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ADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = ProgramsEpisode 266: Holiday Special 🎄 CppCon, NDC Toronto, C++Now, Teletext, Bamboozle & More!In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about CppCon, NDC Toronto, C++Now, Teletext, Bamboozle & more!Link to Episode 266 on WebsiteDiscuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub)SocialsADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBen Deane: Twitter | BlueSkyShow NotesDate Recorded: 2025-12-22Date Released: 2025-12-26Bamboozle!Bamboozle! QuizCeefaxTeletextNDC TorontoC++NowCppCon 2025 ScheduleAPI Structure and Technique: Learnings from Code Review - Ben Deane - CppCon 2025Engineers Are Users Too: A Case Study in Design Thinking for Infrastructure...
2025-12-261h 09ADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = ProgramsEpisode 201: CppCon 2024 Recap!In this episode, Conor and Ben recap the highlights of CppCon 2024.Link to Episode 201 on WebsiteDiscuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub)TwitterADSP: The PodcastConor HoekstraBen DeaneShow NotesDate Recorded: 2024-09-26Date Released: 2024-09-27CppCon 2024 Cryptic CrosswordCppConC++Now 2024 - Embedded Asynchronous Abstraction C++ - Implementing Senders & Receivers Without an OS - Ben DeaneCppNorth - Message Handling with Boolean Algebra - Ben DeaneCppCon - Message Handling with Boolean Algebra - Ben DeaneCppCon 2016: Ben Deane "std...
2024-09-2724 min
CppCastCppCon 2024 Live SpecialPhil and Timur are joined by a live audience at CppCon as we chat about Safety in C++, AI and the running of CppCast itself.
News
Clang 19.1 released
Sean Baxter's "Safe C++"
P3390R0: "Safe C++" - Sean's work written up as a proposal
partnership announcement from C++ Alliance
Summary article on The Register
Links
Core C++ (Israel) - Call for Speakers closes 22nd Sept!
"Robots Are After Your Job: Exploring Generative AI for C++" - Andrei Alexandrescu's CppCon 2023 talk
2024-09-2054 min
CppCastCppCon 2024 Live SpecialPhil and Timur are joined by a live audience at CppCon as we chat about Safety in C++, AI and the running of CppCast itself.
News
Clang 19.1 released
Sean Baxter's "Safe C++"
P3390R0: "Safe C++" - Sean's work written up as a proposal
partnership announcement from C++ Alliance
Summary article on The Register
Links
Core C++ (Israel) - Call for Speakers closes 22nd Sept!
"Robots Are After Your Job: Exploring Generative AI for C++" - Andrei Alexandrescu's CppCon 2023 talk
2024-09-2054 minADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = ProgramsEpisode 130: C++Now 2023 with Ben Deane & Tristan Brindle!In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Ben Deane and Tristan Brindle about C++Now 2023!Link to Episode 130 on WebsiteDiscuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub)TwitterADSP: The PodcastConor HoekstraBryce Adelstein LelbachAbout the GuestsBen Deane has been programming in C++ for this whole millennium. He spent just over 20 years in the games industry working for companies like EA and Blizzard; many of the games he worked on used to be fondly remembered but now he’s accepted that they are pr...
2023-05-1931 minADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = ProgramsEpisode 125: NanoRange with Tristan BrindleIn this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Tristan Brindle about collection oriented programming and NanoRange.Link to Episode 125 on WebsiteDiscuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub)TwitterADSP: The PodcastConor HoekstraBryce Adelstein LelbachAbout the GuestTristan Brindle a freelance programmer and trainer based in London, mostly focussing on C++. He is a member of the UK national body (BSI) and ISO WG21. Occasionally I can be found at C++ conferences. He is also a director of C++ London Uni, a not-for-profit organisation...
2023-04-1428 min
CppCastDistributing C++ ModulesRob 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
Wh...
2021-12-161h 00CppCastDistributing C++ ModulesRob 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 Ab...
2021-12-1659 min
CppCastProgramming History, JIT Compilations and Generic AlgorithmsRob 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...
2020-10-2353 minCppCastProgramming History, JIT Compilations and Generic AlgorithmsRob 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...
2020-10-2353 min
CppCastCppCon 2020 WrapupRob 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
2020-09-2356 minCppCastCppCon 2020 WrapupRob 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
2020-09-2356 min
CppCastMicrosoft Announcements at CppCon 2020Rob 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...
2020-09-1757 minCppCastMicrosoft Announcements at CppCon 2020Rob 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
...
2020-09-1757 minCppCastLLVM Hacking And CPU Instruction SetsRob 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
2020-07-1652 min
EmbeddedBag of HeuristicsMatt Godbolt (@mattgodbolt) joined us to talk about assembly code, becoming a verb, 6502s, exploring compilers, and application binary interfaces. Compiler Explorer can be found at godbolt.org. The code is on github (compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer). Matt also has jsbeeb, a BBC Micro (6502) simulator. You can try it out at bbc.godbolt.org. Its code and more information is on github (mattgodbolt/bbc-micro-emulation). Matt recently gave a video presentation about jsbeeb for ABUG. Some other videos that may be of interest: CppCon 2016: Jason Turner "Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Ga...
