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    CppCast

    Every two weeks, or so, we sit down with guests from the C++ community to discuss the latest news and what they have been up to. Find us at cppcast.com

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    Latest Episodes:
    Realtime Sanitizer and the Performance Constraints attributes Oct 29, 2024

    Christoper Apple joins Timur and Phil. Chris talks to us about his work on the new Realtime Sanitizer in the Clang20 release, as well as the associated Performance Constraints attributes, how they differ, and how they work together.

    News

    • The C++23 Standard has finally been released by ISO
    • "Why Safety Profiles Failed" - draft of new paper from Sean Baxter
    • "if constexpr requires requires { requires }" - Jonathan Müller

    Links

    • RealtimeSanitizer docs
    • Performance Constraints docs
    • RealtimeSanitizer helper repo (including how to run it "standalone" and find the team on discord)
    • slides from Chris and David Trevelyan's CppCon 2024 talk
    Type Erasure, SIMD-Within-a-Register and more Oct 20, 2024

    Eduardo Madrid joins Phil and Timur. Eduardo talks to us about the Zoo libraries, including his advanced type-erasure library, as well as the SWAR library which simulates ad-hoc SIMD within a register. We also discuss how he has taken inspiration and cues from the worlds of Biology and Physics to arrive at new thinking around software development, design and architecture.

    News

    • QT 6.8 is released
    • "Named Loops" proposal adopted into C - will C++ follow?
    • C++ Online Call for Speakers is open

    Links

    • The Zoo libraries
    • "C++ Software Design" (book) - Klaus Iglberger
    • Klaus Iglberger's talks on Type Erasure:
      • "A Design Analysis"
      • "The Implementation Details"
    • (Some of ) Ed's talks:
      • "Using Integers as Arrays of Bitfields a.k.a. SWAR Techniques - CppCon 2019"
      • "Rehashing Hash Tables And Associative Containers" - C++ Now 2022"
      • "Empowerment with the C++ Generic Programming Paradigm" - C++ Online 2024
    Parsing and Analysing C++ Oct 04, 2024

    Yuri Minaev joins Timur and Phil. Yuri talks to us about static analysis and how PVS Studio helps. Then we chat about his work on a custom C++ parser, and what challenges he's encountered.

    News

    • CppCon 2024 keynotes on YouTube (via CppCon site):

      • Herb Sutter - "Peering Forward: C++'s Next Decade"
      • Khalil Estell - "C++ Exceptions for Smaller Firmware"
      • Amanda Rousseau - "Embracing an Adversarial Mindset for C++ Security"
      • David Gross - "Ultrafast Trading Systems in C++"
      • Daveed Vandevoorde - "Gazing Beyond Reflection for C++26"

    • Coros - task-based parallelism library built on C++20 Coroutines

    • "The case of the crash when destructing a std::map" - Raymond Chen
    • ACCU 2025 Call for Speakers and (super) Early Bird Tickets

    Links

    • C++ Under the Sea
    • PVS-Studio (download)
    • PVS-Studio Blog
    • Yuri's Webinar: Parsing C++
    CppCon 2024 Live Special Sep 20, 2024

    Phil and Timur are joined by a live audience at CppCon as we chat about Safety in C++, AI and the running of CppCast itself.

    News

    • Clang 19.1 released
    • Sean Baxter's "Safe C++"
    • P3390R0: "Safe C++" - Sean's work written up as a proposal
      • partnership announcement from C++ Alliance
      • Summary article on The Register

    Links

    • Core C++ (Israel) - Call for Speakers closes 22nd Sept!
    • "Robots Are After Your Job: Exploring Generative AI for C++" - Andrei Alexandrescu's CppCon 2023 talk
    Benchmarking Language Keywords Sep 06, 2024

    Benjamin Summerton joins Timur and Phil. Ben talks to us about what led him to benchmark the impact of the final and noexcept keywords, how to interpret his results, and the project that inspired him to do so in the first place.

    News

    • Boost 1.86 released
    • RealtimeSanitizer - new real-time safety testing tool for C and C++ projects that comes with Clang 20
    • "Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime"

    Links

    • Join us for the CppCast CppCon Special
    • Previous episodes covering std lib implementations:
      • Stephan T. Lavavej (MSVC)
      • Stephan T. Lavavej and Sy Brand (MSVC)
      • Billy O'Neil (MSVC)
      • Marshall Clow (libc++)
      • Eric Fiselier (libc++)
    • "noexcept affects libstdc++’s unordered_set" - Arthur O'Dwyer
    • Episode with Martin Hořeňovský, discussing non-portal random distribution
    • Episode with Frances Buontempo, also mentioning random numbers and the portable distribution issue
    • "Free Your Functions" (video) - Klaus Iglberger (timed link to the bit that talks about performance)
    • Ben's PSRayTracing repo
    Reducing Binary Sizes Aug 09, 2024

    Sándor Dargó joins Phil and Anastasia Kazakova. Sándor talks to us about why and how to reduce the final binary sizes your code produces, as well as the importance of clean code.

    News

    • "cppfront: Midsummer update"
      • Reddit Thread
      • cpp2 episode from last year
    • AutoConfig: C++ Code Analysis Redefined (Sonar)
    • “noexcept Can (Sometimes) Help (or Hurt) Performance” - Ben Summerton

    Links

    • Binary Sizes posts on Sándor's blog
    • Sándor's books
    • "Parameterized testing with GTest" - Sándor Dargó
    • "How to keep your binaries small?" - Sándor's C++ on Sea talk(s)
      • (will add video links when available)
    Swift for C++ Developers Jul 27, 2024

    Doug Gregor joins Phil and Kevin Carpenter. Doug talks to us about his work on Swift at Apple, what the language is like and how it can interoperate with C++.

    News

    • "Memory Safety in C++ vs Rust vs Zig" - B Shyam Sundar
    • C++ under the Sea workshops announced
    • mp-units 2.2.0 released

    Links

    • "Swift for C++ Practioners" - first in blog series from Doug Gregor
    • Episode 341, with Dave Abraham talking about Swift/ C++ interop
    • "Start with a Protocol" - blog post from Rob Napier (but link to Dave Abraham's "Crusty" talk no longer works)
    • "Option(al) is not a Failure" - Phil's talk about Swift Error Handling
    • "Option(al) is not a Failure" (yes, same name) - Phil's talk about past, present and possible future C++ error handling
    • "Swift Concurrency"
    QuantLib Jul 12, 2024

    Luigi Ballabio joins Phil and Matt Godbolt. Luigi talks to us about QuantLib, an open-source library for financial models that he co-founded and now maintains.

    News

    • WG21 St. Luis trip reports:
      • "Official" report, collated by Inbal Levy
      • Herb Sutter's trip report

    Links

    • QuantLib home page
    • Episode about borrow-checked C++ with Sean Baxter
    • "QuantLib Python Cookbook" - book by Luigi
    • "Implementing QuantLib" - book by Luigi
    libunifex and std::execution Jun 28, 2024

    Jessica Wong and Ian Petersen join Timur and Phil. Ian and Jessica talk to us about libunifex and other async code projects at Meta, how it has evolved in the proposed std::execution and what structured concurrency is.

    News

    • XCode 16 beta
      • The std library that ships with XCode 16 supports "hardening"
      • libc++ hardening modes
    • "What’s the deal with std::type_identity?" - Raymond Chen
    • "C++ programmer's guide to undefined behavior: part 1 of 11" - PVS Studio
    • "C++ Brain Teasers: Exercise Your Mind" - Anders Schau Knatten

    Links

    • "std::execution" - P2300R9
    • "async_scope – Creating scopes for non-sequential concurrency" - P3149R3
    • "Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful"
    • Folly Coro
    Boost, The Beman Project and Beyond Jun 14, 2024

    Zach Laine joins Phil and Timur. Zach talks to us about the Boost collection of libraries, his contributions to it, a little of its history and where it's going, and a new project that aims to get back to Boost's original roots.

    News

    • Timing vulnerability in Kyber due to compiler optimization pass
    • JUCE 8 released
    • C++ Under the Sea - new conference in The Netherlands

    Links

    • Boost
    Safe, Borrow-Checked, C++ May 31, 2024

    Sean Baxter joins Timur and Phil. Sean explains how he has managed to implement a borrow checker for C++ in his Circle compiler. In fact his implementation addresses all the same safety issues that Rust addresses.

    News

    • "Noisy: The Class You Wrote a Hundred Times"
      • Reddit discussion
    • "Addressing That Post About final"
    • Conference News:
      • Pure Virtual C++ 2024 videos
      • C++ on Sea 2024 - full scheduled published

    Links

    • Jet Propulsion Lab
    • Circle homepage
    • "Safe C++" - Sean's video covering the implementation discussed on the episode
    • P2687R0 - "Design Alternatives for Type-and-Resource Safe C++" - Stroustrup & Dos Reis
    • P2771R0 - "Towards memory safety in C++"
    • Clang's "Lifetime Extensions for C++" RFC
    Rust <=> C++ May 18, 2024

    Mara Bos joins Phil and Timur. Mara talks to us about her work on the Rust evolution team and how she uses embedded Rust for drone flight controllers. We chat about some of the differences and similarities between C++ and Rust, and what the two languages can, and should, learn from each other.

    News

    • GCC 14 released
      • Changes
      • Reddit discussion
    • "An informal comparison of the three major implementations of std::string" (updated) - Raymond Chen
    • BugInsight – New memory leak and deadlock finder for C and C++ on Windows
      • Reddit discussion

    Links

    • "Rust Atomics and Locks" - Mara's book
    • "driveway moment" (Wiktionary)
    JSON for Modern C++ May 03, 2024

    Niels Lohmann joins Timur and Phil. Niels talks to us about his popular JSON library, JSON for Modern C++ (often just known as nlohmann/json, after its github repo). We chat about the history and purpose of the library, with an interesting aside into starting and maintaining a popular OSS library, as well as what Niels is up to today.

    News

    • "The Performance Impact of C++'s final Keyword" - Benjamin Summerton
      • Reddit discussion
    • Kris Jusiak: Meta-meta programming! (Reddit)

    Links

    • "Tips on Surveying the C++ Community" - Anastasia Kazakova's talk
    • JSON for Modern C++
    Pure Virtual C++ Apr 23, 2024

    Sy Brand joins Phil and Timur. Sy talks about the imminent Pure Virtual C++ conference that they have been running with Microsoft's backing for a few years. Sy also discuss what they have been up to as Developer Advocate at Microsoft, as well as some fascinating outside interests.

    News

    • C++ Foundation's C++ 2024 Developer survey results
    • P3236R0: "Please reject P2786 and adopt P1144"
      • P2786R5: "Trivial Relocatability For C++26"
      • P1144R10: "std::is_trivially_relocatable"
      • P1029R3: "move = bitcopies" (earlier alt paper)
    • "C++20 modules and Boost: an analysis"
    • "Boston C++ April 2024 online meetup"

    Links

    • Sy's short films
    • Pure Virtual C++ 2024 conference
    • 'BF' written in DWARF debug info
    Heterogeneous Computing and C++ Language Evolution Apr 05, 2024

    Erich Keane joins Timur and Phil. Erich chats about the recent WG21 meeting in Tokyo, his roles as chair and co-chair of the Language Evolution and Language Evolution Incubator working groups, respectively, as well as heterogeneous computing and his work at NVidia.

    News

    • CppCon - Call for Speakers
    • ACCU 2024 Online
    • Bjarne Stroustrup responds to White House warning against C++
    • David Sankel's post on Boost split

    Links

    • New C++ meetup in Vienna, Austria
    • Tokyo ISO C++ Committee Trip Reports:
      • In-depth status report
      • Herb Sutter's report
      • Think-Cell's trip report (Jonathan Müller)
    • Papers discussed:
      • P2900R6 - "Contracts for C++"
      • P2996R2 - "Reflection for C++26"
      • P2688R1 - "Pattern Matching: match Expression"
      • P2830R1 - "Standardized Type Ordering"
    Psychology and Starting Out as a Developer Mar 11, 2024

    Gail Ollis joins Phil and Matt Godbolt. Gail talks to us about why, after two decades of software development, she took a degree in psychology followed by a PhD that researched the psychology of software development - and how she now uses this to help others get started and, hopefully, avoid many of the human issues that can plague our software projects.

    News

    • "Contracts MVP is Feature Complete" - Reddit
    • "Contracts for C++" Timur's C++ London talk
    • Gemini refuses to talk about C++ 20 Concepts to someone under the age of 18!
      • Hacker News thread
      • Twitch streamer's reaction (ThePrimeTime)
    • “White House urges developers to dump C and C++” - InfoWorld
    • Conferences:
      • C++ on Sea Early Bird tickets and option, CfP closes soon (3rd-5th July)
      • using std::cpp, Madrid (24th-26th April)
      • C++ Now (29th April - 3rd May)
      • ACCU full schedule and volunteers programme (17th-20th April)

    Links

    • "Early Careers Day: A mini-conference for junior developers" - Gail's ACCU 2024 workshop
    • "The kids are alright" - Gail's ACCU 2024 session showcasing her students
    • Paper's Gail has co-authored on blending cyber security and software development:
      • Putting the Sec in DevSecOps: Using Social Practice Theory to Improve Secure Software Development
      • Dancing, not Wrestling: Moving from Compliance to Concordance for Secure Software Development
    • "Helping developers to help each other: a technique to facilitate understanding among professional software developers" - Gail's PhD thesis
    Compiler Explorer Revisited Feb 23, 2024

    Patrick Quist joins Phil and Timur. Patrick chats with us about their work on the Compiler Explorer team and how they got into it. We explore some useful features that may not be as widely known, and take a peek under the hood at how it all runs.

