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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Coroutines
Rob and Jason are joined by Gor Nishanov to talk about the C++ Coroutines proposal. Gor Nishanov is a Principal Software Design Engineer on the Microsoft C++ team. He works on design and standardization of C++ Coroutines, and on asynchronous programming models. Prior to joining C++ team, Gor was working on distributed systems in Windows Clustering team. News Verdigris: Qt without moc Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting A C++ review community Future Ruminations Gor Nishanov @gornishanov Gor Nishanov's GitHub Links CppCon 2015: Gor Nishanov "C++ Coroutines - a negative overhead abstraction" CppCon 2016: Gor Nishanov "C++ Coroutines: Under the covers" Wandbox: Coroutines with Ranges Compiler Explorer: Coroutines clang demo Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
CopperSpice
Rob and Jason are joined by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim to talk about the CopperSpice C++ GUI Library. Barbara is an independent consultant working as a programmer and software developer for over 25 years. She has been a featured speaker at more than a dozen trade shows and computer conferences in the US and on two separate occasions Barbara taught an extended class in software architecture and GUI design for the Panama Canal Commission in Panama. Ansel has been working as a programmer for over 15 years. Ansel worked for 8 years at a communications company designing scalable, high performance, multi-threaded network daemons in C++ and he is currently a software consultant for RealityShares in San Francisco. News 5 years of Meeting C++ Why you should really care about C/C++ static analysis Hotspot a GUI for the linux perf profiler Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim Barbara Geller's GitHub Ansel Sermersheim's GitHub Links CopperSpice CopperSpice GitHub CopperSpice YouTube Channel DoxyPress CppCon 2015: Barbara Geller & Ansel Sermersheim "CopperSpice: A Pure C++ GUI Library" CppCon 2015: Barbara Geller & Ansel Sermersheim "Doxygen to DoxyPress" Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
Teaching Concepts
Rob and Jason are joined by Christopher Di Bella to talk about his experience teaching C++ and his proposed changes to Concepts. Christopher Di Bella will soon be a Runtime Technology Engineer at Codeplay, and was previously university tutor (teaching assistant) for the course 'Advanced C++ Programming', at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is an avid C++ programmer, and also enjoys film, board games, and snowboarding in his spare time. News CppCon Last Call for Early Bird Pricing Introducing the Splash Damage C++ Tech Blog Security features in Microsoft Visual C++ Meeting Embedded Catch Survey Christopher Di Bella @cjdb_ns Christopher Di Bella's GitHub Links CppCon: Exploring the C++ Standard Library Concepts TS Range v3 Library Range TS/STL2 C++ Extension for Ranges Advanced C++ Programming Course Notes Book: "Writing Secure Code" Book: "Code Complete" Book: "A Tour of C++" Seth Bling "Hacking the Super Mario World" Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus Better C++/Chicago
<chrono> and more
Rob and Jason are joined by Howard Hinnant from Ripple to talk about <chrono>, his date & time library (and proposal) and his work on move semantics. Howard Hinnant is a Senior Software Engineer at Ripple and the lead author of several C++11/14 features including: move semantics, unique_ptr, chrono, condition_variable_any, shared_mutex and std::lock. He is also the lead author of two LLVM projects libc++ and libc++abi. News Noexcept: lightweight error handling library for C++11 7 Ways to Get Better at C++ During this Summer After 17 yrs of active development, does the Boost C++ library meet its original vision Howard Hinnant Howard Hinnant Links CppCon 2016: Howard Hinnant "A \<chrono> Tutorial" CppCon 2015: Howard Hinnant “A C++14 approach to dates and times" CppCon 2016: Howard Hinnant "Welcome To The Time Zone" A Proposal to Add Move Semantics Support to the C++ Language Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus Better C++/Chicago
system_error and Boost Outcome Review
