Tristan Brindle joins Timur and Phil. Tristan talks to us about a safer alternative to iterators and his library, Flux, that implements it. News 60 terrible tips for a C++ developer Big, combined, committee trip report from Varna CLion 2023.2 EAP4: AI Assistant "Making C++ Memory-Safe Without Borrow Checking, Reference Counting, or Tracing Garbage Collection" Links Episode 78 of CppCast, mentioning Cling Episode of ADSP recorded at C++ on Sea Episode 152 of CppCast, with Tristan and the C++ Lond...
Jul 07, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep 364•Transcript available on Metacast Joshua Berne joins Phil and Timur. Joshua talks to us about the previous week's ISO C++ meeting in Varna, Bulgaria, then focuses on the current state of the contracts proposal that he has been central to, as well as a bit of its history. News ISO C++ trip report's from Varna: Herb Sutter's trip report Jonathan Müller's trip report GCC 14 NRVO enhancements (Reddit) P2025 proposes guaranteed NRVO How to get NRVO before C++26 XCode 15 beta Links P2831 - "Functions having a narrow contract should no...
Jun 23, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep 363•Transcript available on Metacast Daniel Ruoso joins Phil and Timur. After covering a couple of blog posts and a new UI library, we welcome Daniel back to talk with us about modules, package and build systems and SG15, the tooling study group. We also revisit the Ecosystem International Standard. News Modern C++ In-Depth — Is string_view Worth It? How to check if a pointer is in a range of memory - Raymond Chen Nui - new C++ Webview UI library Nui on Reddit Timur's Undefined Behaviour survey Links P2898R0 - "Importable Headers a...
Jun 09, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep 362•Transcript available on Metacast Antony Peacock joins Timur and Phil. After rounding up the news, we chat with Antony about what it's like to work in finance as a C++ developer, the similarities and differences to games dev and how you can break in to a role in finance. We also discuss what it's like to work in tech as someone with dyslexia. News Visual Studio 17.6 released Valgrind 3.21 released Snitch 1.1 Meeting C++ Call for Speakers (until June 18) CppCon Call for Speakers (until June 25) Links P2547R1 - "Language Support f...
May 26, 2023•55 min•Ep 361•Transcript available on Metacast Luis Campos joins Phil and Timur. After some compiler and language news, we chat with Luis about the recent Conan 2.0 release, the state of package management in C++, today and what's happening in the world of C++ standards that may impact it in the future. News GCC 13 released CppFront "spring update" Mojo - a new language with Python-like syntax but runs like C++ CrabLang - a fork of Rust Timur's Undefined Behaviour survey Links Conan 2.0 P2656R2 - "C++ Ecosystem International Standard" Conan ...
May 12, 2023•58 min•Ep 360•Transcript available on Metacast Ashot Vardanian joins Timur and Phil. After some conference updates, news about the ISO C++ Developer Survey, Sonar integration in Compiler Explorer and some posts on modules and performance, we chat with Ashot Vardanian about AI and the infrastructure that underpins it. Ashot talks to us about some of the libraries and tools he and his startup have been developing over the past few years with some impressive numbers behind them. News Core C++ (Israel) - 5th-8th June Meeting C++ 2023 - 12th-14th...
Apr 28, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep 359•Transcript available on Metacast Mathew Benson joins Phil and Timur. After some news on new dev tool releases and some welcome improvements to iostreams in GCC13, we talk to Mathew Benson about what it's like to learn and use C++ in Africa and the implications for the hardware and our choices in programming language. Mathew also draws an interesting parallel to natural languages. News CLion 2023.1 released Qt Creator 10 released Buck2 released "A leaner <iostream> in libstdc++ for GCC 13" Links Timur's three-question Unde...
Apr 14, 2023•53 min•Ep 358•Transcript available on Metacast Herb Sutter joins Phil and Timur. We catch up on the news about LLVM 16 being released, a new book on initialisation in C++ and a couple of new user groups. Then we talk to Herb about his new language/ alternate syntax, Cpp2, which compiles down to C++ in much the same way that C with Classes compiled down to C. News LLVM 16.0.0 released "C++ initialisation story" - a new book by Bartlomiej Filipek New user group forming in Prague - Miloš Anđelković New user group forming in Helsinki - Timur Dou...
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep 357•Transcript available on Metacast Andreas Weis joins Timur and Phil. After some news about Boost, std::format and performance, Andreas talks to us about safety critical application domains, safety in C++ in general, and the difference between safety in security. News Boost libraries may drop support for older language versions "Fun with printing tables with std::format and C++20" - Bartlomiej Filipek "C++20 Formatting Library, Parts 1. 2 and 3" - Gajendra Gulgulia "Decreasing the Number of Memory Accesses, 1/2" - Ivica Bogosavlj...
Mar 17, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep 356•Transcript available on Metacast Richard Smith joins Timur and Phil. After the usual news round-up, we chat with Richard about the new C++ successor language, Carbon. Richard is one of the three lead contributors to Carbon and he discusses the philosophy and some of the special features that make Carbon different. News Conan 2.0 release CMake debugger in Visual Studio Unreal Engine - C++ Complete Guide The Italian C++ Conference Links P1881R0 - Epochs proposal P2137R0 - "Goals and priorities for C++" (from March 2020) Carbon Gi...
