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January 11, 2017Library Working Group and libc++
Rob and Jason are joined by Marshall Clow to talk about his role on the C++ Standards Committee's Library Working Group.

Marshall is a long-time LLVM and Boost participant. He is a principal engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. in San Diego, and the code owner for libc++, the LLVM standard library implementation. He is also the chairman of the Library Working Group of the C++ standards committee. He is the author of the Boost.Algorithm library and maintains several other Boost libraries.
News
C++Now 2017 Call for Submissions
2017 European LLVM Developers Meeting
Passing functions to functions
A Tourist's Guide to the LLVM Source Code
Marshall Clow
@mclow
Marshall's C++ Musings
Links
"libc++" C++ Standard Library
Qualcomm
The Committee: WG21
CppCon 2016: Marshall Clow "STL Algorithms - why you should use them, and how to write your own"
CppCon 2015: Marshall Clow "string_view"
Sponsor
JetBrains
59 min
January 05, 2017Memory Algorithm Proposal
Rob and Jason are joined by Brittany Friedman to talk about her accepted C++17 proposal which adds new algorithms and utilities for memory management and the process she went through getting the proposal accepted.

Brittany Friedman is a dense collection of matter formed from molecules originating from inside the sun. She currently works as a programmer at Gearbox Software, where she weaves ones and zeroes into intricate little patterns. Her proposal for new memory management algorithms was accepted for C++17 and a bug that she filed against the C++ standard was fixed the way that she recommended. So basically you do not want to trifle with her.
News
2016 Software Developer Podcast Awards
Keep Disabling Exceptions
C++17 Why it's better than you might think
A new way of blogging about C++
Brittany Friedman
@listenserver
Brittany Friedman's GitHub
Links
Extending memory management tools
drpdb: Convert from Microsoft PDB format into a MySQL database
Symbol Sort: A Utility for Measuring C++ Code Bloat
Gearbox Software
CppCon 2016: Nicholas Ormrod "The strange details of std::string at Facebook"
Sponsor
JetBrains
1 hr 4 min
December 21, 2016Regular Void
Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Calabrese to talk about his Regular Void Proposal, template, the state of Concepts and more.

Matt Calabrese is a software engineer working primarily in C++. He started his programming career in the game industry and is now working on libraries at Google. Matt has been active in the Boost community for over a decade, is currently a member of the Boost Steering Committee, and is a member of the Program Committee for C++Now. Starting in the fall of 2015, he has been attending C++ Standards Committee meetings, authoring several proposals targeting the standard after C++17, notably including a proposal to turn the void type into an instantiable type and a proposal for the standard library to introduce a generic algorithm for invoking standard Callables with argument types and argument amounts that may be partially calculated at compile-time or at runtime. He is also the author of the controversial paper "Why I want Concepts, but why they should come later rather than sooner", which may have contributed to the decision to not include the concepts language feature in C++17.
News
2016 Software Developer Podcast Awards
My take at times
A C++ program to get CPU usage from command line in Linux
Pointer comparison an invalid optimization in GCC
Matt Calabrese
@cppsage
Links
Boost
C++Now
P0146: Regular Void (Revision 1)
P0376: A Single Generalization of std::invoke, std::apply, and std::visit
P0240: Why I want Concepts, but why they should come later rather than sooner
Sponsor
Backtrace
57 min
December 14, 2016Catch 2 and C++ the Community
Rob and Jason are joined by Phil Nash, Developer Advocate at JetBrains, to talk about updates to the Catch Unit test library and new features coming to CLion and ReSharper for C++.

Phil started coding back in the early 80s, on 8-bit home computers: from the ZX-81 to the Commodore 64, in BASIC and assembler. He later moved on to PCs and C++ in the early 90s and, despite forays into other languages, keeps coming back to C++. His career has taken him through domains such as anti-virus, mobile, finance and developer tools - among others. He's the original author of the C++ test framework, Catch and is now Developer Advocate at JetBrains for CLion, AppCode and ReSharper C++. His hobbies include writing podcast bios and trolling the podcast hosts.
News
Minimal, Header only Modern C++ library for colors in your terminal
The view from Nov 2016 C++ standard Meeting Issaquah
C++ version of ruby's integer::times via user-defined literals
Phil Nash
@phil_nash
Level of Indirection
Extra Level of Indirection
Links
Catch
C++::London
Munich User Group: Functional C++ for Fun and Profit
YouTube: Functional C++ for Fun and Profit
JetBrains
ReSharper Ultimate 2016.3 is Released
JetBrains CLion Discounts
JetBrains AppCode Discounts
JetBrains ReSharper C++ Discounts
CppCon 2016: Nicholas Ormrod "The strange details of std::string at Facebook"
Sponsor
JetBrains
42 min
December 08, 2016C++ Game Development at Ubisoft
Rob and Jason are joined by Nicolas Fleury, Technical Architect at Ubisoft Montreal, to talk about the development and performance tuning techniques used at Ubisoft on games like Rainbow Six Siege.