Rob and Jason are joined by Charley Bay from F5 Networks to talk about his recent CppNow talk on system_error and the Boost Outcome review. Charley Bay is a Software developer at F5 Networks with 25+ years experience in large-scale and distributed systems for low-latency C and C++. News C++ Web Frameworks Full Http/WebSocket Server framework using Beast and Boost.Asio Quick-Bench.com Simple Online C++ Performance Benchmark Turing Tumble Kickstarter Charley Bay Charley Bay Links C++Now 2017: Charles Bay "C++11's Quiet Little Gem: " Boost Formal Review Process Boost Outcome Boost Outcome Review Report Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus Better C++/Chicago
stlab Concurrency
Rob and Jason are joined by Felix Petriconi to talk about his contributions to the stlab Concurrency library and the future of C++ futures. Felix Petriconi is working as professional programmer since 1993 after he had finished his study of electrical engineering. He started his career as teacher for intellectually gifted children, freelance programmer among others in telecommunication and automotive projects. Since 2003 he is employed as programmer and development manager at the MeVis Medical Solutions AG in Bremen, Germany. He is part of a team that develops and maintains radiological medical devices. His focus is on C++ development, training of modern C++, and application performance tuning. He is a regular speaker at the C++ user group in Bremen and a member of the ACCU’s conference committee. News CppCon 2017 Keynote Speakers ACCU: Kotlin for C++ Developers Configure-cmake Beast v52 released, 3 weeks until Boost review Felix Petriconi @felixpetriconi Felix Petriconi's GitHub Links stlab concurrency stlab GitHub ACCU 2017 'The Art of Writing Reasonable Concurrent Code' ACCU 2016 'Leaving The Dark Side - Developing a C++ Based Medical Device' Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus Better C++/Chicago
Postmodern C++
Rob and Jason are joined by Tony Van Eerd to talk about his recent award winning C++Now talk on Postmodern C++ and his views on lock-free programming. Tony Van Eerd has been coding for well over 25 years, and hopefully coding well for some of that. Mostly in graphics/video/film/broadcast (at Inscriber & Adobe), writing low level pixel++, high level UI, threading, and everything else. He now enables painting with light at Christie Digital. He is on the C++ Committee. He is a Ninja and a Jedi. News C++ News Sources: /r/cpp C++ Enthusiasts Meeting C++ Blogroll IsoCpp Announcing C++Now 2018 C++Now 2017 Playlist C++ Coding Guidelines (Howard Hinnant) Why I Put const On The Right Speakers announced for pacific++ Tony Van Eerd @tvaneerd Tony Van Eerd's GitHub Links Christie Digital Christie Digital Projection Mapping Videos C++Now 2017: Tony Van Eerd "Postmodern C++" Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus Better C++/Chicago
Travis CI
Rob and Jason are joined by Richel Bilderbeek to talk about the benefits of using Travis CI for C++ developers and the role of C++ in theoretical biology. Richel Bilderbeek is a C++ developer for 17 years. He is mostly interested in what the literature has to say about good C++ practices, then teaching children and to adults, additionally writing articles, blog posts and tutorials. In his professional life, he is a PhD in theoretical biology. News Writing a Really, Really Fast JSON Parser C++ Online Compilers Looking for Proofreaders for my new Book: Concurrency with Modern C++ Richel Bilderbeek @rjcbilderbeek Richel Bilderbeek's GitHub Richel Bilderbeek's homepage Links Travis CI Travis CI Tutorial Science and Hi-Tech Day (Dutch) Sponsors Conan.io Hosts @robwirving @lefticus Better C++/Chicago
Boost Outcome
Rob and Jason are joined by Niall Douglas to talk about Google Summer of Code, Boost and his proposed Outcome library. Niall Douglas is a consultant for hire, is one of the authors of the proposed Boost.AFIO v2 and Boost Outcome, he is also currently the primary Google Summer of Code administrator for Boost. News C++Now 2017 Report Error Handing in C++ or: Why You Should Use Eithers in Favor of Exceptions and Error-Codes JavaScript/C++ Rosetta Stone CppCon 2017 Call for Submissions Niall Douglas @ned14 Niall Douglas' blog Links Google Summer of Code Boost.Outcome Boost.AFIO v2 ACCU 2017: Niall Douglas "Mongrel Monads, Dirty, Dirty, Dirty" CppCon 2015: Niall Douglas "Racing the File System" CppCon 2016: Niall Douglas "Better mutual exclusion on the filesystem using Boost.AFIO Sponsors Conan.io Hosts @robwirving @lefticus Better C++/Chicago
