, Catch, MSVC and more
An introduction to Reflection in C++
Peter Bindels
@dascandy42
Peter Bindels' GitHub
Links
Hippomocks framework
cpp-dependencies
Meeting C++ 2016: Peter Bindels - How to understand million-line C++ projects
Lightning Talks Meeting C++ 2016: Peter Bindels - Mocking C++
Sponsors
Conan.io
JetBrains
4/20/2017 • 49 minutes, 11 seconds
Vcsn
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 students of his to be part of the Infinit team at Docker.
News
Announcing Meeting C++ 2017
C++Now 2017 Keynote: Ali Çehreli - Competitive Advantage with D
Reduce C++ Build Times by Reducing Header Dependencies
Capturing *this in C++11, 14 and 17
Akim Demaille
Akim Demaille's GitHub
Links
Vcsn home page
Vcsn Online Sandbox
The Tiger Project
Johnny Five
Technical report about runtime instantiation in C++
Sponsors
Incredibuild
JetBrains
4/13/2017 • 47 minutes, 47 seconds
Jewelbots
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 Chipps' Blog
Links
Jewelbots
Jewelbots Support
Jewelbots is a friendship bracelet that teaches girls how to code
Johnny Five
Girl Develop It
Flat Iron School
Sponsors
Incredibuild
JetBrains
4/7/2017 • 45 minutes, 12 seconds
C++17 Kona Update
Rob and Jason are joined by Patrice Roy to discuss the state of C++17 after the recent ISO Standards meeting at Kona.
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 animals.
News
Herb Sutter's Trip report: Winter ISO C++ standards meeting, C++17 is complete
Botond's Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Kona, February 2017
Software Engineering Institute Makes CERT C++ Coding Standard Freely Available
C++ Now 2017 Program Available
Patrice Roy
@PatriceRoy1
Patrice Roy's Blog
Links
C++ Standards
Consistent comparison (Herb Sutter's Comparison Proposal)
Sponsors
Incredibuild
JetBrains
3/30/2017 • 56 minutes, 55 seconds
Safe Numerics
Rob and Jason are joined by Robert Ramey to discuss his Safe Numerics library and the process of submitting libraries to both Boost and the C++ Standards Committee.
Robert Ramey is a freelance C++ programmer for around 20 years. He has worked on a variety of applications including desktop retail applications, embedded systems on tiny micro controllers and combinations of these. For the last 10 of those years he has been active in the Boost Organization and
Author and Maintainer of the Boost Serialization library
Instigator of the Boost Library Incubator (www.blincubator.com)
Given talks on Boost/C++ related topics at C++Now and CPPCon
Written articles in print periodicals such as Software Development and ACCU Overload
Of late his interest has become more focused on practical approaches to improving program correctness. This has motivated recent talks at CPP Con ( boost units library, C++ and abstract algebra) and most recently the Safe Numerics library - which has very recently been accepted as an official Boost Library.
News
Does const mean thread-safe?
Meeting C++ Live: Multithreading with Rainer Grimm
Implementation Challenge flag_set: Type-safe hard to misuse bitmask
Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers
Robert Ramey
@robertramey1
Robert Ramey Software Development
Links
Safe Numerics Library
CppCon 2016: Robert Ramey "Safe Numerics Library"
Boost Library Incubator
Sponsors
Incredibuild
JetBrains
3/23/2017 • 54 minutes, 39 seconds
C++ Game Development at Blizzard
Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Deane from Blizzard Entertainment to talk about C++ game development and more.
Ben started in the games industry in the UK in 1995, when he got hired at Bullfrog straight after graduating from university. While there he worked on several games there like Syndicate Wars and Dungeon Keeper. By the late 1990s he had stopped using C and was allowed to use C++ at
work. In 2001 he moved to Kuju Entertainment and did a couple of games on XBox and PS2, then in 2003 he was hired by EA again and moved to Los Angeles, where he worked on the Medal of Honor series. He's always been a network game programmer, and in 2008 after a project cancellation at EA, he joined Blizzard as a lead engineer on Battle.net, working on technology for all of Blizzard's games. Today he's a principal engineer at Blizzard and the technical lead on the Battle.net desktop application. He's also a functional programming hobbyist who tries to use what he learns in Haskell to write better C++, and in recent years he has given several C++ conference talks at C++Now and CppCon.
News
Insomniac Games Cache Simulator
Functors are not dead: the double functor trick
Pi Day Challenge
I'm Done - Geschafft: Words about the Future of my Blogs
Check for const correctness with the C++ Core Guidelines Checker
Ben Deane
@ben_deane
Ben Deane on GitHub
Ben Deane's Blog
Links
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Careers
CppCon 2016: Ben Deane "Using Types Effectively"
CppCon 2016: Ben Deane "std::accumulate: Exploring an Algorithmic Empire"
Sponsor
Incredibuild
JetBrains
3/16/2017 • 54 minutes, 24 seconds
Visual Studio 2017 for C++ Developers
Rob and Jason are joined by Daniel Moth to talk about the new C++ features of Visual Studio 2017.
Daniel Moth joined Microsoft in the UK in 2006, before transitioning to Redmond in 2008 to work as a Program Manager on Visual Studio, which is where he is still working today. Before Microsoft he worked as a software developer in the industry for almost a decade, most of that time building mobile apps.
News
The C++17 Lands
Learn C++ Concepts with Visual Studio and the WSL
Partial Ordering: An enigma wrapped inside of a riddle, wherein all compilers agree to be wrong
Daniel Moth
@danielmoth
Links
Visual Studio 2017 for C++ Developers - you will love it
Top 7 things to be excited about as a C++ developer in Visual Studio 2017
CppCon 2016: Carroll & Moth "Latest and Greatest from the visual Studio Family for C++ Developers"
Visual C++ Team Blog
Sponsor
Incredibuild
JetBrains
3/7/2017 • 52 minutes, 19 seconds
emBO++
Rob and Jason are joined by Odin Holmes to talk about the recent Embedded C++ development conference emBO++.
Odin Holmes has been programming bare metal embedded systems for 15+ years and as any honest nerd admits most of that time was spent debugging his stupid mistakes. With the advent of the 100x speed up of template metaprogramming provided by C++11 his current mission began: teach the compiler to find his stupid mistakes at compile time so he has more free time for even more template metaprogramming. Odin Holmes is the author of the Kvasir.io library, a DSL which wraps bare metal special function register interactions allowing full static checking and a considerable efficiency gain over common practice. He is also active in building and refining the tools need for this task such as the brigand MPL library, a replacement candidate for boost.parameter and a better public API for boost.MSM-lite.
News
Elle, our C++ core library is now open source
Yet Another description of C++17 features; this time present mostly in Table form
Atomic Smart Pointers
COMMS Library
Odin Holmes
@odinthenerd
Odin Holmes on GitHub
Odin Holmes' Blog
Links
emBO++ - Embedded C++ Conference in Bochum
Kvasir
Meeting C++ Lightning Talks - Odin Holmes - Modern special function register abstraction
Brigand
Sponsor
Backtrace
JetBrains
3/2/2017 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 34 seconds
Trompeloeil Mocking Framework
Rob and Jason are joined by Björn Fahller to talk about the trompeloeil Mocking Framework for Modern C++ Unit Testing.
Björn Fahller is a senior developer at Net Insight, and has been developing software for a living since 1994, mostly embedded programming for communications devices. Björn learned C++ from usenet and the ARM (Annotated Reference Manual) which was the standard before there was a standard. On a hobby basis, Björn likes to find silly solutions to non-problems and to explore effects of programming constructs.
Outside of programming, Björn is a member of a small group thet brews beer together, and is also a member of a volunteer organization of aviators who help with things like search and rescue operations, forest fire monitoring, and storm damage assessment.
News
Multithreading with C++17 and C++20
Distinguishing between maybe-null vs never-null is the important thing
Going Native 56: Cmake in Visual Studio
Björn Fahller
@bjorn_fahller
Playful Programming
Links
Trompeloeil Mocking Framework
Björn Fahller - Mocking Modern C++ with Trompeloeil
Sponsor
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JetBrains
2/22/2017 • 36 minutes, 23 seconds
Jumping into C++
Rob and Jason are joined by Alex Allain from Dropbox to talk about Dropbox's Djinni code generator and Alex's book Jumping into C++.
Alex Allain is a Director of Engineering at Dropbox. He was one of the first engineers on the Dropbox Business product before leading Dropbox's Product Platform group, whose initiatives includes the Dropbox Sync Engine, shared mobile C++ and developer tools. Alex has run Cprogramming.com since 1998 and is the author of Jumping into C++, a book for new programmers.
News
CppChat: The Great Functor Debate (Ben, Jackie, and Jonathan)
Monads in C++
COMMS Library
Undefined behavior in C and C++ programs
Alex Allain
@alexallain
Links
Djinni
CppCon 2014: Alex Allain & Andrew Twyman "Practical Cross-Platform Mobile C++ Development"
CppCon 2015: Jacob Potter & Andrew Twyman “Bridging Languages Cross-Platform..."
Djinni in a bottle - Easily share code between iOS and Android using C++ by Stephan Jaetzold
nn: Non-nullable pointers for C++
mypy: Optional static typing for Python 2 and 3 (PEP484)
cprogramming.com
Jumping into C++ (Amazon)
Sponsor
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JetBrains
2/15/2017 • 47 minutes, 5 seconds
Microsoft's STL
Rob and Jason are joined by Stephan T Lavavej to talk about Microsoft's STL and some of the changes to the Library coming in the VS 2017 release.
Stephan T. Lavavej is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, maintaining Visual C++'s implementation of the C++ Standard Library since 2007. He also designed a couple of C++14 features: make_unique and the transparent operator functors. He likes his initials (which people can actually spell) and cats (although he doesn't own any).
News
CppChat "The Great Functor Debate" is Saturday
Implementing State Machines with std::variant
STL learning resource
Stephan T. Lavavej
@StephanTLavavej
Links
STL Fixes in VS 2017 RTM
C++ 14/17 Features and STL Fixes in VS "15" Preview 5
C++ 14/17 Features and STL Fixes in VS “15” Preview 4
Sponsor
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JetBrains
2/7/2017 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 10 seconds
News Roundup
Rob and Jason discuss two weeks worth of C++ news, updates and blog posts.
News
What's in C++17?
CodeChecker
Const, Move and RVO
Add a const here delete a const there
How C++ lambda expressions can improve your Qt code
'yield' keyword to become 'co_yield' in VS 2017
Compiler Explorer now on Patreon
JSON for Modern C++ Version 2.1.0
Catch 1.7
Stop calling "Function Objects" "Functors"
Meeting C++ 2016 Playlist
How to choose good names
Links
@robwirving
@lefticus
Sponsor
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JetBrains
2/1/2017 • 33 minutes, 54 seconds
Beast
Rob and Jason are joined by Vinnie Falco to talk about the Beast HTTP and Web Sockets library.
Vinnie Falco started programming on an Apple II+ in 1982. He did significant work on Canvas, an early 1990s desktop publishing program that starting on the Macintosh. A while later he wrote BearShare - a Gnutella compatible file sharing program.
After that Vinnie joined up with Ripple, a company that is developing a global financial settlement network built on top of a decentralized cryptocurrency and its associated ledger. Ripple has graciously given him the opportunity to develop and publish Beast, the HTTP and WebSocket library written in C++ and used in Ripple.
