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Parallel Ranges with Christopher Di Bella
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Rob and Jason are joined by Christopher Di Bella to discuss using Ranges with Parallel algorithms and much more. Christopher Di Bella is a Staff Software Engineer for Codeplay’s ComputeCpp Runtime Technology and a C++ teacher. He advocates for including the Concepts TS and the Ranges TS in C++20. Chris spends his days working on ComputeCpp, Codeplay’s implementation of SYCL, a Khronos Standard for heterogeneous programming in C++; the Khronos implementation for the Parallel STL (using SYCL); and researching Parallel Ranges, which is an attempt to fuse ranges together with the parallel STL. Chris was previously a software developer for Nasdaq, and a tutor for UNSW Sydney’s advanced C++ and compiler courses. In his spare time, Chris enjoys poking at things involving Ranges, (...)

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Future of 2D Graphics Proposal with Guy Davidson
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Rob and Jason are joined by Guy Davidson from Creative Assembly to discuss the future of the 2D Graphics proposal after the C++ meeting in Rapperswil. Guy Davidson is the Coding Manager of Creative Assembly, makers of the Total War franchise, Alien: Isolation and Halo Wars 2, Guy has been writing games since the early 1980s. He is now also a contributor to SG14, the study group devoted to low latency, real time requirements, and performance/efficiency especially for Games, Financial/Banking, and Simulations. He speaks at schools, colleges and universities about programming and likes to help good programmers become better programmers. News MSVC Preprocessor progress towards conformance Support for Unity Files in VS 2017 15.8 (Experimental) Announcing student and support tickets (...)

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Modern C++ in Embedded Systems with Michael Caisse
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Rob and Jason are joined by Michael Caisse from Ciere consulting to discuss Modern C++ in Embedded Systems, boostache and his work at Ciere Consulting and in the C++ Community. Michael Caisse has been crafting code in C++ for 28-years. He is a regular speaker at various conferences and is passionate about teaching and training. Michael is the owner of Ciere Consulting which provides software consulting and contracting services, C++ training, and Project Recovery for failing multidisciplinary engineering projects. When he isn’t fighting with compilers or robots, he enjoys fencing with a sabre. News Herb Sutter Trip Report Announcing C++ Just My Code Stepping in Visual Studio cmake release manager AMA C++ On Sea call for speakers still open Michael Caisse @MichaelCaisse Links (...)

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C++ Insights with Andreas Fertig
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Rob and Jason are joined by Andreas Fertig to discuss C++ Insights, the Rapperswil ISO meeting and more. Andreas Fertig holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. Since 2010 he has been a software developer and architect for Philips Medical Systems focusing on embedded systems. He has a profound practical and theoretical knowledge of C++ at various operating systems. He works freelance as a lecturer and trainer. Besides this he develops macOS applications and is the creator of cppinsights.io. News Post Rapperswil C++ Draft Cpp Taskflow std::embed updated proposal JetBrains Rapperswil Trip Report What’s all the C Plus Fuss? Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++ Andreas Fertig @andreas__fertig Andreas Fertig’s website (...)

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Rapperswil Trip Report
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Rob and Jason discuss the Rapperswil trip report and other C++ news. News What’s next for Visual Studio Visual Studio Roadmap Build the future of the web with WebAssembly and more (Google I/O ’18) WebAssembly Physics and DOM objects “Core Coroutines” proposal Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation’s Reaction Links @robwirving @lefticus Sponsors Backtrace Patreon CppCast Patreon Listener Survey CppCast Listener Survey 

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Vcpkg with Robert Schumacher
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Rob and Jason are joined by Robert Schumacher from Microsoft to discuss the vcpkg package manager and more. Robert Schumacher is a developer on the Microsoft Visual C++ Libraries team and the lead developer for vcpkg. He has previously worked on the MSVC implementation of the Modules TS and is the current maintainer of Cpprestsdk. Besides work, he occasionally indulges in functional programming and arguments about whether inheritance is fundamentally flawed. News Teach yourself C++ Where to start Macro Expansions in Quick Info Tooltips Call for a more diverse program at Meeting C++ 2018 Conan 1.4 released Robert Schumacher Robert Schumacher’s GitHub Links vcpkg vcpkg Quick Start Sponsors Backtrace Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus 

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C++ London Uni with Tom Breza, Oliver Ddin and Tristan Brindle
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Tom arrived in London at age 22 with £200 to his name, not knowing a single person. After 6 months Tom managed to start business - PC Service, that provides IT support to SMBs and runs it since then. Tom’s team help many customers from small businesses to top celebrities and Royal Families. Now with over 20 years of experience, Tom set his mind on new challenges and decided to learn software development, specifically C++ and helps others to learn through C++ London Uni. Oliver has been a C++ hater since 2008 - fortunately, that all changed with C++11 and he’s firmly an enthusiast now. He’s spent his time doing everything from embedded devices to network engineering and now Internet security related endeavours. He’s a big proponent of writing software in a style driven by some form of (...)

