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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Programming History, JIT Compilations and Generic Algorithms
Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Deane from Quantlab. They first discuss the 11.0 update of Clang and an a blog post highlighting some of the smaller features that were added in C++17. They then talk to Ben about some of his recent CppCon talks including one on what we can learn from the history of programming languages and another on the ability to JIT C++ code. News Clang 11.0.0 is out 17 Smaller but Handy C++17 Features Links Careers at Quantlab Constructing Generic Algorithms: Principles and Practice - Ben Deane - CppCon 2020 Just-in-Time Compilation: The Next Big Thing? - Ben Deane & Kris Jusiak - CppCon 2020 How We Used To Be - Ben Deane - CppCon 2020 Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
Bazel
Rob and Jason are joined by Lukács Berki and Julio Merino from Google's Bazel team. They discuss CppCon trip reports, the cpp subreddit and a video on C++ 20 Concepts. Then Lukács and Julio talk all about the advantages of Bazel and some of the key features of Google's open source build tool. News My favorite way to TDD CppCon Trip Reports r/cpp status update Concepts in C++20 Links Bazel Bazel on GitHub The final boss: Bazel's own JNI code
Meeting C++ 2020
Rob and Jason are joined by Jens Weller from Meeting C++. They discuss a blog post on Immediately Invoked Function Expressions, a syntactic sugar library and JeanHeyd Meneid's blog and video about the C++ Community. Then they talk with Jens about the upcoming Meeting C++ conference, on line user groups and job fairs and more. News Coding Cards Technique: Immediately Invoked Function Expression for Metaprogramming SugarPP: syntactic 🍬 for programming in C++ The Community Links Meeting C++ Survey Meeting C++ 2020 Meeting C++ Online Burnout - Jens Weller - Meeting C++ 2019 secret lightning talks Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers
Performance Matters
Rob and Jason are joined by Emery Berger from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They first discuss updates to GCC and the September ISO mailing. Then they talk to Emery Berger about Performance tooling and how improvements in Performance should be measured. News New C++ features in GCC 10 September C++ ISO Mailing std::exchange patterns: Fast, Safe, Expressive and Probably Underused include Meeting C++2020 scholarship Links Plenary: Performance Matters - Emery Berger - CppCon 2020 Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection vs. Explicit Memory Management Stabilizer Coz Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers
CppCon 2020 Wrapup
Rob and Jason are joined by Jon Kalb. They talk about the first on-line CppCon conference and plans for the future. Links CppCon CppCon 2020 YouTube Playlist C++Now Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers
Microsoft Announcements at CppCon 2020
Rob and Jason are joined by Julia Reid, Sy Brand and Augustin Popa from Microsoft. They talk about the virtual CppCon, favorite talks and the virtual conference experience. Then they talk about some of the announcements being made by the Microsoft Visual C++ team during the CppCon conference talks. Links Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2020 C++ in Visual Studio Code reaches version 1.0! vcpkg: Accelerate your team development environment with binary caching and manifests A Multitude of Updates in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3 Standard C++20 Modules support with MSVC in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 C++ Coroutines in Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.8 Debug Linux core dumps in Visual Studio Project OneFuzz: new open source developer tool to find and fix bugs at scale Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers
stdpar
Rob and Jason are joined by David Olsen from NVIDIA. They first discuss the news from the ISO Committee that C++20 has been approved and work on C++23 will continue virtually. Then they talk with David about his work on NVIDIA's C++ compiler to run parallel algorithm code on the GPU and a proposal he's working on to introduce 16-bit floats to standard C++. News C++20 approved, C++23 meetings and schedule update If everyone hates it, why is OOP still so widely spread? New safety rules in C++ Core Check Links Accelerating Standard C++ with GPUs using stdpar P1467R4 Extended floating-point types and standard names Sponsors Clang Power Tools
Unit Testing
Rob and Jason are joined by Oleg Rabaev. They first discuss some papers from the latest ISO mailing and a new feature in Microsoft's vcperf tool. Then they talk to Oleg Rabaev about Unit Testing methodologies and why it's important to write testable code. News 2020-08 mailing Introducing vcperf /timetrace for C++ build time analysis Question regarding optional virtual destructor in C++20 Links Bloomberg Blog Sponsors Clang Power Tools
Cross Platform Mobile Telephony
Rob and Jason are joined by Dave Hagedorn. They first discuss a blog post from JeanHeyd Meneide on exception free containers. Then they talk to Dave Hagedorn from TextNow about his teams efforts to transition an existing iOS/Android app to using a cross platform C++ library. News Here I Stand, Free - Allocators and an Inclusive STL Awesome hpp Standard library development made easy with C++20 C++ Montreal Meetup Some things C++ does right Links TextNow Enginering Blog TextNow Careers Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers
STX
Rob and Jason are joined by Basit Ayantunde. They first discuss a blog post on plain old data types and Visual Studio's Address Sanitizer support. Then they talk to Basit about the STX library. News No more plain old data AddressSanitizer for Windows: x64 and Debug Build Support Meeting C++ Online Tickets Available Links STX Basit's Patreon Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers
Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners
Rob and Jason are joined by Slobodan Dmitrović. They first discuss a new C++ compiler from NVIDIA to compile conformant C++ code to GPUs. Then they talk to Slobodan about his book: Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners. News Approval Tests Training Course Accelerating Standard C++ with GPUs using stdpar Sign up for Private Preview of VS support for Codespaces Links Amazon: Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners Apress: Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners Sponsors Clang Power Tools
Go
Rob and Jason are joined by Ian Lance Taylor from Google. They first discuss an announcement from Conan and a blog post about embedding files into C++ applications using string literals. Then they talk to Ian Lance Taylor about the Go programming language. News Join the new Conan 2.0 Tribe C++ 70x faster file embeds using string literals Online meetups Links Go Go's GitHub repository Sponsors Clang Power Tools
Visual Effects
Rob and Jason are joined by Josh Filstrup from Netflix. They first discuss an update to wxWidgets and a bug fix update in GCC. Then they talk to Josh about his background in Programming Languages and how he transitioned to work in the Visual Effects industry, including his current job at the studio engineering group at Netflix. News wxWidgets 3.14 Release GCC 10.2 Release C++ On Sea videos coming online Links USD VFX Platform Resurrecting the SuperH architecture DCDigital - REAL Dreamcast 1080p HDMI Output CppCon 2014: Chandler Carruth "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures" Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers
TensorFlow
Rob and Jason are joined by Andrew Selle from Google. They first discuss Ranges support being added to Visual Studio, and Compiler Explorer's support for using some libraries. Then they talk to Andrew Selle from Google about Machine Learning with Tensorflow and Tensorflow Lite which he was one of the initial architects for. News Initial support for Ranges in MSVC Support for Libraries in Compiler Explorer Cmake 3.18 Release Links TensorFlow TensorFlow users TensorFlow on small and mobile devices Eigen library for linear algebra using expression templates C Bindings for TensorFlow AI Responsibilities Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers
LLVM Hacking And CPU Instruction Sets
Rob and Jason are joined by Bruno Cardoso Lopes. They first discuss an update to Mesonbuild and CppCon going virtual. Then they talk about Bruno's work on Clang including clang modules and work on a pattern matching implementation. News Meson Release Notes 0.55 Writing an LLVM Optimization CppCon Going Virtual Links SHRINK: Reducing the ISA complexity via instruction recycling SPARC16: A New Compression Approach for the SPARC Architecture P1247R0 - Disabling static destructors Sponsors Clang Power Tools