    News

    • "C++ Package Managers: The Ultimate Roundup" - blog post by Christopher McArthur
    • "Demystifying Lakos Rule via Visualization and How It Could Relate to Constexpr" blog post by Miro Palmu
    • "A Year of C++ Improvements in Visual Studio, VS Code, and vcpkg" - blog post by Sy Brand
    • NVidia interview question - Reddit thread

    Links

    • History of Delphi
    • Compiler Explorer
    • Also Compiler Explorer
    • Compiler Explorer Public Dashboard (live stats)
    Teaching and Training Modern C++ Feb 09, 2024

    Rainer Grimm joins Timur and Phil. Rainer talks to us about what he has learnt from many years of teaching C++ as a professional trainer, how training has become more accessible now more people are taking it online, and his thoughts on modern C++.

    News

    • The C++ Iceberg
    • "C++20 Concepts applied - Safe bitmasks using scoped enums" - blog post by Andreas Fertig
    • ACCU conference: Early-bird tickets and workshops

    Links

    • Reddit thread on Episode 375 with Daveed Vandervoorde
    • Rainer's website and blog
    • Rainer at Meeting C++ online, Feb 21st
    • Rainer's "Concurreny in Modern C++" workshop at C++ Online, March 14th
    Reflection for C++26 Jan 26, 2024

    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)
    Modern C++ with Qt Jan 12, 2024

    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)
    2023 Holiday Special Dec 29, 2023

    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++"
    SIMD Dec 15, 2023

    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
    Catch2 v3 and Random Numbers Dec 01, 2023

    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

    Physical Units and a System of Quantities Oct 20, 2023

    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"
    AI and Random Numbers Sep 15, 2023

    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 Thing (August archive)
    • 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)
    Automatic Static Analysis Sep 01, 2023

    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
    Soagen Aug 18, 2023

    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
    How CLion works under the hood Aug 04, 2023

    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
    Safety, Security and Modern C++, with Bjarne Stroustrup Jul 21, 2023

    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
    Sequence-Oriented Programming Jul 07, 2023

    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
    Contracts Jun 23, 2023

    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"
    Modules and build systems Jun 09, 2023

    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)
    C++ in Finance May 26, 2023

    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
    Conan 2.0 May 12, 2023

    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
    AI Infrastructure Apr 28, 2023

    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
    Native Languages (programming and natural) Apr 14, 2023

    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
    Cpp2, with Herb Sutter Mar 31, 2023

    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
    Safety Critical C++ Mar 17, 2023

    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
    Carbon, with Richard Smith Mar 03, 2023

    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
    Issaquah trip report and how the C++ sausage is made Feb 17, 2023

    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"
    CppNorth and the Forgotten Developers Feb 03, 2023

    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
    Val and Mutable Value Semantics Jan 20, 2023

    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

    • Dimi's CppCon 2022 talk on Val and C++ interop
    • "I'll Build Myself" - Phil's song about building C++
    • P2739R0 - "A call to action: Think seriously about “safety”; then do something sensible about it"
    • P2759R0 - "DG Opinion on Saftety for ISO C++"
    • "The Rule of Two"
    • val-lang.dev - the official website for Val
    From Healthcare to Automotive Jan 06, 2023

    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)
    Holiday Special with Phil Nash and Timur Doumler Dec 23, 2022

    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
    Podcast News and Updates May 12, 2022

    Rob and Jason discuss various news articles, libraries and announcements.

    News

    • Lexy First Beta Release
    • I made an Online C++ Compiler
    • GCC 12.1 Release
    • Join your local user's group
    Elements GUI Library May 05, 2022

    Joel de Guzman joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about new features in GCC 12 and the latest ISO papers. Then they talk to Joel de Guzman about his history with Open Source and the Boost community, the Elements GUI library and his work with audio software and hardware.

    News

    • New C++ features in GCC 12
    • April 2022 Mailing
    • Core C++ Call For Papers
    • NDC TechTown Call for Papers

    Links

    • Elements C++ GUI Library
    • Artist 2D Canvas Libray
    • Cycfi Research
    • Boost Spirit

    Patreon

    • CppCast Patreon
    Linear Algebra Standardization Apr 28, 2022

    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

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    Rcpp Apr 21, 2022

    Dirk Eddelbuettel joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an updated C++ web framework, and whether C should be considered a programming language or a protocol. Then they talk to Dirk about the R programming language, and RCPP the R/C++ interop library.

    News

    • Crow v1.0 released
    • C++23 will be really awesome
    • C isn't A Programming Language Anymore

    Links

    • Rcpp
    • Rcpp: Seamless R and C++ Integration

    Patreon

    • CppCast Patreon
    CppNorth Apr 14, 2022

    Diana Ojeda from Intel and Stephanie Brenham from Ubisoft join Rob and Jason. They first talk about the upcoming Pure Virtual C++ conference, an update to WxWidgets and Apple's release of a Metal interface for C++. Then they talk to Diana and Stephanie about the upcoming CppNorth conference, how they got involved and much more.

    News

    • Sign Up for the Pure Virtual C++ 2022 Conference
    • wxWidgets 3.1.6 Released
    • Getting started with Metal-cpp

    Links

    • CppNorth
    • CppNorth Workshops
    • CppNorth Registration

    Patreon

    • CppCast Patreon
    Mentorship Apr 07, 2022

    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

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    Julia Mar 31, 2022

    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

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    Zig Mar 25, 2022

    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

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    Swift and C++ Interoperability Mar 17, 2022

    Dave Abrahams joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about JeanHeyd Meneid's blog post on saving C's ABI. Then they talk to Dave about his history as a founding contributor of boost and the current workgroup he is a part of to enable bidirectional interop between swift and C++.

    News

    • To Save C, We Must Save the ABI
    • Jluna C++ interop for Julia
    • Emulating template named arguments in C++ 20

    Links

    • Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement
    • C++ Interoperability Status
    • Getting started with C++ Interoperability
    • Interoperability between Swift and C++

    Patreon

    • CppCast Patreon
    New C++ Scope and Debugging Support Mar 10, 2022

    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

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    Secure Coding and Integers Mar 03, 2022

    Robert Seacord joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a constexpr wordle game and constexpr unique_ptr being added to the standard. Then they talk to Robert Seacord about secure coding and his thoughts on integers.

    News

    • Wordlexpr: compile-time wordle in C++20
    • January ISO Mailing
    • Constexpr unique_ptr accepted
    • Rainer's bundle on sale 1/2 off with sales going to support Ukraine

    Links

    • Joy of Coding Humble Bundle
    • Effective C - An Introduction to Professional C Programming
    • Secure Coding in C and C++, 2nd Edition
    • The CERT C Coding Standard
    • SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard
    • ISO/IEC TS 17961
    • ISO/IEC TS 17961 - Review Draft

    Sponsors

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    Teaching Embedded Development Feb 25, 2022

    Khalil Estell joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about Matt Godbolt's recent keynote at CPPP on C++'s Superpower. Then they talk to Khalil about teaching C++ embedded development and some of his thoughts on embedded development, including why not to avoid runtime polymorphism.

    News

    • CPPP Keynote: C++'s Superpower - Matt Godbolt
    • Visual Studio 2022 17.1 is now available
    • Making a cross platform mobile & desktop app with Qt 6.2
    • VSCode Map Preview

    Links

    • libembeddedhal
    • San Jose State University GitHub
    • Khalil's YouTube Channel

    Sponsors

    • Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
    GDAL and PDAL Feb 18, 2022

    Howard Butler joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an announcement from Swift on a C++ interoperability workgroup. Then they talk to Howard Butler about the C++ Geospatial libraries GDAL and PDAL, and his involvement with geospatial development.

    News

    • Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement
    • The mystery of the crash that seems to be on a std::move operation
    • How we used C++20 to eliminate an entire class of runtime bugs

    Links

    • hobu
    • GDAL
    • GDAL on GitHub
    • PDAL
    • PDAL on GitHub
    • Cloud Optimized Point Cloud

    Sponsors

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    5G Network Computing Feb 11, 2022

    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

    Sponsors

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    Unix and C History Feb 04, 2022

    Brian Kernighan joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about the pros and cons of virtual teaching and training during COVID times, and the news that BOLT has been merged into LLVM. Then they talk to Brian about the history of UNIX and C development at Bell Labs.

    News

    • More than a year of virtual classes experience - The good parts
    • BOLT merged into LLVM
    • C++ Cheat Sheets

    Links

    • Brian Kernighan
    • Unix: A History and a Memoir (Amazon)
    • The C Programming Language (Amazon)

    Sponsors

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    Docker Development and Modernizing OOD Jan 27, 2022

    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

    Sponsors

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    Binary Exploits Jan 20, 2022

    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

    Sponsors

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    C++ Compile Time Parser Generator Jan 13, 2022

    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

    Sponsors

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    Modern C for Absolute Beginners Jan 06, 2022

    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
    New Years 2022 Dec 31, 2021

    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

    Sponsors

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    Distributing C++ Modules Dec 16, 2021

    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

    Sponsors

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    Beautiful C++ Dec 09, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Kate Gregory and Guy Davidson. They first talk about a free online game development course and updates to CLion. Then they talk to Kate and Guy about their upcoming book: Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code.

    News

    • C++ Game Programming course on YouTube
    • CLion 2021.3
    • Modernizing Your Code With C++20

    Links

    • Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code on Amazon
    • Kate Gregory's Blog - Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code
    • Sample Code for Beautiful C++ on Compiler Explorer
    • C++ North - The Canadian C++ Conference
    • C++ Reflection TS: A First Look
    • Total War: Warhammer III

    Sponsors

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    Software Architecture with C++ Dec 02, 2021

    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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    Mdspan and Too Cute C++ Tricks Nov 25, 2021

    Rob and Conor are joined by Daisy Hollman. They first talk about C++23's approaching feature freeze including Daisy's work on the mdspan proposal. Then they talk to Daisy about her recent 'too cute' CppCon talk and whether you should be writing cute code in production.

    News

    • JetBrains CppCon Talks
    • C++23: Near the Finish Line
    • Cmake 3.22.0 available for download

    Links

    • p0009 mdspan
    • Daisy Hollman - What you can learn from being too cute - Meeting C++ online
    • Petrify App
    • PMD Source Code Analyzer
    • #include

    Sponsors

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    Deducing This Nov 11, 2021

    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

    Sponsors

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    Visual Studio 2022 Nov 04, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Sy Brand from Microsoft. They first talk about the recent CppCon conference, the hybrid format and some of their favorite talks. Then they talk to Sy about the upcoming Visual Studio 2022 release, what's new in the IDE and new features and improvements for C++ developers.

    News

    • WG21 October Mailing
    • CppCon 2021 Virtual Trip Report, A User Story
    • Extending and Simplifying C++: Thoughts on Pattern Matching using is and as - Herb Sutter

    Links

    • Visual Studio 2022 Release Notes
    • Visual Studio 2022 Launch Day Event
    • C++20 DR tracker

    Sponsors

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    C++23 ISO Progress Oct 28, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Bryce Adelstein Lelbach. They first talk about SonarLint analysis, and searching algorithm performance and an observation on compiler diversity. Then they talk to Bryce about the proposals that are heading for C++23, including major changes to the executor and networking proposals.

    News

    • Supercharge your C++ analysis with SonarLint for Clion
    • Efficiently searching an array with GCC, Clang and ICC
    • C++ Committee polling results for asynchronous programming

    Links

    • P0443R13 - A Unified Executors Proposal for C++
    • P2300R0 - std::execution

    Sponsors

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    JIT Compilation and Exascale Computing Oct 21, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Hal Finkel from the US Department of Energy. They first talk to Hal about the LLVM 13 release and why the release notes were lacking. Then they talk to Hal about his C++ JIT Proposal, the Clang prototype and how it could be used. They also talk about Hal's work at DOE, Exascale computing and more.

    News

    • LLVM 13 released
    • Some lesser-known powers of std::optional
    • Barbarian, an open and distributed Conan package index!

    Links

    • ClangJIT
    • P1609R1 C++ Should Support Just-in-Time Compilation
    • Hal Finkel "Faster Compile Times and Better Performance: Bringing Just-in-Time Compilation to C+"
    • US Department of Energy: Advanced Scientific Computing Research

    Sponsors

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    EVE - the Expressive Vector Engine Oct 14, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Joël Falcou and Denis Yaroshevskiy. They first talk about the 6.2 release of Qt and the range-based for loop bug that won't be getting fixed in C++23. Then they talk to Joel and Denis about EVE, a C++20 SIMD library that evolved from Boost.SIMD.

    News

    • QT 6.2 LTS Released
    • GDBFrontend
    • C++ Committee don’t want to fix range-based for loop in C++23 (broken for 10yrs)

    Links

    • EVE on GitHub
    • EVE example on Compiler Explorer
    • CppCon 2021: SIMD in C++20: EVE of a new Era
    • Meeting C++ 2021 - EVE: A new, powerful open source C++20 SIMD library
    • C++Russia EVE Talk
    • Denis Yaroshevskiy - my first SIMD - Meeting C++ online

    Sponsors

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    Autonomous UAS Oct 07, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Brandon Duick and Billy Sisson from Exyn Technologies. They first discuss the upcoming CppCon hybrid conference and a new tuple library for C++20. Then they talk to Brandon and Billy about the autonomous UAS/Drone software they work on at Exyn Technologies.

    News

    • CppCon 2021 Program Announced
    • Tuplet: A lightweight Tuple Library for Modern C++
    • Span should have a converting constructor from initializer_list

    Links

    • Exyn Technology Careers
    • Exyn - Autonomy Level 4
    • First Dog to Fly a Drone
    • ExynAI - Modular Autonomy for Mission Critical Data

    Sponsors

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    Joedb Sep 30, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Remi Coulom from Kayufu. They first discuss another blog posts about the ongoing ABI problems in C++ and another on common mistakes with comparison functions. Then they talk to Remi about Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database.