Build 2017
Rob travels to the Microsoft Build Developer's Conference to interview Kenny Kerr from the Windows team and Marian Luparu from the Visual Studio C++ team. Kenny Kerr is an engineer on the Windows team at Microsoft, an MSDN Magazine contributing editor, Pluralsight author, and creator of moderncpp.com (C++/WinRT). He writes at kennykerr.ca and you can find him on Twitter at @kennykerr. Marian Luparu is currently leading the team responsible for making Visual Studio more productive for C++ developers. News Better C++/Chicago Kenny Kerr @kennykerr Marian Luparu @mluparu Links Microsoft Build (Channel 9 Recordings) C++ at Microsoft Build 2017 Channel 9 C++ Panel Interview (STL, Kenny Kerr, Marian Luparu, Gaby dos Reis) C++/WinRT Available on GitHub 7++ reasons to move your C++ code to Visual Studio 2017 Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
Past, Present and Future of C++
Rob and Jason are joined by Bjarne Stroustrup, designer and original implementer of C++ to discuss the current state of C++, his vision for the future as well as some discussion of the past. Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++ as well as the author of The C++ Programming Language (Fourth Edition) and A Tour of C++, Programming: Principles and Practice using C++ (Second Edition), and many popular and academic publications. Dr. Stroustrup is a Managing Director in the technology division of Morgan Stanley in New York City as well as a visiting professor at Columbia University. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and an IEEE, ACM, and CHM fellow. His research interests include distributed systems, design, programming techniques, software development tools, and programming languages. To make C++ a stable and up-to-date base for real-world software development, he has been a leading figure with the ISO C++ standards effort for more than 25 years. He holds a master’s in Mathematics from Aarhus University and a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University, where he is an honorary fellow of Churchill College. News C++ Montreal HPX V1.0 Released A serious bug in GCC What's New in ReSharper C++ 2016.3 and 2017.1 Bjarne Stroustrup Bjarne Stroustrup's homepage Links A Tour of C++ The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) CppCon 2016: Bjarne Stroustrup "The Evolution of C++ Past, Present and Future" Sponsors Backtrace JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
Intel C++ Compiler
Rob and Jason are joined by Udit Patidar and Anoop Prabha from Intel to discuss Intel's C++ Compiler and suite of Performance tuning Software Development Tools. Anoop Prabha is currently a Software Engineer in Software and Services Group at Intel working with Intel® C++ Compiler Support. He played paramount role in driving customer adoption for features like Intel® Cilk™ Plus, Explicit Vectorization, Compute Offload to Intel® Processor Graphics across all Intel targets by creating technical articles and code samples, educating customers through webinars and 1-on-1 engagements. He is currently driving the Parallel STL feature adoption (new feature in 18.0 beta Compiler). Before joining Intel, Anoop worked at IBM India Private Ltd as a Software Developer for 3 years in Bangalore, India and later completed his graduation from State University of New York at Buffalo. Udit Patidar works in the Developer Products Division of Intel, where he is a product manager for Intel software tools. He was previously a developer working on Intel compilers, focusing on OpenMP parallel programming model for technical and scientific computing workloads. He has extensive experience in high performance computing, both at Intel and previously. Udit holds an MBA in General Management from Cornell University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Houston. News Sandstorm Cap'n Proto cppast - A library to parse and work with the C++ AST Exposing containers of unique pointers Clang-include-fixer Anoop Prabha Anoop Prabha Udit Patidar Udit Patidar Links Free Intel Software Development Tools Intel Parallel Studio XE Suite Page Intel System Studio Suite Page Intel C++ Compiler Product Page C++11 support C++14 support C++17 support Intel C++ Compiler Forum Sponsors Conan.io JetBrains
