CppCast

WxWidgets with Vadim Zeitlin
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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. 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 on GitHub Sponsors Backtrace Software Crash Management for Embedded Devices and IOT Projects Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes 

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Circle with Sean Baxter
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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 

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Clang Hacking with Saar Raz
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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. Saar Raz is a tech and C++ enthusiast from Israel, Saar programs in C++ mostly in his free time. In late 2017, he volunteered to implement C++20 Concepts in the Clang compiler, and has been working on that since, now in the process of merging the work into mainline clang. Other than C++ and tech, Saar also likes graphic design and playing video games. 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 (...)

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C++ 2020 News
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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 Embedded Devices and IOT Projects Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes JetBrains 

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OpenVDB with Ken Museth
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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. Ken Museth is CEO and co-founder of Voxel Tech which contracts to tech companies primarily in the movie and aerospace industries. Ken currently does contract work for SpaceX and Weta Digital. Previously he was director of R&D and Senior Principal Engineer at Dreamworks Animation. He was also a professor in computer graphics at Linkoping University and a visiting faculty member and research scientist at Caltech. He worked on trajectory design for the Genesis space mission at (...)

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Difficult Bugs with Satabdi Das
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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. Satabdi has over 10 years of experience in C++. Currently she is working on a cloud based high performance file system in AWS. She has previously worked on an emulator, parser and static analyzer. She is also one of the co-founders of Boston Hack && Tell, a fun meetup for programmers to showcase their work. Long back she contributed to Gnome as an Outreachy intern. And not so long back she spent three months at Recurse Center learning assembly, debugger (...)

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Cache Friendliness with Björn Fahller
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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. Björn works for Net Insight, where he wears many hats, including mentor trainer, troubleshooter, networking protocol designer, software architect, and programmer, and he is continuously pushing the codebase to increasingly modern C++. Programming has been his full-time profession since graduating from University in 1994, mostly writing embedded software for networking equipment. Björn first experienced programming when home computers be came popular in the early 80s, and it quickly became a permanent interest of his. Occasionally Björn has been seen tinkering with unorthodox software (...)

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The C++ ABI with Titus Winters
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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.’ Titus Winters Titus is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, where he has worked since 2010. Today, he is the chair of the subcommittee for the design of the C++ standard library. At Google, he is the library lead for Google’s C++ codebase: 250 million lines of code that will be edited by 12K distinct engineers in a month. For the last 9 years, Titus and his teams (...)

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Belfast Trip Report with Timur Doumler
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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 (Belfast) Links CppCon 2019: Timur Doumler “Type punning in modern C++” Timur Doumler — Initialisation in modern C++ CppCon 2018: Timur Doumler “Can I has grammar?” p1386 - A Standard Audio API for C++:Motivation, Scope, and Basic Design p1774 - Portable optimisation hints p1912 (...)

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CRTP and Israel joining the C++ ISO with Inbal Levi
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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. Inbal Levi is a C++ enthusiast. She’s an embedded software developer with a passion for high performance, working on real-time Linux based systems. She also makes it a habit to dive into new OS projects whenever she can. Inbal lives in Tel Aviv and has recently traveled to Denver, to give a talk at the Back to basics track at CppCon, hoping to infect newcomers with her passion for cpp. Inbal is part of the Israeli c++ developers community, which makes its first steps in the international (...)

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Unicode for C++23 with JeanHeyd Meneide
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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. JeanHeyd “ThePhD” is a student at Columbia University in New York. Most of their programming is for fun and as a hobby, even if their largest open-source contribution — sol2 — is used across many industries. They are currently working towards earning their own nickname, climbing the academic ladder while spending as much time as possible contributing to C++ standardization and development. Their newest and biggest project is Unicode for C++. They very much love (...)

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Becoming involved with the C++ committee with Nevin :-) Liber
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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. Nevin “:-)” Liber is a computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, a C++ Committee member and a veteran C++ developer. He first discovered the language over three decades ago while at Bell Labs when a friend called and asked, “What do you know about C++? You folks invented it!” His professional career has taken him across various industries and platforms: big data, low-latency, operating systems, embedded systems, telephony and now exascale computing, just to name a few. He (...)

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Election Security with Patricia Aas
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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. Patricia Aas has spoken at conferences on subjects ranging from Sandboxing in Chromium to Vulnerabilities in C++. She has taught a range of subjects in Computer Science at the University of Oslo and is currently teaching “Intro to C on Linux” at a college in Oslo. She has a masters degree in Computer Science and 14 years professional experience as a programmer, most of that time (...)

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Commodore 64 and Tilt Five AR with Jeri Ellsworth
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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. Jeri Janet Ellsworth is an American entrepreneur and an autodidact computer chip designer and inventor. She gained fame in 2004 for creating a complete Commodore 64 system on a chip housed within a joystick, called C64 Direct-to-TV. That “computer in a joystick” runs 30 video games from the early 1980s, and at peak, sold over 70,000 units in a single day via the QVC shopping channel. In September 2019 Jeri Ellsworth initiated a Kickstarter for a new (...)

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Visual C++ Announcements at CppCon 2019
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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 Sponsors Enter #cppcast in the Message field and get a month-license instead of 7-day license PVS-Studio PVS-Studio Twitter JetBrains 

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Provable Functions at CppCon 2019 with Lisa Lippincott
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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. Lisa Lippincott designed the software architectures of Tanium and BigFix, two systems for managing large fleets of computers. She’s also a language nerd, and has contributed to arcane parts of the C++ standard. In her spare time, she studies mathematical logic, and wants to make computer-checked proofs of correctness a routine part of programming. Links C++Now 2019: Lisa Lippincott “The Truth of a Procedure” C++Now 2018: Lisa Lippincott "The Shape of (...)

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C++ Extensions with Miro Knejp
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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. Miro wrote his first line of C++ code in 1997 at the age of 12, and it has been his programming language of choice ever since. He’s especially passionate about low-level programming, assembly, 3D graphics, and games engineering. Miro holds a Master’s degrees in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich. He has worked on projects ranging from designing 3D rendering libraries to building airport self-boarding control systems. He currently (...)

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Professional CMake with Craig Scott
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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.’ Craig is a CMake co-maintainer and author of the book ["Professional CMake: A Practical Guide"](▻https://crascit.com/professional-cmake). He has been developing cross-platform C++ software since 2001, targeting most major platforms and working on large scale frameworks, scientific algorithm development, Qt GUI applications, backend services and embedded devices. He has been fortunate enough to work in a range of settings including government research, consumer electronics, mid-size enterprise and a startup. He derives unreasonable levels of (...)

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C++ Epochs with Vittorio Romeo
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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. Vittorio Romeo has been a Software Engineer at Bloomberg for more than 3 years, working on mission-critical company C++ infrastructure and providing Modern C++ training to hundreds of fellow employees. He began programming around the age of 8 and quickly became a C++ enthusiast. Vittorio created several open-source C++ libraries and games, published many video courses and tutorials, and actively participates in the ISO C++ (...)

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AWS Lambda with Marco Magdy
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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. Marco is a senior software engineer who has been working at AWS for the past four years. He has been programming in C++ on/off since 2001. Before joining Amazon, Marco worked at a few smaller companies building scalable web applications using .NET, GWT and C++. News The (not so) hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android Trip report: July 2019 ISO C++ committee meeting, Cologne, Germany Links Introducing the C++ Lambda Runtime The Design of the C++ Runtime for (...)

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