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CppCast
By Timur Doumler & Phil Nash
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The podcast currently has 392 episodes available.
CppCast episodes:
September 06, 2024Benchmarking Language Keywords Benjamin Summerton joins Timur and Phil. Ben talks to us about what led him to benchmark the impact of the final and noexcept keywords, how to interpret his results, and the project that inspired him to do so in the first place.News- Boost 1.86 released
- RealtimeSanitizer - new real-time safety testing tool for C and C++ projects that comes with Clang 20
- "Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime"
Links- Join us for the CppCast CppCon Special
- Previous episodes covering std lib implementations:
- Stephan T. Lavavej (MSVC)
- Stephan T. Lavavej and Sy Brand (MSVC)
- Billy O'Neil (MSVC)
- Marshall Clow (libc++)
- Eric Fiselier (libc++)
- "noexcept affects libstdc++’s unordered_set" - Arthur O'Dwyer
- Episode with Martin Hořeňovský, discussing non-portal random distribution
- Episode with Frances Buontempo, also mentioning random numbers and the portable distribution issue
- "Free Your Functions" (video) - Klaus Iglberger (timed link to the bit that talks about performance)
- Ben's PSRayTracing repo
...more August 09, 2024Reducing Binary Sizes Sándor Dargó joins Phil and Anastasia Kazakova. Sándor talks to us about why and how to reduce the final binary sizes your code produces, as well as the importance of clean code.News- "cppfront: Midsummer update"
- Reddit Thread
- cpp2 episode from last year
- AutoConfig: C++ Code Analysis Redefined (Sonar)
- “noexcept Can (Sometimes) Help (or Hurt) Performance” - Ben Summerton
Links- Binary Sizes posts on Sándor's blog
- Sándor's books
- "Parameterized testing with GTest" - Sándor Dargó
- "How to keep your binaries small?" - Sándor's C++ on Sea talk(s)
- (will add video links when available)
...more - "cppfront: Midsummer update"
July 27, 2024Swift for C++ Developers Doug Gregor joins Phil and Kevin Carpenter. Doug talks to us about his work on Swift at Apple, what the language is like and how it can interoperate with C++.News- "Memory Safety in C++ vs Rust vs Zig" - B Shyam Sundar
- C++ under the Sea workshops announced
- mp-units 2.2.0 released
Links- "Swift for C++ Practioners" - first in blog series from Doug Gregor
- Episode 341, with Dave Abraham talking about Swift/ C++ interop
- "Start with a Protocol" - blog post from Rob Napier (but link to Dave Abraham's "Crusty" talk no longer works)
- "Option(al) is not a Failure" - Phil's talk about Swift Error Handling
- "Option(al) is not a Failure" (yes, same name) - Phil's talk about past, present and possible future C++ error handling
- "Swift Concurrency"
...more July 12, 2024QuantLib Luigi Ballabio joins Phil and Matt Godbolt. Luigi talks to us about QuantLib, an open-source library for financial models that he co-founded and now maintains.News- WG21 St. Luis trip reports:
- "Official" report, collated by Inbal Levy
- Herb Sutter's trip report
Links- QuantLib home page
- Episode about borrow-checked C++ with Sean Baxter
- "QuantLib Python Cookbook" - book by Luigi
- "Implementing QuantLib" - book by Luigi
...more - WG21 St. Luis trip reports:
June 28, 2024libunifex and std::execution Jessica Wong and Ian Petersen join Timur and Phil. Ian and Jessica talk to us about libunifex and other async code projects at Meta, how it has evolved in the proposed std::execution and what structured concurrency is.News- XCode 16 beta
- The std library that ships with XCode 16 supports "hardening"
- libc++ hardening modes
- "What’s the deal with std::type_identity?" - Raymond Chen
- "C++ programmer's guide to undefined behavior: part 1 of 11" - PVS Studio
- "C++ Brain Teasers: Exercise Your Mind" - Anders Schau Knatten
Links- "std::execution" - P2300R9
- "async_scope – Creating scopes for non-sequential concurrency" - P3149R3
- "Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful"
- Folly Coro
...more - XCode 16 beta
June 14, 2024Boost, The Beman Project and Beyond Zach Laine joins Phil and Timur. Zach talks to us about the Boost collection of libraries, his contributions to it, a little of its history and where it's going, and a new project that aims to get back to Boost's original roots.News- Timing vulnerability in Kyber due to compiler optimization pass
- JUCE 8 released
- C++ Under the Sea - new conference in The Netherlands
Links- Boost
...more May 31, 2024Safe, Borrow-Checked, C++ Sean Baxter joins Timur and Phil. Sean explains how he has managed to implement a borrow checker for C++ in his Circle compiler. In fact his implementation addresses all the same safety issues that Rust addresses.News- "Noisy: The Class You Wrote a Hundred Times"
- Reddit discussion
- "Addressing That Post About final"
- Conference News:
- Pure Virtual C++ 2024 videos
- C++ on Sea 2024 - full scheduled published
Links- Jet Propulsion Lab
- Circle homepage
- "Safe C++" - Sean's video covering the implementation discussed on the episode
- P2687R0 - "Design Alternatives for Type-and-Resource Safe C++" - Stroustrup & Dos Reis
- P2771R0 - "Towards memory safety in C++"
- Clang's "Lifetime Extensions for C++" RFC
...more - "Noisy: The Class You Wrote a Hundred Times"
May 18, 2024Rust <=> C++ Mara Bos joins Phil and Timur. Mara talks to us about her work on the Rust evolution team and how she uses embedded Rust for drone flight controllers. We chat about some of the differences and similarities between C++ and Rust, and what the two languages can, and should, learn from each other.News- GCC 14 released
- Changes
- Reddit discussion
- "An informal comparison of the three major implementations of std::string" (updated) - Raymond Chen
- BugInsight – New memory leak and deadlock finder for C and C++ on Windows
- Reddit discussion
Links- "Rust Atomics and Locks" - Mara's book
- "driveway moment" (Wiktionary)
...more - GCC 14 released
May 03, 2024JSON for Modern C++ Niels Lohmann joins Timur and Phil. Niels talks to us about his popular JSON library, JSON for Modern C++ (often just known as nlohmann/json, after its github repo). We chat about the history and purpose of the library, with an interesting aside into starting and maintaining a popular OSS library, as well as what Niels is up to today.News- "The Performance Impact of C++'s final Keyword" - Benjamin Summerton
- Reddit discussion
- Kris Jusiak: Meta-meta programming! (Reddit)
Links- "Tips on Surveying the C++ Community" - Anastasia Kazakova's talk
- JSON for Modern C++
...more - "The Performance Impact of C++'s final Keyword" - Benjamin Summerton
April 23, 2024Pure Virtual C++ Sy Brand joins Phil and Timur. Sy talks about the imminent Pure Virtual C++ conference that they have been running with Microsoft's backing for a few years. Sy also discuss what they have been up to as Developer Advocate at Microsoft, as well as some fascinating outside interests.News- C++ Foundation's C++ 2024 Developer survey results
- P3236R0: "Please reject P2786 and adopt P1144"
- P2786R5: "Trivial Relocatability For C++26"
- P1144R10: "std::is_trivially_relocatable"
- P1029R3: "move = bitcopies" (earlier alt paper)
- "C++20 modules and Boost: an analysis"
- "Boston C++ April 2024 online meetup"
Links- Sy's short films
- Pure Virtual C++ 2024 conference
- 'BF' written in DWARF debug info
...more
FAQs about CppCast:
How many episodes does CppCast have?
The podcast currently has 392 episodes available.
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