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CppCast episodes

February 05, 2021Clang Power Tools and C++ Myths
Rob and Jason are joined by Victor Ciura. They first talk about different ways to filter a C++ container and a blog post on the Visual C++ blog from the Diablo 4 development team. They then talk to Victor about the Clang Power Tools plugin for Visual Studio which has recently been made free for both open source and commercial use. They also talk about C++ Myths.
News
12 Different Ways to Filter Containers in Modern C++
More_concepts library
Blizzard Diablo IV debugs Linux core dumps from Visual Studio
Visual Studio's Native Debugging Framework Tutorial
Links
Next steps for Clang Power Tools
C++ Mythbusting with Victor and Jason
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54 min
January 28, 2021SOLID Design Principles
Rob and Jason are joined by Klaus Iglberger. They first talk about changes to make the Win32 API more accessible, some C++20 coroutine examples and ISO news. Then they talk to Klaus Iglberger about the SOLID design principles, why they still matter and what C++ developers should know about them.
News
Making Win32 APIs More Accessible to More Languages
Motivated Examples for coroutines
January 2021 ISO Mailing
Links
Breaking Dependencies: The SOLID Principles - Klaus Iglberger - CppCon 2020
Meeting C++ Training: Modern C++ Design Patterns
CppCon 2020: Modern C++ Design Patterns
Cpp On Sea: Modern C++ Design Patterns
YOW! 2013 Kevlin Henney - The SOLID Design Principles Deconstructed
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54 min
January 21, 2021Cheerp
Rob and Jason are joined by Alessandro Pignotti. They first talk about a linker project, a better assert for constexpr code. Then they talk about Cheerp, LeaningTech's C++ WebAssembly compiler, how it differs from emscripten, Cheerp optimizations and some of LeaningTech's other Cheerp products.
News
mold: A Modern Linker
C++ Jobs Q1
A slightly better assert using C++20's is_constant_evaluated
How can I write a C++ class that iterates over its base classes
Links
Cheerp
Extreme WebAssembly 2: the sad state of WebAssembly tail calls
CheerpX: a WebAssembly-based x86 virtual machine in the browser, Yuri Iozzelli
CheerpX repl
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54 min
January 15, 2021Priorities for C++23
Rob and Jason are joined by Corentin Jabot. They first talk about a Visual Studio blog post on performance improvements in the 'inner build loop', and a ray tracer built into CMake. Then they talk to Corentin about his work in the C++ ISO committee on the Library Evolution Working Group and his thoughts on what could and should make it into C++23.
News
f(t)
Faster C++ Iteration Builds
Ray Tracing in pure Cmake
Is Zero a Butterfly?
Links
What is the standard Library
P2172 - What do we want from a modularized Standard Library?
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PVS-Studio: analyzing pull requests in Azure DevOps using self-hosted agents
Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project
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54 min
January 07, 2021Open Frameworks and Creative Coding
Rob and Jason are joined by Zach Lieberman, professor at MIT's Media Lab and co-founder of the School for Poetic Computation. They first talk about Herb Sutter's 2020 wrap up blog post and the ISO mailing from December 2020. Then Zach discusses Open Frameworks, a C++ toolkit he co-created 10 years ago for creative coding.
Transcript
Text Broadcast of CppCast 281 from PVS Studio
News
Firsts in 2020
Last 2020 ISO Mailing
Links
Open Frameworks
Open Frameworks Book
ofxAddons
ShaderToy
The Book of Shaders
Graffiti Research Lab L.A.S.E.R Tag
A Visual Journery Through Addiction
Connected Worlds
Vera Molnar: Pioneer of Computer Art
Digital Harmony: The Life of John Whitney, Computer Animation Pioneer
Muriel Cooper
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1 hr 1 min
December 31, 2020Goodbye 2020
Rob and Jason are discuss various news articles, libraries and announcements on the last episode of 2020 before the new year.
News
Embo++ 2021
Runtime access to tuple elements
YouTube C++ Series - Project from Scratch for C++ Beginners
Bona - C++20 based modern file information viewer
Concepts appreciation thread
A new C++ Logging Library
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PVS-Studio: analyzing pull requests in Azure DevOps using self-hosted agents
Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project
1 hr 1 min
December 24, 2020TurtleBrowser
Rob and Jason are joined by Patricia Aas from TurtleSec. They first talk about updates to a Web Assembly compiler Cheerp and an announcement for a new systems programming language conference. Then they talk to Patricia about her current project building a new web browser using modern C++, Qt 5 and the Chromium engine. They also discuss Patricia's consulting business and managing it during the pandemic.
News
Pointers are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs
Cheerp 2.6 - compiling C++ to WebAssembly and JavaScript
Why Another C++ (And More) Conference
Links
TurtleBrowser on GitHub
Trying to build an Open Source browser in 2020 - Patricia Aas
TurtleSec
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1 hr 1 min
December 17, 2020SerenityOS
Rob and Jason are joined by Andreas Kling. They first talk about the Qt 6.0 Release as well as another new C++ podcast that has been announced. They then talk to Andreas Kling about SerenityOS, the C++ Operating System he is building along with others in the Open Source community.
News
Qt 6.0 Released
How to Make an Operating System using C++
New Channel from the JetBrains crew
C++20 Published
Links
SerenityOS
Serenity on GitHub
Andreas Kling's YouTube
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57 min
December 10, 2020Virtual Teaching and Plenary
Rob and Jason are joined by Patrice Roy. They first talk discuss JeanHeyd Meneide's blog post regarding ABI breakage in C and C++. Then they talk to Patrice Roy about his experience teaching C++ during the COVID pandemic, the first ISO Virtual Plenary and more.
Transcript
CppCast 277: Virtual Teaching and Plenary from PVS Studio
News
A Special Kind of Hell - intmax_t in C and C++
Lexy
Clion 2020.3 Released
Links
Some Things C++ Does Right - Patrice Roy - CppCon 2020
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PVS-Studio: analyzing pull requests in Azure DevOps using self-hosted agents
Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project
57 min
December 03, 2020Networking TS
Rob and Jason are joined by Robert Leahy. They first talk about an open source flappy bird clone and the C++ framework it was built with. Then they talk to Robert Leahy about the Networking TS that will hopefully be a major feature of C++23.
Transcript
CppCast 276: Networking TS Transcript from PVS Studio
News
A Small Open Source Game in C++
The C++20 initialization flowchart
Error codes are far slower than exceptions
Beman Dawes has passed away
Links
The Networking TS from Scratch: I/O Objects - Robert Leahy - CppCon 2020
N3747 - A Universal Model for Asynchronous Operations
P2161 - Remove Default Candidate Executor
Sponsors
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PVS-Studio: analyzing pull requests in Azure DevOps using self-hosted agents
Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project
Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
57 min