Nicolas has 13 years of experience in the video game industry, more years in the software industry in telecoms, in speech recognition and in computer assisted surgery. Technical Architect on Tom Clancy's: Rainbow Six Siege, he is one of the key Architects behind some collaboration initiatives at Ubisoft and was also Technical Architect on games like Prince of Persia. He presented at CppCon 2014 "C++ in Huge AAA Games".
News
Bjarne Stroustrup - Keynote Meeting C++ 2016
Investigating Radix Sort
How to use PVS-Studio for Free
Nicolas Fleury
Nicolas Fleury
Links
Ubisoft Montreal
CppCon 2014: Nicolas Fleury "C++ in Huge AAA Games"
CppCon 2016: Nicolas Fleury "Rainbow Six Siege: Quest for Performance"
SG14 Group
CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"
CppCon 2014: Jeff Preshing "How Ubisoft Develops Games for Multicore - Before and After C++11"
CppCon 2016: Nicholas Ormrod "The strange details of std::string at Facebook"
Sponsor
JetBrains
55 min
November 30, 2016Backtrace
Rob and Jason are joined by Abel Mathew, Co-Founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O, to talk about the debugging platform and its features for C++ developers.

Abel Mathew is the co-founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O. Prior to Backtrace, Abel was a Head of Engineering at AppNexus where he led a team of developers to improve ad optimization and reduce platform-wide costs. He spent multiple years as a developer and a team lead on AppNexus’ Adserver Team where he helped design and implement their low-latency advertising platform. Before AppNexus, Abel was a kernel module and tools developer at IBM and a server room monkey at AMD.
News
Give Visual C++ a Switch to Standard Conformance
Zapcc: a faster C++ compiler
Better, stronger, faster … there is zapcc
Conan Joins JFrog
What do YOU use C++ for
Abel Mathew
@nullisnt0
Abel Mathew on GitHub
Links
Backtrace
Backtrace Blog
Minidump Free Beta
Surge 2016 - Abel Mathew - Post-mortem Debugging: could you be the one?
Bazel
Sponsor
Backtrace
41 min
November 16, 2016Cppcheck
Rob and Jason are joined by Daniel Marjamäki to talk about developing the CppCheck static analysis tool.

Daniel lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his wife and son. He has a degree in electronics but has never worked as an electronics engineer. Daniel works as a consultant at Evidente in Sweden which provides consultants and contractors for embedded software development and static analysis.
Daniel started Cppcheck almost 10 years ago as a hobby project that he works on in his spare time. Daniel sometimes works on other hobby projects such as an open source retro mobile phone with a rotary dial plate instead of buttons or a screen.
News
Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed
Cheatsheet of modern C++ language and library features
Compiler Explorer Beta now with early support for MSVC
WebAssembly Browser Preview
Trip report: Fall ISO C++ standards meeting
Daniel Marjamäki
Daniel Marjamäki on GitHub
Links
Cppcheck
Sponsor
Backtrace
36 min
November 09, 2016Kvasir
Rob and Jason are joined by Odin Holmes to talk about developing for Embedded Microcontrollers with C++ and the Kvasir library.

Odin Holmes has been programming bare metal embedded systems for 15+ years and as any honest nerd admits most of that time was spent debugging his stupid mistakes. With the advent of the 100x speed up of template metaprogramming provided by C++11 his current mission began: teach the compiler to find his stupid mistakes at compile time so he has more free time for even more template metaprogramming. Odin Holmes is the author of the Kvasir.io library, a DSL which wraps bare metal special function register interactions allowing full static checking and a considerable efficiency gain over common practice. He is also active in building and refining the tools need for this task such as the brigand MPL library, a replacement candidate for boost.parameter and a better public API for boost.MSM-lite.
News
Compiler Explorer's embedded view
A peek into the WebAssembly Browser preview
WebAssembly Browser Preview
Cling on Ubuntu on Windows
Odin Holmes
@odinthenerd
Odin Holmes on GitHub
Odin Holmes' Blog
Links
Kvasir
Meeting C++ Lightning Talks - Odin Holmes - Modern special function register abstraction
Brigand
Embedded C++ Conference in Bochum
Sponsor
JetBrains
1 hr
November 02, 2016Blaze
Rob and Jason are joined by Klaus Iglberger to discuss the Blaze high performance math library.

Klaus Iglberger has finished his PhD in computer science in 2010. Back then, he contributed to several massively parallel simulation frameworks and was an active researcher in the high performance computing community. From 2011 to 2012, he was the managing director of the central institute for scientific computing in Erlangen. Currently he is on the payroll at CD-adapco in Nuremberg, Germany, as a senior software engineer. He is the co-organizer of the Munich C++ user group (MUC++)and he is the initiator and lead designer of the Blaze C++ math library.
News
Recommendations to speed C++ builds in Visual Studio
void foo(T& out) How to fix output parameters
Routing paths in IncludeOs
Klaus Iglberger
Klaus Iglberger
Links
Blaze
Munich C++ User Group
CppCon 2016: Klaus Iglberger "The Blaze High Performance Math Library"
Sponsor
JetBrains
40 min
October 27, 2016Embedded Development
Rob and Jason are joined by Dan Saks from Saks & Associates to discuss state of C++ in the embedded development industry.

Dan Saks is the president of Saks & Associates, which offers training and consulting in C and C++ and their use in developing embedded systems. He has been a columnist for The C/C++ Users Journal, The C++ Report, Embedded Systems Design, embedded.com and several other publications. Dan served as the first secretary of the C++ Standards Committee and contributed to the CERT Secure Coding Standards for C and C++.
News
Jumping into C++
CppRestSDK 2.9.0 available on GitHub
A note about the volatile keyword in C++
Woboq Code Browser: under the hood
On the recent lambdas vs iterators paper
Dan Saks
Saks & Associates
Links
CppCon 2016: Dan Saks "extern c: Talking to C Programmers about C++"
embedded.com
Sponsor
Backtrace
46 min