News
Winners of the 2016 Software Developer Podcast Awards
The Salami Method
g++7 is C++17 complete
.NET Rocks: C++ for a New Generation with Kate Gregory
Catch 1.6 release
Order Your Members
Vinnie Falco
@falcovinnie
Vinnie Falco's GitHub
Links
Beast Library
CppCon 2016: Vinnie Falco "Introducing Beast: HTTP and WebSockets C++ library"
Ripple
Sponsor
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1/17/2017 • 42 minutes, 51 seconds
Library Working Group and libc++
Rob and Jason are joined by Marshall Clow to talk about his role on the C++ Standards Committee's Library Working Group.
Marshall is a long-time LLVM and Boost participant. He is a principal engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. in San Diego, and the code owner for libc++, the LLVM standard library implementation. He is also the chairman of the Library Working Group of the C++ standards committee. He is the author of the Boost.Algorithm library and maintains several other Boost libraries.
News
C++Now 2017 Call for Submissions
2017 European LLVM Developers Meeting
Passing functions to functions
A Tourist's Guide to the LLVM Source Code
Marshall Clow
@mclow
Marshall's C++ Musings
Links
"libc++" C++ Standard Library
Qualcomm
The Committee: WG21
CppCon 2016: Marshall Clow "STL Algorithms - why you should use them, and how to write your own"
CppCon 2015: Marshall Clow "string_view"
Sponsor
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1/11/2017 • 58 minutes, 20 seconds
Memory Algorithm Proposal
Rob and Jason are joined by Brittany Friedman to talk about her accepted C++17 proposal which adds new algorithms and utilities for memory management and the process she went through getting the proposal accepted.
Brittany Friedman is a dense collection of matter formed from molecules originating from inside the sun. She currently works as a programmer at Gearbox Software, where she weaves ones and zeroes into intricate little patterns. Her proposal for new memory management algorithms was accepted for C++17 and a bug that she filed against the C++ standard was fixed the way that she recommended. So basically you do not want to trifle with her.
News
2016 Software Developer Podcast Awards
Keep Disabling Exceptions
C++17 Why it's better than you might think
A new way of blogging about C++
Brittany Friedman
@listenserver
Brittany Friedman's GitHub
Links
Extending memory management tools
drpdb: Convert from Microsoft PDB format into a MySQL database
Symbol Sort: A Utility for Measuring C++ Code Bloat
Gearbox Software
CppCon 2016: Nicholas Ormrod "The strange details of std::string at Facebook"
Sponsor
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1/5/2017 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 1 second
Regular Void
Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Calabrese to talk about his Regular Void Proposal, template<auto>, the state of Concepts and more.
Matt Calabrese is a software engineer working primarily in C++. He started his programming career in the game industry and is now working on libraries at Google. Matt has been active in the Boost community for over a decade, is currently a member of the Boost Steering Committee, and is a member of the Program Committee for C++Now. Starting in the fall of 2015, he has been attending C++ Standards Committee meetings, authoring several proposals targeting the standard after C++17, notably including a proposal to turn the void type into an instantiable type and a proposal for the standard library to introduce a generic algorithm for invoking standard Callables with argument types and argument amounts that may be partially calculated at compile-time or at runtime. He is also the author of the controversial paper "Why I want Concepts, but why they should come later rather than sooner", which may have contributed to the decision to not include the concepts language feature in C++17.
News
2016 Software Developer Podcast Awards
My take at times
A C++ program to get CPU usage from command line in Linux
Pointer comparison an invalid optimization in GCC
Matt Calabrese
@cppsage
Links
Boost
C++Now
P0146: Regular Void (Revision 1)
P0376: A Single Generalization of std::invoke, std::apply, and std::visit
P0240: Why I want Concepts, but why they should come later rather than sooner
Sponsor
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12/21/2016 • 56 minutes, 11 seconds
Catch 2 and C++ the Community
Rob and Jason are joined by Phil Nash, Developer Advocate at JetBrains, to talk about updates to the Catch Unit test library and new features coming to CLion and ReSharper for C++.
Phil started coding back in the early 80s, on 8-bit home computers: from the ZX-81 to the Commodore 64, in BASIC and assembler. He later moved on to PCs and C++ in the early 90s and, despite forays into other languages, keeps coming back to C++. His career has taken him through domains such as anti-virus, mobile, finance and developer tools - among others. He's the original author of the C++ test framework, Catch and is now Developer Advocate at JetBrains for CLion, AppCode and ReSharper C++. His hobbies include writing podcast bios and trolling the podcast hosts.
News
Minimal, Header only Modern C++ library for colors in your terminal
The view from Nov 2016 C++ standard Meeting Issaquah
C++ version of ruby's integer::times via user-defined literals
Phil Nash
@phil_nash
Level of Indirection
Extra Level of Indirection
Links
Catch
C++::London
Munich User Group: Functional C++ for Fun and Profit
YouTube: Functional C++ for Fun and Profit
JetBrains
ReSharper Ultimate 2016.3 is Released
JetBrains CLion Discounts
JetBrains AppCode Discounts
JetBrains ReSharper C++ Discounts
CppCon 2016: Nicholas Ormrod "The strange details of std::string at Facebook"
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12/14/2016 • 41 minutes, 13 seconds
C++ Game Development at Ubisoft
Rob and Jason are joined by Nicolas Fleury, Technical Architect at Ubisoft Montreal, to talk about the development and performance tuning techniques used at Ubisoft on games like Rainbow Six Siege.
Nicolas has 13 years of experience in the video game industry, more years in the software industry in telecoms, in speech recognition and in computer assisted surgery. Technical Architect on Tom Clancy's: Rainbow Six Siege, he is one of the key Architects behind some collaboration initiatives at Ubisoft and was also Technical Architect on games like Prince of Persia. He presented at CppCon 2014 "C++ in Huge AAA Games".
News
Bjarne Stroustrup - Keynote Meeting C++ 2016
Investigating Radix Sort
How to use PVS-Studio for Free
Nicolas Fleury
Nicolas Fleury
Links
Ubisoft Montreal
CppCon 2014: Nicolas Fleury "C++ in Huge AAA Games"
CppCon 2016: Nicolas Fleury "Rainbow Six Siege: Quest for Performance"
SG14 Group
CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"
CppCon 2014: Jeff Preshing "How Ubisoft Develops Games for Multicore - Before and After C++11"
CppCon 2016: Nicholas Ormrod "The strange details of std::string at Facebook"
Sponsor
JetBrains
12/8/2016 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Backtrace
Rob and Jason are joined by Abel Mathew, Co-Founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O, to talk about the debugging platform and its features for C++ developers.
Abel Mathew is the co-founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O. Prior to Backtrace, Abel was a Head of Engineering at AppNexus where he led a team of developers to improve ad optimization and reduce platform-wide costs. He spent multiple years as a developer and a team lead on AppNexus’ Adserver Team where he helped design and implement their low-latency advertising platform. Before AppNexus, Abel was a kernel module and tools developer at IBM and a server room monkey at AMD.
News
Give Visual C++ a Switch to Standard Conformance
Zapcc: a faster C++ compiler
Better, stronger, faster … there is zapcc
Conan Joins JFrog
What do YOU use C++ for
Abel Mathew
@nullisnt0
Abel Mathew on GitHub
Links
Backtrace
Backtrace Blog
Minidump Free Beta
Surge 2016 - Abel Mathew - Post-mortem Debugging: could you be the one?
Bazel
Sponsor
Backtrace
11/30/2016 • 40 minutes, 38 seconds
Cppcheck
Rob and Jason are joined by Daniel Marjamäki to talk about developing the CppCheck static analysis tool.
Daniel lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his wife and son. He has a degree in electronics but has never worked as an electronics engineer. Daniel works as a consultant at Evidente in Sweden which provides consultants and contractors for embedded software development and static analysis.
Daniel started Cppcheck almost 10 years ago as a hobby project that he works on in his spare time. Daniel sometimes works on other hobby projects such as an open source retro mobile phone with a rotary dial plate instead of buttons or a screen.
News
Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed
Cheatsheet of modern C++ language and library features
Compiler Explorer Beta now with early support for MSVC
WebAssembly Browser Preview
Trip report: Fall ISO C++ standards meeting
Daniel Marjamäki
Daniel Marjamäki on GitHub
Links
Cppcheck
Sponsor
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11/16/2016 • 35 minutes, 44 seconds
Kvasir
Rob and Jason are joined by Odin Holmes to talk about developing for Embedded Microcontrollers with C++ and the Kvasir library.
Odin Holmes has been programming bare metal embedded systems for 15+ years and as any honest nerd admits most of that time was spent debugging his stupid mistakes. With the advent of the 100x speed up of template metaprogramming provided by C++11 his current mission began: teach the compiler to find his stupid mistakes at compile time so he has more free time for even more template metaprogramming. Odin Holmes is the author of the Kvasir.io library, a DSL which wraps bare metal special function register interactions allowing full static checking and a considerable efficiency gain over common practice. He is also active in building and refining the tools need for this task such as the brigand MPL library, a replacement candidate for boost.parameter and a better public API for boost.MSM-lite.
News
Compiler Explorer's embedded view
A peek into the WebAssembly Browser preview
WebAssembly Browser Preview
Cling on Ubuntu on Windows
Odin Holmes
@odinthenerd
Odin Holmes on GitHub
Odin Holmes' Blog
Links
Kvasir
Meeting C++ Lightning Talks - Odin Holmes - Modern special function register abstraction
Brigand
Embedded C++ Conference in Bochum
Sponsor
JetBrains
11/9/2016 • 59 minutes, 38 seconds
Blaze
Rob and Jason are joined by Klaus Iglberger to discuss the Blaze high performance math library.
Klaus Iglberger has finished his PhD in computer science in 2010. Back then, he contributed to several massively parallel simulation frameworks and was an active researcher in the high performance computing community. From 2011 to 2012, he was the managing director of the central institute for scientific computing in Erlangen. Currently he is on the payroll at CD-adapco in Nuremberg, Germany, as a senior software engineer. He is the co-organizer of the Munich C++ user group (MUC++)and he is the initiator and lead designer of the Blaze C++ math library.
News
Recommendations to speed C++ builds in Visual Studio
void foo(T& out) How to fix output parameters
Routing paths in IncludeOs
Klaus Iglberger
Klaus Iglberger
Links
Blaze
Munich C++ User Group
CppCon 2016: Klaus Iglberger "The Blaze High Performance Math Library"
Sponsor
JetBrains
11/2/2016 • 39 minutes, 6 seconds
Embedded Development
Rob and Jason are joined by Dan Saks from Saks & Associates to discuss state of C++ in the embedded development industry.
Dan Saks is the president of Saks & Associates, which offers training and consulting in C and C++ and their use in developing embedded systems. He has been a columnist for The C/C++ Users Journal, The C++ Report, Embedded Systems Design, embedded.com and several other publications. Dan served as the first secretary of the C++ Standards Committee and contributed to the CERT Secure Coding Standards for C and C++.
News
Jumping into C++
CppRestSDK 2.9.0 available on GitHub
A note about the volatile keyword in C++
Woboq Code Browser: under the hood
On the recent lambdas vs iterators paper
Dan Saks
Saks & Associates
Links
CppCon 2016: Dan Saks "extern c: Talking to C Programmers about C++"
embedded.com
Sponsor
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10/27/2016 • 45 minutes, 48 seconds
Robotics Development
Rob and Jason are joined by Jackie Kay from Marble to discuss the use of C++ in the Robotics industry and some of the unique challenges in Robotics development.
After spending her childhood wanting to become a novelist, Jackie switched over from writing stories to writing code during college. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2014 with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and went on to work at the Open Source Robotics Foundation for two years, supporting Gazebo, a physics simulator for robotics R&D, and ROS, an open source application framework for robotics development. She recently started as an early employee at Marble in San Francisco, a startup working on autonomous delivery.
