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 star...
Jun 07, 2018•48 min•Ep 153•Transcript available on Metacast 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 hi...
May 31, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Ep 152•Transcript available on Metacast 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 --...
May 24, 2018•58 min•Ep 151•Transcript available on Metacast 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++1...
May 17, 2018•59 min•Ep 150•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
May 10, 2018•45 min•Ep 149•Transcript available on Metacast 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 i...
May 03, 2018•53 min•Ep 148•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Apr 26, 2018•58 min•Ep 147•Transcript available on Metacast 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: ...
Apr 19, 2018•47 min•Ep 146•Transcript available on Metacast 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 seve...
Apr 12, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep 145•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Listene...
Apr 05, 2018•32 min•Ep 144•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Mar 29, 2018•56 min•Ep 143•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Mar 22, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Ep 142•Transcript available on Metacast 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, xv...
Mar 15, 2018•31 min•Ep 141•Transcript available on Metacast 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 li...
Mar 01, 2018•51 min•Ep 140•Transcript available on Metacast 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, Lee...
Feb 23, 2018•55 min•Ep 139•Transcript available on Metacast 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 li...
Feb 16, 2018•53 min•Ep 138•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ga...
Feb 09, 2018•55 min•Ep 137•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Feb 01, 2018•41 min•Ep 136•Transcript available on Metacast 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. B...
Jan 25, 2018•46 min•Ep 135•Transcript available on Metacast 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 M...
Jan 18, 2018•1 hr•Ep 134•Transcript available on Metacast 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 emulato...
Jan 11, 2018•55 min•Ep 133•Transcript available on Metacast 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 co...
Jan 04, 2018•40 min•Ep 132•Transcript available on Metacast 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 @ubsa...
Dec 21, 2017•56 min•Ep 131•Transcript available on Metacast 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 pionee...
Dec 14, 2017•50 min•Ep 130•Transcript available on Metacast 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 enjoy...
Dec 07, 2017•59 min•Ep 129•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Nov 30, 2017•1 hr 8 min•Ep 128•Transcript available on Metacast 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 augmente...
Nov 23, 2017•54 min•Ep 127•Transcript available on Metacast 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 V...
Nov 16, 2017•55 min•Ep 126•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Nov 02, 2017•38 min•Ep 125•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Oct 26, 2017•1 hr 6 min•Ep 124•Transcript available on Metacast 