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sol2 and std::embed with JeanHeyd Meneide
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Rob and Jason are joined by JeanHeyd Meneide to discuss the sol2 library and his proposal for std::embed. ThePhD — known in meatspace as JeanHeyd — is a Computer Science undergraduate at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering in Columbia University. They are currently working on Open Source C++ and C++ Standardization projects, as well as exploring graphics programming. They are currently dabbling with Haskell and Elm for fun, and are attempting to wrangle their biggest open source project — sol2 — into a newer, better version of itself. The nickname is a std::promise on their std::future. News Superconstructing super elider, Pt2 Matthew Butler’s C++Now 2018 Trip Report Ben Deane’s C++Now 2018 Trip Report A CPPNow Travel Guide Matt Godbolt’s C++Now Trip Report ThePHD’s C++Now (...)

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Freestanding Proposal with Ben Craig
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Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Craig to discuss his proposal for a freestanding C++ Library. Ben is a Principal Software Engineer at National Instruments, primarily developing device drivers for various operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac, OpenRTOS, vxWorks, ETS Pharlap), and occasionally tinkering with the firmware side of things. Ben is an occasional contributor to libc++ and Apache Thrift. News Convert Macro to Constexpr in VS 2017 CppCon 2018 Registration is Open How to Adopt Modern C++17 into your C++ Code 7++ Reasons to Move Your C++ Code into Visual Studio 2017 Effective C++/WinRT for UWP and Win32 C++ Insights P0709 Zero overhead deterministic exceptions Ben Craig Ben Craig’s GitHub Links Freestanding Proposal Freestanding Trip Report: emBO++ and Jacksonville wg21 (...)

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C++ Simplicity with Kate Gregory
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Kate Gregory has been using C++ since before Microsoft had a C++ compiler, and has been paid to program since 1979. She loves C++ and believes that software should make our lives easier. That includes making the lives of developers easier! She’ll stay up late arguing about deterministic destruction or how C++ these days is not the C++ you remember. Kate runs a small consulting firm in rural Ontario and provides mentoring and management consultant services, as well as writing code every week. She has spoken all over the world, written over a dozen books, and helped thousands of developers to be better at what they do. Kate is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Visual C++ MVP, an Imagine Cup judge and mentor, and an active contributor to StackOverflow and other StackExchange sites. She (...)

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C++ Patterns with Kevlin Henney
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Rob and Jason are joined by Kevlin Henney to discuss C++ Patterns and things every programmer should know. Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. He has been a columnist for a number of magazines and sites, including C++ Report and C/C++ Users Journal, and has been on far too many committees (it has been said that “a committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled”), including the the BSI C++ panel and the ISO C++ standards committee. He is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also editor of 97 Things Every (...)

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CppDock and nbdl with Jason Rice
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Jason is a web applications programmer with an appetite for C++ metaprogramming having made small contributions to Boost.Hana. He is actively working on the library Nbdl, waiting for the day when C++ takes over the web. News #include Blast from the Past: Borland C++ on Windows 98 Boost 1.67.0 Released Jason Rice @JasonRice_ Jason Rice’s GitHub Links CppDock Nbdl C++Now 2017: Jason Rice “Nbdl: A library that uses metaprogramming... A lot” Sponsors PVS-Studio JetBrains CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus 

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Blogging and Text Processing with Bartłomiej Filipek
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Rob and Jason are joined by Bartłomiej Filipek to discuss blogging, Simplifying C++ Code with C++17, and the work he’s doing at Xara. Bartłomiej Filipek (Bartek as a shorter version) is a C++ software developer at Xara where he works mostly on text features for advanced document editors. He works remotely from Cracow/Poland. Apart from graphics applications, Bartek also has experience with game development, large-scale systems for aviation, writing graphics drivers and even biofeedback. For seven years Bartek has been regularly blogging. In the early days the topic revolved around graphics programming, and now he focuses on Core C++. In his spare time, he loves assembling trains and Lego with his little son. And he’s a collector of large Lego Star Wars models. News CppCon 2018 call (...)

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C++ and Typescript at Ubisoft Massive with Ólafur Waage
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Rob and Jason are joined by Ólafur Waage to discuss the work done at Ubisoft Massive using C++ and Typescript for application development and much more. Ólafur Waage is a Generalist Programmer at Ubisoft Massive where he works on the Uplay PC client and services. His work focuses mainly on programming with C++ but Python and C# do appear from time to time. In his spare time he plays video games which is not surprising given his job but he also likes puzzles, non fiction audio books and it would be a very strange day if it were not filled with music in some way. News Explore the design of a modern C++ library: MemCache++ case study Usability improvements in GCC 8 My Little Optimization: The Compiler is Magic Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing! Ólafur Waage @olafurw Ólafur (...)

