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Modern C for Absolute Beginners
Rob and Jason are joined by Slobodan Dmitrovic. They first talk about the latest update to the {fmt} library, another Raymond Chen blogpost, and a summary of ISO standardization progress made in 2021. Then they talk to Slobodan about his new book Modern C for Absolute Beginners. News {fmt} v8.1.0 released You can't copy code with memcpy 2021 C++ Standardization Highlights Links Modern C for Absolute Beginners C++ and Friends Patreon CppCast Patreon
New Years 2022
Rob and Jason discuss various news articles, libraries and announcements on the last episode of 2021 before the new year. News C++ logging library - something I've been working on, Pt. 2 Do vectors get more use than what my textbook implies? This year receive the gift of a free Meson manual Microsoft VS 2022 and Floating-point to Integer Conversions Top 10 bugs found in C++ projects in 2021 Visual Studio Code C++ December 2021 Update: clang-tidy ImGui Command Palette Brand new C++20 serialization library (one header) CLion Bug-Fix Update 2021.3.1 and Roadmap for 2022.1 C++ on Sea 2022 Your New Mental Model of constexpr - Jason Turner - CppCon 2021 C++Now 2022 Call For Submissions C++ North Sponsors Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
Distributing C++ Modules
Rob and Jason are joined by Daniel Ruoso and Bret Brown from Bloomberg. They first talk about Jason's new Object Lifetime Puzzle book and a blost post from Kevlin Henney on Agile processes. Then they talk to Daniel and Bret about their research into using Modules at Bloomberg, and some of the changes still needed from compilers and build systems to use Modules in large scale software development. News Boost v1.78 Object Lifetime Puzzlers Book 1 Agility ≠ Speed Links p2409: Requirements for Usage of C++ Modules at Bloomberg p2473: Distributing C++ Module Libraries What Agile is Actually About? CppCon - Lessons Learned from Packaging 10,000+ C++ Projects - Bret Brown & Daniel Ruoso - CppCon 2021 CppCon - Modern CMake Modules - Bret Brown - CppCon 2021 Sponsors Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
Beautiful C++
Rob and Jason are joined by Kate Gregory and Guy Davidson. They first talk about a free online game development course and updates to CLion. Then they talk to Kate and Guy about their upcoming book: Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code. News C++ Game Programming course on YouTube CLion 2021.3 Modernizing Your Code With C++20 Links Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code on Amazon Kate Gregory's Blog - Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code Sample Code for Beautiful C++ on Compiler Explorer C++ North - The Canadian C++ Conference C++ Reflection TS: A First Look Total War: Warhammer III Sponsors Indicate the #cppcast hashtag and request your PVS-Studio one-month trial license here https://pvs-studio.com/try_free C++ tools evolution: static code analyzers: https://pvs-studio.com/0873
Software Architecture with C++
Rob and Jason are joined by Adrian Ostrowski and Piotr Gaczowki. They first talk about profiling tools and reverse iterators. Then they talk to Adrian and Piotr about their book on C++ Software Architecture, and what all C++ developers can learn from it. News Another way of looking at C++ reverse iterators C++ Profiling and Benchmarking Tools in 2021 A footnote on "Three reasons to pass std::string_view by value" Links Software Architecture with C++ Software Architecture with C++ on Amazon Sponsors Indicate the #cppcast hashtag and request your PVS-Studio one-month trial license here https://pvs-studio.com/try_free C++ tools evolution: static code analyzers: https://pvs-studio.com/0873
Mdspan and Too Cute C++ Tricks
Rob and Conor are joined by Daisy Hollman. They first talk about C++23's approaching feature freeze including Daisy's work on the mdspan proposal. Then they talk to Daisy about her recent 'too cute' CppCon talk and whether you should be writing cute code in production. News JetBrains CppCon Talks C++23: Near the Finish Line Cmake 3.22.0 available for download Links p0009 mdspan Daisy Hollman - What you can learn from being too cute - Meeting C++ online Petrify App PMD Source Code Analyzer #include Sponsors Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
Deducing This
Rob and Jason are joined by Gašper Ažman. They first talk about some resources for learning C++ and learning how to work on the LLVM compiler. Then they talk to Gašper about the Deducing This feature coming to C++23, how the feature worked its way through the ISO committee and what it will change. News ADSP: The Podcast The Array Cast C++ By Example JetBrains CppCon Early Access CppCon 2021 trip report How to learn Compilers LLVM Edition Links p0847 Deducing This Defining Contracts Sponsors Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
Visual Studio 2022
