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
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Formal Verification
Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Fernandez from Intel Labs to discuss Formal Verification. Matthew Fernandez is a Research Scientist with Intel Labs. Matt began his programming career building Windows GUI applications and designing databases, before moving into operating system architecture and security. He has a PhD in formal verification of operating systems from the University of New South Wales in Australia, and worked with the Australian research group Data61. In the past, he has worked on compilers, device drivers and hypervisors, and now spends his days exploring new tools and techniques for functional correctness and verification of security properties. On the weekends, you can usually find Matt in a park with a good book, hunting for good coffee or helping a newbie debug their code. He hopes to avoid saying “monad” on this podcast. News C++17 in Detail now available Cross-language interfaces between C and C++ Spaceship Operator Matt Fernandez @wattsamata Links The sel4 Microkernel Isabelle - Generic Proof Assistant The Coq Proof Assistant Dafny - Microsoft language and program verifier Z3 Theorem Prover Sponsors Backtrace Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
SYCL
Rob and Jason are joined by Gordon Brown to discuss his work on SYCL the OpenCL abstraction layer for C++. Gordon is a senior software engineer at Codeplay Software in Edinburgh, specialising in designing and implementing heterogeneous programming models for C++. Gordon spends his days working on ComputeCpp; Codeplay's implementation of SYCL and contributing to various standards bodies including the Khronos group and ISO C++. Gordon also co-organises the Edinburgh C++ user group and occasionally blogs about C++. In his spare time, Gordon enjoys dabbling in game development, board games and walking with his two dogs. News CppCon 2018 Poster Program Announced A bug in the C++ Standard Synapse submitted for Boost review New C++ London Uni Course Sept 18 Gordon Brown @AerialMantis Gordon Brown's blog Links SYCL ComputeCpp Parallel Programming with Modern C++: from CPU to GPU P0443r7: A Unified Executors Proposal for C++ CppCon 2017: Gordon Brown "Designing a Unified Interface for Execution" SYCL building blocks for C++ libraries - Gordon Brown - Meeting C++ 2016 Sponsors PVS-Studio February 31 Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
Sourcetrail
Rob and Jason are joined by Eberhard Gräther to discuss his work on Sourcetrail, a cross-platform source explorer for C++ code. Eberhard Gräther is software developer, user experience designer and founder at Coati Software. He started programming C++ during his undergraduate CS degree at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, majoring in game development. During multiple internships in the Google Chrome Team he worked on tools for rendering performance analysis. He then specialized in Human Computer Interaction and developer tooling during a Master's degree, where he started working on Sourcetrail, a cross-platform source explorer for faster understanding of unfamiliar source code. News Interactive Websites: Using Boost.Beast WebSockets and Networking TS New Educational Video Series: How to CMake Good Using MSVC in a Docker Container for your C++ projects Win a free ticket to C++ on Sea! Eberhard Gräther @egraether egraether.com Links Sourcetrail Sourcetrail 2018.3 C++Now 2018: Eberhard Gräther "The Untapped Potential of Software Visualization" Sponsors PVS-Studio February 31 Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
The Art of C++ Libraries
Rob and Jason are joined by Colin Hirsch to discuss his work on The Art of C++ collection of libraries including PEGTL, json and more. Dr. Colin Hirsch studied Computer Science at the University of Technology in Aachen, Germany in 1993 and later got a PhD in Mathematics from the same university. He worked for two years as a consultant for T-Mobile, developing back-end server applications in C++ and Lua. Later Colin moved to Italy, opened his own business and continued working for T-Mobile (now Deutsche Telekom) as well as working for some other interesting projects like Greenpeace and the Austrian ministry of ecology. In his free time he enjoys photography, being in nature, science fiction and spending time with his daughter. News Google Open Sources Filament rendering engine CppCon 2018 Program C++ Foundation Survey 2018-08 C++ on Sea Early Bird Tickets Available Colin Hirsch Colin Hirsch's GitHub Links The Art of C++ UmbriaLogic PEGTL json postgres Sponsors Backtrace Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
Expectations and Exceptions
Rob and Jason are joined by Sy Brand to discuss his upcoming CppCon talks covering exceptions, value wrappers, debuggers and more. News The value of undefined behavior Qt Creator 4.7 released Coroutines and Qt Links CppCon 2018: How to Write Well-Behaved Value Wrappers CppCon 2018: How C++ Debuggers Work CppCon 2018: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? A Tale of Expectations and Exceptions CppCon 2018: Overloading: The Bane of All Higher-Order Functions Sponsors Backtrace Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
Parallel Ranges
Rob and Jason are joined by Christopher Di Bella to discuss using Ranges with Parallel algorithms and much more. Christopher Di Bella is a Staff Software Engineer for Codeplay’s ComputeCpp Runtime Technology and a C++ teacher. He advocates for including the Concepts TS and the Ranges TS in C++20. Chris spends his days working on ComputeCpp, Codeplay’s implementation of SYCL, a Khronos Standard for heterogeneous programming in C++; the Khronos implementation for the Parallel STL (using SYCL); and researching Parallel Ranges, which is an attempt to fuse ranges together with the parallel STL. Chris was previously a software developer for Nasdaq, and a tutor for UNSW Sydney’s advanced C++ and compiler courses. In his spare time, Chris enjoys poking at things involving Ranges, snowboarding, playing games, and watching films. News Italian C++ Conference Videos Available Conan 1.6 Release Webview proposal C++/CLI support comes to ReSharper C++ Christopher Di Bella @cjdb_ns Christopher Di Bella's GitHub Links cpp.standardisation.au@gmail.com Generic Programming 2.0 with Concepts and Ranges P0836R1 Introduce Parallelism to the Ranges TS SYCL Parallel STL Sponsors PVS-Studio February 31 Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
Design Patterns in Modern C++
Rob and Jason are joined by Dmitri Nesteruk to discuss Design Patterns with Modern C++. Dmitri Nesteruk is a quantitative analyst, developer, course and book author, and an occasional conference speaker. His interests lie in software development and integration practices in the areas of computation, quantitative finance and algorithmic trading. His technological interests include C# and C++ programming as well high-performance computing using technologies such as CUDA and FPGAs. News Coroutine types Easy::jit Just-In-Time compilation for C++ Tool to recommend noexcept and constexpr Dmitri Nesteruk @dnesteruk Links Udemy: Design Patterns in Modern C++ Design Patterns in Modern C++ Design Patterns in C# Sponsors PVS-Studio February 31 Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
Future of 2D Graphics Proposal
Rob and Jason are joined by Guy Davidson from Creative Assembly to discuss the future of the 2D Graphics proposal after the C++ meeting in Rapperswil. Guy Davidson is the Coding Manager of Creative Assembly, makers of the Total War franchise, Alien: Isolation and Halo Wars 2, Guy has been writing games since the early 1980s. He is now also a contributor to SG14, the study group devoted to low latency, real time requirements, and performance/efficiency especially for Games, Financial/Banking, and Simulations. He speaks at schools, colleges and universities about programming and likes to help good programmers become better programmers. News MSVC Preprocessor progress towards conformance Support for Unity Files in VS 2017 15.8 (Experimental) Announcing student and support tickets for Meeting C++ 2018 CppCon 2018 Call for Poster Submissions Guy Davidson @hatcat01 Links The 2D Graphics TS 2D or not 2D: that is the question: Rapperswil trip report io2d Sponsors Backtrace Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
Modern C++ in Embedded Systems
Rob and Jason are joined by Michael Caisse from Ciere consulting to discuss Modern C++ in Embedded Systems, boostache and his work at Ciere Consulting and in the C++ Community. Michael Caisse has been crafting code in C++ for 28-years. He is a regular speaker at various conferences and is passionate about teaching and training. Michael is the owner of Ciere Consulting which provides software consulting and contracting services, C++ training, and Project Recovery for failing multidisciplinary engineering projects. When he isn't fighting with compilers or robots, he enjoys fencing with a sabre. News Herb Sutter Trip Report Announcing C++ Just My Code Stepping in Visual Studio cmake release manager AMA C++ On Sea call for speakers still open Michael Caisse @MichaelCaisse Links ciere consulting C++Now 2018: Michael Caisse "Modern C++ in Embedded Systems" boostache El Dorado Hills C++ Meetup Sponsors Backtrace Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
SG15 Tooling Group
Rob and Jason are joined by Titus Winters from Google to discuss the SG15 Tooling Study Group and revisiting the concept of regular types. Titus Winters has spent the past 7 years working on Google's core C++ libraries. He's particularly interested in issues of large scale software engineer and codebase maintenance: how do we keep a codebase of over 100M lines of code consistent and flexible for the next decade? Along the way he has helped Google teams pioneer techniques to perform automated code transformations on a massive scale, and helps maintain the Google C++ Style Guide. News Dependencies C++ 20 in Tony Tables Announcing Template Intellisense East const Central Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Rapperswil, June 2018 Titus Winters Titus Winters Links Tooling - WG21 Tooling Study Group SG15 Revisiting Regular Types Sponsors PVS-Studio February 31 Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
