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CppCast episodes

September 17, 2020Microsoft Announcements at CppCon 2020
Rob and Jason are joined by Julia Reid, Sy Brand and Augustin Popa from Microsoft. They talk about the virtual CppCon, favorite talks and the virtual conference experience. Then they talk about some of the announcements being made by the Microsoft Visual C++ team during the CppCon conference talks.
Links
Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2020
C++ in Visual Studio Code reaches version 1.0!
vcpkg: Accelerate your team development environment with binary caching and manifests
A Multitude of Updates in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3
Standard C++20 Modules support with MSVC in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8
C++ Coroutines in Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.8
Debug Linux core dumps in Visual Studio
Project OneFuzz: new open source developer tool to find and fix bugs at scale
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58 min
September 10, 2020stdpar
Rob and Jason are joined by David Olsen from NVIDIA. They first discuss the news from the ISO Committee that C++20 has been approved and work on C++23 will continue virtually. Then they talk with David about his work on NVIDIA's C++ compiler to run parallel algorithm code on the GPU and a proposal he's working on to introduce 16-bit floats to standard C++.
News
C++20 approved, C++23 meetings and schedule update
If everyone hates it, why is OOP still so widely spread?
New safety rules in C++ Core Check
Links
Accelerating Standard C++ with GPUs using stdpar
P1467R4 Extended floating-point types and standard names
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46 min
September 03, 2020Unit Testing
Rob and Jason are joined by Oleg Rabaev. They first discuss some papers from the latest ISO mailing and a new feature in Microsoft's vcperf tool. Then they talk to Oleg Rabaev about Unit Testing methodologies and why it's important to write testable code.
News
2020-08 mailing
Introducing vcperf /timetrace for C++ build time analysis
Question regarding optional virtual destructor in C++20
Links
Bloomberg Blog
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59 min
August 27, 2020Cross Platform Mobile Telephony
Rob and Jason are joined by Dave Hagedorn. They first discuss a blog post from JeanHeyd Meneide on exception free containers. Then they talk to Dave Hagedorn from TextNow about his teams efforts to transition an existing iOS/Android app to using a cross platform C++ library.
News
Here I Stand, Free - Allocators and an Inclusive STL
Awesome hpp
Standard library development made easy with C++20
C++ Montreal Meetup Some things C++ does right
Links
TextNow Enginering Blog
TextNow Careers
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52 min
August 20, 2020STX
Rob and Jason are joined by Basit Ayantunde. They first discuss a blog post on plain old data types and Visual Studio's Address Sanitizer support. Then they talk to Basit about the STX library.
News
No more plain old data
AddressSanitizer for Windows: x64 and Debug Build Support
Meeting C++ Online Tickets Available
Links
STX
Basit's Patreon
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29 min
August 13, 2020Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners
Rob and Jason are joined by Slobodan Dmitrović. They first discuss a new C++ compiler from NVIDIA to compile conformant C++ code to GPUs. Then they talk to Slobodan about his book: Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners.
News
Approval Tests Training Course
Accelerating Standard C++ with GPUs using stdpar
Sign up for Private Preview of VS support for Codespaces
Links
Amazon: Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners
Apress: Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners
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47 min
August 06, 2020Go
Rob and Jason are joined by Ian Lance Taylor from Google. They first discuss an announcement from Conan and a blog post about embedding files into C++ applications using string literals. Then they talk to Ian Lance Taylor about the Go programming language.
News
Join the new Conan 2.0 Tribe
C++ 70x faster file embeds using string literals
Online meetups
Links
Go
Go's GitHub repository
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44 min
July 30, 2020Visual Effects
Rob and Jason are joined by Josh Filstrup from Netflix. They first discuss an update to wxWidgets and a bug fix update in GCC. Then they talk to Josh about his background in Programming Languages and how he transitioned to work in the Visual Effects industry, including his current job at the studio engineering group at Netflix.
News
wxWidgets 3.14 Release
GCC 10.2 Release
C++ On Sea videos coming online
Links
USD
VFX Platform
Resurrecting the SuperH architecture
DCDigital - REAL Dreamcast 1080p HDMI Output
CppCon 2014: Chandler Carruth "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures"
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1 hr 1 min
July 23, 2020TensorFlow
Rob and Jason are joined by Andrew Selle from Google. They first discuss Ranges support being added to Visual Studio, and Compiler Explorer's support for using some libraries. Then they talk to Andrew Selle from Google about Machine Learning with Tensorflow and Tensorflow Lite which he was one of the initial architects for.
News
Initial support for Ranges in MSVC
Support for Libraries in Compiler Explorer
Cmake 3.18 Release
Links
TensorFlow
TensorFlow users
TensorFlow on small and mobile devices
Eigen library for linear algebra using expression templates
C Bindings for TensorFlow
AI Responsibilities
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52 min
July 16, 2020LLVM Hacking And CPU Instruction Sets
Rob and Jason are joined by Bruno Cardoso Lopes. They first discuss an update to Mesonbuild and CppCon going virtual. Then they talk about Bruno's work on Clang including clang modules and work on a pattern matching implementation.
News
Meson Release Notes 0.55
Writing an LLVM Optimization
CppCon Going Virtual
Links
SHRINK: Reducing the ISA complexity via instruction recycling
SPARC16: A New Compression Approach for the SPARC Architecture
P1247R0 - Disabling static destructors
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53 min