Rob and Jason are joined by Sy Brand from Microsoft. They first talk about the recent CppCon conference, the hybrid format and some of their favorite talks. Then they talk to Sy about the upcoming Visual Studio 2022 release, what's new in the IDE and new features and improvements for C++ developers. News WG21 October Mailing CppCon 2021 Virtual Trip Report, A User Story Extending and Simplifying C++: Thoughts on Pattern Matching using is and as - Herb Sutter Links Visual Studio 2022 Release Notes Visual Studio 2022 Launch Day Event C++20 DR tracker Sponsors PVS-Studio Learns What strlen is All About PVS-Studio podcast transcripts
C++23 ISO Progress
Rob and Jason are joined by Bryce Adelstein Lelbach. They first talk about SonarLint analysis, and searching algorithm performance and an observation on compiler diversity. Then they talk to Bryce about the proposals that are heading for C++23, including major changes to the executor and networking proposals. News Supercharge your C++ analysis with SonarLint for Clion Efficiently searching an array with GCC, Clang and ICC C++ Committee polling results for asynchronous programming Links P0443R13 - A Unified Executors Proposal for C++ P2300R0 - std::execution Sponsors PVS-Studio Learns What strlen is All About PVS-Studio podcast transcripts
JIT Compilation and Exascale Computing
Rob and Jason are joined by Hal Finkel from the US Department of Energy. They first talk to Hal about the LLVM 13 release and why the release notes were lacking. Then they talk to Hal about his C++ JIT Proposal, the Clang prototype and how it could be used. They also talk about Hal's work at DOE, Exascale computing and more. News LLVM 13 released Some lesser-known powers of std::optional Barbarian, an open and distributed Conan package index! Links ClangJIT P1609R1 C++ Should Support Just-in-Time Compilation Hal Finkel "Faster Compile Times and Better Performance: Bringing Just-in-Time Compilation to C+" US Department of Energy: Advanced Scientific Computing Research Sponsors Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
EVE - the Expressive Vector Engine
Rob and Jason are joined by Joël Falcou and Denis Yaroshevskiy. They first talk about the 6.2 release of Qt and the range-based for loop bug that won't be getting fixed in C++23. Then they talk to Joel and Denis about EVE, a C++20 SIMD library that evolved from Boost.SIMD. News QT 6.2 LTS Released GDBFrontend C++ Committee don’t want to fix range-based for loop in C++23 (broken for 10yrs) Links EVE on GitHub EVE example on Compiler Explorer CppCon 2021: SIMD in C++20: EVE of a new Era Meeting C++ 2021 - EVE: A new, powerful open source C++20 SIMD library C++Russia EVE Talk Denis Yaroshevskiy - my first SIMD - Meeting C++ online Sponsors Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
Autonomous UAS
Rob and Jason are joined by Brandon Duick and Billy Sisson from Exyn Technologies. They first discuss the upcoming CppCon hybrid conference and a new tuple library for C++20. Then they talk to Brandon and Billy about the autonomous UAS/Drone software they work on at Exyn Technologies. News CppCon 2021 Program Announced Tuplet: A lightweight Tuple Library for Modern C++ Span should have a converting constructor from initializer_list Links Exyn Technology Careers Exyn - Autonomy Level 4 First Dog to Fly a Drone ExynAI - Modular Autonomy for Mission Critical Data Sponsors PVS-Studio Learns What strlen is All About PVS-Studio podcast transcripts
Joedb
Rob and Jason are joined by Remi Coulom from Kayufu. They first discuss another blog posts about the ongoing ABI problems in C++ and another on common mistakes with comparison functions. Then they talk to Remi about Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database. News Dicontinue Sourcetrail Binary Banshees and Digital Demons Djinni generator release v1.2.0 Opzioni Everybody Makes Mistakes When Writing Comparison Functions Links Joedb - Journal-Only Embedded Database Kayufu - Artificial Intelligence in Games Sponsors PVS-Studio Learns What strlen is All About PVS-Studio podcast transcripts
CoreCpp 2021
Rob and Jason are joined by Amir Kirsh and Avi Lachmish from Incredibuild. They first discuss Idle, a new C++ framework, the September ISO mailing and an Algorithm Intuition Chart. Then they talk to Amir and Avi about the recent CoreCpp conference, Bjarne's keynote and other talks from the conference. News Idle: an asynchronous and hot-reloadable C++ dynamic component framework September ISO Mailing Algorithm Intuition Chart Links Core Cpp Conference Bjarne Stroustrup Live on Core C++ Conference – Q&A Session Core C++ 2021: Bjarne Stroustrup - Thriving in a crowded and changing world Rust vs C++ and Is It Good for Enterprise Sponsors Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
Dart and Crafting Interpreters
Rob and Jason are joined by Bob Nystrom from Google. They first discuss git commands explained via cats and an analysis of how Visual Studio 2022 could use all your RAM. Then they talk to Bob about some of the programming languages he's created, his two books 'Crafting Interpreters' and 'Game Programming Patterns' and his work on the Dart programming language at Google. News Safer Usage of C++ in Chrome Git commands explained with cats Meeting Embedded 2021 How Visual Studio 2022 ate up to 100GB of RAM Links Crafting Interpreters Game Programming Patterns Dart Programming Language Flutter Robert Nystrom's Blog Vigil on GitHub Sponsors Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount