CppCast

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 Lin...

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,...

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/Volunte...

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...

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! :-) - Bj...

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 Eng...

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 creati...

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...

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...

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 com...

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....

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: Holograp...

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...

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 Anywhe...

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 20...

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++ deve...

Rob and Jason are joined by Craig Scott. They first discuss a recent blog post from PVS-Studio analyzing some bugs in CMake. Then Craig talks about how he got involved in CMake development, and his e-book 'Professional CMake: A Practical Guide.' News CMake: the Case when the Project's Quality is Unforgivable PVS Studio The Last Line Effect Serenity: Graphical x86 operating system written entirely...

Rob and Jason are joined by Vittorio Romeo from Bloomberg. They first discuss some changes in the recent Visual Studio update for cross platform linux development, and some post-Cologne ISO developments. Then Vittorio goes into more detail on his proposal for C++ epochs, which could allow the language to more easily introduce breaking changes in the future. News C++ Cross-Platform Development with...

Rob and Jason are joined by Marco Magdy from Amazon. They first discuss Dropbox's announcement of abandoning their C++ mobile platform strategy in favor of Swift and Kotlin. Then Marco goes over what AWS Lambda is, what you can do with it and some of the challenges he faced bringing C++ support to AWS Lambda. News The (not so) hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android Trip report: July 2...

Rob and Jason are joined by Bryce Adelstein Lelbach from NVIDIA. They discuss the mdspan proposal that first introduced Bryce to the C++ ISO committee. They also review Bryce's role as moderator for the /r/cpp subreddit and talk about the upcoming CppCon 2019 conference. News Resharper 2019.2 released Game Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2019 16.2 The German Center for Aerospace (DLR) ju...

Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Butler to discuss his perspective on the ISO Cologne meeting and Secure Coding. Matthew Butler is a security researcher who has been using C++ professionally since 1990. He has spent the past three decades as a systems architect and software engineer developing systems for network security, law enforcement and national defense. He primarily works in signals intelli...

Rob and Jason are joined by Clare Macrae to discuss Approval Tests and how they can be used to quickly test legacy C++ code. Clare is an independent consultant, helping teams streamline their work with legacy and hard-to-test C++ and Qt code. She has worked in software development for over 30 years, and in C++ for 20 years. Since 2017, she has used her spare time to work remotely with Llewellyn Fa...

Rob and Jason are joined by Botond Ballo and Tom Honermann to discuss what features were added and removed from the C++20 draft paper at the ISO meeting in Cologne. Botond Ballo is a software engineer at Mozilla, where he has been working on the Firefox web browser's rendering engine for 6 years. He's been attending C++ standards meetings for about the same time, and blogging about them to keep th...

Rob and Jason are joined by Tyler Ang-Wanek to discuss leveraging C++ in an ElectronJS app like GitKraken. Tyler Ang-Wanek has been developing software professionally for the past 3.5 years. He works as a senior developer at Axosoft, on the GitKraken team. His work primarily shifts among developing native node modules for use in GitKraken, architectural work for code and APIs around GitKraken, and...

Rob and Jason are joined by Robert Maynard from Kitware to discuss CMake and VTK. Robert Maynard is a principal engineer at Kitware and spends most of his time as a primary developer of VTK-m. VTK-m is a HPC toolkit of scientific visualization algorithms for highly concurrent processor and accelerator architectures. It uses a fine-grained concurrency model for data analysis and visualization algor...