C++ Insights
Rob and Jason are joined by Andreas Fertig to discuss C++ Insights, the Rapperswil ISO meeting and more. Andreas Fertig holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. Since 2010 he has been a software developer and architect for Philips Medical Systems focusing on embedded systems. He has a profound practical and theoretical knowledge of C++ at various operating systems. He works freelance as a lecturer and trainer. Besides this he develops macOS applications and is the creator of cppinsights.io. News Post Rapperswil C++ Draft Cpp Taskflow std::embed updated proposal JetBrains Rapperswil Trip Report What's all the C Plus Fuss? Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++ Andreas Fertig @andreas__fertig Andreas Fertig's website Links C++ Insights C++ Insights Store Sponsors PVS-Studio February 31 Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
Rapperswil Trip Report
Rob and Jason discuss the Rapperswil trip report and other C++ news. News What's next for Visual Studio Visual Studio Roadmap Build the future of the web with WebAssembly and more (Google I/O '18) WebAssembly Physics and DOM objects "Core Coroutines" proposal Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction Links @robwirving @lefticus Sponsors Backtrace Patreon CppCast Patreon Listener Survey CppCast Listener Survey
Vcpkg
Rob and Jason are joined by Robert Schumacher from Microsoft to discuss the vcpkg package manager and more. Robert Schumacher is a developer on the Microsoft Visual C++ Libraries team and the lead developer for vcpkg. He has previously worked on the MSVC implementation of the Modules TS and is the current maintainer of Cpprestsdk. Besides work, he occasionally indulges in functional programming and arguments about whether inheritance is fundamentally flawed. News Teach yourself C++ Where to start Macro Expansions in Quick Info Tooltips Call for a more diverse program at Meeting C++ 2018 Conan 1.4 released Robert Schumacher Robert Schumacher's GitHub Links Vcpkg Vcpkg Docs Sponsors Backtrace Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
C++ London Uni
Rob and Jason are joined by Tom Breza, Oliver Ddin and Tristan Brindle to discuss the C++ London Uni group and their approach to teaching C++ to the community. Tom arrived in London at age 22 with £200 to his name, not knowing a single person. After 6 months Tom managed to start business - PC Service, that provides IT support to SMBs and runs it since then. Tom's team help many customers from small businesses to top celebrities and Royal Families. Now with over 20 years of experience, Tom set his mind on new challenges and decided to learn software development, specifically C++ and helps others to learn through C++ London Uni. Oliver has been a C++ hater since 2008 - fortunately, that all changed with C++11 and he's firmly an enthusiast now. He's spent his time doing everything from embedded devices to network engineering and now Internet security related endeavours. He's a big proponent of writing software in a style driven by some form of testing and its place in pushing you towards well-architected, maintainable code. In his spare time he also co-organises C++ London Uni which provides free lessons for people wanting to get into developing C++ and the wider ecosystem around it. Tristan is an independent contractor and C++ enthusiast based in London. He’s particularly interested in standardisation and making C++ an easier language to use and teach. He can be found on Twitter @tristanbrindle and occasionally blogs about C++ at tristanbrindle.com. News Bjarne Stroustrup P0977r0 "Remember the Vasa" Celebration of Towel Day with awesome pieces of code that print 42 Pacific++ Call for Speakers CppCon Call for Program Committee Members Tom Breza @TomBreza Oliver Ddin @olipro Tristan Brindle @tristanbrindle Links C++ London Uni Sponsors PVS-Studio The Evil within the Comparison Functions Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
sol2 and std::embed
Rob and Jason are joined by JeanHeyd Meneide to discuss the sol2 library and his proposal for std::embed. ThePhD -- known in meatspace as JeanHeyd -- is a Computer Science undergraduate at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering in Columbia University. They are currently working on Open Source C++ and C++ Standardization projects, as well as exploring graphics programming. They are currently dabbling with Haskell and Elm for fun, and are attempting to wrangle their biggest open source project -- sol2 -- into a newer, better version of itself. The nickname is a std::promise<> on their std::future<>. News Superconstructing super elider, Pt2 Matthew Butler's C++Now 2018 Trip Report Ben Deane's C++Now 2018 Trip Report A CPPNow Travel Guide Matt Godbolt's C++Now Trip Report ThePHD's C++Now 2018 Trip Report JeanHeyd Meneide @thephantomderp JeanHeyd's Blog Links sol2 p1040R0 std::embed Sponsors PVS-Studio The Evil within the Comparison Functions Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus