CppCast

Marit Tokle and Christian Ressell join Rob and Jason. They first talk about a Y2K like bug that unexpectedly hit us in the new year. Then they talk about binary exploits, why they're still relevant, and a particular binary exploit that Marit and Christian demonstrated during their recent talk at NDC Techtown. They also talk about 'Capture The Flag' security competitions. News YYMMDDHHMM just overf...

Rob and Jason are joined by Piotr Winter. They first talk about include guards vs pragma once, testing for constexpr and the preview of Catch v3. Then they talk to Piotr Winter about CTPG, the C++ Compile Time Parser Generator. News Include guards or #pragma once Test an expression for constexpr friendliness Catch v3 Preview 4 Links C++ Compile Time Parser Generator Peter Winter's Blog Deadline24...

Rob and Jason are joined by Slobodan Dmitrovic. They first talk about the latest update to the {fmt} library, another Raymond Chen blogpost, and a summary of ISO standardization progress made in 2021. Then they talk to Slobodan about his new book Modern C for Absolute Beginners. News {fmt} v8.1.0 released You can't copy code with memcpy 2021 C++ Standardization Highlights Links Modern C for Absolu...

Rob and Jason discuss various news articles, libraries and announcements on the last episode of 2021 before the new year. News C++ logging library - something I've been working on, Pt. 2 Do vectors get more use than what my textbook implies? This year receive the gift of a free Meson manual Microsoft VS 2022 and Floating-point to Integer Conversions Top 10 bugs found in C++ projects in 2021 Visual...

Rob and Jason are joined by Daniel Ruoso and Bret Brown from Bloomberg. They first talk about Jason's new Object Lifetime Puzzle book and a blost post from Kevlin Henney on Agile processes. Then they talk to Daniel and Bret about their research into using Modules at Bloomberg, and some of the changes still needed from compilers and build systems to use Modules in large scale software development....

Rob and Jason are joined by Kate Gregory and Guy Davidson. They first talk about a free online game development course and updates to CLion. Then they talk to Kate and Guy about their upcoming book: Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code. News C++ Game Programming course on YouTube CLion 2021.3 Modernizing Your Code With C++20 Links Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelin...

Rob and Jason are joined by Adrian Ostrowski and Piotr Gaczowki. They first talk about profiling tools and reverse iterators. Then they talk to Adrian and Piotr about their book on C++ Software Architecture, and what all C++ developers can learn from it. News Another way of looking at C++ reverse iterators C++ Profiling and Benchmarking Tools in 2021 A footnote on "Three reasons to pass std::strin...

Rob and Conor are joined by Daisy Hollman. They first talk about C++23's approaching feature freeze including Daisy's work on the mdspan proposal. Then they talk to Daisy about her recent 'too cute' CppCon talk and whether you should be writing cute code in production. News JetBrains CppCon Talks C++23: Near the Finish Line Cmake 3.22.0 available for download Links p0009 mdspan Daisy Hollman - Wha...

Rob and Jason are joined by Gašper Ažman. They first talk about some resources for learning C++ and learning how to work on the LLVM compiler. Then they talk to Gašper about the Deducing This feature coming to C++23, how the feature worked its way through the ISO committee and what it will change. News ADSP: The Podcast The Array Cast C++ By Example JetBrains CppCon Early Access CppCon 2021 trip r...

Rob and Jason are joined by Sy Brand from Microsoft. They first talk about the recent CppCon conference, the hybrid format and some of their favorite talks. Then they talk to Sy about the upcoming Visual Studio 2022 release, what's new in the IDE and new features and improvements for C++ developers. News WG21 October Mailing CppCon 2021 Virtual Trip Report, A User Story Extending and Simplifying C...

Rob and Jason are joined by Bryce Adelstein Lelbach. They first talk about SonarLint analysis, and searching algorithm performance and an observation on compiler diversity. Then they talk to Bryce about the proposals that are heading for C++23, including major changes to the executor and networking proposals. News Supercharge your C++ analysis with SonarLint for Clion Efficiently searching an arra...

Rob and Jason are joined by Hal Finkel from the US Department of Energy. They first talk to Hal about the LLVM 13 release and why the release notes were lacking. Then they talk to Hal about his C++ JIT Proposal, the Clang prototype and how it could be used. They also talk about Hal's work at DOE, Exascale computing and more. News LLVM 13 released Some lesser-known powers of std::optional Barbarian...

Rob and Jason are joined by Joël Falcou and Denis Yaroshevskiy. They first talk about the 6.2 release of Qt and the range-based for loop bug that won't be getting fixed in C++23. Then they talk to Joel and Denis about EVE, a C++20 SIMD library that evolved from Boost. SIMD. News QT 6.2 LTS Released GDBFrontend C++ Committee don’t want to fix range-based for loop in C++23 (broken for 10yrs) Links E...