Jackie was a speaker at CppCon 2015 and 2016 and a volunteer at C++ Now 2016 and frequently attends the Bay Area ACCU meetups. Her hobbies include rock climbing, travelling, and reading (books, not just blog posts).
News
What does "Modern C++" really mean
The "unsigned" Conundrum
C++ Variadic templates from the ground up
Jackie Kay
@jackayline
Jackie Kay's GitHub
Jackie Kay's website
Links
ROS (Robot Operating System)
ROS 2
Gazebo (Robot simulation)
Gazebo's Bitbucket Repository
Caffe - Deep Learning Framework
TensorFlow - Machine Intelligence Library
Marble
CppCon 2016: Jackie Kay "Lessons Learned From An Embedded RTPS in Modern C++"
Code examples from "Lessons Learned From An Embedded RTPS in Modern C++"
Work-in-progress implementation on DDS/RTPS
Sponsor
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10/19/2016 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 12 seconds
C++/WinRT
Rob and Jason are joined by Kenny Kerr from Microsoft to discuss the C++/WinRT library, previously known as ModernCpp, a standard C++ projection for the Windows Runtime.
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.
News
VOTE! Support debugging of C++ code with IntelliTrace
All CppCon 2016 Videos Are Up!
Visual Studio "15" Preview 5 Now Available
Compiler Tools Layout in Visual Studio "15"
C++ 14/17 Features and STL Fixes in VS "15" Preview 5
Bring your C++ codebase to Visual Studio with "Open Folder"
C++ compiler diagnostics improvements in VS "15" Preview 5
C++ IntelliSense Improvements - Predictive IntelliSense & Filtering
CMake support in Visual Studio
Visual C++ Compiler Version
Faster C++ solution load with VS "15"
C++ Core Check code analysis is included with VS "15"
Kenny Kerr
@kennykerr
Kenny Kerr's Blog
Links
C++/WinRT Available on GitHub
cppwinrt repository on GitHub
CppCon 2016: Kenny Kerr & James McNellis "Embracing Standard C++ for the Windows Runtime"
CppCon 2016: Kenny Kerr & James McNellis "Putting Coroutines to Work with the Windows Runtime"
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10/12/2016 • 43 minutes, 18 seconds
SG14 Update
Rob and Jason are joined by Guy Davidson from Creative Assembly to discuss the work of the SG 14 game dev/low latency group including his ring buffer proposal and more.
Guy Davidson is the Coding Manager of Creative Assembly, makers of the Total War franchise, Alien:Isolation and the upcoming Halo Wars sequel, 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
CppCon 2016: What We've Learned From the C++ Community
Compiler Explorer Update
Free O'Reilly Book: Practical C++ Metaprogramming
Boost 1.6.2. Release
Rgat: an instruction trace visualisation tool for dynamic program analysis
C++ Slack Group
Guy Davidson
@hatcat01
Links
CppCon 2016: WG21-SG14 - Making C++ better for games, embedded and financial developers
Creative Assembly
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10/7/2016 • 51 minutes, 30 seconds
Boost::Process
Rob and Jason are joined by Klemens Morgenstern to discuss his experimental changes in boost::dll and his proposed boost::process library.
Born in 1988 in Dresden, I have a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Master's Degree in Microsystems & Microelectronics. Fell in Love with C++ while working with embedded systems. Klemens was working full time as a C++-Developer from 2013 until early 2016, and is now starting his own consulting company, trying to bring C++ to C-Programmers.
News
Optimization Subtleties Using C++ in Low-Latency Trading
Herb Sutter: To store a destructor
CppCon 2016 Playlist
How to avoid bugs using modern C++
Vcpkg: a tool to acquire and build C++ open source libraries on Windows
Why a C++ package manager can't be written in C++
Klemens Morgenstern
Klemens Morgenstern's GitHub
Morgenstern & Walther
Links
boost::dll Mangled Import
boost::process
Sponsor
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9/29/2016 • 44 minutes, 34 seconds
CppCon 2016
Rob and Jason are joined by Chandler Carruth from Google, in this live interview from CppCon 2016 Chandler discusses the topics of his two CppCon talks and using Modules at Google.
Chandler Carruth leads the Clang team at Google, building better diagnostics, tools, and more. Previously, he worked on several pieces of Google’s distributed build system. He makes guest appearances helping to maintain a few core C++ libraries across Google’s codebase, and is active in the LLVM and Clang open source communities. He received his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Wake Forest University, but disavows all knowledge of the contents of his Master’s thesis. He is regularly found drinking Cherry Coke Zero in the daytime and pontificating over a single malt scotch in the evening.
CppCon Lightning Talks
Atila Neves
Mock C functions using the preprocessor
Jens Weller
Ken Sykes
Jon Kalb
Gabor Horvath
CodeCompass
Chandler Carruth
@chandlerc1024
Chandler Carruth's GitHub
Links
CppCon 2016 Playlist
CppCon 2014: Chandler Carruth "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures"
CppCon 2015: Chandler Carruth "Tuning C++: Benchmarks, and CPUs, and Compilers! Oh My!"
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9/25/2016 • 47 minutes, 46 seconds
Maintaining Large Codebases
Rob and Jason are joined by Titus Winters from Google, about Google's strategies to maintain a 100M line monolithic codebase.
Titus Winters has spent the past 4 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
Visual C++ for Linux Update
What's New in ReSharper C++ 2016.2
Exploring std::string
C++, Short and Sweet, Part 1
Titus Winters
Titus Winters
Links
CppCon 2015: Titus Winters "Lessons in Sustainability"
CppCon 2015: All Your Tests are Terrible
Sponsor
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9/15/2016 • 42 minutes, 44 seconds
MAME Emulation Project
Rob and Jason are joined by Miodrag Milanovic to discuss his work on the MAME emulation project, its history and moving the MAME codebase from C to C++.
Born in 1978, living in Novi Sad, Serbia. Proud husband and father of two. Started professional programming career in year 2000 working in Java, C# and of course C and C++ for various international customers. From 2012 coordinator of MAME emulation project, pushing hard in modernization of two decade old code.
News
NativeJIT a C++ to x64 JIT used in Bing
Coati Release 0.8
LearnCpp
"The design of C++" lecture by Bjarne Stroustrup
Miodrag Milanovic
@micko_mame
Links
MAME - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
MAME on GitHub
Sponsor
Incredibuild
9/7/2016 • 55 minutes, 33 seconds
News Roundup
Episode 68 of CppCast recorded September 1st 2016
News
Triangle C++ Developers Group
C++ Slack Group
How C++14 and C++17 help to write faster (and better) code
Range-v3 on MSVC is Available on GitHub
Modern CMake Slides
How many x86 instructions are there?
Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++
PVS-Studio confesses its love for Linux
Succeeding with ClangFormat
August Update for the Visual Studio Code C++ extension
C++ 14/17 Features and STL Fixes in VS 15 Preview 4
Links
@robwirving
@lefticus
9/1/2016 • 35 minutes, 52 seconds
CMake Server
Rob and Jason are joined by Stephen Kelley to discuss his work on the CMake Server project which will enable advanced tooling for CMake.
Stephen Kelly first encountered CMake through working on KDE and like many C++ developers, did his best to ignore the buildsystem completely. That worked well for 4 years until 2011 when the modularization of KDE libraries led to a desire to simplify and upstream as much as possible to Qt and CMake. Since then, Stephen has been responsible for many core features and designs of 'Modern CMake' and now tries to lead designs for its future.
News
Conan virtual environments: Manager your C and C++ tools
Macromancy
Opt-in header only libraries
Opt-in header-only libraries with CMake
Stephen Kelly
@steveire
Steveire's Blog
Stephen Kelly on GitHub
Links
CMake Daemon for user tools
CMake
Sponsor
Incredibuild
8/10/2016 • 45 minutes, 57 seconds
Salvus
Rob and Jason are joined by Michael Afanasiev to discuss his work on the Salvus library used for performing full-waveform inversions.
Michael Afanasiev is currently working on his PhD in Geophysics. He became interested in programming and high performance computing during his BSc in Computational Physics, playing around with simulations of star formation. After a brief attempt to lead a roguish and exciting lifestyle as a field Geophysicist, he was brought back to the keyboard during a MSc, where he began working on full waveform inversion (FWI). In 2013 he moved to Switzerland to continue working on FWI as a PhD student at ETH Zurich, where he’s currently wrapping things into a thesis. He spends most of his time writing scientific software, wandering through the alps, and atoning for the times he repeated the mantra “Fortran is the best language for scientific computing.”
News
CppMem: An overview
Why is .h more widely used then .hpp
July update for Visual Studio Code C++ extension
Michael Afanasiev
Michael Afanasiev's Blog
Michael Afanasiev on GitHub
Links
Salvus
Combining Static and Dynamic Polymorphism with C++ Mixin classes
Salvus: retaining runtime polymorphism with templates
Salvus: dynamically inserting functionality into a mixin class hierarchy
Sponsor
Incredibuild
8/3/2016 • 45 minutes, 27 seconds
PLF Library
Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Bentley to discuss plf::colony<> and plf::stack<> and some of their advantages over std::vector<> and std::stack<>.
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
CppCon 2016 Program
CLion 2016.2 released
Free Seattle C++/Graphics workshop Aug 3rd
Using ImGui with modern C++ and STL for creating awesome game dev tools Part 2
LLVM Weekly #134
Matt Bentley
@xolvenz
Matt Bentley on GitHub
Links
PLF C++ Library
Sponsor
Incredibuild
7/28/2016 • 44 minutes, 59 seconds
Modules
Rob and Jason are joined by Gabriel Dos Reis, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft to discuss C++ Modules.
Gabriel Dos Reis is a Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft. He is also a researcher and a longtime member of the C++ community. His research interests include programming tools for dependable software. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. Dr. Dos Reis was a recipient of the 2012 National Science Foundation CAREER award for his research in compilers for dependable computational mathematics and educational activities.
News
Dan Saks Keynote and more program previews
Debugging Tips and Tricks for C++ in Visual Studio
C++ Edit and Continue in VS 2015 Update 3
Developer Assistant now supports C++
Red Hat at the ISO C++ Standards Meeting: Parallelism and Concurrency
Gabriel Dos Reis
Gabriel Dos Reis
Links
Module TS Draft
Modules in VC++
Consuming headers as module interfaces
Compiler-neutral Internal Program Representation for C++
Sponsor
Incredibuild
7/21/2016 • 52 minutes, 46 seconds
IncludeOS
Rob and Jason are joined by Alfred Bratterud, CEO of IncludeOS to discuss Microservice applications with the IncludeOS platform.
Alfred has been doing research towards IncludeOS since 2013, and got a PhD scholarship based on the early work in 2014. The IEEE CloudCom paper introducing the IncludeOS prototype was published in 2015 and he spun out a startup around IncludeOS in 2016, in collaboration with Oslo and Akershus university college (the largest institution for engineering education in Norway). He's currently focusing 100% on developing IncludeOS from research experiment to a production ready platform for cloud services.
Alfred holds BSc and MSc in computer science, with focus on logic and computability, from the university of Oslo. He has 10+ years of industrial programming experience, mostly in web services. He's been working at Oslo university college since 2011, teaching various subjects ranging from operating systems, sysadmin and firewalls to web development. He started learning C++ when he took over a C++ course at the college in 2011. A very good year to start C++.