    News

    • Dicontinue Sourcetrail
    • Binary Banshees and Digital Demons
    • Djinni generator release v1.2.0
    • Opzioni
    • Everybody Makes Mistakes When Writing Comparison Functions

    Links

    • Joedb - Journal-Only Embedded Database
    • Kayufu - Artificial Intelligence in Games

    Sponsors

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    CoreCpp 2021 Sep 23, 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

    Sponsors

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    Dart and Crafting Interpreters Sep 16, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Bob Nystrom from Google. They first discuss git commands explained via cats and an analysis of how Visual Studio 2022 could use all your RAM. Then they talk to Bob about some of the programming languages he's created, his two books 'Crafting Interpreters' and 'Game Programming Patterns' and his work on the Dart programming language at Google.

    News

    • Safer Usage of C++ in Chrome
    • Git commands explained with cats
    • Meeting Embedded 2021
    • How Visual Studio 2022 ate up to 100GB of RAM

    Links

    • Crafting Interpreters
    • Game Programming Patterns
    • Dart Programming Language
    • Flutter
    • Robert Nystrom's Blog
    • Vigil on GitHub

    Sponsors

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    Podcasting and Advocating Sep 09, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Phil Nash. They first discuss another C++ podcasts interview with Sean Parent and a blog post from Bungie on their process for creating coding guidelines. Then they talk to Phil Nash about his new role at Sonar Source, his podcasts, C++ On Sea and more.

    News

    • Episode 39: How Steve Jobs Saved Sean Parent
    • Bungie C++ Guidelines & Razors

    Links

    • Sonar Source
    • C++ on Sea
    • cpp.chat
    • No Diagnostic Required
    • Accelerated TDD: For More Productive C++
    • Lyra on GitHub

    Sponsors

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    Learning C++ with Serenity Sep 02, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Linus Groh. They first discuss a new feature of Compiler Explorer and some ISO papers. Then they talk to Linus about his involvement in the Serenity project, learning C++ as he became a contributor.

    News

    • Compiler Explorer now supports multiple file compilation and linking
    • August 2021 Mailing
    • Introduction to Programming with C++ for Engineers

    Links

    • Linus' Website
    • SerenityOS
    • Andreas Kling's YouTube Channel

    Sponsors

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    Insight Toolkit Aug 26, 2021

    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

    Sponsors

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    Efficient Programming with Components Aug 19, 2021

    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)

    Sponsors

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    News and Catching Up Aug 12, 2021

    Rob and Jason talk about C++ news, upcoming conferences, tooling updates and a bit about the C++ projects they work on in their day jobs.

    News

    • NDC TechTown Keynote and Class
    • CppCon Practical Performance Practices CppCon
    • Big Update with Big Thanks for a Big Program
    • You're Doing IoT RNG
    • Remove nodiscard annotations from the standard library specification
    • std::span is not zero-cost because of the ms abi
    • /r/cpp - Does anyone ever use goto in their code?
    • /r/cpp - Github actions to setup gcc/clang/mingw
    • /r/cpp - Am I going to be burned at the stake for using basic_string as an integer array?
    • ReSharper C++ 2021.2: Type Conversion Hints, Immutability Inspections, Inline Function
    • Moving a project to C++ named Modules

    Sponsors

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    Performance Tuning Aug 05, 2021

    Rob and Matt are joined by Denis Bakhvalov. They first talk about building Minesweeper in C++ with SFML and a paper on throughput prediction on intel microarchitectures. Then they talk to Denis about his blog, book and video series focusing on C++ performance, and his vision of the future tooling and techniques of writing performant C++ code.

    News

    • Making the Classic Minesweeper Game using C++ and SFML
    • Hot Reload support for C++ Applications
    • Spdlog 1.9.1 released. Support for compile-time format string validation
    • Accurate throughput prediction of basic blocks on recent intel microarchitectures

    Links

    • easyperf.net
    • Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs
    • Performance Ninja Course
    • LLVM+CGO Performance Workshop - Performance Tuning: Future Compiler Improvements
    • Proebsting's Law

    Sponsors

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    STLab Jul 29, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Sean Parent and Dave Abrahams. They first talk to Dave about his history with C++, Boost and the Swift programming language. Then they talk with Sean and Dave about Adobe's Software Technology Lab and their plans to focus on Concurrency in C++.

    News

    • A Neat trick with consteval
    • Constexpr memory allocation
    • Comprehensive Catalog of C++ Books

    Links

    • stlab
    • stlab on GitHub

    Sponsors

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    HPX and DLA Future Jul 22, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Hartmut Kaiser and Mikael Simberg. They first discuss some blog posts on returning multiple values from a function and C++ Ranges. Then they talk to Hartmut Kaiser and Mikael Simberg on the latest version of HPX, how easy it is to gain performance improvements with HPX, and DLA Futures, the Distributed Linear Algebra library built using HPX.

    News

    • An Unexpected Article About Our Unicorn: Who Is the PVS-Studio Mascot?
    • How to Return Several Values from a Function in C++
    • C++20 ranges benefits: avoid dangling pointers

    Links

    • HPX
    • HPX on GitHub
    • HPX 1.7.0 released
    • DLA Future on GitHub

    Sponsors

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    Improving Performance Jul 15, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Ivica Bogosavljevic from Johny's Software Lab. They first talk about an open sourced 3d game engine and C++ documentation tools. Then they talk to Ivica Bogosavljevic from Johny's Software Lab where he writes about methods to improve performance in C++ applications.

    News

    • Open 3D Engine
    • Doc Tools for C++ Libraries
    • CppCon 2021 call for submissions
    • Second set of Meeting C++ AMAs

    Links

    • Johny's Software Lab
    • easyperf

    Sponsors

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    Tipi.build Jul 08, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Damien Buhl and Yannic Staudt from tipi.build. They first talk about a new text encoding library and whether const should be the default for variables. Then they talk about tipi.build, the Compiler-as-a-Service that understands C++ code and can build it without scripts.

    News

    • Any Encoding, Ever - ztd.text and Unicode for C++
    • Should every variable be const by default?
    • Reversing words of a string with ranges -#thatsarotate

    Links

    • tipi.build
    • Join tipi.build beta
    • tipi.build blog
    • @TipiBuild

    Sponsors

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    • Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
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    LFortran Jul 01, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Ondřej Čertík from Los Alamos National Laboratory. They first talk about ISO Papers and Github's CoPilot AI programmer. Then they talk to Ondřej about LFortran, a modern LLVM based Fortran compiler that can compile Fortran code into C++.

    News

    • June 2021 ISO Mailing
    • C++ Library Include Times
    • GitHub Copilot
    • CppCon Field Trip

    Links

    • LFortran
    • Fortran
    • Fortran Package Manager

    Sponsors

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    • Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
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    Regression Testing with Touca Jun 25, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Pejman Ghorbanzade. They first talk about changes to the format library to enable better compile time errors, and some conference news from CppCon, C++ on Sea and NDC TechTown. Then they talk to Pejman about Touca, a new tool he's created for continuous regression testing.

    News

    • Palanteer
    • A quest for safe text formatting API
    • C++ On Sea starting soon
    • CppCon call for submissions
    • NDC TechTown call for papers

    Links

    • Touca
    • Touca's vision for the future of regression testing
    • Touca SDK on GitHub

    Sponsors

    • Incredibuild
    Modernizing DOSBox Jun 18, 2021

    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

    Sponsors

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    DAW JSON Link Jun 11, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Darrell Wright. They first talk about a gameboy emulator written by Ben Smith and a new regression testing tool. Then they talk to Darrell Wright about DAW JSON Link, his JSON serialization library.

    News

    • FTXUI
    • POKEGB gameboy emulator that only plays Pokemon blue (68 lines of C++)
    • Automated regression testing with Touca

    Links

    • DAW JSON Link on GitHub
    • DAW JSON Link Documentation

    Sponsors

    • C++ Builder
    Incredibuild in the Cloud Jun 04, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Dana Rochman and Amir Kirsh from Incredibuild. They first discuss conference news and a blog post from Andreas Kling. Then they talk to Dana and Amir about the latest from Incredibuild, including new support for accelerating builds in the cloud, and build caching.

    News

    • C++ On Sea Schedule
    • Core C++
    • I quit my job to focus on Serenity OS Full time
    • 13 C++ Libraries To Watch Out For

    Links

    • Incredibuild

    Sponsors

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    Spack May 28, 2021

    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

    Sponsors

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    • Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
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    ABI Stability May 21, 2021

    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

    Sponsors

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    • Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
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    Djinni May 14, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Harald Achitz. They first discuss performance updates for debug builds coming in the next version of Visual Studio. Then they talk about Djinni, the cross platform language binding generator tool initially developed by Dropbox that is now being supported by the C++ Mobile Development community.

    News

    • 2x-3x Performance Improvements for Debug Builds
    • Vcpkg site now has search
    • Should we break ABI is the wrong question

    Links

    • Djinni
    • Djinni on GitHub
    • Mobile C++ Slack
    • C++ User Groups of Sweden
    • C++ Community Organizers

    Sponsors

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    SonarSource Analysis Tools May 07, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Loïc Joly from SonarSource. They first discuss compiler updates in GCC and MSVC as well as survey results of most used C++ features. Then they talk to Loïc about the SonarSource static analysis tools for C++, what sorts of bugs they discover, and what goes into creating a new analysis rule.

    News

    • VS 2019 STL is C++20 feature complete
    • GCC 11.1 Released
    • Meeting C++ survey results: the most popular C++ standard features

    Links

    • SonarSource
    • The NeverEnding Story of writing a rule for argument passing in C++

    Sponsors

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    Defer is better than Destructors Apr 30, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by JeanHeyd Meneide. They first discuss alternative operators in C++, upcoming virtual conferences and papers in the April ISO mailing. Then they talk to JeanHeyd about his work on the C and C++ committees, including embed, defer and more.

    News

    • Just discovered C++ has keywords 'and'/'or'/'not' etc.
    • Pure Virtual C++
    • April Mailing

    Links

    • Defer Mechanism for C: The Movie
    • p1967 Preprocessor embed - Binary Resource Inclusion
    • p0052 Generic Scope Guard and RAII Wrapper for the Standard Library
    • No Us Without You - elifdef and elifndef
    • CoSy Tech Con

    Sponsors

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    ScummVM Apr 23, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Eugene Sandulenko. They first discuss the announcement of Visual Studio 2022 and Facebook open sourcing a new machine learning library. Then they talk to Eugene Sandulenko all about ScummVM, how the project got started and more.

    News

    • Visual Studio 2022 coming this summer
    • Flashlight - a C++ standalone library for machine learning open sourced by Facebook
    • 2021 Annual C++ Developer Survey "Lite"

    Links

    • ScummVM

    Sponsors

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    C++Builder Apr 16, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by David Millington from Embarcadero. They first discuss a blog post on Thread Sanitizer and a very unique implementation of unique_ptr. Then they talk to David Millington from Embarcadero about C++ Builder, it's history and the state of the tool today. Including some of its extensions built into their version of Clang.

    News

    • Eliminating Data Races in Firefox
    • Mathematical constants in C++20
    • NFT backed implementation of std::unique_ptr

    Links

    • C++Builder
    • N1384 - PME: Properties, Methods and Events
    • N1600 - C++/CLI Properties
    • N1615 - C++ Properties -- a Library Solution

    Sponsors

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    • Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
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    Rigel Engine Apr 09, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Nikolai Wuttke. They first discuss a blog post series from Raymond Chen on coroutines and the upcoming pure virtual C++ conference. Then they talk to Nikolai Wuttke about Rigel Engine, a modern C++ reimplementation of Duke Nukem II.

    News

    • C++23: -> and :: to be replaced by . operator
    • C++ coroutines: The mental model for coroutine promises
    • Mutabah's Rust Compiler
    • Pure Virtual C++ 2021 Conference

    Links

    • Rigel Engine on GitHub
    • Play Rigel Engine online

    Sponsors

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    • Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
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    One Lone Coder Apr 02, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by David Barr (aka javidx9). They first discuss Microsoft open sourcing calculator, an update to CMake and the March 2021 ISO Mailing. Then they talk to David about his YouTube channel, One Lone Coder, what inspired him to start it, and PixelGameEngine, the 2D game engine he works on with the One Lone Coder community.

    News

    • Freestanding avr-libstdc++
    • Calc.exe is now open source
    • Cmake 3.20.0 available for download
    • ISO C++ March Mailing

    Links

    • javidx9 - One Lone Coder YouTube Channel
    • javidx9 - Twitch Channel
    • One Lone Coder Community

    Sponsors

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    Event Streaming Mar 19, 2021

    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.

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    News

    • MTuner
    • Intellisense Improvements In Visual Studio 2019
    • STARTcraft - Complete Beginner Starcraft: Broodwar AI Programming Tutorial with C++ / BWAPI STARTcraft
    • Git source has a banned.h file that blocks use of certain C functions

    Links

    • Vectorized.io
    • RedPanda on GitHub
    • The Kafka API is great; now let's make it fast!

    Sponsors

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    • Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
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    Reducing Memory Allocations Mar 12, 2021

    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.

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    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

    • Reducing Memory Allocations in a Large C++ Application - Arnaud Desitter [ C++ on Sea 2020 ]
    • 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
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    The Old New Thing Mar 05, 2021

    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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    Vcpkg Registries Feb 26, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Nicole Mazzuca from Microsoft. They first talk about a differential equation library, and modules support in build2 and meson. Then they talk to Nicole from Microsoft's vcpkg team about some new features in vcpkg to enable teams to host their own libraries.

    News

    • Solving Differential Equations with LLVM
    • Complete C++20 Modules Support with GCC in build2
    • Meson Build System 0.57.0 is out w/ experimental suport for C++ Modules, Qt6, ThinLTO and more

    Links

    • Registries: Bring your own libraries to vcpkg
    • Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies

    Sponsors

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    • The Evil within the Comparison Functions
    • Top 10 Bugs Found in C++ Projects in 2020
    Trading Systems Feb 19, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Carl Cook from Optiver. They first talk discuss an announcement from Khronos that SYCL 2020 has been released, and a blog post from Microsoft on updates to the Visual Studio Code C++ extension. Then they talk to Carl Cook from Optiver about how they use C++ to power everything they do.

