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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April 14, 2023Native Languages (programming and natural)
Mathew Benson joins Phil and Timur. After some news on new dev tool releases and some welcome improvements to iostreams in GCC13, we talk to Mathew Benson about what it's like to learn and use C++ in Africa and the implications for the hardware and our choices in programming language. Mathew also draws an interesting parallel to natural languages.
News
CLion 2023.1 released
Qt Creator 10 released
Buck2 released
"A leaner in libstdc++ for GCC 13"
Links
Timur's three-question Undefined Behaviour survey
CppAfrica on Twitter
CppAfrica on Discord
...more
54min
April 11, 2023 Native Languages (programming and natural)
Mathew Benson joins Phil and Timur. After some news on new dev tool releases and some welcome improvements to iostreams in GCC13, we talk to Mathew Benson about what it's like to learn and use C++ in Africa and the implications for the hardware and our choices in programming language. Mathew also draws an interesting parallel to natural languages.
...more
54min
March 31, 2023Cpp2, with Herb Sutter
Herb Sutter joins Phil and Timur. We catch up on the news about LLVM 16 being released, a new book on initialisation in C++ and a couple of new user groups. Then we talk to Herb about his new language/ alternate syntax, Cpp2, which compiles down to C++ in much the same way that C with Classes compiled down to C.
News
LLVM 16.0.0 released
"C++ initialisation story" - a new book by Bartlomiej Filipek
New user group forming in Prague - Miloš Anđelković
New user group forming in Helsinki - Timur Doumler
Links
CppFront - the compiler for Cpp2
"Can C++ be 10x Simpler & Safer?" - Herb's CppCon keynote introducing Cpp2 and CppFront
...more
1h 11min
March 17, 2023Safety Critical C++
Andreas Weis joins Timur and Phil. After some news about Boost, std::format and performance, Andreas talks to us about safety critical application domains, safety in C++ in general, and the difference between safety in security.
News
Boost libraries may drop support for older language versions
"Fun with printing tables with std::format and C++20" - Bartlomiej Filipek
"C++20 Formatting Library, Parts 1. 2 and 3" - Gajendra Gulgulia
"Decreasing the Number of Memory Accesses, 1/2" - Ivica Bogosavljevic
using std::cpp (conference in Madrid)
Links
MUC++ (The Munich C++ User Group)
ComicSansMs - Andreas on StackOverflow
The EU's Cyber Resilience Act
"Why not simply implement borrow checking in C++?" - Sean Baxter on Twitter
P2771R0 - "Towards memory safety in C++"
"Rust Safety is not superior to C++" - Bjarne Stroustrup
P2739R0 - "A call to action: Think seriously about 'safety'; then do something sensible about it"
P2759R1 - "DG Opinion on safety for ISO C++"
P2723R1 - "Zero-initialize objects of automatic storage duration"
D2795R0 - "Correct and incorrect code, and 'erroneous behaviour'"
P2809R0 - "Trivial infinite loops are not Undefined Behavior"
MISRA
...more
1h 12min
March 03, 2023Carbon, with Richard Smith
Richard Smith joins Timur and Phil. After the usual news round-up, we chat with Richard about the new C++ successor language, Carbon. Richard is one of the three lead contributors to Carbon and he discusses the philosophy and some of the special features that make Carbon different.
News
Conan 2.0 release
CMake debugger in Visual Studio
Unreal Engine - C++ Complete Guide
The Italian C++ Conference
Links
P1881R0 - Epochs proposal
P2137R0 - "Goals and priorities for C++" (from March 2020)
Carbon GitHub org - with lots of links
...more
59min
February 17, 2023Issaquah trip report and how the C++ sausage is made
Nina Ranns joins Timur and Phil. After community news, including conferences, a new C++ community in Africa and a new project manager and build system, we talk to Nina about the recent ISO committee meeting in Issaquah where the technical work on C++23 was finalised, as well as an inside look at how the committee works and Nina's current project: allocator-friendly library types that don't allocate.