News
The new lightweight, cross platform C++11/14/17 IDE juCi++ v1.2.1
CppCon 2016 Program Preview: Algorithms, Exceptions and Games
Second Episode of CppChat Sunday
Meeting C++ interview with Sean Parent
Alfred Bratterud
@AlfredBratterud
Alfred Bratterud's GithHub
Links
IncludeOS Repo
IncludeOS
IncludeOS: A Minimal, Resource Efficient Unikernel for Cloud Services
Unikernels
Unikernel Devel
Sponsor
Incredibuild
7/14/2016 • 58 minutes, 37 seconds
C++ and Lua Game Development
Rob and Jason are joined by Elias Daler, CS student and Indie game developer to discuss game development with C++ and Lua.
Elias Daler is a CS student, indie game developer and C++ enthusiast.
Passion for game development was the starting point for learning C++ and he's been programming in it for 6 years.
Elias is working on a game called Re:creation and various open source C++ libraries.
He also writes various articles about game development, C++ and Lua/C++ integration at eliasdaler.wordpress.com.
These articles are well received and frequently shared on various game development subreddits and forums.
News
Status Update on Qt for WinRT/UWP
Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting
Visual Studio Update 3 has been released
Registration for CppCon 2016 is open
Elias Daler
@EliasDaler
Elias' New Blog
Elias' Old Blog
Links
Sol2
ImGui
SFML
Sponsor
Incredibuild
7/6/2016 • 32 minutes, 38 seconds
Oulu Trip Report
Rob and Jason are joined by Herb Sutter, chair of the ISO C++ standards committee to discuss the latest progress on C++ 17 made at the Oulu ISO Standards meeting.
Herb Sutter is a leading authority on software development. He is the best selling author of several books including Exceptional C++ and C++ Coding Standards, as well as hundreds of technical papers and articles, including the essay “The Free Lunch Is Over” which coined the term “concurrency revolution” and its recent sequel “Welcome to the Jungle” on the end of Moore’s Law and the turn to mainstream heterogeneous supercomputing from the cloud to ‘smartphones.’
Herb has served for a decade as chair of the ISO C++ standards committee, and is a software architect at Microsoft where he has led the language extensions design of C++/CLI, C++/CX, C++ AMP, and other technologies.
News
The ANTLR4 C++ target is here
Jon Kalb speaks about CppCon, C++17 standard and C++ community
Meeting C++ 2016 Talks
Herb Sutter
@herbsutter
Sutter's Mill
Links
What the ISO C++ committee added to the C++17 working draft at the Oulu 2016 meeting
Last chance for CppCon 2016 Early Bird Registration!
Sponsor
Incredibuild
6/25/2016 • 57 minutes, 4 seconds
Visual C++ Conformance
Rob and Jason are joined by Andrew Pardoe to discuss Visual C++ conformance progress as well as experimental features like Modules.
Andrew started working at Microsoft in 2002. He worked for the C++ team for exactly five years, first on testing the Itanium optimizer and then on the Phoenix compiler platform. He left in 2007 to become a PM on the CLR team (the C# runtime). Andrew left that job about two years ago and through the magic of corporate reorgs ended up as the C++ compiler PM.
In his role at Microsoft Andrew pays attention to pretty much everything without a GUI: the compiler front end/parser, code analysis, and a little bit to the optimizer. He also owns the tools acquisition story—such as the VC++ Build Tools SKU and updating to latest daily drops through NuGet—and Clang/C2. The Clang/C2 work is what ties Andrew into the Islandwood team, and the code analysis work focuses mostly on the C++ Core Guidelines checkers.
News
How the Commodore 64 Memory Map Worked
FunctionalPlus, a C++ library, now has a (i.a. type based) search website for its over 300 pure and free functions
Standardese documentation generator version 0.1
Awesome C++: Curated list of awesome C/C++ frameworks, libraries and resources
Andrew Pardoe
@apardoe
Links
C++ Core Guidelines Checkers: Preview of the Lifetime Safety checker
Expression SFINAE improvements in VS 2015 Update 3
Standards version switches in the compiler
Sponsor
Incredibuild
6/15/2016 • 51 minutes, 22 seconds
foonathan/memory and standardese
Rob and Jason are joined by Jonathan Müller to discuss some of his recent blog posts, as well as the foonathan/memory library and the standardese documentation generator.
Jonathan is a CS student passionate about C++.
In his spare time he writes libraries for real-time applications and games.
He is mainly working on foonathan/memory which provides fast and customizable memory allocators that are easily integrated into your own code.
Jonathan tweets at @foonathan and blogs about various C++ and library development related topics at foonathan.github.io.
The blog posts are well received and often shared in the cpp subreddit or ISO C++.
News
C++ Core Guidelines Checkers are now in a single Nuget package
How to avoid wasting megabytes of memory a few bytes at a time
Asynchronous callable wrappers
Jonathan Müller
@foonathan
foonathan::blog()
Links
You (probably) don't want 'final' classes
foonathan/memory
foonathan/standardese
6/8/2016 • 36 minutes, 6 seconds
CLion
Rob and Jason are joined by Anastasia Kazakova to discuss new features of JetBrains' Clion IDE.
A C/C++ fan since university, Anastasia has been creating real-time *nix-based systems and pushing them to production for 8 years. She has a passion for networking algorithms (especially congestion problems and network management protocols) and embedded programming, and believes in good tooling. Now she is a part of the JetBrains team working as a Product Marketing Manager for CLion, a cross-platform C/C++ IDE.
News
Bjarne Stroustrup C++ Today
Fibonacci: You're also doing it wrong
In response to: C++ Weekly - Ep 13 Fibonacci: You're Doing It Wrong
C++ for Games: Performance. Allocations and Data Locality
C++ Tutor - Visualize C++ code execution
Anastasia Kazakova
@anastasiak2512
Links
CLion IDE
CLion on Twitter
CLion Blog
6/1/2016 • 46 minutes, 4 seconds
Runtime Compiled C++
Rob and Jason are joined by Doug Binks from Enkisoftware to discuss Runtime Compile C++.
Doug Binks is programming the game Avoyd using Runtime Compiled C++, a technique he co-developed with industry friends; and enkiTS, a lightweight task scheduler.
An experienced game developer, Doug was previously Technical Lead of the Game Architecture Initiative at Intel. He has worked in the games industry in roles ranging from the R&D development manager at Crytek to head of studio at Strangelite, as well as lead programmer. An early interest in games development was sidetracked by a doctorate in Physics at Oxford University, and two post-doctoral posts as an academic researcher in experimental nonlinear pattern formation, specializing in fluid mechanics. His fondest childhood memories are of programming games in assembly on the ZX81.
News
Jacksonville C++ Core Language Meeting Report
Micro benchmarking libraries for C++
Doctest
Andrei Alexandrescu on C++ Concepts
Doug Binks
@dougbinks
Doug Binks Github
Links
Runtime Compiled C++
Rapid Development with Runtime Compiled C++
Enkisoftware
5/26/2016 • 50 minutes, 38 seconds
Conan
Rob and Jason are joined by Diego Rodriguez-Losada from Conan to discuss the new C++ Package Manager.
Diego's passions are robotics and SW development. He has developed many years in C and C++ in the Industrial, Robotics and AI fields. He was also a University (tenure track) professor till 2012, when he quit academia to try to build a C/C++ dependency manager, co-founded startup biicode, since then mostly developing in Python. Now he is working as freelance and having fun with conan.io.
News
Robot: Native Cross Platform System Automation
Help improve DuckDuckGo's C++ searches!
Stay up to date with the Visual C++ tools on NuGet
Diego Rodriguez-Losada
@diegorlosada
Diego Rodriguez-Losada's website
Links
Conan: C/C++ Package Manager
Conan Blog
I've Just Liberated My Modules
5/4/2016 • 39 minutes, 22 seconds
Distributed Computing
Rob and Jason are joined by Elena Sagalaeva from Microsoft's Bing Ads team to discuss Distributed Computing with C++.
Elena Sagalaeva is a Russian-born professional C++ developer since 2000. She was primarily a game developer working both for various studios and as an indie developer. She grad uated from the industry while being a tech lead at the head of a small dev team.
Elena currently lives in U.S. with her family and works at Microsoft in Bing Ads. Her current interests focus on large scale distributed systems and the development of the C++ language.
She has a popular blog on C++ in Russian and she is the author of the famed C++ Lands map.
News
Introducing the C++ Core Guidelines
Red Hat at the ISO C++ Standards Meeting
pybind11: Seamless operability between C++11 and Python
Elena Sagalaeva
Elena Sagalaeva's Blog
@alenacpp
Links
Nexus Wireless Silent Mouse
C++11 Lands Map
4/28/2016 • 28 minutes, 46 seconds
VS for Linux
Rob and Jason are joined by Ankit Asthana to discuss new features for Visual Studio and VS Code including new support for Linux developers.
Ankit Asthana is a program manager working in the Visual C++ Cross-Platform space. He is knowledgeable in cross-platform technologies, compilers (dynamic and static compilation, optimizer, code generation), distributed computing and server side development. He has in the past worked for IBM and Oracle Canada as a developer building Java 7 (hotspot) and telecommunication products. Ankit back in 2008 also published a book on C++ titled C++ for Beginners to Masters which sold over a few thousand copies.
News
CppCast Stickers!
STL Fixes in VS 2015 Update 2
Runtime Compiled C++
Windows API sets: source of most Dependency Walker glitches
Ankit Asthana
Ankit on LinkedIn
C++ for Beginners to Masters
Links
/build 2016: What's New with C++ Cross-Platform for Visual Studio 2015 Update 2
/build 2016: C++ Discussion
/build 2016: Cross-Platform at Microsoft: Xamarin, Cordova, Unity and C++ Panel
/build 2016: Top 6 Reasons to Move Your C++ Code to Visual Studio 2015
Visual C++ Blog
4/21/2016 • 52 minutes, 6 seconds
Boost Hana
Rob and Jason are joined by Louis Dionne to discuss C++ metaprogramming with Boost Hana.
Louis is a math and computer science enthusiast with interest in C++ (meta)programming, functional programming, domain specific languages and related subjects. He is an active member of the Boost community, and recently wrote the Boost.Hana metaprogramming library.
News
Synth - Semantic syntax highlighting and code hyper-linking tool for C and C++
C++Now 2016 Program Highlights: Performance Talks
Logical Expressions in C/C++ Mistakes made by professionals
Louis Dionne
Louis Dionne's Blog
@louisdionne
Links
Boost Hana
C++Now 2016 - Metaprogramming for Dummies
C++Now 2016 - Metaprogramming for the Brave
CppCon 2015 - C++ Metaprogramming: A Paradigm Shift
4/13/2016 • 41 minutes, 53 seconds
Macchina.io
Rob and Jason are joined by Günter Obiltschnig to discuss the macchina.io library for IoT C++ development.
Günter is the founder of the POCO C++ Libraries and macchina.io open source projects. He has been programming computers since age 12. In his career he has programmed everything from 8-bit home computers (C64, MSX) to IBM big iron systems (COBOL and JCL, VM/CMS and CICS), various Unix systems, OpenVMS, Windows NT in its various incarnations, the Mac (classic Mac OS and OS X), to embedded devices and iPhone/iPad. He has a diploma (MSc. equivalent) in Computer Science from the University of Linz, Austria.
His current main interests are embedded systems, cross-platform C++ development, JavaScript and, foremost, the Internet of Things. When not working, he spends time with his family or enjoys one of his hobbies — sailing, running, swimming, skiing, listening to or making music, and reading.