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Jacksonville Trip Report with Patrice Roy
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Rob and Jason are joined by Patrice Roy to discuss the Jacksonville C++ Committee meeting and the state of features that may make it into C++20, new Study Groups and much more. Patrice Roy has been playing with C++, either professionally, for pleasure or (most of the time) both for over 20 years. After a few years doing R&D and working on military flight simulators, he moved on to academics and has been teaching computer science since 1998. Since 2005, he’s been involved more specifically in helping graduate students and professionals from the fields of real-time systems and game programming develop the skills they need to face today’s challenges. The rapid evolution of C++ in recent years has made his job even more enjoyable. He’s been a participating member in the ISO C++ Standards (...)

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News Roundup
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Rob and Jason discuss catch up on two weeks’ worth of C++ news on a very special Pi day episode. News WG21 pre-Jacksonville telecon Results summary: C++ Foundation Developer Survey ClangFormat Support in Visual Studio 2017 C++ Code Analysis Improvements for Visual Studio 2017 Linux C++ Workload improvements to the Project System, Console Window, rsync and Attach to Process LLVM 6.0 Release Profiling: Optimisation Simplify code with ’if constexpr’ in C++17 Lvalues, rvalues, glvalues, prvalues, xvalues, help! Tip of the Week #55: Name Counting and unique_ptr Links @robwirving @lefticus Sponsor JetBrains 

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Conference News and CppChat with Jon Kalb
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Rob and Jason are joined by Jon Kalb to discuss upcoming C++ conferences, CppChat and east const. Jon does onsite training in C++ and chairs C++Now, CppCon, and the Boost Steering Committee. Next month he will be speaking at the ACCU conference in Bristol, and keynoting the C++ Russia conference in Saint Petersburg. News Market share of the most used C/C++ IDEs in 2018 A cake for your cherry, what should go in the C++ standard library Batteries not included: what should go in the C++ standard library? CMake 3.11: "addlibrary() and addexecutable() commands can now be called without any sources and will not complain as long as sources are added later via the target_sources() Jon Kalb @_jonkalb // info - Jon Kalb’s blog Links C++Now C++Now 2018 Registration is Open C++Now (...)

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Competitive Coding with Conor Hoekstra
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Rob and Jason are joined by Conor Hoekstra to discuss Competive Coding websites and competitions Conor Hoekstra works at Moody’s Analytics as a C++ Software Developer helping maintain and develop an insurance software program called AXIS. Wanting to develop better algorithm and data structure knowledge he started using online sites like HackerRank and LeetCode to do so. He now has a YouTube channel where he reviews the contests from the last week of Competitive Coding sites like HackerRank, LeetCode, topcoder and Codeforces) and also covers solutions to the trickier problems. News Announcing Tensor Comprehensions Google summer of code for GCC Pacific++ 2018 location and dates confirmed 59+ videos now up from Meeting C++ 2017 CppNow Registration Open Conor Hoekstra @code_report (...)

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API & ABI Versioning with Mathieu Ropert
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Rob and Jason are joined by Mathieu Ropert to discuss C++ API & ABI compatibility issues and Modern CMake. Mathieu is a french C++ expert with an eclectic background. He’s worked in various fields including kernels, virtualization, web development, databases, REST microservices, build systems and package management, all those in (or about) C or C++. He is presently awaiting his next challenge in the video game industry that should come up next May in Stockholm, Sweden. Until then, Mathieu lives and works in Paris, France where he is also host of the C++ French User Group. News C++ in 2018 Inspector - A drop-anywhere C++ REPL The 15 C++11 features you must really use in your project Mathieu Ropert @MatRopert Links CppCon 2017: Mathieu Ropert “API & ABI Versioning...” CppCon (...)

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Qt Mobile Development with Sarah Smith
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Rob and Jason are joined by Sarah Smith to talk about her career in Mobile Development with C++ and Qt. Sarah Smith comes to mobile development & entrepreneurship with a background in Software Engineering for companies like Nokia & Google, and over a decade of mobile device experience. She builds on a love of game development since creating Dungeons & Dragons modules on her own web-server while studying for a BSc (Comp Sci) in the late 90’s. Realizing a goal to develop independent games & apps, Sarah opened Smithsoft in 2012. In January 2016 development went to the next level with Sarah moving to The Coterie (Brisbane’s premier creative co-working space) to set up a studio as Smithsoft Games. The new studio’s first title Pandora’s Books was developed by Sarah and her team of (...)

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