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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August 16, 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++.
Show Notes 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
August 04, 2023How CLion works under the hood
Dmitry Kozhevnikov joins Timur and guest co-host Matt Godbolt. Dmitry talks to us about how the CLion IDE works under the hood.
News
mold 2.0.0 released
CLion 2023.2 released
Should we stop writing functions?
Links
C++ Lambda Idioms: technique to separate user-specified and deduced template parameters
The Kotlin Foundation
JetBrains Runtime
CLion data flow analysis engine
PVS-Studio: 60 terrible tips for a C++ developer
...more
59min
July 21, 2023Safety, Security and Modern C++, with Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup joins Phil and Timur. Bjarne talks to us about safety in C++ through profiles, as well as modules and concepts - and looks ahead to what else is coming next.
News
C++ Now 2023 videos
ACCU 2023 videos
JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey 2023
Upcoming Boost 1.83 release
Links
P2739R0 - 'A call to action: Think seriously about “safety"; then do something sensible about it'
P2687R0 - 'Design Alternatives for Type-and-Resource Safe C++'
'Contemporary C++ in Action' (video) - Daniela Engert
...more
1h 2min
July 07, 2023Sequence-Oriented Programming
Tristan Brindle joins Timur and Phil. Tristan talks to us about a safer alternative to iterators and his library, Flux, that implements it.
News
60 terrible tips for a C++ developer
Big, combined, committee trip report from Varna
CLion 2023.2 EAP4: AI Assistant
"Making C++ Memory-Safe Without Borrow Checking, Reference Counting, or Tracing Garbage Collection"
Links
Episode 78 of CppCast, mentioning Cling
Episode of ADSP recorded at C++ on Sea
Episode 152 of CppCast, with Tristan and the C++ London Uni team
Flux on GitHub
...more
1h 2min
June 23, 2023Contracts
Joshua Berne joins Phil and Timur. Joshua talks to us about the previous week's ISO C++ meeting in Varna, Bulgaria, then focuses on the current state of the contracts proposal that he has been central to, as well as a bit of its history.
News
ISO C++ trip report's from Varna:
Herb Sutter's trip report
Jonathan Müller's trip report
GCC 14 NRVO enhancements (Reddit)
P2025 proposes guaranteed NRVO
How to get NRVO before C++26
XCode 15 beta
Links
P2831 - "Functions having a narrow contract should not be noexcept"
P2521 - The current contracts MVP
P2695 - "A proposed plan for Contracts in C++"
P2811 - "Contract-Violation Handlers"
P2834 - "Semantic Stability Across Contract-Checking Build Modes"
P2877R0 - "Contract Build Modes, Semantics, and Implementation Strategies"
P2751 - "Evaluation of Checked Contract-Checking Annotations"
P2552 - "On the ignorability of standard attributes"
p2786 - "Trivial relocatability options"
P2839 - "Nontrivial Relocation via a New owning reference Type"
P0843R8 - "inplace_vector"
...more
1h 12min
June 09, 2023Modules and build systems
Daniel Ruoso joins Phil and Timur. After covering a couple of blog posts and a new UI library, we welcome Daniel back to talk with us about modules, package and build systems and SG15, the tooling study group. We also revisit the Ecosystem International Standard.
News
Modern C++ In-Depth — Is string_view Worth It?
How to check if a pointer is in a range of memory - Raymond Chen
Nui - new C++ Webview UI library
Nui on Reddit
Timur's Undefined Behaviour survey
Links
P2898R0 - "Importable Headers are Not Universally Implementable"
"Clang Automated Refactoring for everyone with clangmetatool" - Daniel's C++ Now 2019 talk
P1689R5 - "Format for describing dependencies of source files" (Kitware)
...more
1h 8min
May 26, 2023C++ in Finance
Antony Peacock joins Timur and Phil. After rounding up the news, we chat with Antony about what it's like to work in finance as a C++ developer, the similarities and differences to games dev and how you can break in to a role in finance. We also discuss what it's like to work in tech as someone with dyslexia.
News
Visual Studio 17.6 released
Valgrind 3.21 released
Snitch 1.1
Meeting C++ Call for Speakers (until June 18)
CppCon Call for Speakers (until June 25)
Links
P2547R1 - "Language Support for Customisable Functions"
Maven on C++
"How to get into the tech industry" (Maven's blog)
Interview question at Maven
"C++ 20 Techniques for Algorithmic Trading" (webinar)
"C++ Concepts and Fireside Chat on Algorithmic Trading" (webinar)
"C++ and Python for Algorithmic Trading" (webinar)
Example algo trading code from webinar series (1)
Example algo trading code from webinar series (2)
Antony's article on Neurodiversity and Dyslexia
Diversita (UK)
P0201R6 - "polymorphic_value: A Polymorphic Value Type for C++"
P1950R2 - "indirect_value: A Free-Store-Allocated Value Type For C++"
EVE - the Expressive Vector Engine
P1385R7 - "Linear Algebra"
P1935R2 - "A C++ Approach to Physical Units"
mp-units - Mateusz Pusz' implementation of physical units
P2547R0 - "Language support for customisable functions"
"Why tag_invoke is not the solution I want" - Barry Revzin
...more
55min
May 12, 2023Conan 2.0
Luis Campos joins Phil and Timur. After some compiler and language news, we chat with Luis about the recent Conan 2.0 release, the state of package management in C++, today and what's happening in the world of C++ standards that may impact it in the future.
News
GCC 13 released
CppFront "spring update"
Mojo - a new language with Python-like syntax but runs like C++
CrabLang - a fork of Rust
Timur's Undefined Behaviour survey
Links
Conan 2.0
P2656R2 - "C++ Ecosystem International Standard"
Conan on Twitter
"A Lock-free Atomic shared_ptr" - Timur's C++ Now 2022 talk
"Advanced Dependencies Model in Conan 2.0" - Diego's ACCU 2022 talk
...more
59min
May 11, 2023Conan 2.0
Luis Campos joins Phil and Timur. After some compiler and language news, we chat with Luis about the recent Conan 2.0 release, the state of package management in C++, today and what's happening in the world of C++ standards that may impact it in the future.
Show Notes News

GCC 13 released

CppFront "spring update"

Mojo - a new language with Python-like syntax but runs like C++

CrabLang - a fork of Rust

Timur's Undefined Behaviour survey

Links

Conan 2.0

P2656R2 - "C++ Ecosystem International Standard"

Conan on Twitter

"A Lock-free Atomic shared_ptr" - Timur's C++ Now 2022 talk

"Advanced Dependencies Model in Conan 2.0" - Diego's ACCU 2022 talk
...more
59min
April 28, 2023AI Infrastructure
Ashot Vardanian joins Timur and Phil. After some conference updates, news about the ISO C++ Developer Survey, Sonar integration in Compiler Explorer and some posts on modules and performance, we chat with Ashot Vardanian about AI and the infrastructure that underpins it. Ashot talks to us about some of the libraries and tools he and his startup have been developing over the past few years with some impressive numbers behind them.
News
Core C++ (Israel) - 5th-8th June
Meeting C++ 2023 - 12th-14th November
C++ Now 2023 - 7th-12th May
C++ on Sea 2023 schedule announced - 27th-30th June
CppNorth - 17th-19th July
2023 ISO C++ Developer Survey
"Sonar ❤️ Compiler Explorer: Write clean C++ code inside your browser"
"C++20 modules in clang"
"Horrible Code, Clean Performance"
Links
Unum (Ash's AI research company)
Unum repos on GitHub
Cpp Armenia User Group
...more
1h 11min

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