News
C++Now less than 20 spots left
C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code
Awesome Modern C++
C++ Committee to shift focus on important issues
CppCon 2016 Call for Submissions
Günter Obiltschnig
@obiltschnig
Günter Obiltschnig
Links
macchina.io
Mastering the IoT with C++ and JavaScript - Meeting C++ 2015
4/7/2016 • 39 minutes, 34 seconds
Meeting C++
Rob and Jason are joined by Jens Weller to discuss the Meeting C++ conference and user group community.
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
Compiler Bugs found when porting Chromium to VC 2015
Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++
Concepts without Concepts
Jens Weller
@phlox81
Jens Weller LinkedIn
Links
Meeting C++
Announcing Meeting C++ 2016
Learning C++ Best Practices - Write Simpler, Faster, More Maintainable Code
4/1/2016 • 39 minutes, 16 seconds
Stream Processing
Rob and Jason are joined by Jonathan Beard to discuss Stream Processing and the C++ Raft Library.
Jonathan Beard received a BS (Biology) and BA (International Studies) in 2005 from the Louisiana State University, MS (Bioinformatics) in 2010 from The Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015. Jonathan served as a U.S. Army Officer through 2010 where he served in roles ranging from medical administrator to acting director of the medical informatics department for the U.S. Army in Europe. Jonathan's research interests include online modeling, stream parallel systems, streaming architectures, compute near data, and massively parallel processing. He is currently a Senior Research Engineer with ARM Research in Austin, Texas.
News
C++ Weekly
Clion 2016.1
Q & A: Bjarne Stroustrup previews C+17
Sub-processing with Modern C++
Jonathan Beard
@jonathan_beard
Jonathan Beard's website
Jonathan Beard on GitHub
Links
RaftLib
C++Now - Come Stream with Me: build performant, simple, parallel applications in C++ using RaftLib
3/24/2016 • 36 minutes, 34 seconds
Parallel Computing Strategies
Rob and Jason are joined by Dori Exterman to discuss parallel computing strategies and Incredibuild.
An expert software developer and product strategist, Dori Exterman has 20 years of experience in the software development industry. As Chief Technical Officer of IncrediBuild, he directs the company's product strategy and is responsible for product vision, implementation, and technical partnerships. Before joining IncrediBuild, Dori held a variety of technical and product development roles at software companies, with a focus on architecture, performance and advanced technologies. He is an expert and frequent speaker on technological advancement in development tools specializing in Embarcadero (formerly Borland) environments, and manages the Israeli development forum for these tools.
News
Herb Sutter Trip Report
Testing GCC in the wild
JF Bastien Trip Report - Happy with C++17
Dori Exterman
Dori Exterman
Links
Considerations for choosing the parallel computing strategy - Dori Exterman - Meeting C++ 2015
Incredibuild
3/17/2016 • 57 minutes, 56 seconds
Clean Code
Rob and Jason are joined by Arne Mertz to discuss Clean Coding techniques.
Arne is a Software Engineer at Zühlke Engineering, a blogger and a clean code enthusiast.
He has been maintaining and developing large financial C++ applications for several years.
Arne has a diploma in physics and has written some scientific code for his degree courses in Fortran77 and C++ before he started his programming career.
Currently he is broadening his view on the software development world by doing test automation, integration,
requirements engineering and tooling for a large Java/JavaScript web application.
To keep in touch with C++ he continues to write about it on his blog, reads other blogs and watches videos of conference talks.
In his free time he sings in a choir together with his wife and enjoys playing video games. He likes to travel a lot, especially tall ship sailing.
News
Upcoming features in GCC 6
Core C++ lvalues and rvalues
Trip Report: C++ meeting at Jacksonville
Arne Mertz
@arne_mertz
Arne Mertz on LinkedIn
Links
Simplify C++
Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual
3/10/2016 • 31 minutes, 53 seconds
Software Defined Visualization
Rob and Jason are joined by Jeff Amstutz to discuss Software Defined Visualization and Intel's SPMD Compiler.
Jeff is a Visualization Software Engineer at Intel, where he works on the open source OSPRay project. He enjoys all things ray tracing, high performance computing, clearly implemented code, and the perfect combination of Git/CMake/modern C++. Prior to joining Intel, Jeff was an HPC software engineer at SURVICE Engineering where he worked on interactive ballistic simulation applications for the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, implemented using C++, CUDA, and Qt. When he is able, Jeff enjoys academic research in ray tracing and high performance computing, with a specific interest in multi-hit ray tracing algorithms and applications for both graphics 3D rendering and ray-based simulations.
In his spare time, Jeff enjoys powerlifting, golf, being an electric guitar nerd, and studying a wide spectrum of music ranging from progressive metal to ambient electronic music.
News
A bit of background for concepts and C++17
Current Proposals for C++17
Why is more complicated than you think
Jeff Amstutz
@jeffamstutz
Jeff Amstutz on LinkedIn
Jeff Amstutz on GitHub
Links
SDVis
OSPRay
Intel SPMD Program Compiler
3/3/2016 • 40 minutes, 7 seconds
Hybrid C++/Javascript apps
Rob and Jason are joined by Sohail Somani to discuss building hybrid apps with Javascript and C++.
Sohail Somani is a contract cross-platform application developer who has been working in C++ and Python for over 10 years. He has worked in a variety of fields such as computer graphics, C++ compilers, finance and plain old desktop apps. Sohail's obsession with (or hate of) time tracking led him to create Worklog Assistant, a cross-platform time tracker for JIRA, which is in use by more than a thousand companies worldwide. He hopes to one day achieve time tracking nirvana for his users so that he can finally move on to something else. He might be too optimistic...
Otherwise, Sohail is a full-time, work-at-home dad of 2 since 2007. He enjoys playing hockey and listening to rap music. You can contact him at hello@sohailsomani.com - but he doesn't recommend that you visit the domain.
News
C++Now Accepting Student/Volunteer Applications
CppCon 2016 Registration
Khronos Releases Vulkan 1.0 Specification
Experimental Boost Dependency Injection
A bit of background for the operator dot proposal
Sohail Somani
Sohail Somani
Links
Worklog Assistant
Degreed
2/26/2016 • 42 minutes, 25 seconds
C++ in the Visual Effects Industry
Rob and Jason are joined by Paul Miller to discuss C++ in the Visual Effects Industry.
Paul is a partner and lead engineer at Digital Film Tools/Silhouette FX. He has been writing visual effects and image processing software for over 20 years, and has been using C++ for most of that time. He started his love of graphics and digital music on the Amiga in 1986, teaching himself C with K&R and the Amiga ROM Kernel manuals. In 1992 he ended up Wisconsin, writing software for the relatively new digital post production industry on Silicon Graphics workstations, and has been writing widely-used tools for that industry since. He uses Qt for cross-platform UI, Python, OpenGL, and OpenCL extensively.
He holds a private pilot's license and enjoys going to movies and beer festivals.
News
JavaCPP
A bit of background for the unified call proposal
Natvis for C++/CLI Available to Preview in VS2015 Update 2
Paul Miller
@fxtech_paul
Links
Silhouettefx
Photo fx (iOS App)
2/18/2016 • 53 minutes, 52 seconds
HPC and more
Rob and Jason are joined by Bryce Lelbach to discuss High Performance Computing and other C++ topics.
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach is a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), a US Department of Energy research facility. Working alongside a team of mathematicians and physicists, he develops and analyzes new parallel programming models for exascale and post-Moore architectures. Bryce is one of the developers of the HPX C++ runtime system; he spent five years working on HPX while he was at Louisiana State University's Center for Computation and Technology. He also helped start the LLVMLinux initiative, and has occasionally contributed to the Boost C++ libraries. Bryce is an organizer for C++Now and CppCon conferences and he is passionate about C++ community development. He serves as LBNL's representative to the C++ standards committee.
News
Can I always depend on return value optimization
Compilers and error messages
Results of the 2015 Underhanded C Contest
Bryce Lelbach
Bryce Lelbach
Links
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
HPX on GitHub
Benchmarking C++ Code @ CppCon 2015
Practical Functional Programming in C++ @ CppCon 2014
2/9/2016 • 41 minutes, 41 seconds
Compiler Explorer
Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Godbolt to discuss the online Compiler Explorer project.
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 GCC 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
Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit
C++ Language Support for Pattern Matching and Variants
VS2015 Update 2's STL is C++17 Feature Complete
C++Now 2016 Submission Deadline
Matt Godbolt
@mattgodbolt
Matt Godbolt's blog
Links
Compiler Explorer
x86 Internals for Fun & Profit
1/28/2016 • 45 minutes, 23 seconds
Intel Tamper Protection
Rob and Jason are joined by Marc Valle to discuss Intel's Tamper Protection Toolkit which can be used to protect your C++ application from reverse engineering and tampering.
Marc Valle is the technical lead for the Intel (R) Tamper Protection
Toolkit. His professional interests include tamper protection,
reverse engineering, compilers, security, and privacy. In his free
time he can be found staring at the black line at the bottom of the
pool preparing for his next competition.
News
Compilers targeting C
Lambdas are dangerous?
VS 2015 Update 1 New Experimental Feature MPX
Links
Intel Tamper Protection Toolkit
Intel Tamper Protection Toolkit Getting Started
1/21/2016 • 30 minutes, 58 seconds
Game Development with C++ and Javascript
Rob and Jason are joined by Mark Logan to discuss his experience building a game engine in Javascript and C++.
Mark started learning C++ with Borland Turbo C++ in high school, so that he could build video games. After 20 years, he's finally starting to feel like he knows what he's doing. After graduating from Northeastern University's College of Computer Science, Mark spent 7 years at Google, mainly working on internal infrastructure and automation. More recently, he returned to his first love - game programming - and helped found a studio called Artillery. He's currently the tech lead on Artillery's free-to-play RTS, code-named Atlas. He spends his time working on performance optimization, networking, and solving cross-platform development problems.
News
New cppcheck released
How to make your own C++ static analyzer with clang
Improving your build times with Incredibuild and VS 2015
Mark Logan
@technicaldebtor
Links
Artillery
Artillery Blog
1/14/2016 • 44 minutes
UndoDB and Live Recorder
Rob and Jason are joined by Dr. Greg Law to discuss reverse debugging with Undo Software.
Dr Greg Law is co-founder and CEO at Undo Software. He has spent nearly 20 years writing systems-level code, including novel kernel designs and networking architectures in academia and at a variety of start-ups. Greg finds it particularly rewarding to turn innovative software technology into “real” business development. He still gets to write some code, although sadly most of his coding these days is done on aeroplanes. Greg lives in Cambridge, England with his wife and two children.
News
C++ Status at the end of 2015
Starting a tech startup with C++
} // good to go
C++Now 2016 Call for Submission
Dr. Greg Law
@gregthelaw
Greg Law's posts on Undo Software's Blog
Links
Undo Software
Jason's photos from Kenya
1/8/2016 • 46 minutes, 34 seconds
Transducers
Rob and Jason are joined by Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente to discuss Transducers and the Atria library.
Juanpe is a Spanish software engineer currently based in Berlin, Germany. Since 2011 he has worked for Ableton, where he has helped building novel musical platforms like Push and Live and where he coordinates the "Open Source Guild" helping the adoption and contribution to FLOSS. He is most experienced in C++ and Python and likes tinkering with languages like Haskell or Clojure. He is an advocate for "modern C++" and pushes for adoption of declarative and functional paradigms in the programming mainstream. He is also an open source activist and maintainer of a couple of official GNU packages like Psychosynth which introduces new realtime audio processing techniques leveraging the newest C++ standards.
News
Going Large Scale with C++ Part 1
Support for Android CMake projects in Visual Studio
Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente
Juan's website
Links
CppCon 2015: Juan Pedro Bolívar Puente “Transducers: from Clojure to C++"
Atria on GitHub
psychosynth
Embracing Conway's law
Victor Laskin's Blog: C++14 Transducers
12/23/2015 • 39 minutes, 28 seconds
Mesonbuild
Rob and Jason are joined by Jussi Pakkanen to discuss the Mesonbuild multiplatform build system for C++.
Jussi Pakkanen got his doctoral degree in computer science from the Helsinki University of Technology in 2006. Since then he has worked on various problem areas ranging from mail sorting to the software stacks of Ubuntu desktop and phone. Most recently he was the SDK lead developer at Jolla. Currently he is open for new development challenges. During his spare time he has been known to be a photographer, movie director, magician, gastronomist, computer game designer and watercolour painter.
News
Under the Hood: Leap Motion Hackathon's AR Workspace
STL Fixes in VS 2015 Update 1
Meeting C++ Lightning talks are now on youtube
Jussi Pakkanen
Jussi Pakkanen's blog
@jpakkane
Links
Mesonbuild
Mesonbuild on GitHub
Making build systems not suck
12/17/2015 • 42 minutes, 50 seconds
Ranges
Rob and Jason are joined by Eric Niebler to discuss his work on Ranges and the future of the Standard Library.
Eric Niebler is an independent consultant specializing in C++ library development. Currently, he is working on modernizing the C++ standard library and adding support for ranges, funded by the first-ever grant from the Standard C++ Foundation. Previously, Eric was a consultant for BoostPro computing, a member of Microsoft's Visual C++ team, and a Microsoft Researcher before that. In addition, he has several libraries in Boost and is a Boost release manager and steering committee member. Eric has been an active member of the C++ Standardization Committee for well over 10 years. He speaks regularly at C++ conferences around the world.
In a previous life, Eric drifted with no fixed address, writing C++ and blog entries from cafes and beaches around the world. Today, Eric is a family man living and working in the glorious Pacific Northwest near Seattle.
News
Clang with Microsoft CodeGen in VS 2015 Update 1
Conan a C/C++ package manager
Getting started with Modules in C++
Eric Niebler
@ericniebler
Eric Niebler's blog
Links
Range v3 Library
C++ Extensions for Ranges
CppCon 2015: Eric Niebler "Ranges for the Standard Library"
12/8/2015 • 45 minutes, 8 seconds
rr
Rob and Jason are joined by Robert O'Callahan from Mozilla to discuss the RR project.
Robert O'Callahan has a PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon and did academic research for a while at IBM Research, working on dynamic program analysis tools. At the same time he was contributing to Mozilla as a volunteer, until he switched gears to work full-time with Mozilla; Robert has been working on what became Firefox for over 15 years, mostly on layout and rendering in the browser engine and on related Web standards like CSS and DOM APIs. Lately he's been devoting about half of his time to rr.
News
Breaking all the Eggs in C++
The wind of change
Celebrating 30th anniversary of the first C++ compiler: let's find bugs in it
Robert O'Callahan
Robert O'Callahan's website
@rocallahan
Links
rr project
Mozilla on GitHub
12/2/2015 • 42 minutes, 53 seconds
CppCon Wrapup
Rob and Jason are joined by Jon Kalb to talk about this year's CppCon, his trip to the Kona standards committee meeting and much more.
Jon has been writing C++ for two and half decades and does onsite C++ training. He chairs the CppCon and C++Now conferences and the C++ Track for the Silicon Valley Code Camp. He serves as chair of the Boost Libraries Steering Committee and is a Microsoft MVP.
News
Using variadic templates cleanly
A sad story about get_temporary_buffer
C++ and zombies: a moving question
Jon Kalb
@_jonkalb
Exception-Safe Coding in C++
Links
CppCon 2016: Announcing 2016 Dates
CppCon 2014: Exception Safe Code (Part 1)
11/19/2015 • 57 minutes, 26 seconds
High Performance Computing
Rob and Jason are joined by Dmitri Nesteruk to talk about High Performance Computing and some of the new features coming to CLion and ReSharper for C++.
Dmitri Nesteruk is a developer, speaker, podcaster and a technical evangelist at JetBrains. His interests lie in software development and integration practices in the areas of computation, quantitative finance and algorithmic trading. His technological interests include C#, F# and C++ programming as well high-performance computing using technologies such as CUDA. He has been a C# MVP since 2009.
News
Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC Available
Reverse Iteration with Range-Based for Loops
Interactively create clang-format configurations
Dmitri Nesteruk
@dnesteruk
Dmitri Nesteruk's Pluralsight courses
Links
Webinar Recording: A Tour of Modern C++
What's New in CLion 1.2
What's New in ReSharper++
High Performance Computing in C++
11/12/2015 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 34 seconds
Qt Creator
Rob and Jason are joined by Tobias Hunger to discuss the Qt Creator IDE for C++.
Tobias graduated from the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany with a degree in computer engineering. Before joining Nokia in 2009 to work on Qt Creator he has been a consultant, specializing in systems administration and later Qt software development. He went with Qt to Digia and now works for The Qt Company in Berlin, Germany.
Tobias has been an open source contributor ever since his student days and is now a maintainer in the Qt project, responsible for the version control plugins in Qt Creator. He also is heavily involved with the project management plugins.
In his spare time he does way to many computer related things, but also manages to read books, go to the movies and play with his son.
News
First beta release of KDevelop 5.0.0
Microsoft promises Clang for Windows in November
Handmade Con 2015
Tobias Hunger
@t_hunger
Tobias Hunger's Github
Links
Qt Creator 3.6 Beta1 released
Qt
11/4/2015 • 30 minutes, 17 seconds
D
Rob and Jason are joined by Andrei Alexandrescu to discuss the D Programming language, C++ interoperability and more. Andrei even announces plans for a new book on the show!
Andrei Alexandrescu coined the colloquial term "modern C++" (adapted from his award-winning book Modern C++ Design), used today to describe a collection of important C++ styles and idioms. He is also the coauthor of C++ Coding Standards and the author of The D Programming Language book. With Walter Bright, Andrei co-designed many important features of D and authored a large part of D's standard library. His research on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing and a five-year tenure as Research Scientist at Facebook complete a broad spectrum of expertise. Andrei holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from University "Politehnica" Bucharest. He currently works on the D Language Foundation.
News
C++17 Progress Update
Herb Sutter's Fall 2015 Trip Report
Rr 4.0 released with reverse execution
Andrei Alexandrescu
@incomputable
Andrei Alexandrescu's Website
Andrei Alexandrescu's books on Amazon
Links
CppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “Declarative Control Flow"
CppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “std::allocator...”
The D Programming Language
10/27/2015 • 56 minutes, 35 seconds
JUCE
Rob and Jason are joined by Julian Storer to discuss the JUCE library.
Jules has been developing audio and library software in C++ for over 15 years, and is the author of the JUCE library, the most widely used framework for audio applications and plugins. Music tech company ROLI acquired JUCE in 2014, and as well as continuing work on library itself, he helps to guide ROLI's other software projects.
He also created the Tracktion audio workstation in 2002, which is still going strong and being used by thousands of recording musicians around the world.
He lives in London, and likes to escape from the world of music technology by playing classical guitar
News
CppCon 2016 Call for Class Proposals
Bjarne Stroustrup on the 30th anniversary of Cfront
Do you prefer fast or precise?
Julian Storer
Julian Storer's GitHub
Links
CppCon 2015: Julian Storer "The Projucer"
JUCE
@JUCElibrary
ROLI
Tracktion
10/21/2015 • 37 minutes, 23 seconds
Stop Teaching C (When Teaching C++)
Rob and Jason are joined by Kate Gregory to talk about how we should be teaching C++ without the C.
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. In 2014 and 2015 she was Open Content Chair for CppCon, the largest C++ conference ever held, where she also delivered sessions.
News
Getting started with emscripten
Range checks using a switch statement
Debug Visualizers in Visual C++ 2015
Kate Gregory
@gregcons
Kate Gregory's Blog
Kate Gregory on StackOverflow
Kate Gregory's Pluralsight courses
Kate Gregory's books on Amazon
Links
CppCon 2015: Kate Gregory "Stop Teaching C"
CppCon 2015: Kate Gregory "Stop Teaching C" (Slides)
CppCon 2014: James McNellis & Kate Gregory "Modernizing Legacy C++ Code"
CppCon 2014: James McNellis & Kate Gregory "Making C++ Code Beautiful"
10/14/2015 • 48 minutes, 17 seconds
Expression Templates
Rob and Jason are joined by Joel Falcou to discuss Expression Templates.
Joel Falcou is an assistant professor in France where he works on torturing compilers to get the best performance out of modern hardware.
He's an active member of the Boost community and CTO of NumScale, a start-up aligned with parallel processing tools.
News
Rejuvenating the Microsoft C/C++ Compile
Coroutines in Visual C++ 2015
Holy Build Box
Joel Falcou
@joel_f
Joel Falcou on GitHub
Joel Falcou on StackOverflow
Links
NumScale
Expression Templates - Past, Present, Future
10/5/2015 • 36 minutes, 27 seconds
C++ Concurrency
Rob and Jason are joined by Anthony Williams to discuss some of the Concurrency features of C++.
Anthony Williams is a UK-based developer and consultant with many years of experience in C++. He has been an active member of the BSI C++ Standards Panel since 2001, and is author or coauthor of many of the C++ Standards Committee papers that led up to the inclusion of the thread library in the new C++ Standard, known as C++11 or C++0x. He was the lead maintainer of boost thread from 2006 to 2011, and is the developer of the just::thread implementation of the C++11 thread library from Just Software Solutions Ltd. Anthony lives in the far west of Cornwall, England.
News
C++ Core Guidelines
GSL Lite
Anthony Williams
@a_williams
Anthony Williams on StackOverflow
Links
C++ Concurrency in Action: Practical Multithreading
Just Software Solutions
just::thread C++ Standard Thread Library
9/29/2015 • 50 minutes, 44 seconds
VR Development
Rob and Jason are joined by Nicolas Lazaraff to discuss the current state of VR development with C++.
Nick is a VR/AR engineer who is passionate about bridging the interface between computers and humans. Currently he's VP of Software Development at OTOY focusing on VR and AR ("mixed/digital reality"). He was a cofounder of everyAir, a pioneering P2P game streaming application which was later acquired. Before that he worked at Microsoft on Office 2010 and 2013.
News
Stack, Heap, Pool
Dependency Injection in C++ using Variadic Templates
Nicolas Lazareff
nzff.net
Links
Balls Away - Game on iTunes App Store
CppCon: C++ for cross-platform VR development
OTOY & Oculus: Render the Metaverse
Oculus Connect Keynote: Future of VR Panel
Down the VR rabbit hole: Fixing judder
9/16/2015 • 49 minutes, 36 seconds
Effective C++
Rob and Jason are joined by Scott Meyers to discuss the Effective C++ book series.
Scott Meyers has been working with C++ since 1988. He’s the author of Effective C++, More Effective C++, Effective STL, and his most recent book, Effective Modern C++. For 25 years, he’s delivered C++ training to clients worldwide. He once lectured about C++ on a brass-railed nightclub stage while the audience sat at cocktail tables.