    News

    • Khronos Releases SYCL 2020 for C++ Heterogeneous Parallel Programming
    • VS Code C++ Extension: Cross-Compilation IntelliSense Configurations
    • Modern C++ Tip of the Week

    Links

    • Optiver

    Sponsors

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    • The Evil within the Comparison Functions
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    Going Cross Platform Feb 12, 2021

    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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    Clang Power Tools and C++ Myths Feb 05, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Victor Ciura. They first talk about different ways to filter a C++ container and a blog post on the Visual C++ blog from the Diablo 4 development team. They then talk to Victor about the Clang Power Tools plugin for Visual Studio which has recently been made free for both open source and commercial use. They also talk about C++ Myths.

    News

    • 12 Different Ways to Filter Containers in Modern C++
    • More_concepts library
    • Blizzard Diablo IV debugs Linux core dumps from Visual Studio
    • Visual Studio's Native Debugging Framework Tutorial

    Links

    • Next steps for Clang Power Tools
    • C++ Mythbusting with Victor and Jason

    Sponsors

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    SOLID Design Principles Jan 28, 2021

    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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    Cheerp Jan 21, 2021

    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

    Sponsors

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    Priorities for C++23 Jan 15, 2021

    Rob and Jason are joined by Corentin Jabot. They first talk about a Visual Studio blog post on performance improvements in the 'inner build loop', and a ray tracer built into CMake. Then they talk to Corentin about his work in the C++ ISO committee on the Library Evolution Working Group and his thoughts on what could and should make it into C++23.

    News

    • f(t)
    • Faster C++ Iteration Builds
    • Ray Tracing in pure Cmake
    • Is Zero a Butterfly?

    Links

    • What is the standard Library
    • P2172 - What do we want from a modularized Standard Library?

    Sponsors

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    Open Frameworks and Creative Coding Jan 07, 2021

    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

    Sponsors

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    Goodbye 2020 Dec 31, 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

    Sponsors

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    TurtleBrowser Dec 24, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Patricia Aas from TurtleSec. They first talk about updates to a Web Assembly compiler Cheerp and an announcement for a new systems programming language conference. Then they talk to Patricia about her current project building a new web browser using modern C++, Qt 5 and the Chromium engine. They also discuss Patricia's consulting business and managing it during the pandemic.

    News

    • Pointers are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs
    • Cheerp 2.6 - compiling C++ to WebAssembly and JavaScript
    • Why Another C++ (And More) Conference

    Links

    • TurtleBrowser on GitHub
    • Trying to build an Open Source browser in 2020 - Patricia Aas
    • TurtleSec

    Sponsors

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    SerenityOS Dec 17, 2020

    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

    Sponsors

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    Virtual Teaching and Plenary Dec 10, 2020

    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

    Sponsors

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    Networking TS Dec 03, 2020

    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

    Sponsors

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    Fuzz Testing on the GPU Nov 27, 2020

    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

    Sponsors

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    Concepts and Algorithm Intuition Nov 19, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Conor Hoekstra. They first talk about new and updated libraries in Boost and Herb Sutter's trip report covering news from the recent virtual ISO plenary meeting where the first new features were voted into C++23. Then they talk to Conor about some of his recent conference talks on Algorithm Intuition and Concepts vs typeclasses.

    News

    • Butano: a modern C++ high level engine for the GBA
    • New Boost libraries in v1.75
    • Trip report: Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting (virtual)

    Links

    • Conor's Conference Talks
    • ADSP: The Podcast

    Sponsors

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    Video Games, Robotics and Audio Nov 12, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Joël Lamotte. They first talk about C++20 Modules support in GCC and MSVC and a micro benchmarking library. Then they talk to Joël about how he got involved in C++, and his experiences working on indie video games, robotics and his recent transition to the audio industry working on a web assembly powered website.

    News

    • P0847R5 Deducing This
    • C++20 Modules Compiler Code Under Review, Could still land for GCC 11
    • Criterion micro-benchmarking library
    • A Tour of C++ Modules in Visual Studio

    Links

    • Best of Klaim's Music on Soundcloud
    • Glacierbound OST on Soundcloud
    • HomeTeam GameDev
    • Jellynote

    Sponsors

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    • Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project

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    Unicode Progress and C++/C Study Group Nov 05, 2020

    Rob and JeanHeyd are joined by Aaron Ballman and Peter Brett, both members of the ISO C++ committee. They first talk about an extension for Visual Studio and Visual Code for visualizing struct layout and a blog post proposing a safer boolean type. Then they talk about Aaron and Peter about progress being made at virtual ISO meetings and the upcoming virtual Plenary meeting.

    News

    • StructLayout Visual C++ Extension
    • Fun with Concepts: Do You Even Lift, Bool?
    • Meeting C++: My thoughts on "The... Community?"

    Links

    • ISO C++ October 2020 Mailing
    • P1787: Declarations and where to find them
    • WG21 SG16 Unicode study group
    • Editing the C Standard

    Sponsors

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    ThinLTO Oct 30, 2020

    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

    Sponsors

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    Programming History, JIT Compilations and Generic Algorithms Oct 23, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Deane from Quantlab. They first discuss the 11.0 update of Clang and an a blog post highlighting some of the smaller features that were added in C++17. They then talk to Ben about some of his recent CppCon talks including one on what we can learn from the history of programming languages and another on the ability to JIT C++ code.

    News

    • Clang 11.0.0 is out
    • 17 Smaller but Handy C++17 Features

    Links

    • Careers at Quantlab
    • Constructing Generic Algorithms: Principles and Practice - Ben Deane - CppCon 2020
    • Just-in-Time Compilation: The Next Big Thing? - Ben Deane & Kris Jusiak - CppCon 2020
    • How We Used To Be - Ben Deane - CppCon 2020

    Sponsors

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    Bazel Oct 16, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Lukács Berki and Julio Merino from Google's Bazel team. They discuss CppCon trip reports, the cpp subreddit and a video on C++ 20 Concepts. Then Lukács and Julio talk all about the advantages of Bazel and some of the key features of Google's open source build tool.

    News

    • My favorite way to TDD
    • CppCon Trip Reports
    • r/cpp status update
    • Concepts in C++20

    Links

    • Bazel
    • Bazel on GitHub
    • The final boss: Bazel's own JNI code
    Meeting C++ 2020 Oct 09, 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

    Sponsors

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    Performance Matters Oct 01, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Emery Berger from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They first discuss updates to GCC and the September ISO mailing. Then they talk to Emery Berger about Performance tooling and how improvements in Performance should be measured.

    News

    • New C++ features in GCC 10
    • September C++ ISO Mailing
    • std::exchange patterns: Fast, Safe, Expressive and Probably Underused
    • include Meeting C++2020 scholarship

    Links

    • Plenary: Performance Matters - Emery Berger - CppCon 2020
    • Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection vs. Explicit Memory Management
    • Stabilizer
    • Coz

    Sponsors

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    CppCon 2020 Wrapup Sep 23, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Jon Kalb. They talk about the first on-line CppCon conference and plans for the future.

    Links

    • CppCon
    • CppCon 2020 YouTube Playlist
    • C++Now

    Sponsors

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    Microsoft Announcements at CppCon 2020 Sep 17, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Julia Reid, Sy Brand and Augustin Popa from Microsoft. They talk about the virtual CppCon, favorite talks and the virtual conference experience. Then they talk about some of the announcements being made by the Microsoft Visual C++ team during the CppCon conference talks.

    Links

    • Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2020
    • C++ in Visual Studio Code reaches version 1.0!
    • vcpkg: Accelerate your team development environment with binary caching and manifests
    • A Multitude of Updates in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3
    • Standard C++20 Modules support with MSVC in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8
    • C++ Coroutines in Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.8
    • Debug Linux core dumps in Visual Studio
    • Project OneFuzz: new open source developer tool to find and fix bugs at scale

    Sponsors

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    stdpar Sep 10, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by David Olsen from NVIDIA. They first discuss the news from the ISO Committee that C++20 has been approved and work on C++23 will continue virtually. Then they talk with David about his work on NVIDIA's C++ compiler to run parallel algorithm code on the GPU and a proposal he's working on to introduce 16-bit floats to standard C++.

    News

    • C++20 approved, C++23 meetings and schedule update
    • If everyone hates it, why is OOP still so widely spread?
    • New safety rules in C++ Core Check

    Links

    • Accelerating Standard C++ with GPUs using stdpar
    • P1467R4 Extended floating-point types and standard names

    Sponsors

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    Unit Testing Sep 03, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Oleg Rabaev. They first discuss some papers from the latest ISO mailing and a new feature in Microsoft's vcperf tool. Then they talk to Oleg Rabaev about Unit Testing methodologies and why it's important to write testable code.

    News

    • 2020-08 mailing
    • Introducing vcperf /timetrace for C++ build time analysis
    • Question regarding optional virtual destructor in C++20

    Links

    • Bloomberg Blog

    Sponsors

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    Cross Platform Mobile Telephony Aug 27, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Dave Hagedorn. They first discuss a blog post from JeanHeyd Meneide on exception free containers. Then they talk to Dave Hagedorn from TextNow about his teams efforts to transition an existing iOS/Android app to using a cross platform C++ library.

    News

    • Here I Stand, Free - Allocators and an Inclusive STL
    • Awesome hpp
    • Standard library development made easy with C++20
    • C++ Montreal Meetup Some things C++ does right

    Links

    • TextNow Enginering Blog
    • TextNow Careers

    Sponsors

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    STX Aug 20, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Basit Ayantunde. They first discuss a blog post on plain old data types and Visual Studio's Address Sanitizer support. Then they talk to Basit about the STX library.

    News

    • No more plain old data
    • AddressSanitizer for Windows: x64 and Debug Build Support
    • Meeting C++ Online Tickets Available

    Links

    • STX
    • Basit's Patreon

    Sponsors

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    Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners Aug 13, 2020

    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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    Go Aug 06, 2020

    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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    Visual Effects Jul 30, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Josh Filstrup from Netflix. They first discuss an update to wxWidgets and a bug fix update in GCC. Then they talk to Josh about his background in Programming Languages and how he transitioned to work in the Visual Effects industry, including his current job at the studio engineering group at Netflix.

    News

    • wxWidgets 3.14 Release
    • GCC 10.2 Release
    • C++ On Sea videos coming online

    Links

    • USD
    • VFX Platform
    • Resurrecting the SuperH architecture
    • DCDigital - REAL Dreamcast 1080p HDMI Output
    • CppCon 2014: Chandler Carruth "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures"

    Sponsors

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    TensorFlow Jul 23, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Andrew Selle from Google. They first discuss Ranges support being added to Visual Studio, and Compiler Explorer's support for using some libraries. Then they talk to Andrew Selle from Google about Machine Learning with Tensorflow and Tensorflow Lite which he was one of the initial architects for.

    News

    • Initial support for Ranges in MSVC
    • Support for Libraries in Compiler Explorer
    • Cmake 3.18 Release

    Links

    • TensorFlow
    • TensorFlow users
    • TensorFlow on small and mobile devices
    • Eigen library for linear algebra using expression templates
    • C Bindings for TensorFlow
    • AI Responsibilities

    Sponsors

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    LLVM Hacking And CPU Instruction Sets Jul 16, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Bruno Cardoso Lopes. They first discuss an update to Mesonbuild and CppCon going virtual. Then they talk about Bruno's work on Clang including clang modules and work on a pattern matching implementation.

    News

    • Meson Release Notes 0.55
    • Writing an LLVM Optimization
    • CppCon Going Virtual

    Links

    • SHRINK: Reducing the ISA complexity via instruction recycling
    • SPARC16: A New Compression Approach for the SPARC Architecture
    • P1247R0 - Disabling static destructors

    Sponsors

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    Hyperion Renderer Jul 09, 2020

    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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    SYCL 2020 Jul 02, 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++"

    Sponsors

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    Azure IoT Jun 25, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Tara Walker from Microsoft. They first discuss the results of JetBrains C++ ecosystem survey and an article about bugs in Command & Conquer. Then Tara tells Rob and Jason all about Azure IoT, including the announcement of a new C++ SDK for embedded MCUs.

    News

    • The Developer Ecosystem in 2020: How C++ is Doing
    • The Code of the Command & Conquer Game: Bugs From the 90's. Volume one
    • Compile-time Merge Sort [C++]

    Links

    • Azure SDK for Embedded C
    • Azure IoT Hub
    • Paho
    • TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers

    Sponsors

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    Modules Present and Future Jun 18, 2020

    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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    Web Assembly Jun 11, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Smith from Google, chair of the Web Assembly working group. They first discuss a blog post on how to ask for C++ coding help, conference news and a discussion on C++ IDEs and tools. Then Ben talks to them about the current state of Web Assembly, the future and alternative uses for Web Assembly like Virtual Machines and Emulators.

    News

    • Toml++ v1.3.0 released
    • How to ask for C++ coding help
    • C++ On Sea Updates
    • Huge discussion on C++ IDEs and editing tools

    Links

    • Web Assembly
    • Wasmtime
    • Wasmer
    • CppCon 2019: Ben Smith "Applied WebAssembly: Compiling and Running C++ in Your Web Browser"
    • A Talk Near the Future of Python (a.k.a., Dave live-codes a WebAssembly Interpreter)

    Sponsors

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    Move Semantics Jun 04, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by author and ISO committee member Nico Josuttis. They first discuss a blog post on faster integer parsing and CppCon registration opening up. Then they talk to Nico about the book he is currently finishing on C++ Move Semantics and other books he's written in the past. They also discuss proposals that Nico has worked on for the ISO committee.