2020-06-121h 09CppCastMove SemanticsRob and Jason are joined by author and ISO committee member Nico Josuttis. They first discuss a blog post on faster integer parsing and CppCon registration opening up. Then they talk to Nico about the book he is currently finishing on C++ Move Semantics and other books he's written in the past. They also discuss proposals that Nico has worked on for the ISO committee.
News
Black Lives Matter
ACLU
15 Tech Organizations Actively Supporting Black Coders
Black Tech for Black Lives
Faster integer parsing
Bjarna AMA
CppCon Registration Open
Links
C++ Move Semantics - The Complete...
2020-06-0455 min
CppCastMove SemanticsRob and Jason are joined by author and ISO committee member Nico Josuttis. They first discuss a blog post on faster integer parsing and CppCon registration opening up. Then they talk to Nico about the book he is currently finishing on C++ Move Semantics and other books he's written in the past. They also discuss proposals that Nico has worked on for the ISO committee.
News
Black Lives Matter
ACLU
15 Tech Organizations Actively Supporting Black Coders
Black Tech for Black Lives
Faster integer parsing
Bjarna AMA
CppCon Registration Open
Links
C++ Move...
2020-06-0455 minCppCastLarge Scale C++Rob and Jason are joined by author John Lakos. They first talk about a funny C++ themed freestyle rap video commissioned by Victor Zverovich and a C++20 reference card produced by Bartlomiej Filipek. Then John discusses his new book, Large Scale C++ Volume I: Process and Architecture. In addition to discussing the book John shares some of his thoughts on allocators, modules, move semantics and contracts.
News
Jason's C++ Training Courses in Stuttgart
Freestyle C++ Rap for the next meeting
C++20 Reference card
Links
Large-Scale C++ Volume I: Process and Architecture
CppCon 2019: John Lakos "Value Proposition...
2020-02-0658 min
CppCastLarge Scale C++Rob and Jason are joined by author John Lakos. They first talk about a funny C++ themed freestyle rap video commissioned by Victor Zverovich and a C++20 reference card produced by Bartlomiej Filipek. Then John discusses his new book, Large Scale C++ Volume I: Process and Architecture. In addition to discussing the book John shares some of his thoughts on allocators, modules, move semantics and contracts.
News
Jason's C++ Training Courses in Stuttgart
Freestyle C++ Rap for the next meeting
C++20 Reference card
Links
Large-Scale C++ Volume I: Process and Architecture
CppCon 2019...
2020-02-0658 minCppCastClang HackingRob and Jason are joined by Saar Raz. They first discuss blog posts covering a new project management tool for C++ and another about improving Clang support for large integer arrays. Then they talk to Saar Raz about his work to add Concepts support to the Clang compiler.
News
A new decade a new tool
Waiting for std::embed: Very large arrays in clang
C++ Move Semantics
Core C++: May 26-27, 2020
Links
Clang Concepts Repo
Compiler Explorer with Clang Concepts
Hack && Tell Boston
CppCon 2019: Saar Raz "C++20 Concepts: A Day in the Life"
CppCon 2019: Saar Raz "...
2020-01-0949 minCppCastThe C++ ABIRob and Jason are joined by Titus Winters from Google. They first discuss some news of C++ tools, including Sourcetrail going open source and C++ Build Insights for Visual Studio. Then Titus goes into what the C++ ABI is, what breaking the ABI means, and whether or not we should consider breaking the ABI in future versions of C++. Titus also shares some a preview of his upcoming book 'Software Engineering at Google.'
News
Pittsburgh C++ Meetup Group
Sourcetrail is now free and open source
Guide to Performance Analysis and Tuning
Introducing C++ Build Insights
Links
2019-11-2151 minCppCastBelfast Trip ReportRob and Jason are joined by Timur Doumler. They discuss some of the news that occurred at the C++ ISO meeting in Belfast where the committee responded to some of the National Body comments on the C++20 draft. Timur also goes over some of his proposals and the progress on adding an Audio API to C++.
News
Maryland C++ User Group
2019-11 Belfast ISO C++ Committee Trip Report
p0593r2 - Implicit creation of objects for low-level object manipulation
Trip Report: Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting (Belfast)
Links
CppCon 2019: Timur Doumler "Type punning in modern C++"
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2019-11-1454 minCppCastUnicode for C++23Rob and Jason are joined by JeanHeyd Meneide. They first discuss an ISO paper about the pros and cons of introducing ABI breaking changes into the C++ standard. Then JeanHeyd talks about the talk he gave at CppCon and his efforts to get unicode support into C++23. JeanHeyd also gives an update on his std::embed proposal.
News
ABI Now or Never
Eliminating the Static Overhead of Ranges
The Case for C++
C++ On Sea CFP
Links
CppCon 2019: JeanHeyd Meneide "Catch ⬆️: Unicode for C++23"
Text for C++
Embed (Library)
Embed on Godbolt
Support (Patreon/GitHub Sponsors)
S...