News
AWS SDK for C++
Thoughts on the Vagaries of C++ Initialization
Scott Meyers
@Scott__Meyers
The View From Aristeia
Links
Effective Modern C++
Scott Meyers Videos
Scott Meyers Training
The Evolving Search for Effective C++
DConf 2014 - The Last Thing D Needs
9/9/2015 • 54 minutes, 36 seconds
Software Transactional Memory
Rob and Jason are joined by Brett Hall to discuss Software Transactional Memory.
Brett Hall is the lead engineer on Dynamics, a desktop application that collects and analyzes data from the light scattering instruments built by Wyatt technology. Prior to joining Wyatt, Brett worked in web application development, remote sensing, and spent a summer in the games industry. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Part of his research work involved using C++ to solve the PDE systems generated by the rest of the research. All told he’s been using C++ for around 20 years now. These days the bulk of his programming interest is in concurrency and parallelism. When not programming he’s usually hanging out with his family and/or mountain biking.
News
CppCon call for additional content
Served: A C++11 RESTful web server library
Modern C++ for the Windows Runtime now available
Brett Hall
@bretthall
Backwards Incompatibilities
Links
CppCon 2015 - Transactional Memory in Practice
CppCon 2014 - Software Transaction Memory, For Reals
ISO C++ Paper - Industrial Experience with Transactional Memory at Wyatt Technology
9/2/2015 • 50 minutes, 12 seconds
Real World Template Metaprogamming
Rob and Jason are joined by Edouard Alligand to discuss the use of C++ template metaprogramming in real world projects.
Edouard is an experienced kernel programmer, but has spent the last several years working on the hot topic of next-generation databases at software publisher quasardb. He has a strong background in low level programming, beginning with his first programming language: Z80 assembly. Edouard is a C++ enthusiast with a strong taste for template metaprogramming, generic programming, and you're not doing it right if the compiler doesn't crash programming.
News
C++ Hints
C++ Abstraction Penalty: Idiomatic vs Raw
How rvalue/lvalue/xvalue got their names
Edouard Alligand
@edouarda14
Edouard Alligand's GitHub
Links
CppCon 2015 - How I stopped worrying and love metaprogramming
CppCon 2014 - Edouard Alligand Multiplatform C++
Brigand Library
QuasarDB Blog
QuasarDB Website
8/26/2015 • 36 minutes, 29 seconds
Game Dev and Low Latency
Rob and Jason are joined by Nicolas Guillemot to discuss the ongoing work of the GameDev and Low Latency C++ Study Group.
Nicolas Guillemot started studying C++ and OpenGL to make games, and fell in love with them. He enjoys participating in game jams, and has had the opportunity to work in some game development studios: Inlight Entertainment, and Electronic Arts. He is currently taking a break from finishing a bachelor's in software engineering to work at Intel, doing mostly graphics-related work to help game developers take advantage of Intel GPU features.
News
Biicode (just the company) post-mortem
Visual Studio Projects that Just Keep Rebuilding
Boost 1.59
Nicolas Guillemot
@nlguillemot
Nicolas Guillemot's GitHub
Links
SG14 - Game Dev and Low Latency Google Group
WG21-SG14 GitHub
CppCon 2015 - The Birth of SG14
On Games(SG14) and TM(SG5) from The View at the May 2015 C++ Standard meeting in Lenexa
8/19/2015 • 41 minutes, 46 seconds
Bounded Integers
Rob and Jason are joined by David Stone to discuss his bounded integer library.
David Stone has spoken at C++Now and Meeting C++. He is the author of the bounded::integer library: http://doublewise.net/c++/bounded/ and has a
special interest in compile-time code generation and error checking, as well as machine learning. He owns DoubleWise C++ Consulting, providing on-site training with an emphasis on performance and correctness. He also
works at Markit integrating real-time financial data. He once wrote an optimizing compiler that solved the halting problem, and is just waiting for it to finish compiling his program.
News
What do you want to see in VS2015 Update 1
New Clion 1.1 EAP
CppCon 2015 Program Additions
David Stone
David Stone on StackOverflow
doublewise.net
Links
C++ Bounded Integer Library
C++Now 2014 - Removing Undefined behavior from integer operations
Meeting C++ 2014 - Writing robust code
C++Now 2015 - Functions want to be free
C++ Truths: Want speed? Use constexpr meta-programming!
8/10/2015 • 44 minutes, 27 seconds
VS2015 and the Universal CRT
Rob and Jason are joined by James McNellis to discuss new features for C++ developers in Visual Studio 2015 and changes made to the C runtime.
James McNellis is a senior engineer on the Visual C++ team at Microsoft, where he works on C++ libraries. He’s spent the past three years working on a major redesign and refactoring of the Visual C++ C Runtime, which culminated in the release of the Universal CRT with Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2015. He occasionally speaks at C++ conferences and was at one time a prolific C++ contributor on Stack Overflow.
News
C++'s Rule of Zero
CppCon 2015 Program
Setup Changes in Visual Studio 2015 Affecting C++ Developers
James McNellis
@JamesMcNellis
James McNellis's Home Page
James McNellis on StackOverflow
Links
Visual Studio 2015 RTM is now available
Introducing the Universal CRT
CppCon 2014: Stefanus DuToit "Hourglass Interfaces for C++ APIs"
MVA Course: C++ A General Purpose Language and Library Jump Start
The Visual C++ Team is hiring!
8/3/2015 • 49 minutes, 32 seconds
Rust
Rob and Jason are joined by Steve Klabnik to discuss the history of the Rust language and some of its key features.
Steve Klabnik is a Ruby and Rails contributor, member of the Rust core team, and a hypermedia enthusiast. He's the author of "Rust for Rubyists," "Rails 4 in Action," and "Designing Hypermedia APIs."
When Steve isn't coding, he enjoys playing the Netrunner card game.
News
Get rid of those boolean function parameters
Concepts TS voted out (in)
Steve Klabnik
@steveklabnik
Steve Klabnik's Home Page
Steve Klabnik's GitHub
Links
The Rust Programming Language
7/23/2015 • 59 minutes, 1 second
WebAssembly
Rob and Jason are joined by JF Bastien to discuss WebAssembly.
JF Bastien is a compiler engineer and tech lead on Google’s Chrome web browser, currently focusing on performance and security to bring portable, fast and secure code to the Web. JF is a member of the C++ standards committee, where his mechanical engineering degree serves little purpose. He’s worked on startup incubators, business jets, flight simulators, CPUs, dynamic binary translation, systems, and compilers.
News
C++ compile-time TETRIS
C++ compiler front-end fixes in VS 2015
A variant for the everyday Joe
JF Bastien
@jfbastien
JF Bastien's Github
Links
WebAssembly on Github
C++ on the Web: ponies for developers without pwn'ing users
7/9/2015 • 51 minutes
POCO Project
Rob and Jason are joined by Aleksandar Fabijanic to discuss the C++ Portable Components project.
Alex holds two undergraduate degrees in mechanical engineering from Faculty of Engineering (University of Rijeka, Croatia) and the master's degree in software engineering from Citadel Graduate College in Charleston, South Carolina. Alex is a IEEE Computer Society Certified Software Development Professional. He's been seriously programming computers since 1992 and developing steel manufacturing automation and process control software using C and C++ since 1998. He used to compete in rowing on World Championship/Olympic Games level. Nowadays, he spends his free time reading, exercising and occasionally woodworking.
News
Format Specifiers Checking
CrystaX NDK 10.2.0 w/ Boost 1.58.0 and Obj-C v2
To Make The Most Money As A Programmer, Learn This Language
Aleksandar Fabijanic
@0x00FA
Aleksandar's Github
Links
POCO Project
POCO on Github
Macchina.io
7/2/2015 • 52 minutes, 24 seconds
Exercism.io and Refactoring
Rob and Jason are joined by Richard Thomson to discuss exercism.io and C++ refactoring tools.
Richard Thomson is a passionate software craftsman. He has been
writing C programs since 1980, C++ programs since 1993 and practicing
test-driven development since 2006. For 10 years, Richard was a
Microsoft MVP for Direct3D, Microsoft's native C++ API for 3D graphics.
His book on Direct3D is available as a free download. Prior to that,
Richard was a technical reviewer of the OpenGL 1.0 specification. He is
the director of the Computer Graphics Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah
and currently works at DAZ 3D writing 3D modeling software in C++.
Recently, Richard has added the C++ language track to exercism.io and
has been working on adding refactoring tools to the clang tool suite.
News
C++11/14/17 Features In VS 2015 RTM
Futures for C++11 at Facebook
A Conclusion to Accelerating Your Build with Clang
Live Webinar: A Tour of Modern C++
Richard Thomson
@legalizeadulthd
Richard Thomson's blog
Richard Thomson's Github
Links
Utah C++ Users Group
Create your own Refactoring Tool in Clang
CppCon 2014: Matt Hargett "Common-sense acceleration of your MLOC build"
6/24/2015 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 54 seconds
News Roundup
Rob and Jason discuss recent C++ news and events.
News
Bloomberg C++ Challenge for Chance to Attend CppCon
Time to get moving
C++ and Facebook Moments: Facebook code blog, Techworld
Interactive C++11 memory model: visualize the execution orders of multithreaded program
Urho3D - C++ game engine with HTML5 examples
Piranha is a C++11 based computer algebra library
From ASM.js to WebAssembly
Webinar: A Tour of Modern C++
Hitler on C++17 (Downfall Parody)
Links
@robwirving
@lefticus
6/17/2015 • 39 minutes, 9 seconds
C++11/14 Library Best Practices
Rob and Jason are joined by Niall Douglas to discuss best practices for C++ 11/14 libraries.
Niall Douglas is a consultant for hire, is one of the authors of proposed Boost.AFIO and is currently the primary Google Summer of Code administrator for Boost. He is an Affiliate Researcher with the Waterloo Research Institute for Complexity and Innovation at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and holds postgraduate qualifications in Business Information Systems and Educational and Social Research as well as a second undergraduate degree double majoring in Economics and Management. He has been using Boost since 2002 and was the ISO SC22 (Programming Languages) mirror convenor for the Republic of Ireland 2011-2012. He formerly worked for BlackBerry 2012-2013 in their Platform Development group, and was formerly the Chief Software Architect of the Fuel and Hydraulic Test Benches of the EuroFighter defence aircraft. He is a published author in the field of Economics and Power Relations, is the Social Media Coordinator for the World Economics Association and his particular interest lies in productivity, the causes of productivity and the organisational scaling constraints which inhibit productivity.
News
constexpr Complete For VS 2015 RTM: C++11 compiler, C++17 STL
C++ in the modern world
Why C++17 is the new programming language for games I want
Niall Douglas
@ned14
Niall Douglas' blog
Links
Best Practice For C++ 11/14 Libraries
Boost.AFIO
Boost.APIBind
6/10/2015 • 56 minutes, 10 seconds
Better Code Concurrency
Rob and Jason are joined by Sean Parent to talk about his recent C++Now! talk where he presented a new futures library.
Sean Parent is a principal scientist and software architect for Adobe’s mobile digital imaging group. Sean has been at Adobe since 1993 when he joined as a senior engineer working on Photoshop and later managed Adobe’s Software Technology Lab. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.
News
Android Studio introduces C++ support in v1.3 preview
C++11 Port of Docopt, a command-line argument parser
Going Native 38 Updates from Lenexa, future of C++17
Announcing C++Now 2016 and Best Session winners
Sean Parent
@seanparent
Sean Parent's Github
Links
STLab Github
C++ Seasoning
Inheritance Is The Base Class of Evil
Sponsors
6/1/2015 • 48 minutes, 51 seconds
Testdriven C++ using Catch
Rob and Jason are joined by Phil Nash to talk about C++ Unit Testing with Catch.
