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: D...
Apr 18, 2019•42 min•Ep. 195
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, Financia...
Apr 11, 2019•46 min•Ep. 194
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 so...
Apr 04, 2019•49 min•Ep. 193
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 programmi...
Mar 28, 2019•45 min•Ep. 192
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 b...
Mar 21, 2019•49 min•Ep. 191
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 - Integrat...
Mar 15, 2019•36 min•Ep. 190
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 ab...
Mar 07, 2019•54 min•Ep. 189
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 ...
Feb 28, 2019•58 min•Ep. 188
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 Kon...
Feb 21, 2019•54 min•Ep. 187
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 Prog...
Feb 14, 2019•44 min•Ep. 186
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 ...
Jan 31, 2019•52 min•Ep. 185
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. News I implemented a proposed C++ paper Raytracing in 256 lines of bare C++ How McSema Handles C++ Exceptions Core C++...
Jan 24, 2019•47 min•Ep. 184
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 me...
Jan 17, 2019•56 min•Ep. 183
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...
Jan 10, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 182
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 "The...
Jan 03, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 181
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...
Dec 21, 2018•49 min•Ep. 180
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...
Dec 13, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 179
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 rep...
Dec 06, 2018•54 min•Ep. 178
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 li...
Nov 29, 2018•57 min•Ep. 177
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 pe...
Nov 22, 2018•1 hr•Ep. 176
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 Hedb...
Nov 15, 2018•53 min•Ep. 175
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...
Nov 08, 2018•50 min•Ep. 174
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 i...
Nov 01, 2018•53 min•Ep. 173
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, websi...
Oct 26, 2018•47 min•Ep. 172
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 th...
Oct 19, 2018•46 min•Ep. 171
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...
Oct 12, 2018•53 min•Ep. 170
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)" CppCo...
Oct 04, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 169
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 ComC...
Sep 20, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 168
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 happ...
Sep 13, 2018•58 min•Ep. 167
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 t...
Sep 07, 2018•1 hr•Ep. 166
