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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Backtrace Software Crash Management for Embedded Devices and IOT Pr...
Dec 04, 2019•42 min•Ep 225•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Nov 21, 2019•52 min•Ep 224•Transcript available on Metacast 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 (Belfa...
Nov 14, 2019•54 min•Ep 223•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Bi...
Nov 07, 2019•50 min•Ep 222•Transcript available on Metacast 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++ Em...
Oct 31, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep 221•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Backtrace Announcing Visual St...
Oct 24, 2019•54 min•Ep 220•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Turtle...
Oct 17, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep 219•Transcript available on Metacast 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 -...
Oct 10, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Ep 218•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Oct 03, 2019•56 min•Ep 217•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Sep 26, 2019•43 min•Ep 216•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Tr...
Sep 19, 2019•42 min•Ep 215•Transcript available on Metacast 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++ 20...
Sep 12, 2019•43 min•Ep 214•Transcript available on Metacast 
