CppCast

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CppCast episodes

April 14, 2022CppNorth
Diana Ojeda from Intel and Stephanie Brenham from Ubisoft join Rob and Jason. They first talk about the upcoming Pure Virtual C++ conference, an update to WxWidgets and Apple's release of a Metal interface for C++. Then they talk to Diana and Stephanie about the upcoming CppNorth conference, how they got involved and much more.
News
Sign Up for the Pure Virtual C++ 2022 Conference
wxWidgets 3.1.6 Released
Getting started with Metal-cpp
Links
CppNorth
CppNorth Workshops
CppNorth Registration
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
1 hr
April 07, 2022Mentorship
Rainer Grimm joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a new implementation of the ninja build system and updates to Qt Creator and CMake. Then they talk to Rainer Grimm about his mentorship program, and history of teaching C++.
News
N2: revisiting ninja
Qt Creator 7 released
Cmake 3.23.0 available
C++20 Ranges: The Key Advantage - Algorithm Composition
Links
Modernes C++
Rainer's German Blog
Mentoring Program
Sponsors
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1 hr
March 31, 2022Julia
Logan Kilpatrick joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a GDB frontend and an IDE like autocompletion tool for the terminal. Then they talk to Logan Kilpatrick about the Julia programming language. They discuss the origin of the language, and where it fits in today amongst other languages in the scientific computing domain.
News
Seer - a new gui frontend to gdb
IDE style autocomplete for your terminal
Nvidia: 'We are a Quantum Computing Company'
Links
Julia
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1 hr
March 25, 2022Zig
Andrew Kelley joins Rob and Jason. They first say Happy 25th Birthday to Visual Studio and discuss a tool for parsing GCC error logs. Then they talk to Andrew Kelley, the president of the Zig Software Foundation. He talks about the Zig language, upcoming changes to its build tooling, and how Zig can be used with C and C++.
News
Happy 25th birthday Visual Studio
GCC Explorer: A utility for exploring GCC error logs
GCC Explorer
Divide & Conquer and Sets: The 114 C++ algorithms series
C++ Best Practices Game Jam
Links
Zig Software Language
Sponsors
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1 hr
March 17, 2022Swift and C++ Interoperability
Dave Abrahams joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about JeanHeyd Meneid's blog post on saving C's ABI. Then they talk to Dave about his history as a founding contributor of boost and the current workgroup he is a part of to enable bidirectional interop between swift and C++.
News
To Save C, We Must Save the ABI
Jluna C++ interop for Julia
Emulating template named arguments in C++ 20
Links
Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement
C++ Interoperability Status
Getting started with C++ Interoperability
Interoperability between Swift and C++
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
1 hr
March 10, 2022New C++ Scope and Debugging Support
René Ferdinand Rivera Morell joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a new cmake initialization project and some projects in the C++ show and tell. Then they talk to René about his open letter to the C++ committee about expanding its scope to include tooling and other related technologies.
News
Execution and Static Analysis Support for MSVC on Compiler Explorer
Cmake-init
C++ Show and Tell experiment
Links
New C++ Scope
Attending C++ Standards Committee Meetings During a Pandemic
Debugging Support
Sponsors
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C++ tools evolution: static code analyzers:
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1 hr
March 03, 2022Secure Coding and Integers
Robert Seacord joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a constexpr wordle game and constexpr unique_ptr being added to the standard. Then they talk to Robert Seacord about secure coding and his thoughts on integers.
News
Wordlexpr: compile-time wordle in C++20
January ISO Mailing
Constexpr unique_ptr accepted
Rainer's bundle on sale 1/2 off with sales going to support Ukraine
Links
Joy of Coding Humble Bundle
Effective C - An Introduction to Professional C Programming
Secure Coding in C and C++, 2nd Edition
The CERT C Coding Standard
SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard
ISO/IEC TS 17961
ISO/IEC TS 17961 - Review Draft
Sponsors
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1 hr
February 25, 2022Teaching Embedded Development
Khalil Estell joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about Matt Godbolt's recent keynote at CPPP on C++'s Superpower. Then they talk to Khalil about teaching C++ embedded development and some of his thoughts on embedded development, including why not to avoid runtime polymorphism.
News
CPPP Keynote: C++'s Superpower - Matt Godbolt
Visual Studio 2022 17.1 is now available
Making a cross platform mobile & desktop app with Qt 6.2
VSCode Map Preview
Links
libembeddedhal
San Jose State University GitHub
Khalil's YouTube Channel
Sponsors
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1 hr
February 18, 2022GDAL and PDAL
Howard Butler joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an announcement from Swift on a C++ interoperability workgroup. Then they talk to Howard Butler about the C++ Geospatial libraries GDAL and PDAL, and his involvement with geospatial development.
News
Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement
The mystery of the crash that seems to be on a std::move operation
How we used C++20 to eliminate an entire class of runtime bugs
Links
hobu
GDAL
GDAL on GitHub
PDAL
PDAL on GitHub
Cloud Optimized Point Cloud
Sponsors
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1 hr
February 11, 20225G Network Computing
Yacob Cohen-Arazi joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an update to Microsoft's GSL library and the upcoming LLVM v14. Then they talk to Kobi about work he's done at Qualcomm with 5G networks and how 5G is about a lot more then just bandwidth improvements.
News
Nerd Talk - Doug McIlroy & Brian Kernighan
GSL 4.0.0 is Available Now
gsl-lite
I don't know which container to use (and at this point I'm too afraid to ask)
LLVM/Clang 14 ends Feature Development with better C++20 support, Armv9
Links
San Diego C++
Qualcomm Careers
Sponsors
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1 hr