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CppCast episodes

April 30, 2020Envoy Proxy
Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Klein from Lyft. They first discuss an update to Microsoft's Guidelines Support Library with changes to span. Then they talk to Matt Klein who dicusses Envoy Proxy and how it's used in Cloud Native applications.
News
Tweet re: SPMD Lambdas
CppCon 2020 Call for Submissions
GSL 3.0.0 Release
Links
Envoy Proxy
Envoy Proxy on GitHub
Sponsors
PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license
Read the article "Checking the GCC 10 Compiler with PVS-Studio" covering 10 heroically found errors despite the great number of macros in the GCC code.
Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
55 min
April 23, 2020Postmodern C++ Revisited
Rob and Jason are joined by Tony Van Eerd. They first discuss some conference news, including Microsoft's upcoming Pure Virtual C++ Conference. Then Tony Van Eerd joins them to discuss his Postmodern C++ talk, and some of his work on the C++ standards committee.
News
Sign up for Pure Virtual C++ Conference
ModernCppStarter
Announcing Meeting C++ 2020!
Links
Tony van Eerd: Postmodern C++
p1085R0 Should Span be Regular?
Sponsors
PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license
Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2
Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
1 hr 3 min
April 16, 2020Rosetta
Rob and Jason are joined by Andrew Leaver-Fay from UNC and Jack Maguire from Menten AI. They first discuss a proposal to update both C and C++ and create a unified common core for the languages. Then they talk to Andrew and Jack about Rosetta, a C++ protein modeling library, it's history being ported from Fortran and some of its use cases such as creating HIV vaccines.
News
C2x Proposal: A Common C/C++ Core
Clion AMA Session on May 7
Third Annual C++ Foundation Developer Survey "Lite"
Links
Rosetta Commons - Software
Menten AI
Designing Peptides on a Quantum Computer
Rosetta@home
fold.it
Sponsors
PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license
Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2
53 min
April 09, 2020Making Nu Languages
Rob and Jason are joined by Sophia Turner. They first discuss updates to {fmt} and SourceTrail. Then they talk to Sophia about some of the languages she's worked on; including Chaiscript with Jason, Typescript at Microsoft and Rust at Mozilla. They then talk about her current project: NuShell.
News
Stopping A Laser Beam in Mid-Air
Stopping a laser beam in mid-air with Tom Scott (BTS)
{fmt} 6.2 released
Sourcetrail 2020.1
When is *x also &x
Links
Nushell
Typescript
Rust
Growing TypeScript and Rust
Sponsors
PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license
Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2
59 min
April 02, 2020Intro to Modules
Rob and Jason are joined by Daniela Engert. They first discuss a blog post on a new static analyzer feature in GCC 10 and Jason's plans to port the classic DOOM game to C++. Then Daniela gives Jason and Rob an introduction to Modules in C++20.
News
Static analysis in GCC 10
C++ Annotations v11.4.0
Jason's live Doom port to C++ Friday morning
Links
Modules: The Beginner's Guide Slides
Socializing with {fmt} - Daniela Engert - Meeting C++ 2018
Sponsors
PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license
Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2
58 min
March 26, 2020C++ Build Insights
Rob and Jason are joined by Kevin Cadieux and Sy Brand. They first discuss a blog post on Memory Access Patterns and the Clang 10 release. Then they talk about C++ Build Insights, Kevin tells us how vcperf can be used to find places where build performance can be improved in your code. Sy then goes over some of the other recent updates to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
News
Vector of Objects vs Vector of Pointers and Memory Access Patterns
Post-Prague Mailing
Clang 10.0.0 Released
Links
Download Visual Studio
Introducing C++ Build Insights
Analyze your builds programmatically with the C++ Build Insights SDK
Have full integration of Build Insights within Visual Studio
Sponsors
PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license
Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2
43 min
March 19, 2020Meson and the Meson Manual
Rob and Jason are joined by Jussi Pakkanen. They first discuss the ongoing effects that the Corona Virus is having on the C++ Community. Then they talk to Jussi Pakkanen who gives them an update on what's changed in Mesonbuild since he was first on show 201 episodes earlier. Jussi also shares some info about the Meson Manual which is available as an e-book.
News
C++ Events affected by Corona Virus
asm-dom
Deleaker review
Links
The Meson Build System
The Meson Manual use coupon code: cppcast2020
"Behind (and under) the scenes of the Meson build system" - Jussi Pakkanen (LCA 2020)
Sponsors
PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license
Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2
55 min
March 12, 2020PVS-Studio Static Analysis
Rob and Jason are joined by Yuri Minaev from PVS-Studio. They first discuss a blog posts on ISO's recent decision not to break the C++ ABI in C++23 and getting rid of volatile in the Qt codebase. Then they talk to Yuri Minaev, one of the developers at PVS Studio working on the static analyzer. They discuss some of the forms of analysis that the tool excels at and how it's changed the way Yuri programs.
News
HOly Grail of Logging
The Day the Standard Library Died
The Performance Benefits of Final Classes
Getting rid of 'volatile' in (some of) Qt
Links
Yuri Minaev Blog Posts
Sponsors
PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license
Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2
41 min
March 05, 2020Packs and Pipelines
Rob and Jason are joined by Barry Revzin. They first discuss a blog post about how to declare a class's data members and methods. They then discuss some of his contributions to C++20 including some necessary fixes to spaceship operator, and some proposals he is working on for C++23 including pack declaration and a new pipe operator.
News
Announcing TCMalloc
How I Declare my class and why
Quill Asynchronous Low Latency Logging Library
Are you ready for C++Now?
Links
P1061R1 Structured Bindings can introduce a Pack
P1185R2 <=> != ==
P1858R1 Generalized pack declaration and usage
P2011R0 A pipeline-rewrite operator
Sponsors
Backtrace
Software Crash Management for Embedded Devices and IOT Projects
Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes
54 min
February 27, 2020Maintaining QtCore
Rob and Jason are joined by Thiago Macieira from Intel. They first talk about Visual Studio's Qt support, and articles from Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter. They then talk about Thiago's history with Qt, including his former role as Qt Release Manager and his contributions to QtCore, QtNetwork and more.
News
Jason's C++ Training Courses in Stuttgart
Fuchsia Programming Language Policy
Qt to support Visual Studio Linux projects
Bjarne Stroustrup on C++20's significance
Move, simply
Links
New Features in Qt 5.15
Clear Linux Project
Sponsors
Backtrace
Software Crash Management for Embedded Devices and IOT Projects
Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes
58 min