CppCast

By Timur Doumler & Phil Nash

Every two weeks, or so, we sit down with guests from the C++ community to discuss the latest news and what they have been up to. Find us at cppcast.com... more

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February 09, 2024Teaching and Training Modern C++
Rainer Grimm joins Timur and Phil. Rainer talks to us about what he has learnt from many years of teaching C++ as a professional trainer, how training has become more accessible now more people are taking it online, and his thoughts on modern C++.
News
The C++ Iceberg
"C++20 Concepts applied - Safe bitmasks using scoped enums" - blog post by Andreas Fertig
ACCU conference: Early-bird tickets and workshops
Links
Reddit thread on Episode 375 with Daveed Vandervoorde
Rainer's website and blog
Rainer at Meeting C++ online, Feb 21st
Rainer's "Concurreny in Modern C++" workshop at C++ Online, March 14th
...more
53min
January 26, 2024Reflection for C++26
Daveed Vandevoorde joins Phil and Timur. Daveed talks a bit about his work at EDG, but mostly his efforts to get Reflection into C++26, along with his co-authors, and how that fits into the big picture.
News
Meeting C++ 2023 videos (including all keynotes)
"A 2024 Discussion Whether To Convert The Linux Kernel From C To Modern C++"
How do you correctly implement std::clamp?
Blog post
Reddit discussion
C++ Online Workshops
Links
P2996R1 - "Reflection for C++26"
P1240R2 - "Scalable Reflection in C++"
"C++ Templates - The Complete Guide" - book (Vandevoorde, Josuttis)
...more
1h 13min
January 12, 2024Modern C++ with Qt
Ville Voutilainen joins Timur and guest co-host, Guy Davidson. Ville talks about his work at The Qt Company and on the C++ standard committee, and about how modern C++ features such as Modules and Sender/Receiver can integrate with the Qt framework.
News
Matt Godbolt on Computerphile
PVS-Studio C++ quiz
Boston C++ meetup
C++ Now
Links
P2300R7 - std::execution (a.k.a. Sender/Receiver)
...more
1h 9min
December 29, 20232023 Holiday Special
Phil and Timur are joined by ... Timur and Phil for a Holiday Special. We look back on the last year, discuss the news, and talk about what we're working on.
News
"The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps" - CISA
Experimental EDG Reflection Support
Boost 1.84.0 released
Cling 1.0 released
"About time - how to unit test code that depends on time" - Björn Fahller
CppNorth:
Call for Speakers
"Earlist Bird" tickets
ACCU Early bird tickets
C++ Online tickets
Links
Phil and Timur speaking at the December meetup in Munich
"Digital Security by Design, CHERI and the Morello Board" - C++ London
P2900R3 - "Contracts for C++"
...more
1h
December 15, 2023SIMD
Matthias Kretz joins Phil and Timur. Matthias talks about SIMD, including what it is, how it works, and what its useful for. We also discuss his proposal to introduce SIMD vocabulary types and functionality into the C++ standard and how it relates to what was in the Parallelism TS.
News
MISRA C++ 2023 published
Sonar webinar on MISRA C++ 2023 with Andreas Weis
nlohmann/json 3.11.3 released
reflect-cpp - Reflection library for C++20
Links
P1928R7 - "std::simd — merge data-parallel types from the Parallelism TS 2"
Matthias' CppCon 2023 talk on std::simd
...more
1h 10min
December 01, 2023Catch2 v3 and Random Numbers
Martin Hořeňovský joins Timur and Phil. Martin returns to talk about v3 of Catch2 and how it is different to v2. We also revisit the topic of random numbers and how Martin is still working on portable distributions and why that is important to testing and other domains.
News
P2662R3 - "Pack Indexing"
P1673R13 - "A free function linear algebra interface based on the BLAS"
P2546R5 - "Debugging Support"
P2996R0 - "Reflection for C++26"
"Why I think C++ is still a desirable coding platform compared to Rust" - Henrique Bucher
CLion Nova
Links
Martin's NDC TechTown 2021 talk on Catch2 v3
...more
1h 10min
October 20, 2023Physical Units and a System of Quantities
Mateusz Pusz joins Phil and new guest co-host, Anastasia Kazakova. Mateusz talks to us about his physical units (and quantities) library, mp-units, why v2 is a complete redesign compared to the previous version, and how incorporating a system of quantities is so central to this new design.
News
clang 17 released
Conference videos released in October
AMA with Abbas Sabra (automatic/ static analysis)
Is it too hard for junior developers to get on the C++ career ladder (Reddit)
Links
mp-units on GitHub
mp-units - Documentation
C++ on Sea 2023 video
The Mars Climate Orbiter crash
p1935 - "A C++ Approach to Physical Units"
p2980 - "A motivation, scope, and plan for a physical quantities and units library"
p2981 - "Improving our safety with a physical quantities and units library"
p2982 - "std::quantity as a numeric type"
p3003 - "The design of a library of number concepts"
...more
58min
September 15, 2023AI and Random Numbers
Frances Buontempo joins Phil and returning guest co-host, Matt Godbolt. Frances talks to us about her new book on modern C++ as well as her the topic of her previous book on machine learning. We discuss the differences between LLM-based AI and more statistical approaches, as well as where random numbers fit into all this and the limitations of their current support in C++.
News
CppCon programme announced
C++ on Sea videos
"Inside STL" - The Old New Thing (August archive)
Open source C++ projects that use modern C++ features (Reddit)
Links
"C++ Bookcamp" (title may change) - Frances' new book
"Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning for Programmers" - Frances' previous book
Overload issues (submit articles on the main ACCU site)
Frances' paper bag escapology certificate
Shannon's mind reading paper
ERNIE (Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment)
P2059R0 - "Make Pseudo-random Numbers Portable" (defunct)
"Using, Generating and Testing with Pseudo-Random Numbers" - Frances' ACCU 2023 talk
"Program your way out of a paper bag" series:
"How to program your way out of a paper bag" (slides)
"How to Evolve Your Way Out of a Paper Bag" (video)
"Diffuse your way out of a paper bag" (video)
"How to Evolve Your Way Out of a Paper Bag" (video)
"Crowd Your Way Out of a Paper Bag" (video)
...more
1h
September 01, 2023Automatic Static Analysis
Abbas Sabra joins Phil and Timur. Abbas talks to us about static analysis, the challenges - and benefits - of analysing C++ code, and a new feature from Sonar that can scan public repos with zero config.
News
Boost 1.83.0 released
fmt 10.1 released
The downsides of C++ Coroutines
Links
"All the defaults are backwards" - Phil's Lightning Talk
"No, C++ static analysis does not have to be painful" - Sonar blog
video showing Sonar's Automatic Analysis in action
Sonar Community Discourse forums
...more
54min
August 18, 2023Soagen
Mark Gillard joins Timur and guest co-host Jason Turner. Mark talks to us about reflection, SIMD, and his library soagen, a structure-of-arrays generator for C++.
News
What is Low Latency C++? C++Now 2023, part 1
What is Low Latency C++? C++Now 2023, part 2
Inside STL: The vector
Inside STL: The string
Experimenting with Modules in Flux
pycmake
cpptrace
Links
Soagen on GitHub
Soagen documentation
Mike Acton: Data-Oriented Design and C++ at CppCon 2014
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach on SoA and reflection at ACCU 2023
Data-Oriented Design and Modern C++ at CppNow 2023
Godbolt's law
toml++ on GitHub
PVS-Studio: 60 terrible tips for a C++ developer
...more
53min

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