CppCast

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CppCast episodes

April 16, 2021C++Builder
Rob and Jason are joined by David Millington from Embarcadero. They first discuss a blog post on Thread Sanitizer and a very unique implementation of unique_ptr. Then they talk to David Millington from Embarcadero about C++ Builder, it's history and the state of the tool today. Including some of its extensions built into their version of Clang.
News
Eliminating Data Races in Firefox
Mathematical constants in C++20
NFT backed implementation of std::unique_ptr
Links
C++Builder
N1384 - PME: Properties, Methods and Events
N1600 - C++/CLI Properties
N1615 - C++ Properties -- a Library Solution
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Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables
1 hr
April 09, 2021Rigel Engine
Rob and Jason are joined by Nikolai Wuttke. They first discuss a blog post series from Raymond Chen on coroutines and the upcoming pure virtual C++ conference. Then they talk to Nikolai Wuttke about Rigel Engine, a modern C++ reimplementation of Duke Nukem II.
News
C++23: -> and :: to be replaced by . operator
C++ coroutines: The mental model for coroutine promises
Mutabah's Rust Compiler
Pure Virtual C++ 2021 Conference
Links
Rigel Engine on GitHub
Play Rigel Engine online
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Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables
1 hr
April 02, 2021One Lone Coder
Rob and Jason are joined by David Barr (aka javidx9). They first discuss Microsoft open sourcing calculator, an update to CMake and the March 2021 ISO Mailing. Then they talk to David about his YouTube channel, One Lone Coder, what inspired him to start it, and PixelGameEngine, the 2D game engine he works on with the One Lone Coder community.
News
Freestanding avr-libstdc++
Calc.exe is now open source
Cmake 3.20.0 available for download
ISO C++ March Mailing
Links
javidx9 - One Lone Coder YouTube Channel
javidx9 - Twitch Channel
One Lone Coder Community
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C++ Builder
1 hr
March 26, 2021Freestanding Update with Ben Craig
Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Craig. They first discuss blog posts detailing how function call resolution works in C++ and algorithm selection. Then they talk to Ben Craig about his efforts with the C++ Freestanding proposal, what progress has been made, what still needs to be done, and more.
News

How C++ Resolves a Function Call

List of C++ blogs by individual developers

Algorithm Selection

Links

p2268 Freestanding Roadmap

p2013 Freestanding Language: Optional ::operator new

p1642 Freestanding Library: Easy [utilities], [ranges], and [iterators]

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C++ Builder
52 min
March 19, 2021Event Streaming
Rob and Jason are joined by Alex Gallego. They first discuss blog posts from Visual C++ on Intellisense updates and a tutorial for programming Starcraft AI. Then they talk to Alex Gallego about Red Panda, the event streaming platform written in C++ that's compatible with the Kafka API.
Episode Transcripts
PVS-Studio Episode Transcripts
News
MTuner
Intellisense Improvements In Visual Studio 2019
STARTcraft - Complete Beginner Starcraft: Broodwar AI Programming Tutorial with C++ / BWAPI STARTcraft
Git source has a banned.h file that blocks use of certain C functions
Links
Vectorized.io
RedPanda on GitHub
The Kafka API is great; now let's make it fast!
Sponsors
PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license
Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables
1 hr
March 12, 2021Reducing Memory Allocations
Rob and Jason are joined by Arnaud Desitter. They first discuss blog posts on parameter passing, fuzzing and push_back vs emplace_back. Then they talk to Arnaud Desitter about his successes improving application performance by reducing memory allocations found using heaptrack.
Episode Transcripts
PVS-Studio Episode Transcripts
News
Hacking on Clang is surprisingly easy
Parameter Passing in C and C++
Fuzzing Image Parsing in Windows, Part Two: Uninitialized Memory
Don't blindly prefer emplace_back to push_back
Links
Reducing Memory Allocations in a Large C++ Application - Arnaud Desitter [ C++ on Sea 2020 ]
Reducing Memory Allocations in a Large C++ Application - Slides- Arnaud Desitter [ C++ on Sea 2020 ]
heaptrack
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The Evil within the Comparison Functions
Top 10 Bugs Found in C++ Projects in 2020
1 hr
March 05, 2021The Old New Thing
Rob and Jason are joined by Raymond Chen from Microsoft. They first talk about Herb Sutter's virtual ISO Plenary Trip Report and some new features voted into the C++23 draft. Then they talk to Raymond Chen from Microsoft about his career working on Windows and the Old New Thing blog.
News
Trip report: Winter 2021 ISO C++ standards meeting (virtual)
Learn C++, Qt and QML the easy way
Links
Raymond’s blog The Old New Thing. Here’s the post that made his July 4 family picnic a little more stressful
Raymond is managing editor of the Windows Universal Samples and the Windows Classic Samples repos on GitHub.
Here’s a YouTube playlist of Raymond’s One Dev Minute short videos.
Raymond can be found on GitHub as @oldnewthing, and his necktie’s Twitter account is @ChenCravat.
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Visual Assist
1 hr
February 26, 2021Vcpkg Registries
Rob and Jason are joined by Nicole Mazzuca from Microsoft. They first talk about a differential equation library, and modules support in build2 and meson. Then they talk to Nicole from Microsoft's vcpkg team about some new features in vcpkg to enable teams to host their own libraries.
News
Solving Differential Equations with LLVM
Complete C++20 Modules Support with GCC in build2
Meson Build System 0.57.0 is out w/ experimental suport for C++ Modules, Qt6, ThinLTO and more
Links
Registries: Bring your own libraries to vcpkg
Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies
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The Evil within the Comparison Functions
Top 10 Bugs Found in C++ Projects in 2020
54 min
February 19, 2021Trading Systems
Rob and Jason are joined by Carl Cook from Optiver. They first talk discuss an announcement from Khronos that SYCL 2020 has been released, and a blog post from Microsoft on updates to the Visual Studio Code C++ extension. Then they talk to Carl Cook from Optiver about how they use C++ to power everything they do.
News
Khronos Releases SYCL 2020 for C++ Heterogeneous Parallel Programming
VS Code C++ Extension: Cross-Compilation IntelliSense Configurations
Modern C++ Tip of the Week
Links
Optiver
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The Evil within the Comparison Functions
Top 10 Bugs Found in C++ Projects in 2020
54 min
February 12, 2021Going Cross Platform
Rob and Jason are joined by Sebastian Theophil from think-cell. They first talk discuss a blog post on building a 1 billion LOC project with the Threadripper 3990X and a browser extension for easily searching for C++ reference help. Then they talk to Sebastian about his teams efforts to port their Windows C++ codebase onto MacOS and some of the challenges they dealt with, as well as recent efforts to start porting some of the code into Web Assembly.
News
Threadripper 3990X: The Quest to Compile 1 Billions lines of C++ on 64 cores
Looking for Approachable Open Source Projects to Contribute to
C++ Search Extension v0.2 released
Links
think-cell: Join us as a C++ developer
Windows, macOS and the Web: Lessons from cross-platform development at think-cell
tcjs library for generating type-safe JavaScript bindings for C++/Emscripten
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Visual Assist
54 min