News
Core C++ (cfp open)
CppIndia cfp
C++ Now - call for volunteers
C++ on Sea (speakers and tickets)
C++ Africa
Zork++ 0.5
Links
Orsen Scott Card's Beekeeper Analogy
P2806R0 - "Do Expressions"
Nina's user type categories talk
P2644R1 - "Final Fix of Broken Range‐based for Loop"
P2047R1 - "An allocator aware optional type"
Embracing Modern C++ Safely
P2674R1 - "A trait for implicit lifetime types"
...more
1h 5min
February 03, 2023CppNorth and the Forgotten Developers
Mike Daum joins Phil and Timur. After some community news, including the state of modules support in CMake and a new compile-time parsing library inspired by Rust's macros, we talk to Mike about CppNorth - what it is, how it got started and what makes it different - then about company cultures, a new language from Epic, and the importance of catering to 'Dark Matter Developers'.
News
ACCU Schedule and registration
CMake blog post about the state of C++20 Modules support
P1689R5 "Format for describing dependencies of source files"
"Macro Rules" - compile-time parser library from Max Pasichnyk
Reddit discussion of Macro Rules
Links
CppNorth
Exclusive Discount code for CppNorth registration (while available)
CppNorth mentoring email
CppNorth mentoring channel on Discord
Orsen Scott Card's Beekeeper Analogy
Verse, the new Unreal scripting language
Talk on Verse, by Simon Peyton Jones
"C++ Software Design" (book) - Klaus Iglberger
...more
1h 11min
January 20, 2023Val and Mutable Value Semantics
Dimi Racordon joins Timur and Phil. They first have a couple more conference speaker calls, a new C++20 test framework, and and some updates about Safety in C++ and the C++ successor languages announced last year. Then they talk to Dimi Racordon about the new language, Val, how it relates to C++, and why mutable value semantics are so powerful.
News
C++ Now Call for Speakers
CppNorth Call for Speakers
Snitch v1.0 - a "Lightweight C++20 testing framework"
"The Year of C++ Successor Languages" - Lucian Radu Teodorescu
"Supporting the Use of Rust in the Chromium Project" - Google Security Blog
Links
Dimi's CppCon 2022 talk on Val and C++ interop
"I'll Build Myself" - Phil's song about building C++
P2739R0 - "A call to action:
Think seriously about “safety”; then do something sensible about it"
P2759R0 - "DG Opinion on Saftety for ISO C++"
"The Rule of Two"
val-lang.dev - the official website for Val
...more
49min
January 06, 2023From Healthcare to Automotive
Honey Sukesan joins Phil and Timur. They first have a couple more conference announcements, an update on Cpp2 and a round-up of C++ in 2022. Then they talk to Honey Sukesan about her journey from working in Healthcare to working in the Automotive industry, and some of the surprising overlaps - as well as her personal journey during along the way.
News
CppNorth tickets on sale
using std::cpp Call for Speakers
"Cpp2 and cppfront: Year-end mini-update"
"C++ at the end of 2022" - Bartlomiej Filipek
"libstdc++13 gets C++20 "
Links
ToastMasters
"Can software developers draw pictures" (Honey's CppCon 2020 Lightning Talk)
"SOLID Principles Unleashed" (Honey's CppIndia 2022 talk)
...more
53min
December 23, 2022Holiday Special with Phil Nash and Timur Doumler
Rob and Jason are back, at least for the holidays, and are joined by Timur Doumler and Phil Nash to talk about some of their recent news, and a super secret new project they are working on together.
News
Boost 1.81.0 released
CLion 2022.3 released, with CMake debug and new (opt-in) UI
C++ support in JetBrains' Fleet
C++ passes Java on the TIOBE index
"If we must, let's talk about safety" (Corentin Jabot)
P2723R0 "Zero-initialize objects of automatic storage duration" (JF Bastien)
NDC TechTown - Call for Speakers (ends May 19th)
C++ on Sea - Call for Speakers (ends Jan 8th)
ACCU - speakers selected, schedule soon
Links
P1774R8 "Portable Assumption" ([[assume]])
P2590R2 "Explicit lifetime managerment" (std::start_lifetime_as)
"Type punning in modern C++" (video)
"The Rules of Three, Five and Zero" (article)
"Beyond the Rules of Three, Five and Zero" (article)
"The Power of Clean C++" (webinar)
Jason's C++ eBooks
Jason's C++ print books
Jason's "C++ Weekly" Youtube channel
"Making C++ Fun, Safe, and Accessible" - Jason's C++ on Sea keynote
...more
1h 6min

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