Phil is a semi-independent software developer, coach and consultant - working in as diverse fields as finance, agile coaching and iOS development. A long time C++ developer he also has his feet in C#, F#, Objective-C and Swift - as well as dabbling in other languages. He is the author of several open source projects - most notably Catch: a C++-native test framework.
News
CppCon 2015 Registration Open
Cling Aims to Provide a High Performance C++ REPL
C++Now 2015 Program is online
C++Now 2015 Presentations
C++ Now Youtube Channel
New C++ experimental feature: The tadpole operators
Poll: What C++ Testing Framework do you use?
Phil Nash
@phil_nash
Level of Indirection
Extra Level of Indirection
Links
Catch
MeetingCpp talk on Catch
ISO C++ Standard Discusson on Names
C++ Extension Methods
Sponsors
5/27/2015 • 42 minutes, 35 seconds
Modern C++ for the Windows Runtime
Rob and Jason are joined by Kenny Kerr to talk about Modern C++ for the Windows Runtime. Kenny also shares his thoughts on printf and tells us about his new Pluralsight course.
Kenny Kerr is a computer programmer and recognized expert in Windows operating system development and programming languages. Kenny has published numerous articles about the Windows operating system, network security, and C++ for MSDN Magazine as well as other publications. Microsoft has recognized Kenny’s expertise in network and operating system security with the Microsoft MVP Award for security. He has also held the Microsoft MVP Award since 2007 for his contributions to the C++ development community.
News
Thoughts about C++17 (Bjarne Stroustrup)
C++17 progress update
HPX and the C++ Standard
Kenny Kerr
@kennykerr
Kenny Kerr's Blog
Links
Modern C++ for the Windows Runtime
SQLite with Modern C++ (Free Pluralsight Course)
Kenny Kerr's Pluralsight courses
Sponsors
5/20/2015 • 36 minutes, 25 seconds
Boost 2.0
Rob and Jason are joined by Robert Ramey to talk about the future of the Boost C++ Libraries.
Robert Ramey is a freelance Software Developer living in Santa Barbara, California. His long and varied career spans various aspects of software development including business data processing, product, embedded systems, custom software, and C++ library development. Lately, he has been mostly interested in C++ library design and implementation related to Boost. He is the author and maintainer of the Boost Serialization library and Boost library incubator
News
Boost XP Support
Breaking changes in Visual C++
Examples of Best Practices for C++ 11/14 Libraries
Robert Ramey
Robert Ramey Software Development
Links
Boost 2.0 session at C++Now!
Boost Library Incubator
Sponsors
5/13/2015 • 41 minutes, 4 seconds
SQLpp11
Rob and Jason are joined by Roland Bock to talk about sqlpp11 and some of Rolands ideas for the future of C++
Roland Bock is Head of Development at PPRO Financial Ltd, an FCA regulated e-Money institute offering prepaid MasterCard card programs and comprehensive financial solutions for international electronic payment transactions. Since 2008 he has been using SQL in C++. Being unhappy with the string-based approach of most SQL libraries, he decided to do something about it and developed a type-safe EDSL for SQL in C++: sqlpp11. In his spare time Roland is working on sqlpp11, experimenting with Concepts Lite and trying to write a proposal about compile-time configurable names for C++ standard. He lives and codes in Munich (Germany).
News
C++ 11/14/17 Features in VS 2015RC
C++ 11 Constant Expressions in VS 2015 RC
Resumable Functions in C++
C++ highlights and more of GCC 5.1
Roland Bock
Roland Bock on github
Thoughts by Roland Bock
Links
sqlpp11
Dreaming of Names
ISO C++ Standard Discusson on Names
Sponsors
5/7/2015 • 55 minutes, 13 seconds
Asynchronous Programming
Rob and Jason are joined by Hartmut Kaiser to talk about Asynchronous Program and the HPX framework.
Hartmut Kaiser is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University. At the same time, he holds the position of a senior scientist at the Center for Computation and Technology at LSU. He received his doctorate from the Technical University of Chemnitz (Germany) in 1988. He is probably best known through his involvement in open source software projects, mainly as the author of several C++ libraries he has contributed to Boost, which are in use by thousands of developers worldwide. He is a voting member of the ISO C++ Standards Committee and his current research is focused on leading the STE||AR group at CCT working on the practical design and implementation of the ParalleX execution model and related programming methods. In addition, he architected and developed the core library modules of SAGA for C++, a Simple API for Grid Applications.
News
CLion 1.1 roadmap & ACCU 2015
Boost 1.58 a short overview
Module proposal for C++ now at rev 3
Hartmut Kaiser
Hartmut Kaiser
Links
Asynchronous Computation in C++
The STE||AR Group
HPX on Github
Sponsors
4/22/2015 • 52 minutes, 57 seconds
Biicode and Turbo
In this episode Manuel Sanchez joins Rob Irving to talk about biicode, the C++ dependency manager and Manuel's Template Metaprogramming Library Turbo.
As a CS undergraduate at the University of Madrid (Spain) and self taught C++ programmer, Manuel Sanchez has been working on personal projects related to Modern C++ during his free time, most of them related to template metaprogramming and his own efforts to give high level features for C++ metaprogramming: The Turbo Metaprogramming Library. Manuel has been working for biicode since September 2014, he assist his fellow biis by dealing with C++ idiosyncrasies while manage very successful posts about template metaprogramming and his work on Turbo.
News
CLion 1.0 has finally arrived
Visual C++ tools for Windows 10 TP
Eric Neibler's Ranges proposal
Poll: Have you tried biicode?
Manuel Sanchez
@Manu343726
Blog and Portfolio
Links
Biicode
Biicode goes open source
Turbo
4/15/2015 • 39 minutes, 6 seconds
Quick Game Development
In this episode Vittorio Romeo joins Rob Irving to talk about making simple games with C++ using libraries like SFML, SDL and Cinder.
Vittorio Romeo is an undergraduate Computer Science student at "Università degli Studi di Messina".
Since childhood he has always been interested in programming, and learned to develop applications and games as an autodidact.
After discovering C++ a few years ago, Vittorio became extremely passionate about its evolution and its community.
He currently works on open-source general-purpose C++14 libraries and develops free open-source games.
Vittorio also loves teaching: he manages a well-received C++11/C++14 video tutorial series and he talked about game development in C++ at CppCon 2014.
When he's not in front of a computer, Vittorio enjoys fitness activities (weightlifting, swimming, running) and reading.
News
C++ Samples
C++ 17's STL what do you want it to have
CppCon 2015 Call for Submissions
The C languages merge (April Fools!)
Vittorio Romeo
Personal Website
YouTube Channel
Github
@supahvee1234
Facebook
Links
Quick Game Development with C++ 11/C++14
Open Hexagon
Open Hexagon FB
4/10/2015 • 39 minutes, 34 seconds
Fit and Tick
Episode number 6 of CppCast with guest Paul Fultz II recorded April 2, 2015
Paul Fultz II has developed in C++ professionally and personally in a variety of fields including DSP, web development, and desktop applications. He has developed in other languages as well such as Java, C#, Python, and Javascript but focuses most of his attention on C++ which combines correctness, expressiveness, and performance together.
News
Simple Extensible Pattern Matching in C++
C++Now! 2015 Program is available
Simple and Clean Code vs Performance
The C languages merge (April Fools!)
Paul Fultz II
@pfultz2
Paul Fultz II's Blog
Links
Tick - Trait introspection and concept creator for C++11
Fit - Header-only C++11 library that provides utilities for functions and function objects.
Modern Generic Programming using the Tick and Fit libraries
4/2/2015 • 26 minutes, 28 seconds
Exploring CLion
Episode number 5 of CppCast with guest Anastasia Kazakova recorded March 25, 2015
Being a C/C++ fan since University Anastasia has been creating real-time *nix-based systems and pushing them to production for 8 years. She has a passion for networking algorithms (especially congestion problems and network management protocols) and embedded programming, and believes in good tooling. Now she is a part of the JetBrains team working as a Product Marketing Manager for CLion the upcoming cross-platform C/C++ IDE.
News
Curl is 17 years old
Effective Modern C++ News
VC2015 RTM What do you want it to have?
What platforms are you running CLion IDE on?
Anastasia Kazakova
@anastasiak2512
Links
CLion IDE
CLion on Twitter
CLion Blog
3/25/2015 • 31 minutes, 38 seconds
CMake, Git and Functional Programming
Episode number 4 of CppCast with guest David Sankel recorded March 17, 2015
David Sankel is a professional software developer/architect based in the USA. His prolific software developments have included CAD/CAM, computer graphics, visual programming languages, web applications, computer vision, and cryptography. He is a frequent speaker at the C++Now! conferences and is especially well known for his advanced functional programming in C++ talks.
David's current research interests include dependently typed languages, semantic domains, EDSLs, and functional reactive programming. He currently works for the software firm, Stellar Science.
News
When CLion met biicode
How much should you pay your engineers
What are some everyday life things you use C++ for
My favorite C++ 10 Liner
David Sankel
Paper: Modern Functional Programming in C++
Functional Programming in C++
The Intellectual Ascent to Agda
Functional Reactive Programming - Cleanly Abstracted Interactivity
Intro to Functional Programming in C++
Links
Stellar Science
C++Now!
3/19/2015 • 26 minutes, 47 seconds
Cross Platform Mobile C++ in Visual Studio
Episode number 3 of CppCast with guest Ankit Asthana recorded March 11, 2015
Ankit Asthana is a program manager working in the Visual C++ Cross-Platform space. He is knowledgeable in cross-platform technologies, compilers (dynamic and static compilation, optimizer, code generation), distributed computing and server side development. He has in the past worked for IBM and Oracle Canada as a developer building Java 7 (hotspot) and telecommunication products. Ankit back in 2008 also published a book on C++ titled C++ for Beginners to Masters which sold over a few thousand copies.
News
Introducing the Universal CRT
C/C++ Code analysis in VS 2015
Find your favorite Library for C++ in NuGet
What is your favorite C++ IDE?
Ankit Asthana
Ankit on MSDN
C++ for Beginners to Masters
Links
Visual Studio 2015 CTP
Visual C++ Team Blog
3/12/2015 • 39 minutes, 16 seconds
ChaiScript and Cross Platform C++
Episode number 2 of CppCast with guest Jason Turner
Jason has been developing portable C++ since 2002. With very few exceptions, every line of code he has written since then has had to run on multiple platforms. He is an independent contractor focusing on cross-platform issues, utilization of C++ libraries from scripting languages and code quality assurance. He is the co-creator and maintainer of ChaiScript, a mature scripting language designed for modern C++. His latest project is cppbestpractices.com: a fledgling effort to gather the collective wisdom of the C++ community.
News
CppCheck
Four things you probably didn't know about C++
Boost libraries are now supported in biicode
Jason Turner
@lefticus
Github
EmptyCrate
Links
ChaiScript
CppBestPractices
Complex Object Initialization Optimization with IIFE in C++11
C++Now!
3/5/2015 • 38 minutes, 5 seconds
Jon Kalb loves the C++ Community
Episode number 1 of CppCast with guest Jon Kalb
Jon has been writing C++ for two and half decades, does onsite C++ training, and works on the Amazon search engine for A9.com. He chairs the CppCon and C++Now conferences. He also programs the C++ Track for the Silicon Valley Code Camp and serves as chair of the Boost Libraries Steering Committee.
Links
cppcon
cppcon YouTube Channel
C++Now!
Boost Library Incubator
Does C++ need its own podcast?
Jon Kalb
@_JonKalb
Exception-Safe Coding in C++