Hippomocks and cpp-dependencies
Rob and Jason are joined by Peter Bindels to discuss the Hippomocks mocking library and the cpp-dependencies analyzer. Peter Bindels is a C++ software engineer who prides himself on writing code that is easy to use, easy to work with and well-readable to anybody familiar with the language. He's worked for a contractor for a few years and then made the switch to work at Tomtom, where he's been working on various parts of the software chain, last of which was a major cleanup in the navigation code base. In doing so he developed a tool to determine, check and improve dependencies between components, which allows quicker structural insight in complicated systems. He also created HippoMocks in 2008, one of the first full fledged C++ mocking frameworks that is still a relevant choice today. He has given two talks at Meeting C++ 2016 and will be giving his third talk, on Mocking in C++, at CppNow 2017. News Fluent C++ - The Design of the STL Fluent C++ - Inserting several elements into an STL container efficently 2017 Keynote - Ryan Newton - Haskell Taketh Away CLion 2017.1 released: C++14, C++17, PCH, disassembly view, Catch, MSVC and more An introduction to Reflection in C++ Peter Bindels @dascandy42 Peter Bindels' GitHub Links Hippomocks framework cpp-dependencies Meeting C++ 2016: Peter Bindels - How to understand million-line C++ projects Lightning Talks Meeting C++ 2016: Peter Bindels - Mocking C++ Sponsors Conan.io JetBrains
Vcsn
Rob and Jason are joined by Akim Demaille to discuss VCSN, a platform for automata and rational expressions, and some of the interesting problems he faced while working on the library. Akim has been participating in free software for about 20 years, starting with a2ps, an anything to PostScript tool written in C. In order to ensure its portability, he became a major contributor to GNU Autoconf, GNU Automake and GNU Bison. Akim has been teaching and researching at EPITA, a French CS Graduate School, for eighteen years. He has taught formal languages, logics, OO design, C++ and compiler constructions, which includes the Tiger compiler, an educational project where students implement a compiler in C++. This project, whose assignment is regularly updated, keeps track of the C++ eveolutions, and this year's version uses C++17 features. Akim's recent research interests are focused on the Vcsn platform, dedicated to automata and rational expressions. He's recently been recruited by former students of his to be part of the Infinit team at Docker. News Announcing Meeting C++ 2017 C++Now 2017 Keynote: Ali Çehreli - Competitive Advantage with D Reduce C++ Build Times by Reducing Header Dependencies Capturing *this in C++11, 14 and 17 Akim Demaille Akim Demaille's GitHub Links Vcsn home page Vcsn Online Sandbox The Tiger Project Johnny Five Technical report about runtime instantiation in C++ Sponsors Incredibuild JetBrains
Jewelbots
Rob and Jason are joined by Sara Chipps to discuss Jewelbots, Arduino and getting girls interested in STEM fields. Sara Chipps is a JavaScript developer based in NYC. She has been working on Software and the Open Source Community since 2001. She’s been obsessed with hardware and part of Nodebots since 2012. She is the CEO of Jewelbots, a company dedicated towards drastically changing the number of girls entering STEM fields using hardware. She was formerly the CTO of Flat Iron School, a school dedicated to teaching people of all ages how to build software and launch careers as software developers. In 2010 she cofounded Girl Develop It, a non-profit focused on helping more women become software developers. Girl Develop It is in 45 cities, and has taught over 17,000 women how to build software. News The C++ Annotations, a free up-to-date learners book/reference manual Choosing "Some C++" Over C GCC's move to C++ PacifiC++ Sara Chipps @SaraJChipps Sara Chipps' Blog Links Jewelbots Jewelbots Support Jewelbots is a friendship bracelet that teaches girls how to code Johnny Five Girl Develop It Flat Iron School Sponsors Incredibuild JetBrains