    News

    • Black Lives Matter
    • ACLU
    • 15 Tech Organizations Actively Supporting Black Coders
    • Black Tech for Black Lives
    • Faster integer parsing
    • Bjarna AMA
    • CppCon Registration Open

    Links

    • C++ Move Semantics - The Complete Guide
    • CppCon 2019: Nicolai Josuttis "When C++ Style Guides Contradict"
    • p0660 - Stop Tokens and a Joining Thread
    • The C++ Standard Library
    • C++ Templates - The Complete Guide
    • C++17 - The Complete Guide

    Sponsors

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    Rider for Unreal Engine May 28, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Anastasia Kazakova. They first discuss news from Herb Sutter that the November ISO meeting has been postponed and a new Visual Studio preview release. Then they talk to Anastasia Kazakova from JetBrains about Rider for Unreal Engine and other updates to CLion and ReSharper for C++ as well as information about the C++ ecosystem.

    News

    • MAME Emulation Project
    • VS 2019 16.7 Preview 1
    • New York ISO C++ meeting is postponed
    • Visual Leak Detector

    Links

    • Rider for Unreal Engine
    • Blog posts with FAQ and some details on Rider for UE
    • CLion turns 5, birthday tale from Phil Nash
    • CLion Makefiles prototype
    • JetBrains turned 20, main news

    Sponsors

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    Catch2 and std::random May 21, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Martin Hořeňovský. They first discuss some ISO papers and Jason learning Rust from his cousin Jonathan. Then Martin tells them about his work maintaining Catch 2, including his plans for future updates of the unit testing library. Martin also talks about SAT solvers and problems with std::random.

    News

    • 2020-05 Standards mailing
    • Jonathan Teach Jason Rust!)
    • C++ Events affected by Coronavirus

    Links

    • Catch2
    • CppCon 2019: Martin Hořeňovský "Solve Hard Problems Quickly Using SAT Solvers"
    • P2058 Make std::random_device Less Inscrutable
    • P2059 Make Pseudo-random Numbers Portable
    • P2060 Make Random Number Engines Seedable

    Sponsors

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    Physical Units May 14, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Mateusz Pusz. They first discuss the 10.1 update of GCC and an article from Raymond Chen. Then they talk to Mateusz about his physical units library and his efforts to get physical units into the standard.

    News

    • Worldwide C++ user groups events
    • C++ Community events
    • GCC 10.1 Released
    • The C++ preprocessor doesn't understand anything about C++, and certainly not templates

    Links

    • mp-units
    • A C++ Approach to Physical Units (CppCon talk)
    • P1935: A C++ Approach to Physical Units
    • Advanced Modern C++ Training
    • Meeting C++ Trainings

    Sponsors

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    MSVC's STL and vcpkg May 07, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Billy O'Neal from Microsoft. They first discuss some news from various conferences and user groups that are going online. Then they talk to Billy O'Neal from Microsoft's Visual C++ team. He tells them how he joined the team and some of the projects he's worked on, including some recent work on vcpkg.

    News

    • Modules the beginner's guide - Daniela Engert - Meeting C++ 2019
    • C++ London goes online
    • We're welcoming you to CoreCpp
    • C++ On Sea On Line
    • Useful tools for checking and fixing C/C++ code

    Links

    • Envoy Proxy
    • Microsoft STL Changelog
    • Vcpkg 2020.04 Update and Product Roadmap
    • binskim

    Sponsors

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    Envoy Proxy Apr 30, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Klein from Lyft. They first discuss an update to Microsoft's Guidelines Support Library with changes to span. Then they talk to Matt Klein who dicusses Envoy Proxy and how it's used in Cloud Native applications.

    News

    • Tweet re: SPMD Lambdas
    • CppCon 2020 Call for Submissions
    • GSL 3.0.0 Release

    Links

    • Envoy Proxy
    • Envoy Proxy on GitHub

    Sponsors

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    • Read the article "Checking the GCC 10 Compiler with PVS-Studio" covering 10 heroically found errors despite the great number of macros in the GCC code.

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    Postmodern C++ Revisited Apr 23, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Tony Van Eerd. They first discuss some conference news, including Microsoft's upcoming Pure Virtual C++ Conference. Then Tony Van Eerd joins them to discuss his Postmodern C++ talk, and some of his work on the C++ standards committee.

    News

    • Sign up for Pure Virtual C++ Conference
    • ModernCppStarter
    • Announcing Meeting C++ 2020!

    Links

    • Tony van Eerd: Postmodern C++
    • p1085R0 Should Span be Regular?

    Sponsors

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    Rosetta Apr 16, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Andrew Leaver-Fay from UNC and Jack Maguire from Menten AI. They first discuss a proposal to update both C and C++ and create a unified common core for the languages. Then they talk to Andrew and Jack about Rosetta, a C++ protein modeling library, it's history being ported from Fortran and some of its use cases such as creating HIV vaccines.

    News

    • C2x Proposal: A Common C/C++ Core
    • Clion AMA Session on May 7
    • Third Annual C++ Foundation Developer Survey "Lite"

    Links

    • Rosetta Commons - Software
    • Menten AI
    • Designing Peptides on a Quantum Computer
    • Rosetta@home
    • fold.it

    Sponsors

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    Making Nu Languages Apr 09, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Sophia Turner. They first discuss updates to {fmt} and SourceTrail. Then they talk to Sophia about some of the languages she's worked on; including Chaiscript with Jason, Typescript at Microsoft and Rust at Mozilla. They then talk about her current project: NuShell.

    News

    • Stopping A Laser Beam in Mid-Air
    • Stopping a laser beam in mid-air with Tom Scott (BTS)
    • {fmt} 6.2 released
    • Sourcetrail 2020.1
    • When is *x also &x

    Links

    • Nushell
    • Typescript
    • Rust
    • Growing TypeScript and Rust

    Sponsors

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    Intro to Modules Apr 02, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Daniela Engert. They first discuss a blog post on a new static analyzer feature in GCC 10 and Jason's plans to port the classic DOOM game to C++. Then Daniela gives Jason and Rob an introduction to Modules in C++20.

    News

    • Static analysis in GCC 10
    • C++ Annotations v11.4.0
    • Jason's live Doom port to C++ Friday morning

    Links

    • Modules: The Beginner's Guide Slides
    • Socializing with {fmt} - Daniela Engert - Meeting C++ 2018

    Sponsors

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    C++ Build Insights Mar 26, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Kevin Cadieux and Sy Brand. They first discuss a blog post on Memory Access Patterns and the Clang 10 release. Then they talk about C++ Build Insights, Kevin tells us how vcperf can be used to find places where build performance can be improved in your code. Sy then goes over some of the other recent updates to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.

    News

    • Vector of Objects vs Vector of Pointers and Memory Access Patterns
    • Post-Prague Mailing
    • Clang 10.0.0 Released

    Links

    • Download Visual Studio
    • Introducing C++ Build Insights
    • Analyze your builds programmatically with the C++ Build Insights SDK
    • Have full integration of Build Insights within Visual Studio

    Sponsors

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    Meson and the Meson Manual Mar 19, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Jussi Pakkanen. They first discuss the ongoing effects that the Corona Virus is having on the C++ Community. Then they talk to Jussi Pakkanen who gives them an update on what's changed in Mesonbuild since he was first on show 201 episodes earlier. Jussi also shares some info about the Meson Manual which is available as an e-book.

    News

    • C++ Events affected by Corona Virus
    • asm-dom
    • Deleaker review

    Links

    • The Meson Build System
    • The Meson Manual use coupon code: cppcast2020
    • "Behind (and under) the scenes of the Meson build system" - Jussi Pakkanen (LCA 2020)

    Sponsors

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    PVS-Studio Static Analysis Mar 12, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Yuri Minaev from PVS-Studio. They first discuss a blog posts on ISO's recent decision not to break the C++ ABI in C++23 and getting rid of volatile in the Qt codebase. Then they talk to Yuri Minaev, one of the developers at PVS Studio working on the static analyzer. They discuss some of the forms of analysis that the tool excels at and how it's changed the way Yuri programs.

    News

    • HOly Grail of Logging
    • The Day the Standard Library Died
    • The Performance Benefits of Final Classes
    • Getting rid of 'volatile' in (some of) Qt

    Links

    • Yuri Minaev Blog Posts

    Sponsors

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    Packs and Pipelines Mar 05, 2020

    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

    Sponsors

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    Maintaining QtCore Feb 27, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Thiago Macieira from Intel. They first talk about Visual Studio's Qt support, and articles from Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter. They then talk about Thiago's history with Qt, including his former role as Qt Release Manager and his contributions to QtCore, QtNetwork and more.

    News

    • Jason's C++ Training Courses in Stuttgart
    • Fuchsia Programming Language Policy
    • Qt to support Visual Studio Linux projects
    • Bjarne Stroustrup on C++20's significance
    • Move, simply

    Links

    • New Features in Qt 5.15
    • Clear Linux Project

    Sponsors

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    Prague Trip Report Feb 21, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Hana Dusikova from Avast. They talk about the final changes that went into the C++20 draft which should become the official new standard in 3 or 4 months. They also discuss the direction of C++23 and some of the papers that were proposed in Prague.

    News

    • C++20 is here!
    • 2020-02 Prague ISO C++ Committee Trip Report — 🎉 C++20 is Done!

    Links

    • To boldly suggest an overall plan for C++23
    • ABI - Now or Never
    • Epochs: a backward-compatible language evolution mechanism
    • std::embed

    Sponsors

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    C++ on a Watch Feb 13, 2020

    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

    Sponsors

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    Large Scale C++ Feb 06, 2020

    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!"

    Sponsors

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    WxWidgets Jan 30, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Vadim Zeitlin one of the maintainers of WxWidgets. They first talk about a blog post describing a fantastic bug and another responding to the changes announced by Qt. Then Vadim tells them about how he got involved contributing to WxWidgets, the cross platform C++ GUI library.

    News

    • Fantastic Bugs and Where to Find Them
    • C++ Modules conformance improvements with MSVC in VS 2019 16.5
    • Concepts merged to clang trunk
    • About Qt Offering Changes 2020

    Links

    • WxWidgets
    • WxWidgets on GitHub

    Sponsors

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    • Software Crash Management for Embedded Devices and IOT Projects
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    Circle Jan 23, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Sean Baxter. They first talk about a blog post and some papers headed for the upcoming ISO meeting in Prague. Then they discuss Circle, the compiler and language extension for C++17.

    News

    • The Hunt for the Fastest Zero
    • 2D Graphics: A Brief Review
    • C++ Standards Committee Papers pre-Prague mailing

    Links

    • Circle
    • Circle on GitHub
    • P2062 The Circle Meta-model

    Sponsors

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    Conference Organizing Jan 16, 2020

    Rob and Jason are joined by Phil Nash, Adi Shavit and Fred Tingaud. They talk with the three meetup and conference organizers about their motivations for launching new C++ conferences last year and discuss some of the work involved in doing so.

    News

    • CppCon 2019: Saar Raz "How to Implement Your First Compiler Feature: The Story of Concepts in Clang"
    • The New ConanCenter Improves Search and Discovery
    • C++ Inliner Improvements: The Zipliner
    • Meeting C++ Community Survey

    Links

    • C++ on Sea
    • Core C++ Conference
    • CPPP 2020

    Sponsors

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    Clang Hacking Jan 09, 2020

    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"

    Sponsors

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    • Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

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    C++ 2020 News Jan 02, 2020

    Rob and Jason discuss C++ news and the new year after the Holiday season.

    News

    • The Merger of MISRA C++ and AUTOSAR C++
    • Python Interpreter in GNU Debugger
    • Holiday fun with template and template
    • Tabulate
    • Meeting C++ 2019 Talks
    • Using std::cpp call for papers
    • C++ Russia call for proposals
    • C++Now call for proposals
    • Core Hard call for proposals
    • Qt World Summit call
    • CPPP all for papers
    • C++Weekly ep 200, Christmas Class 2019

    Links

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus

    Sponsors

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    • Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

    • JetBrains

    OpenVDB Dec 19, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

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    Difficult Bugs Dec 12, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

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    Cache Friendliness Dec 04, 2019

    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]

    Sponsors

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    The C++ ABI Nov 21, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

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    Belfast Trip Report Nov 14, 2019

    Rob and Jason are joined by Timur Doumler. They discuss some of the news that occurred at the C++ ISO meeting in Belfast where the committee responded to some of the National Body comments on the C++20 draft. Timur also goes over some of his proposals and the progress on adding an Audio API to C++.

    News

    • Maryland C++ User Group
    • 2019-11 Belfast ISO C++ Committee Trip Report
    • p0593r2 - Implicit creation of objects for low-level object manipulation
    • Trip Report: Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting (Belfast)

    Links

    • CppCon 2019: Timur Doumler "Type punning in modern C++"
    • Timur Doumler — Initialisation in modern C++
    • CppCon 2018: Timur Doumler "Can I has grammar?"
    • p1386 - A Standard Audio API for C++:Motivation, Scope, and Basic Design
    • p1774 - Portable optimisation hints
    • p1912 Interconvertible object representations

    Sponsors

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    CRTP and Israel joining the C++ ISO Nov 07, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

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    Unicode for C++23 Oct 31, 2019

    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)

    Sponsors

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    Becoming involved with the C++ committee Oct 24, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

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    • JetBrains

    Election Security Oct 17, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace

    • Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

    • JetBrains

    Commodore 64 and Tilt Five AR Oct 10, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace

    • Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

    • JetBrains

    Vehicle Control Software Oct 03, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

    • Enter #cppcast in the Message field and get a month-license instead of 7-day license
    • PVS-Studio

    • PVS-Studio Twitter

    • JetBrains

    Visual C++ Announcements at CppCon 2019 Sep 26, 2019

    Rob and Jason are joined by Marian Luparu, Sy Brand and Stephan T Lavavej in this special episode recorded at CppCon. They discuss some of the big announcements made by the Visual C++ team at CppCon. Including the open sourcing of MSVC's STL, adding ASAN support to Visual Studio, C++17 conformance and much more.