Mar 03, 2023•58 min•Ep 355•Transcript available on Metacast Nina Ranns joins Timur and Phil. After community news, including conferences, a new C++ community in Africa and a new project manager and build system, we talk to Nina about the recent ISO committee meeting in Issaquah where the technical work on C++23 was finalised, as well as an inside look at how the committee works and Nina's current project: allocator-friendly library types that don't allocate. News Core C++ (cfp open) CppIndia cfp C++ Now - call for volunteers C++ on Sea (speakers and tick...
Feb 17, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep 354•Transcript available on Metacast Mike Daum joins Phil and Timur. After some community news, including the state of modules support in CMake and a new compile-time parsing library inspired by Rust's macros, we talk to Mike about CppNorth - what it is, how it got started and what makes it different - then about company cultures, a new language from Epic, and the importance of catering to 'Dark Matter Developers'. News ACCU Schedule and registration CMake blog post about the state of C++20 Modules support P1689R5 "Format for descr...
Feb 03, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep 353•Transcript available on Metacast Dimi Racordon joins Timur and Phil. They first have a couple more conference speaker calls, a new C++20 test framework, and and some updates about Safety in C++ and the C++ successor languages announced last year. Then they talk to Dimi Racordon about the new language, Val, how it relates to C++, and why mutable value semantics are so powerful. News C++ Now Call for Speakers CppNorth Call for Speakers Snitch v1.0 - a "Lightweight C++20 testing framework" "The Year of C++ Successor Languages" - L...
Jan 20, 2023•48 min•Ep 352•Transcript available on Metacast Honey Sukesan joins Phil and Timur. They first have a couple more conference announcements, an update on Cpp2 and a round-up of C++ in 2022. Then they talk to Honey Sukesan about her journey from working in Healthcare to working in the Automotive industry, and some of the surprising overlaps - as well as her personal journey during along the way. News CppNorth tickets on sale using std::cpp Call for Speakers "Cpp2 and cppfront: Year-end mini-update" "C++ at the end of 2022" - Bartlomiej Filipek ...
Jan 06, 2023•53 min•Ep 351•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are back, at least for the holidays, and are joined by Timur Doumler and Phil Nash to talk about some of their recent news, and a super secret new project they are working on together. News Boost 1.81.0 released CLion 2022.3 released, with CMake debug and new (opt-in) UI C++ support in JetBrains' Fleet C++ passes Java on the TIOBE index "If we must, let's talk about safety" (Corentin Jabot) P2723R0 "Zero-initialize objects of automatic storage duration" (JF Bastien) NDC TechTown - ...
Dec 23, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep 350•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason discuss various news articles, libraries and announcements. News Lexy First Beta Release I made an Online C++ Compiler GCC 12.1 Release Join your local user's group...
May 12, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep 349•Transcript available on Metacast Joel de Guzman joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about new features in GCC 12 and the latest ISO papers. Then they talk to Joel de Guzman about his history with Open Source and the Boost community, the Elements GUI library and his work with audio software and hardware. News New C++ features in GCC 12 April 2022 Mailing Core C++ Call For Papers NDC TechTown Call for Papers Links Elements C++ GUI Library Artist 2D Canvas Libray Cycfi Research Boost Spirit Patreon CppCast Patreon...
May 05, 2022•1 hr•Ep 348•Transcript available on Metacast Mark Hoemmen joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an debugging improvements in VS Code and C++20/23 features going into MSVC. Then they talk to Mark Hoemmen about his past work on linear algebra libraries Tpetra and Kokkos, and current efforts to get linear algebra into the standard. News What's new for C++ debugging in VS Code Conformance should mean something - fputc, and freestanding MSVC C++20/23 Update Links Tpetra parallel linear algebra P1417R0: Historical lessons for C++ linear alg...
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr•Ep 347•Transcript available on Metacast Dirk Eddelbuettel joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an updated C++ web framework, and whether C should be considered a programming language or a protocol. Then they talk to Dirk about the R programming language, and RCPP the R/C++ interop library. News Crow v1.0 released C++23 will be really awesome C isn't A Programming Language Anymore Links Rcpp Rcpp: Seamless R and C++ Integration Patreon CppCast Patreon...
Apr 21, 2022•1 hr•Ep 346•Transcript available on Metacast Diana Ojeda from Intel and Stephanie Brenham from Ubisoft join Rob and Jason. They first talk about the upcoming Pure Virtual C++ conference, an update to WxWidgets and Apple's release of a Metal interface for C++. Then they talk to Diana and Stephanie about the upcoming CppNorth conference, how they got involved and much more. News Sign Up for the Pure Virtual C++ 2022 Conference wxWidgets 3.1.6 Released Getting started with Metal-cpp Links CppNorth CppNorth Workshops CppNorth Registration Patr...
