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 Th...
Jul 09, 2020•52 min•Ep. 255
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 Automotiv...
Jul 02, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 254
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 Ten...
Jun 25, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 253
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+...
Jun 18, 2020•59 min•Ep. 252
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 As...
Jun 11, 2020•58 min•Ep. 251
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 par...
Jun 04, 2020•55 min•Ep. 250
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 Bl...
May 28, 2020•54 min•Ep. 249
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 ...
May 21, 2020•54 min•Ep. 248
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...
May 14, 2020•52 min•Ep. 247
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 a...
May 07, 2020•59 min•Ep. 246
Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Klein from Lyft. They first discuss an update to Microsoft's Guidelines Support Library with changes to span. Then they talk to Matt Klein who dicusses Envoy Proxy and how it's used in Cloud Native applications. News Tweet re: SPMD Lambdas CppCon 2020 Call for Submissions GSL 3.0.0 Release Links Envoy Proxy Envoy Proxy on GitHub Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Checking the G...
Apr 30, 2020•54 min•Ep. 245
Rob and Jason are joined by Tony Van Eerd. They first discuss some conference news, including Microsoft's upcoming Pure Virtual C++ Conference. Then Tony Van Eerd joins them to discuss his Postmodern C++ talk, and some of his work on the C++ standards committee. News Sign up for Pure Virtual C++ Conference ModernCppStarter Announcing Meeting C++ 2020! Links Tony van Eerd: Postmodern C++ p1085R0 Should Span be Regular? Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page ...
Apr 23, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 244
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 Rose...
Apr 16, 2020•52 min•Ep. 243
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...
Apr 09, 2020•58 min•Ep. 242
Rob and Jason are joined by Daniela Engert. They first discuss a blog post on a new static analyzer feature in GCC 10 and Jason's plans to port the classic DOOM game to C++. Then Daniela gives Jason and Rob an introduction to Modules in C++20. News Static analysis in GCC 10 C++ Annotations v11.4.0 Jason's live Doom port to C++ Friday morning Links Modules: The Beginner's Guide Slides Socializing with {fmt} - Daniela Engert - Meeting C++ 2018 Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message fie...
Apr 02, 2020•58 min•Ep. 241
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 D...
Mar 26, 2020•42 min•Ep. 240
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 ...
Mar 19, 2020•55 min•Ep. 239
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...
Mar 12, 2020•41 min•Ep. 238
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 ca...
Mar 05, 2020•53 min•Ep. 237
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 Fe...
Feb 27, 2020•57 min•Ep. 236
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...
Feb 21, 2020•45 min•Ep. 235
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, And...
Feb 13, 2020•53 min•Ep. 234
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 ...
Feb 06, 2020•59 min•Ep. 233
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 ...
Jan 30, 2020•32 min•Ep. 232
Rob and Jason are joined by Sean Baxter. They first talk about a blog post and some papers headed for the upcoming ISO meeting in Prague. Then they discuss Circle, the compiler and language extension for C++17. News The Hunt for the Fastest Zero 2D Graphics: A Brief Review C++ Standards Committee Papers pre-Prague mailing Links Circle Circle on GitHub P2062 The Circle Meta-model Sponsors Write the hashtag #cppcast when requesting the license here One Day from PVS-Studio User Support...
Jan 23, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 231
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++ Confe...
Jan 16, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 230
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...
Jan 09, 2020•50 min•Ep. 229
Rob and Jason discuss C++ news and the new year after the Holiday season. News The Merger of MISRA C++ and AUTOSAR C++ Python Interpreter in GNU Debugger Holiday fun with template and template Tabulate Meeting C++ 2019 Talks Using std::cpp call for papers C++ Russia call for proposals C++Now call for proposals Core Hard call for proposals Qt World Summit call CPPP all for papers C++Weekly ep 200, Christmas Class 2019 Links @robwirving @lefticus Sponsors Backtrace Software Crash Management for Em...
Jan 02, 2020•43 min•Ep. 228
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 Cu...
Dec 19, 2019•57 min•Ep. 227
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 o...
Dec 12, 2019•44 min•Ep. 226
