CppCast

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CppCast episodes

May 18, 2024Rust <=> C++
Mara Bos joins Phil and Timur. Mara talks to us about her work on the Rust evolution team and how she uses embedded Rust for drone flight controllers. We chat about some of the differences and similarities between C++ and Rust, and what the two languages can, and should, learn from each other.
News
GCC 14 released
Changes
Reddit discussion
"An informal comparison of the three major implementations of std::string" (updated) - Raymond Chen
BugInsight – New memory leak and deadlock finder for C and C++ on Windows
Reddit discussion
Links
"Rust Atomics and Locks" - Mara's book
"driveway moment" (Wiktionary)
1 hr 1 min
May 03, 2024JSON for Modern C++
Niels Lohmann joins Timur and Phil. Niels talks to us about his popular JSON library, JSON for Modern C++ (often just known as nlohmann/json, after its github repo). We chat about the history and purpose of the library, with an interesting aside into starting and maintaining a popular OSS library, as well as what Niels is up to today.
News
"The Performance Impact of C++'s final Keyword" - Benjamin Summerton
Reddit discussion
Kris Jusiak: Meta-meta programming! (Reddit)
Links
"Tips on Surveying the C++ Community" - Anastasia Kazakova's talk
JSON for Modern C++
1 hr 8 min
April 23, 2024Pure Virtual C++
Sy Brand joins Phil and Timur. Sy talks about the imminent Pure Virtual C++ conference that they have been running with Microsoft's backing for a few years. Sy also discuss what they have been up to as Developer Advocate at Microsoft, as well as some fascinating outside interests.
News
C++ Foundation's C++ 2024 Developer survey results
P3236R0: "Please reject P2786 and adopt P1144"
P2786R5: "Trivial Relocatability For C++26"
P1144R10: "std::is_trivially_relocatable"
P1029R3: "move = bitcopies" (earlier alt paper)
"C++20 modules and Boost: an analysis"
"Boston C++ April 2024 online meetup"
Links
Sy's short films
Pure Virtual C++ 2024 conference
'BF' written in DWARF debug info
1 hr 1 min
April 05, 2024Heterogeneous Computing and C++ Language Evolution
Erich Keane joins Timur and Phil. Erich chats about the recent WG21 meeting in Tokyo, his roles as chair and co-chair of the Language Evolution and Language Evolution Incubator working groups, respectively, as well as heterogeneous computing and his work at NVidia.
News
CppCon - Call for Speakers
ACCU 2024 Online
Bjarne Stroustrup responds to White House warning against C++
David Sankel's post on Boost split
Links
New C++ meetup in Vienna, Austria
Tokyo ISO C++ Committee Trip Reports:
In-depth status report
Herb Sutter's report
Think-Cell's trip report (Jonathan Müller)
Papers discussed:
P2900R6 - "Contracts for C++"
P2996R2 - "Reflection for C++26"
P2688R1 - "Pattern Matching: match Expression"
P2830R1 - "Standardized Type Ordering"
1 hr 1 min
March 11, 2024Psychology and Starting Out as a Developer
Gail Ollis joins Phil and Matt Godbolt. Gail talks to us about why, after two decades of software development, she took a degree in psychology followed by a PhD that researched the psychology of software development - and how she now uses this to help others get started and, hopefully, avoid many of the human issues that can plague our software projects.
News
"Contracts MVP is Feature Complete" - Reddit
"Contracts for C++" Timur's C++ London talk
Gemini refuses to talk about C++ 20 Concepts to someone under the age of 18!
Hacker News thread
Twitch streamer's reaction (ThePrimeTime)
“White House urges developers to dump C and C++” - InfoWorld
Conferences:
C++ on Sea Early Bird tickets and option, CfP closes soon (3rd-5th July)
using std::cpp, Madrid (24th-26th April)
C++ Now (29th April - 3rd May)
ACCU full schedule and volunteers programme (17th-20th April)
Links
"Early Careers Day: A mini-conference for junior developers" - Gail's ACCU 2024 workshop
"The kids are alright" - Gail's ACCU 2024 session showcasing her students
Paper's Gail has co-authored on blending cyber security and software development:
Putting the Sec in DevSecOps: Using Social Practice Theory to Improve Secure Software Development
Dancing, not Wrestling: Moving from Compliance to Concordance for Secure Software Development
"Helping developers to help each other: a technique to facilitate understanding among professional software developers" - Gail's PhD thesis
1 hr 8 min
February 23, 2024Compiler Explorer Revisited
Patrick Quist joins Phil and Timur. Patrick chats with us about their work on the Compiler Explorer team and how they got into it. We explore some useful features that may not be as widely known, and take a peek under the hood at how it all runs.
News
"C++ Package Managers: The Ultimate Roundup" - blog post by Christopher McArthur
"Demystifying Lakos Rule via Visualization and How It Could Relate to Constexpr" blog post by Miro Palmu
"A Year of C++ Improvements in Visual Studio, VS Code, and vcpkg" - blog post by Sy Brand
NVidia interview question - Reddit thread
Links
History of Delphi
Compiler Explorer
Also Compiler Explorer
Compiler Explorer Public Dashboard (live stats)
1 hr 1 min
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
53 min
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)
1 hr 13 min
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)
1 hr 9 min
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++"
1 hr