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr•Ep 345•Transcript available on Metacast Rainer Grimm joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a new implementation of the ninja build system and updates to Qt Creator and CMake. Then they talk to Rainer Grimm about his mentorship program, and history of teaching C++. News N2: revisiting ninja Qt Creator 7 released Cmake 3.23.0 available C++20 Ranges: The Key Advantage - Algorithm Composition Links Modernes C++ Rainer's German Blog Mentoring Program Sponsors Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% disc...
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr•Ep 344•Transcript available on Metacast Logan Kilpatrick joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a GDB frontend and an IDE like autocompletion tool for the terminal. Then they talk to Logan Kilpatrick about the Julia programming language. They discuss the origin of the language, and where it fits in today amongst other languages in the scientific computing domain. News Seer - a new gui frontend to gdb IDE style autocomplete for your terminal Nvidia: 'We are a Quantum Computing Company' Links Julia Sponsors Use code JetBrainsForCppC...
Mar 31, 2022•1 hr•Ep 343•Transcript available on Metacast Andrew Kelley joins Rob and Jason. They first say Happy 25th Birthday to Visual Studio and discuss a tool for parsing GCC error logs. Then they talk to Andrew Kelley, the president of the Zig Software Foundation. He talks about the Zig language, upcoming changes to its build tooling, and how Zig can be used with C and C++. News Happy 25th birthday Visual Studio GCC Explorer: A utility for exploring GCC error logs GCC Explorer Divide & Conquer and Sets: The 114 C++ algorithms series C++ Best ...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr•Ep 342•Transcript available on Metacast Dave Abrahams joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about JeanHeyd Meneid's blog post on saving C's ABI. Then they talk to Dave about his history as a founding contributor of boost and the current workgroup he is a part of to enable bidirectional interop between swift and C++. News To Save C, We Must Save the ABI Jluna C++ interop for Julia Emulating template named arguments in C++ 20 Links Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement C++ Interoperability Status Getting started with C++ ...
Mar 17, 2022•1 hr•Ep 341•Transcript available on Metacast René Ferdinand Rivera Morell joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a new cmake initialization project and some projects in the C++ show and tell. Then they talk to René about his open letter to the C++ committee about expanding its scope to include tooling and other related technologies. News Execution and Static Analysis Support for MSVC on Compiler Explorer Cmake-init C++ Show and Tell experiment Links New C++ Scope Attending C++ Standards Committee Meetings During a Pandemic Debugging Su...
Mar 10, 2022•1 hr•Ep 340•Transcript available on Metacast Robert Seacord joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a constexpr wordle game and constexpr unique_ptr being added to the standard. Then they talk to Robert Seacord about secure coding and his thoughts on integers. News Wordlexpr: compile-time wordle in C++20 January ISO Mailing Constexpr unique_ptr accepted Rainer's bundle on sale 1/2 off with sales going to support Ukraine Links Joy of Coding Humble Bundle Effective C - An Introduction to Professional C Programming Secure Coding in C and C...
Mar 03, 2022•1 hr•Ep 339•Transcript available on Metacast Khalil Estell joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about Matt Godbolt's recent keynote at CPPP on C++'s Superpower. Then they talk to Khalil about teaching C++ embedded development and some of his thoughts on embedded development, including why not to avoid runtime polymorphism. News CPPP Keynote: C++'s Superpower - Matt Godbolt Visual Studio 2022 17.1 is now available Making a cross platform mobile & desktop app with Qt 6.2 VSCode Map Preview Links libembeddedhal San Jose State University G...
Feb 25, 2022•1 hr•Ep 338•Transcript available on Metacast Howard Butler joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an announcement from Swift on a C++ interoperability workgroup. Then they talk to Howard Butler about the C++ Geospatial libraries GDAL and PDAL, and his involvement with geospatial development. News Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement The mystery of the crash that seems to be on a std::move operation How we used C++20 to eliminate an entire class of runtime bugs Links hobu GDAL GDAL on GitHub PDAL PDAL on GitHub Cloud Op...
Feb 18, 2022•1 hr•Ep 337•Transcript available on Metacast Yacob Cohen-Arazi joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an update to Microsoft's GSL library and the upcoming LLVM v14. Then they talk to Kobi about work he's done at Qualcomm with 5G networks and how 5G is about a lot more then just bandwidth improvements. News Nerd Talk - Doug McIlroy & Brian Kernighan GSL 4.0.0 is Available Now gsl-lite I don't know which container to use (and at this point I'm too afraid to ask) LLVM/Clang 14 ends Feature Development with better C++20 support, Armv9...
Feb 11, 2022•1 hr•Ep 336•Transcript available on Metacast Brian Kernighan joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about the pros and cons of virtual teaching and training during COVID times, and the news that BOLT has been merged into LLVM. Then they talk to Brian about the history of UNIX and C development at Bell Labs. News More than a year of virtual classes experience - The good parts BOLT merged into LLVM C++ Cheat Sheets Links Brian Kernighan Unix: A History and a Memoir (Amazon) The C Programming Language (Amazon) Sponsors Indicate the #cppcast has...
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