Rob and Jason are joined by Brandon Duick and Billy Sisson from Exyn Technologies. They first discuss the upcoming CppCon hybrid conference and a new tuple library for C++20. Then they talk to Brandon and Billy about the autonomous UAS/Drone software they work on at Exyn Technologies. News CppCon 2021 Program Announced Tuplet: A lightweight Tuple Library for Modern C++ Span should have a convertin...

Rob and Jason are joined by Remi Coulom from Kayufu. They first discuss another blog posts about the ongoing ABI problems in C++ and another on common mistakes with comparison functions. Then they talk to Remi about Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database. News Dicontinue Sourcetrail Binary Banshees and Digital Demons Djinni generator release v1.2.0 Opzioni Everybody Makes Mistakes When Writing...

Rob and Jason are joined by Amir Kirsh and Avi Lachmish from Incredibuild. They first discuss Idle, a new C++ framework, the September ISO mailing and an Algorithm Intuition Chart. Then they talk to Amir and Avi about the recent CoreCpp conference, Bjarne's keynote and other talks from the conference. News Idle: an asynchronous and hot-reloadable C++ dynamic component framework September ISO Maili...

Rob and Jason are joined by Bob Nystrom from Google. They first discuss git commands explained via cats and an analysis of how Visual Studio 2022 could use all your RAM. Then they talk to Bob about some of the programming languages he's created, his two books 'Crafting Interpreters' and 'Game Programming Patterns' and his work on the Dart programming language at Google. News Safer Usage of C++ in...

Rob and Jason are joined by Phil Nash. They first discuss another C++ podcasts interview with Sean Parent and a blog post from Bungie on their process for creating coding guidelines. Then they talk to Phil Nash about his new role at Sonar Source, his podcasts, C++ On Sea and more. News Episode 39: How Steve Jobs Saved Sean Parent Bungie C++ Guidelines & Razors Links Sonar Source C++ on Sea cpp...

Rob and Jason are joined by Linus Groh. They first discuss a new feature of Compiler Explorer and some ISO papers. Then they talk to Linus about his involvement in the Serenity project, learning C++ as he became a contributor. News Compiler Explorer now supports multiple file compilation and linking August 2021 Mailing Introduction to Programming with C++ for Engineers Links Linus' Website Serenit...

Rob and Jason are joined by Matt McCormick from Kitware. They first discuss a blog post on using C++20 modules with GCC11 and Qt Multimedia support in Web Assembly. Then they talk to Matt about the history of Insight Toolkit, some of its applications and its role in the origin of CMake. News C++20 modules with GCC11 JSON for Modern C++ 3.10.0 released Qt Multimedia has a new friend Links Insight T...

Rob and Jason are joined by Justin Meiners. They first talk about a big boost library update, and whether Valgrind is still useful compared to sanitizers. Then they talk to Justin Meiners about Alex Stepanov, his contribution to the STL and some of his courses that are still relevant to today's C++ programmers. News Boost v1.77.0 Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM Valgrind - A neglect...

Rob and Jason talk about C++ news, upcoming conferences, tooling updates and a bit about the C++ projects they work on in their day jobs. News NDC TechTown Keynote and Class CppCon Practical Performance Practices CppCon Big Update with Big Thanks for a Big Program You're Doing IoT RNG Remove nodiscard annotations from the standard library specification std::span is not zero-cost because of the ms...

Rob and Matt are joined by Denis Bakhvalov. They first talk about building Minesweeper in C++ with SFML and a paper on throughput prediction on intel microarchitectures. Then they talk to Denis about his blog, book and video series focusing on C++ performance, and his vision of the future tooling and techniques of writing performant C++ code. News Making the Classic Minesweeper Game using C++ and...

Rob and Jason are joined by Sean Parent and Dave Abrahams. They first talk to Dave about his history with C++, Boost and the Swift programming language. Then they talk with Sean and Dave about Adobe's Software Technology Lab and their plans to focus on Concurrency in C++. News A Neat trick with consteval Constexpr memory allocation Comprehensive Catalog of C++ Books Links stlab stlab on GitHub Spo...

Rob and Jason are joined by Hartmut Kaiser and Mikael Simberg. They first discuss some blog posts on returning multiple values from a function and C++ Ranges. Then they talk to Hartmut Kaiser and Mikael Simberg on the latest version of HPX, how easy it is to gain performance improvements with HPX, and DLA Futures, the Distributed Linear Algebra library built using HPX. News An Unexpected Article A...