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 Incredibuil...
Jun 18, 2021•1 hr•Ep 304•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jun 11, 2021•1 hr•Ep 303•Transcript available on Metacast 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 C++ Builder...
Jun 04, 2021•1 hr•Ep 302•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
May 28, 2021•1 hr•Ep 301•Transcript available on Metacast 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 B...
May 21, 2021•1 hr•Ep 300•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
May 14, 2021•1 hr•Ep 299•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
May 07, 2021•1 hr•Ep 298•Transcript available on Metacast 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 S...
Apr 30, 2021•1 hr•Ep 297•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Incredibuild...
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr•Ep 296•Transcript available on Metacast 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: Propert...
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr•Ep 295•Transcript available on Metacast 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 PVS-Studi...
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr•Ep 294•Transcript available on Metacast 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 YouTub...
Apr 02, 2021•1 hr•Ep 293•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Episode Transcripts PVS-Studio Episode Transcripts News MTuner Intellisense Improvements In Visual Studio 2019 STARTcraft - Complete Beginner Starcraft: Broodwar AI Programming Tutorial with C++ / BWAPI STARTcraft...
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr•Ep 291•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Episode Transcripts PVS-Studio Episode Transcripts 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_bac...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr•Ep 290•Transcript available on Metacast 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 stressfu...
Mar 05, 2021•1 hr•Ep 289•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Feb 26, 2021•54 min•Ep 288•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Feb 19, 2021•54 min•Ep 287•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Feb 12, 2021•54 min•Ep 286•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Feb 05, 2021•54 min•Ep 285•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Meeti...
Jan 28, 2021•54 min•Ep 284•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Jan 21, 2021•54 min•Ep 283•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jan 15, 2021•54 min•Ep 282•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Sh...
Jan 07, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep 281•Transcript available on Metacast 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 PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license PVS-Studio: analyzing pull requests in Azure DevOps usi...
Dec 31, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep 280•Transcript available on Metacast 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++...
Dec 24, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep 279•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Visual Assist...
Dec 17, 2020•56 min•Ep 278•Transcript available on Metacast 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 PVS-Studio. Write #c...
Dec 10, 2020•56 min•Ep 277•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Dec 03, 2020•56 min•Ep 276•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Mai...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep 275•Transcript available on Metacast 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) ...
Nov 19, 2020•1 hr•Ep 274•Transcript available on Metacast 