    Links

    • Open Sourcing MSVC’s STL
    • Intelligent Productivity and Collaboration, from Anywhere
    • Sign up for Private Preview of Visual Studio Cloud Environments
    • Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2019

    Sponsors

    • Enter #cppcast in the Message field and get a month-license instead of 7-day license
    • PVS-Studio

    • PVS-Studio Twitter

    • JetBrains

    Provable Functions at CppCon 2019 Sep 19, 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

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace

    • Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

    • JetBrains

    C++ Extensions Sep 12, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace

    • Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

    • JetBrains

    Professional CMake Sep 05, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

    • Enter #cppcast in the Message field and get a month-license instead of 7-day license
    • PVS-Studio

    • PVS-Studio Twitter

    • JetBrains

    C++ Epochs Aug 29, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

    • Enter #cppcast in the Message field and get a month-license instead of 7-day license
    • PVS-Studio
    • PVS-Studio Twitter
    AWS Lambda Aug 22, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace
    • Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes
    mdspan and /r/cpp Aug 15, 2019

    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"

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace
    • Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes
    Secure Coding Aug 08, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

    • Errors that static code analysis does not find because it is not used
    • PVS-Studio in the Clouds - Running the Analysis on Travis CI

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Approval Tests Aug 01, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

    • Errors that static code analysis does not find because it is not used
    • PVS-Studio in the Clouds - Running the Analysis on Travis CI

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Cologne Trip Report Jul 25, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace
    • Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    GitKraken Jul 11, 2019

    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
    • GitKraken v6.0: The Fastest GitKraken Ever!

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace
    • Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    CMake and VTK Jul 04, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

    • PVS-Studio Facebook
    • PVS-Studio Telegram
    • PVS-Studio Twitter

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Functional Programming in C++ Jun 27, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

    • PVS-Studio Facebook
    • PVS-Studio Telegram

    • PVS-Studio Twitter

    • JetBrains

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Movable Iterators Jun 20, 2019

    Rob and Jason are joined by Corentin Jabot to discuss some of his proposals for C++20.

    Corentin Jabot is a freelancer developer and member of the French National Body and the C++ committee where he participates in the tooling, Unicode and library evolution working groups. He has been doing C++ for about 10 years and currently works with Mobsya, a swiss non-profit making educational robots for kids.

    News

    • Catch v2.9.0 released
    • Core C++ 2019 Videos
    • Space Game: A std::variant Based State Machine

    Corentin Jabot

    • @Cor3ntin
    • cor3ntin

    Links

    • p1207: Movability of Single-pass iterators
    • p1206: ranges::to: A function to convert any range to a container
    • p1634: Naming guidelines for modules
    • p1628: Unicode character properties

    Sponsors

    • PVS-Studio Facebook
    • PVS-Studio Telegram

    • PVS-Studio Twitter

    • JetBrains

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Factorio Jun 14, 2019

    Rob and Jason are joined by Michal Kovařík to discuss his work creating the Factorio video game with C++.

    Michal is 34 years old and started programming when he was 11. C (and C++ soon after) became his favorite language soon afterwards. After quitting University after 2 years he was a regular programmer in a company for 4 years. He then started his own computer game project, which he's been working on for 7 years already. The game is much more successful than anticipated (with more than 1.7 million sales) while still in early access. We are close to finishing the game and deciding what to do next.

    News

    • C++Now 2019 Videos being uploaded
    • Clear, Functional C++ Docs with Sphinx + Breathe + Doxygen + Cmake
    • Fuzzing Unit Tests with DeepState and Eclipser

    Michal Kovařík

    • Michal Kovařík's GitHub

    Links

    • Factorio

    Sponsors

    • PVS-Studio Facebook
    • PVS-Studio Telegram

    • PVS-Studio Twitter

    • JetBrains

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Pattern Matching Jun 05, 2019

    Rob and Jason are joined by Michael Park to discuss his Pattern Matching library and standards proposal.

    Michael Park is a software engineer at Facebook, working on the C++ libraries and standards team. His focus for C++ is to introduce pattern matching to facilitate better code.

    News

    • Initialization in C++ the Matrix
    • CMake 3.14 and Performance Improvements
    • Compiler Explorer Execution Support

    Michael Park

    • @mcypark
    • Michael Park's GitHub
    • Michael Park's Blog

    Links

    • C++Now Pattern Matching: Match Me If You Can
    • P1371R0
    • CppCon 2017: Michael Park "MPark.Patterns: Pattern Matching in C++"
    • MPark.Patterns

    Sponsors

    • PVS-Studio Facebook
    • PVS-Studio Telegram

    • PVS-Studio Twitter

    • JetBrains

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Simplifying C++ May 28, 2019

    Rob and Jason are joined by Herb Sutter to discuss C++20 and some of his proposals that aim to Simplify C++.

    Herb Sutter is an author, chair of the ISO C++ committee, and a systems languages architect at Microsoft.

    News

    • No one knows the type of char + char
    • C++ Now 2019 Trip Report, Extension Points and Summer Opportunities
    • JSON Link

    Herb Sutter

    • @herbsutter
    • Herb Sutter's GitHub
    • Sutter's Mill

    Links

    • P1000 - C++ IS Schedule
    • P1185 - <=> != ==
    • P1186 - When do you actually use <=>
    • Keynote: De-fragmenting C++: Making exceptions more affordable and usable - Herb Sutter
    • CppCon 2018: Herb Sutter "Thoughts on a more powerful and simpler C++ (5 of N)
    • C++ Coding Standars: 101 Rules, Guidelines, and Best Practices

    Sponsors

    • PVS-Studio Facebook
    • PVS-Studio Telegram

    • PVS-Studio Twitter

    • JetBrains

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Constexpr Evaluation May 23, 2019

    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++

    Sponsors

    • PVS-Studio Facebook
    • PVS-Studio Telegram

    • PVS-Studio Twitter

    • JetBrains

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Mutation Testing with Mull May 09, 2019

    Rob and Jason are joined by Alex Denisov to discuss the Mutation Testing in general and the clang based Mull project.

    Alex is a Software Engineer who is working at PTScientists GmbH, a German aerospace startup that is planning to land a spacecraft on the Moon. After work, he is organizing LLVM Social in Berlin and researching the topic of mutation testing. He is generally interested in developer tools, low-level development, and software hardening.

    News

    • Converting from Boost to std::filesystem
    • Kate Gregory ACCU trip report
    • GCC 9.1 Released

    Alex Denisov

    • @1101_debian
    • Alex Denisov's GitHub
    • Alex Denisov's Blog

    Links

    • Mull Project
    • Awesome Mutation testing
    • 2019 EuroLLVM Developers' Meeting: A. Denisov "Building an LLVM-based tool: lessons learned"

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace
    • Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Reflection TS May 02, 2019

    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..."

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace
    • Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    CPPP Apr 25, 2019

    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"

    Sponsors

    • Wanna Play a Detective? Find the Bug in a Function from Midnight Commander
    • False Positives in PVS-Studio: How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    fmt Apr 18, 2019

    Rob and Jason are joined by Victor Zverovich to discuss the fmt modern formatting library and the proposal to bring it to C++20.

    Victor Zverovich is a software engineer at Facebook working on the Thrift RPC framework. Before joining Facebook in 2016, he worked for several years on modeling systems for mathematical optimization. He is an active contributor to open-source projects, an author of the {fmt} library and the ISO proposal P0645 to add a new formatting facility to C++.

    News

    • eclipsecon: Docker Container Build/Run/Debug Support for C/C++ Projects
    • Professional, zero-cost setup for C++ projects (1 of N)
    • In-Editor Documentation for Cmake in Visual Studio
    • Understanding when not to std::move in C++
    • Announcing CPPP - Paris 2019

    Victor Zverovich

    • @vzverovich
    • Victor Zverovich's GitHub

    Links

    • fmt - A modern formatting library
    • P0645 - Text Formatting
    • P1361 - Integration of chrono with text formatting

    Sponsors

    • Wanna Play a Detective? Find the Bug in a Function from Midnight Commander
    • False Positives in PVS-Studio: How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Linear Algebra and Audio Apr 11, 2019

    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"

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace
    • Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Boden Cross-Platform Framework Apr 04, 2019

    Rob and Jason are joined by Marcus Tillmanns and Tobias Lensing to talk about the Boden Cross-Platform Framework.

    Marcus is currently the main software developer of Boden. He has a strong background in C++ graphics and UI development. He worked with Qt for more than 10 years on audio software and embedded projects.

    Tobias is currently working as a software developer and product manager on Boden. He’s passionate about start-ups and entrepreneurship. Tobias also has a background as CTO in audio software, cloud technology, and web development.

    News

    • Visual Studio 2019 goes live
    • C++23 fullptr to replace nullptr
    • Conan 1.14 Release

    Marcus Tillmanns

    • @Maddimax3

    Tobias Lensing

    • @tobiaslensing

    Links

    • Boden
    • @bodenhq

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace
    • Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Reverse Engineering C++ Mar 28, 2019

    Rob and Jason are joined by Gal Zaban to talk about Reverse Engineering C++.

    Gal is currently working as a Security Researcher. Her passion is Reverse Engineering with a particular interest in C++ code. In her spare time, when not delving into low-level research, she designs and sews her own clothes and loves to play the Clarinet.

    News

    • LLVM Clang 8.0 Released
    • C++Now Keynote Announcement: Hana Dusíková on Compile Time Regular Expressions
    • Nameof operator for modern C++
    • The 3 least secure programming languages

    Gal Zaban

    • @0xgalz
    • Gal Zaban's GitHub

    Links

    • Virtuailor
    • IDAPython
    • CoreC++: Behind Enemy Lines - Reverse Engineering C++ in Modern Ages
    • When Virtual Hell Freezes Over - Reversing C++ Code

    Sponsors

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    • False Positives in PVS-Studio: How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
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    Visual C++ Updates Mar 21, 2019

    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

    • Wanna Play a Detective? Find the Bug in a Function from Midnight Commander
    • False Positives in PVS-Studio: How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    News Roundup Mar 15, 2019

    Rob and Jason catch up on some news at the end of a week of traveling.

    News

    • Usability improvements in GCC 9
    • Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading
    • Counting Bugs in Windows Calculator
    • Understanding C++ Modules: Part 1: Hello Modules, and Module Units
    • Modern CMake Examples
    • CMake 3.14.0 available for download
    • Introduction into Logging with Loguru
    • Little-known C++: function-try-block

    Links

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus

    Sponsor

    • Backtrace
    • Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    RxCpp and Executors Mar 07, 2019

    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"

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace
    • Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Kona Trip Report Feb 28, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

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    • Technologies used in the PVS-Studio code analyzer for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Analyzing Undefined Behavior Feb 21, 2019

    Rob and Jason are joined by John Regehr to talk about his job as a professor at the University of Utah teaching C++ courses and some of his research projects including souper and csmith.

    John Regehr is a professor at the University of Utah where he's been on the faculty since 2003. He likes to work on compilers and software correctness, but used to work on real-time and embedded systems. When he has free time he likes to go hiking in the desert with his kids.

    News

    • Five Awesome C++ Papers for Kona 2019 ISO Meeting
    • The future of Catch2
    • Some C++ on Sea videos already available
    • Between linear and binary search

    John Regehr

    • @johnregehr
    • John Regehr's Personal Page
    • John Regehr's Blog

    Links

    • Souper
    • Csmith
    • C-Reduce
    • C++Now 2018: John Regehr "Closing Keynote: Undefined Behavior and Compiler Optimizations"

    Sponsors

    • Download PVS-Studio
    • Technologies used in the PVS-Studio code analyzer for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Leaf and 'What is Programming?' Feb 14, 2019

    Rob and Jason are joined by Edaqa Mortoray to talk about his experience designing the Leaf language and writing it's compiler in C++, and his book 'What is Programming?'

    Edaqa Mortoray grew up programming. From interface design to scientific simulations, including video games and development products, he's coded a bit of everything. He's got a successful programming blog and is the author of the book "What is Programming?"

    News

    • Moving iterators in C++
    • C++ 3D Game Tutorial Series
    • Legacy Code Programmer's Toolbox
    • C++17 - The Complete Guide
    • C++17 in Detail

    Edaqa Mortoray

    • @edaqa
    • Edaqa's Blog

    Links

    • What is Programming?
    • Edaqa & Stephane (Podcast)
    • Leaf Programming Language
    • dev.to
    • Awesome Podcasts

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    libc++ Jan 31, 2019

    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

    • Backtrace

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    SG20 Jan 24, 2019

    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"

    Sponsors

    • Download PVS-Studio
    • Technologies used in the PVS-Studio code analyzer for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Boost DI and SML Jan 17, 2019

    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

    Sponsors

    • Download PVS-Studio
    • Technologies used in the PVS-Studio code analyzer for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
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    Trivially Relocatable Jan 10, 2019

    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

    • Backtrace

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    ISO Papers and Merged Modules Jan 03, 2019

    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"

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Semantic Merge Dec 21, 2018

    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

    • Download PVS-Studio
    • Technologies used in the PVS-Studio code analyzer for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities
    • JetBrains

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    San Diego EWGI Trip Report Dec 13, 2018

    Rob and Jason are joined by JF Bastien from Apple to discuss the San Diego C++ Committee meeting from his perspective as the chair of the new Evolution Working Group Incubator.

    JF Bastien is the C++ lead for Apple's clang front-end, where he focuses on new language features, security, and optimizations. He’s an active participant in the C++ standards committee, where he chairs the Language Evolution Working Group Incubator (“oogie” for short). He previously worked on WebKit’s JavaScriptCore Just-in-Time compiler, on Chrome’s Portable Native Client, on a CPU's dynamic binary translator, and on flight simulators.

    News

    • Exploring C++20 Designated initialisers
    • std::embed for the poor (C++17)
    • RangeOf: A better span

    JF Bastien

    • @jfbastien

    Links

    • 2018 San Diego ISO C++ Committee Trip Report
    • C++ Current Status

    Sponsors

    • Download PVS-Studio
    • Technologies used in the PVS-Studio code analyzer for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities
    • JetBrains

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Performance Analysis and Optimization Dec 06, 2018

    Rob and Jason are joined by Denis Bakhvalov from Intel to discuss C++ performance analysis and optimization techniques

    Denis is C++ developer with almost 10 years of experience. Denis started his journey as a developer of desktop applications, then moved to embedded and now he works at Intel, doing C++ compiler development. He enjoys writing the fastest-possible code and staring at the assembly. Denis is a father of 2, he likes to play soccer and chess.

    News

    • Meeting C++ / Embedded conan trip report
    • Introducing the C++ Lambda Runtime
    • SIMD Visualiser
    • Announcing Live Share for C++: Real-Time Sharing

    Denis Bakhvalov

    • @dendibakh

    Links

    • emBO++ 2018 Denis Bakhvalov about Dealing with performance analysis in C and C++
    • Code alignment issues
    • Basics of profiling with perf
    • Performance analysis vocabulary

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace
    • JetBrains

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    TDD, BDD, Low Latency and CppCon Nov 29, 2018

    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"

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace
    • JetBrains

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    SIMD Wrapper Libraries Nov 22, 2018

    Rob and Jason are joined by Jeff Amstutz to discuss SIMD and SIMD wrapper libraries.

    Jeff is a Software Engineer at Intel, where he leads the open source OSPRay project. He enjoys all things ray tracing, high performance and heterogeneous computing, and code carefully written for human consumption. Prior to joining Intel, Jeff was an HPC software engineer at SURVICE Engineering where he worked on interactive simulation applications for the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, implemented using high performance C++ and CUDA.

    News

    • Freestanding in San Diego
    • Getting Started Qt with WebAssembly
    • Trip Report: Fall ISO C++ standards meeting (San Diego)

    Jeff Amstutz

    • @jeffamstutz

    Links

    • CppCon 2018: Jefferson Amstutz "Compute More in Less Time Using C++ SIMD Wrapper Libraries"
    • tsimd - Fundamental C++ SIMD types for Intel CPUs (sse to avx512)
    • OSPRay

    Sponsors

    • Download PVS-Studio
    • We Checked the Android Source Code by PVS-Studio, or Nothing is Perfect
    • JetBrains

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    San Diego LEWG Trip Report Nov 15, 2018

    Rob and Jason are joined by Ashley Hedberg to discuss the San Diego C++ Committee meeting from her perspective on the Library Evolution Working Group.

    Ashley Hedberg has been working at Google for the last three years. She currently works on Abseil, an open-source collection of C++ library code designed to augment the C++ standard library. San Diego was her second WG21 meeting.

    News

    • How to Write a Good Proposal to C++
    • TL:DR for #CppSan
    • CppCon Videos and Lightning Talks

    Ashley Hedberg

    • Ashley Hedberg
    • Ashley's GitHub

    Links

    • 2018 San Diego ISO C++ Committee Trip Report
    • C++ Current Status
    • Abseil
    • #include

    Sponsors

    • Download PVS-Studio
    • We Checked the Android Source Code by PVS-Studio, or Nothing is Perfect
    • JetBrains

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Learning C++ Nov 08, 2018

    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

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    C++ Bestiary Nov 01, 2018

    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

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Meeting C++ and Embedded Oct 26, 2018

    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

    Sponsors

    • Download PVS-Studio
    • We Checked the Android Source Code by PVS-Studio, or Nothing is Perfect

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Compile Time Regular Expressions Oct 19, 2018

    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

    Sponsors

    • Download PVS-Studio
    • We Checked the Android Source Code by PVS-Studio, or Nothing is Perfect

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    WebAssembly and nxxm Oct 12, 2018

    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

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    CppCon Lightning Interviews Oct 04, 2018

    Rob and Jason give a brief trip report of CppCon before being joined by several guests who gave Lightning Talks at CppCon 2018.

    Lightning Talkers

    • Anastasia Kazakova
    • Timur Doumler
    • Phil Nash
    • Staffan Tjernström
    • Matthew von Arx
    • Tony Wasserka
    • Jens Weller
    • Anny G.
    • Borislav Stanimirov
    • Ezra Chung (@eracpp on slack)
    • Jean-Louis Leroy

    Links

    • CppCon 2019 will be in Denver, Colorado from September 15 to 20th
    • CppCon 2018: Bjarne Stroustrup "Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming (the future is here)"
    • CppCon 2018: Mark Elendt "Patterns and Techniques Used in the Houdini 3D Graphics Application"
    • CppCon 2018: Kate Gregory "Simplicity: Not Just For Beginners"
    • CppCon 2018: Herb Sutter "Thoughts on a more powerful and simpler C++ (5 of N)"
    • CppCon 2018: Chandler Carruth "Spectre: Secrets, Side-Channels, Sandboxes, and Security"

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace

    Patreon

    • CppCast Patreon

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    CppCon Preview Sep 20, 2018

    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
    CppQuiz Sep 13, 2018

    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
    CppCon Poster Program and Interface Design Sep 07, 2018

    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
    Formal Verification Aug 31, 2018

    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
    SYCL Aug 24, 2018

    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
    Sourcetrail Aug 17, 2018

    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
    The Art of C++ Libraries Aug 09, 2018

    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
    Expectations and Exceptions Aug 02, 2018

    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
    Parallel Ranges Jul 26, 2018

    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
    Design Patterns in Modern C++ Jul 19, 2018

    Rob and Jason are joined by Dmitri Nesteruk to discuss Design Patterns with Modern C++.

    Dmitri Nesteruk is a quantitative analyst, developer, course and book author, and an occasional conference speaker. His interests lie in software development and integration practices in the areas of computation, quantitative finance and algorithmic trading. His technological interests include C# and C++ programming as well high-performance computing using technologies such as CUDA and FPGAs.

    News

    • Coroutine types
    • Easy::jit Just-In-Time compilation for C++
    • Tool to recommend noexcept and constexpr

    Dmitri Nesteruk

    • @dnesteruk

    Links

    • Udemy: Design Patterns in Modern C++
    • Design Patterns in Modern C++
    • Design Patterns in C#

    Sponsors

    • PVS-Studio
    • February 31

    Patreon

    • CppCast Patreon

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Future of 2D Graphics Proposal Jul 12, 2018

    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
    Modern C++ in Embedded Systems Jul 05, 2018

    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
    SG15 Tooling Group Jun 28, 2018

    Rob and Jason are joined by Titus Winters from Google to discuss the SG15 Tooling Study Group and revisiting the concept of regular types.

    Titus Winters has spent the past 7 years working on Google's core C++ libraries. He's particularly interested in issues of large scale software engineer and codebase maintenance: how do we keep a codebase of over 100M lines of code consistent and flexible for the next decade? Along the way he has helped Google teams pioneer techniques to perform automated code transformations on a massive scale, and helps maintain the Google C++ Style Guide.

    News

    • Dependencies
    • C++ 20 in Tony Tables
    • Announcing Template Intellisense
    • East const Central
    • Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Rapperswil, June 2018

    Titus Winters

    • Titus Winters

    Links

    • Tooling - WG21 Tooling Study Group SG15
    • Revisiting Regular Types

    Sponsors

    • PVS-Studio
    • February 31

    Patreon

    • CppCast Patreon

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    C++ Insights Jun 21, 2018

    Rob and Jason are joined by Andreas Fertig to discuss C++ Insights, the Rapperswil ISO meeting and more.

    Andreas Fertig holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. Since 2010 he has been a software developer and architect for Philips Medical Systems focusing on embedded systems. He has a profound practical and theoretical knowledge of C++ at various operating systems.

    He works freelance as a lecturer and trainer. Besides this he develops macOS applications and is the creator of cppinsights.io.

    News

    • Post Rapperswil C++ Draft
    • Cpp Taskflow
    • std::embed updated proposal
    • JetBrains Rapperswil Trip Report
    • What's all the C Plus Fuss? Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++

    Andreas Fertig

    • @andreas__fertig
    • Andreas Fertig's website

    Links

    • C++ Insights
    • C++ Insights Store

    Sponsors

    • PVS-Studio
    • February 31

    Patreon

    • CppCast Patreon

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Rapperswil Trip Report Jun 15, 2018

    Rob and Jason discuss the Rapperswil trip report and other C++ news.

    News

    • What's next for Visual Studio
    • Visual Studio Roadmap
    • Build the future of the web with WebAssembly and more (Google I/O '18)
    • WebAssembly Physics and DOM objects
    • "Core Coroutines" proposal
    • Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction

    Links

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace

    Patreon

    • CppCast Patreon

    Listener Survey

    • CppCast Listener Survey
    Vcpkg Jun 07, 2018

    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
    C++ London Uni May 31, 2018

    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
    sol2 and std::embed May 24, 2018

    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
    Freestanding Proposal May 17, 2018

    Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Craig to discuss his proposal for a freestanding C++ Library.

    Ben is a Principal Software Engineer at National Instruments, primarily developing device drivers for various operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac, OpenRTOS, vxWorks, ETS Pharlap), and occasionally tinkering with the firmware side of things. Ben is an occasional contributor to libc++ and Apache Thrift.

    News

    • Convert Macro to Constexpr in VS 2017
    • CppCon 2018 Registration is Open
    • How to Adopt Modern C++17 into your C++ Code
    • 7++ Reasons to Move Your C++ Code into Visual Studio 2017
    • Effective C++/WinRT for UWP and Win32
    • C++ Insights
    • P0709 Zero overhead deterministic exceptions

    Ben Craig

    • Ben Craig's GitHub

    Links

    • Freestanding Proposal
    • Freestanding Trip Report: emBO++ and Jacksonville wg21 2018 experience

    Sponsors

    • PVS-Studio
    • The Evil within the Comparison Functions

    Patreon

    • CppCast Patreon

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    CppChat May 10, 2018

    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
    C++ Simplicity May 03, 2018

    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
    C++ Patterns Apr 26, 2018

    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
    CppDock and nbdl Apr 19, 2018

    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
    Blogging and Text Processing Apr 12, 2018

    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
    News Roundup Apr 05, 2018

    Rob and Jason discuss Jacksonville trip reports, April Fools posts and more.

    News

    • Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20
    • No new new: Raw pointers removed from C++
    • C++ will no longer have pointers
    • HPX 1.1.0 Released
    • Freestanding trip report: emBO++ and Jacksonville
    • Oh, lock-free circular buffers, yay! Hey, no 2D graphics? Jacksonville trip report
    • JetBrains Trip Report
    • Clion 2018.1 release
    • Cmake 3.11 Release
    • Configuring C++ Intellisense and Browsing

    Links

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus

    Sponsor

    • JetBrains

    Listener Survey

    • CppCast Listener Survey
    C++ and Typescript at Ubisoft Massive Mar 29, 2018

    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
    Jacksonville Trip Report Mar 22, 2018

    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
    News Roundup Mar 15, 2018

    Rob and Jason discuss catch up on two weeks' worth of C++ news on a very special Pi day episode.

    News

    • WG21 pre-Jacksonville telecon
    • Results summary: C++ Foundation Developer Survey
    • ClangFormat Support in Visual Studio 2017
    • C++ Code Analysis Improvements for Visual Studio 2017
    • Linux C++ Workload improvements to the Project System, Console Window, rsync and Attach to Process
    • LLVM 6.0 Release
    • Profiling: Optimisation
    • Simplify code with 'if constexpr' in C++17
    • Lvalues, rvalues, glvalues, prvalues, xvalues, help!
    • Tip of the Week #55: Name Counting and unique_ptr

    Links

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus

    Sponsor

    • JetBrains
    Conference News and CppChat Mar 01, 2018

    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
    Competitive Coding Feb 23, 2018

    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
    API & ABI Versioning Feb 16, 2018

    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
    Qt Mobile Development Feb 09, 2018

    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
    foonathan/type_safe and more Feb 01, 2018

    Rob and Jason are joined by Jonathan Müller to talk about his experience at University and some of his recent projects.

    Jonathan is a CS student passionate about C++. In his spare time he writes libraries like foonathan/memory which provides memory allocator implementations. He is also working on standardese which is a documentation generator specifically designed for C++. Jonathan tweets at @foonathan and blogs about various C++ and library development related topics at foonathan.net.

    News

    • GCC 7.3 Released
    • C++ Tip: Erase-remove Idiom Revisited
    • Beast: A Non-Traditional Source Code Review
    • Inclusiveness, accessibility and CppCon 2017 videos

    Jonathan Müller

    • @foonathan
    • foonathan::blog()

    Links

    • type_safe library
    • cppast library
    • Jonathan Müller's Patreon

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace
    • Embo++

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Think-Cell Ranges Jan 25, 2018

    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
    Data Oriented Design Jan 18, 2018

    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
    Meltdown and Spectre Jan 11, 2018

    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
    Boost Application Development Jan 04, 2018

    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
    C++ Object Model Dec 21, 2017

    Rob and Jason are joined by Nicole Mazzuca to talk about the C++ Object Model, and some of the differences between Rust and C++.

    Nicole is someone who's thought a bit too much about object models and error handling. She started in C, moved to Rust, and then fell into C++ a year ago. She also loves coffee, and latte art.

    News

    • Meson 0.44.0 is out
    • C++Now 2018 Call for submissions
    • MSVC code optimizer improvements in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 and 15.3
    • Broken warnings theory

    Nicole Mazzuca

    • @ubsanitizer
    • Nicole Mazzuca's GitHub

    Links

    • CppCon 2017: Nicole Mazzuca "Values, Objects, and References, oh my: The C++ Object Model, and Why it Matters to You"

    Sponsors

    • Undo
    • Audible

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Reverse Debugging Dec 14, 2017

    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
    C++ Tour, Compilers and FASTBuild Dec 07, 2017

    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
    Clang Power Tools Nov 30, 2017

    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
    Oculus Research Nov 23, 2017

    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
    VS Code Nov 16, 2017

    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
    Pacific++ Road Show Nov 02, 2017

    Rob and Jason discuss recent news and the first ever Pacific++ conference in New Zealand.

    News

    • Next Pacific++ Location
    • Does C++ need a universal package manager
    • Petra: C++17 runtime to compile-time mappings
    • Bjarne Stroustrup Interview at CppCon 2017
    • C++17 is Here: Interview with Herb Sutter
    • CppCon 2017 Talks
    • CppCon 2017 Lightning Talks

    Links

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus

    Sponsor

    • JetBrains
    Build Systems and Modules Oct 26, 2017

    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
    Grace Hopper Conference Oct 19, 2017

    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
    Abseil Oct 12, 2017

    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
    PLF List Oct 05, 2017

    Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Bentley to talk about his work on plf::list and discuss some updates from the SG14 Working Group.

    Matt Bentley was born in 1978 and never recovered from the experience. He started programming in 1986, completing a BSc Computer Science 1999, before spending three years working for a legal publishing firm, getting chronic fatigue syndrone, quitting, building a music studio, recovering, getting interested in programming again, building a game engine, and stumbling across some generalized solutions to some old problems.

    News

    • From Algorithms to Coroutines in C++
    • A Beginner's Guide to CppCon 2017
    • CppCon2017 videos online

    Matt Bentley

    • @xolvenz
    • Matt Bentley on GitHub

    Links

    • PLF C++ Library

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace
    • JetBrains

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Java Sep 28, 2017

    Rob and Jason are joined by Patricia Aas to talk about Java and some of the similarities and differences between the Managed language and C++, she also talks about her work on the Vivaldi Browser.

    Patricia has been a C++ programmer for 12 years. Currently she is working on the Vivaldi Browser. Previously she has worked on the Opera Browser, on embedded telepresence systems at Cisco and even did a two year stint as a Java consultant. She is passionate about learning and teaching, as well as trying to make the world in general and tech in particular, a more inclusive place.

    News

    • Bjarne Stroustrup awarded 2017 Faraday Medal
    • Orbit C Performance Profiler
    • Introducing Abseil, a new common libraries project
    • CppCon Videos

    Patricia Aas

    • @pati_gallardo

    Links

    • C++ for Java Developers (Slides)
    • C++ for Java Developers (Video)
    • Java
    • Vivaldi Browser

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace
    • JetBrains

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    C# and IL2CPP Sep 21, 2017

    Rob and Jason are joined by Josh Peterson to talk about C# and some of the similarities and differences between the Managed language and C++, he also talks about his work at Unity 3D on IL2CPP.

    Josh is a programmer working at Unity Technologies, where he focuses on integration and development of scripting runtimes for the Unity 3D game engine. He enjoys learning about CPU architectures and assembly language, including the recent development of an MOS 6510 emulator in C#. In his free time, he coaches a number of youth soccer teams and reads philosophy and theology.

    News

    • Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages
    • C++ World Café
    • Useful GCC warning options not enabled by -Wall -Wextra

    Josh Peterson

    • @petersonjm1

    Links

    • Microsoft C# Guide
    • Unity 3D
    • An introduction to IL2CPP internals

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace
    • JetBrains

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    FluentC++ Sep 14, 2017

    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
    DebugView++ Sep 08, 2017

    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
    Volta and Cuda C++ Sep 01, 2017

    Rob and Jason are joined by Olivier Giroux from NVidia to talk about programming for the Volta GPU.

    Olivier Giroux has worked on eight GPU and four SM architecture generations released by NVIDIA. Lately, he works to clarify the forms and semantics of valid GPU programs, present and future. He was the programming model lead for the new NVIDIA Volta architecture. He is a member of WG21, the ISO C++ committee, and is a passionate contributor to C++'s forward progress guarantees and memory model.

    News

    • Visual C++ for Linux Development with Cmake
    • Sourcetrail 2017.3 released - cross platform source explorer
    • Call for CppCon Lightning Talks and Open Content
    • C++17 STL Cookbook Book Review

    Olivier Giroux

    • @simt

    Links

    • CppCon: Designing C++ Hardware
    • Inside Volta: The World’s Most Advanced Data Center GPU
    • Inside Volta Slidedeck
    • NVidia Dev Blog

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace
    • JetBrains

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Meeting C++ and /r/cpp_review Aug 24, 2017

    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
    Building Debuggers and Keyboards Aug 17, 2017

    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
    Synchronization Primitives Aug 10, 2017

    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
    GCC Compiler Development Aug 03, 2017

    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
    Toronto Trip Report Jul 27, 2017

    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
    Coroutines Jul 19, 2017

    Rob and Jason are joined by Gor Nishanov to talk about the C++ Coroutines proposal.

    Gor Nishanov is a Principal Software Design Engineer on the Microsoft C++ team. He works on design and standardization of C++ Coroutines, and on asynchronous programming models. Prior to joining C++ team, Gor was working on distributed systems in Windows Clustering team.

    News

    • Verdigris: Qt without moc
    • Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting
    • A C++ review community
    • Future Ruminations

    Gor Nishanov

    • @gornishanov
    • Gor Nishanov's GitHub

    Links

    • CppCon 2015: Gor Nishanov "C++ Coroutines - a negative overhead abstraction"
    • CppCon 2016: Gor Nishanov "C++ Coroutines: Under the covers"
    • Wandbox: Coroutines with Ranges
    • Compiler Explorer: Coroutines clang demo

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    CopperSpice Jul 10, 2017

    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
    Teaching Concepts Jul 05, 2017

    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

    • Backtrace

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    • Better C++/Chicago
    and more Jun 28, 2017

    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

    • Backtrace

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    • Better C++/Chicago
    system_error and Boost Outcome Review Jun 21, 2017

    Rob and Jason are joined by Charley Bay from F5 Networks to talk about his recent CppNow talk on system_error and the Boost Outcome review.

    Charley Bay is a Software developer at F5 Networks with 25+ years experience in large-scale and distributed systems for low-latency C and C++.

    News

    • C++ Web Frameworks
    • Full Http/WebSocket Server framework using Beast and Boost.Asio
    • Quick-Bench.com Simple Online C++ Performance Benchmark
    • Turing Tumble Kickstarter

    Charley Bay

    • Charley Bay

    Links

    • C++Now 2017: Charles Bay "C++11's Quiet Little Gem: "
    • Boost Formal Review Process
    • Boost Outcome
    • Boost Outcome Review Report

    Sponsors

    • Backtrace

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    • Better C++/Chicago
    stlab Concurrency Jun 14, 2017

    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
    Postmodern C++ Jun 08, 2017

    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
    Travis CI Jun 01, 2017

    Rob and Jason are joined by Richel Bilderbeek to talk about the benefits of using Travis CI for C++ developers and the role of C++ in theoretical biology.

    Richel Bilderbeek is a C++ developer for 17 years. He is mostly interested in what the literature has to say about good C++ practices, then teaching children and to adults, additionally writing articles, blog posts and tutorials. In his professional life, he is a PhD in theoretical biology.

    News

    • Writing a Really, Really Fast JSON Parser
    • C++ Online Compilers
    • Looking for Proofreaders for my new Book: Concurrency with Modern C++

    Richel Bilderbeek

    • @rjcbilderbeek
    • Richel Bilderbeek's GitHub
    • Richel Bilderbeek's homepage

    Links

    • Travis CI
    • Travis CI Tutorial
    • Science and Hi-Tech Day (Dutch)

    Sponsors

    • Conan.io

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    • Better C++/Chicago
    Boost Outcome May 25, 2017

    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
    Build 2017 May 12, 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

    • Backtrace

    Hosts

    • @robwirving
    • @lefticus
    Past, Present and Future of C++ May 04, 2017

    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
    Intel C++ Compiler Apr 27, 2017

    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
    Hippomocks and cpp-dependencies Apr 20, 2017

    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
    Vcsn Apr 13, 2017

    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
    Jewelbots Apr 07, 2017

    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
    C++17 Kona Update Mar 30, 2017

    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
    Safe Numerics Mar 23, 2017

    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
    C++ Game Development at Blizzard Mar 16, 2017

    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
    Visual Studio 2017 for C++ Developers Mar 07, 2017

    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
    emBO++ Mar 02, 2017

    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
    Trompeloeil Mocking Framework Feb 22, 2017

    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

    • Backtrace
    • JetBrains
    Jumping into C++ Feb 15, 2017

    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

    • Backtrace
    • JetBrains
    Microsoft's STL Feb 07, 2017

    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

    • Backtrace
    • JetBrains
    News Roundup Feb 01, 2017

    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

    • Backtrace
    • JetBrains
    Beast Jan 17, 2017

    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

    • Backtrace
    Library Working Group and libc++ Jan 11, 2017

    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

    • JetBrains
    Memory Algorithm Proposal Jan 05, 2017

    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

    • JetBrains
    Regular Void Dec 21, 2016

    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

    • Backtrace
    Catch 2 and C++ the Community Dec 14, 2016

    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"

    Sponsor

    • JetBrains
    C++ Game Development at Ubisoft Dec 08, 2016

    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
    Backtrace Nov 30, 2016

    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
    Cppcheck Nov 16, 2016

    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

    • Backtrace
    Kvasir Nov 09, 2016

    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
    Blaze Nov 02, 2016

    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
    Embedded Development Oct 27, 2016

    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

    • Backtrace
    Robotics Development Oct 19, 2016

    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

    • Backtrace
    C++/WinRT Oct 12, 2016

    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"

    Sponsor

    • Backtrace
    SG14 Update Oct 07, 2016

    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

    Sponsor

    • Backtrace
    Boost::Process Sep 29, 2016

    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

    • Backtrace
    CppCon 2016 Sep 25, 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!"

    Sponsor

    • Backtrace
    Maintaining Large Codebases Sep 15, 2016

    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

    • Backtrace
    MAME Emulation Project Sep 07, 2016

    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
    News Roundup Sep 01, 2016

    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
    CMake Server Aug 10, 2016

    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
    Salvus Aug 03, 2016

    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
    PLF Library Jul 28, 2016

    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
    Modules Jul 21, 2016

    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
    IncludeOS Jul 14, 2016

    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
    C++ and Lua Game Development Jul 06, 2016

    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
    Oulu Trip Report Jun 25, 2016

    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
    Visual C++ Conformance Jun 15, 2016

    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
    foonathan/memory and standardese Jun 08, 2016

    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
    CLion Jun 01, 2016

    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
    Runtime Compiled C++ May 26, 2016

    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
    Conan May 04, 2016

    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
    Distributed Computing Apr 28, 2016

    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
    VS for Linux Apr 21, 2016

    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
    Boost Hana Apr 13, 2016

    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
    Macchina.io Apr 07, 2016

    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
    Meeting C++ Apr 01, 2016

    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
    Stream Processing Mar 24, 2016

    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
    Parallel Computing Strategies Mar 17, 2016

    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
    Clean Code Mar 10, 2016

    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
    Software Defined Visualization Mar 03, 2016

    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
    Hybrid C++/Javascript apps Feb 26, 2016

    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
    C++ in the Visual Effects Industry Feb 18, 2016

    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)
    HPC and more Feb 09, 2016

    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
    Compiler Explorer Jan 28, 2016

    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
    Intel Tamper Protection Jan 21, 2016

    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
    Game Development with C++ and Javascript Jan 14, 2016

    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
    UndoDB and Live Recorder Jan 08, 2016

    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
    Transducers Dec 23, 2015

    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
    Mesonbuild Dec 17, 2015

    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
    Ranges Dec 08, 2015

    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"
    rr Dec 02, 2015

    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
    CppCon Wrapup Nov 19, 2015

    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)
    High Performance Computing Nov 12, 2015

    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++
    Qt Creator Nov 04, 2015

    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
    D Oct 27, 2015

    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
    JUCE Oct 21, 2015

    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
    Stop Teaching C (When Teaching C++) Oct 14, 2015

    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"
    Expression Templates Oct 05, 2015

    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
    C++ Concurrency Sep 29, 2015

    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
    VR Development Sep 16, 2015

    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
    Effective C++ Sep 09, 2015

    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
    Software Transactional Memory Sep 02, 2015

    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
    Real World Template Metaprogamming Aug 26, 2015

    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
    Game Dev and Low Latency Aug 19, 2015

    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
    Bounded Integers Aug 10, 2015

    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!
    VS2015 and the Universal CRT Aug 03, 2015

    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!
    Rust Jul 23, 2015

    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
    WebAssembly Jul 09, 2015

    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
    POCO Project Jul 02, 2015

    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
    Exercism.io and Refactoring Jun 24, 2015

    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"
    News Roundup Jun 17, 2015

    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
    C++11/14 Library Best Practices Jun 10, 2015

    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
    Better Code Concurrency Jun 01, 2015

    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

    Testdriven C++ using Catch May 27, 2015

    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

    Modern C++ for the Windows Runtime May 20, 2015

    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

    Boost 2.0 May 13, 2015

    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

    SQLpp11 May 07, 2015

    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

    Asynchronous Programming Apr 22, 2015

    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

    Biicode and Turbo Apr 15, 2015

    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
    Quick Game Development Apr 10, 2015

    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
    Fit and Tick Apr 02, 2015

    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
    Exploring CLion Mar 25, 2015

    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
    CMake, Git and Functional Programming Mar 19, 2015

    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!
    Cross Platform Mobile C++ in Visual Studio Mar 12, 2015

    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
    ChaiScript and Cross Platform C++ Mar 05, 2015

    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!
    Jon Kalb loves the C++ Community Feb 17, 2015

    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++

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