2019-10-311h 00
cpp.chatYou Get to Fix It the next TimeThe first of our two, live, CppCon 2019 episodes - this time we sit with Andrei Alexandrescu and Herb Sutter to introspect about introspection and take exception to exceptions.
We also talk about the "Engage, Entertain, Educate: Technical Speaking that Works" class that Andrei was involved with, again, at CppCon 2019.
But Andrei describes himself as a "free radical" and "too much plutonium" and claims he needs Herb as "a bit of graphite" to keep him in check. Listen to find out what the debate is about!Links:Herb's CppCon 2019 keynote- De-fragmenting C++: Making...
2019-10-1240 min
cpp.chatYou Get to Fix It the next TimeThe first of our two, live, CppCon 2019 episodes - this time we sit with Andrei Alexandrescu and Herb Sutter to introspect about introspection and take exception to exceptions.
We also talk about the "Engage, Entertain, Educate: Technical Speaking that Works" class that Andrei was involved with, again, at CppCon 2019.
But Andrei describes himself as a "free radical" and "too much plutonium" and claims he needs Herb as "a bit of graphite" to keep him in check. Listen to find out what the debate is about!Links:Herb's CppCon 2019 keynote- De-fragmenting C++: Making...
2019-10-1240 min
CppCastVehicle Control SoftwareRob and Jason are joined by Philipp Schrader. They first discuss some post CppCon news and the LLVM 9.0 release. Then Phil talks about the work he's doing at Peloton Technology to enable the 'platooning' of trucks with software written in C++.
Links
CppCon 2019 Keynotes
CppCon 2019 Trip Report
LLVM 9.0.0 Release
Sponsors
Enter #cppcast in the Message field and get a month-license instead of 7-day license
PVS-Studio
PVS-Studio Twitter
JetBrains
2019-10-0356 minCppCastVehicle Control SoftwareRob and Jason are joined by Philipp Schrader. They first discuss some post CppCon news and the LLVM 9.0 release. Then Phil talks about the work he's doing at Peloton Technology to enable the 'platooning' of trucks with software written in C++.
Links
CppCon 2019 Keynotes
CppCon 2019 Trip Report
LLVM 9.0.0 Release
Sponsors
Enter #cppcast in the Message field and get a month-license instead of 7-day license
PVS-Studio
PVS-Studio Twitter
JetBrains
2019-10-0356 min
CppCastVisual C++ Announcements at CppCon 2019Rob and Jason are joined by Marian Luparu, Sy Brand and Stephan T Lavavej in this special episode recorded at CppCon. They discuss some of the big announcements made by the Visual C++ team at CppCon. Including the open sourcing of MSVC's STL, adding ASAN support to Visual Studio, C++17 conformance and much more.
Links
Open Sourcing MSVC’s STL
Intelligent Productivity and Collaboration, from Anywhere
Sign up for Private Preview of Visual Studio Cloud Environments
Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2019
Sponsors
Enter #cppcast in the Message field and get a month-license in...
2019-09-2642 minCppCastVisual C++ Announcements at CppCon 2019Rob and Jason are joined by Marian Luparu, Sy Brand and Stephan T Lavavej in this special episode recorded at CppCon. They discuss some of the big announcements made by the Visual C++ team at CppCon. Including the open sourcing of MSVC's STL, adding ASAN support to Visual Studio, C++17 conformance and much more.
Links
Open Sourcing MSVC’s STL
Intelligent Productivity and Collaboration, from Anywhere
Sign up for Private Preview of Visual Studio Cloud Environments
Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2019
Sponsors
Enter #cppcast in the Message field and get a month-license instead of 7-day license
PV...
2019-09-2642 min
CppCastProvable Functions at CppCon 2019Rob and Jason are joined by Lisa Lippincott in this special episode recorded at CppCon. They first discuss some of the conference highlights and favorite talks so far. Then Lisa gives an overview of her 'Truth of a Procedure' talk. Later they talk about Lisa's work on the ISO committee, her thoughts on Contracts and much more.
Links
C++Now 2019: Lisa Lippincott "The Truth of a Procedure"
C++Now 2018: Lisa Lippincott "The Shape of a Program"
Layout-compatibility and Pointer-interconvertibility Traits
Signed Integers are Two's Complement
Sponsors
Backtrace
Announcing Visual Studio Extension...
2019-09-1941 minCppCastProvable Functions at CppCon 2019Rob and Jason are joined by Lisa Lippincott in this special episode recorded at CppCon. They first discuss some of the conference highlights and favorite talks so far. Then Lisa gives an overview of her 'Truth of a Procedure' talk. Later they talk about Lisa's work on the ISO committee, her thoughts on Contracts and much more.
Links
C++Now 2019: Lisa Lippincott "The Truth of a Procedure"
C++Now 2018: Lisa Lippincott "The Shape of a Program"
Layout-compatibility and Pointer-interconvertibility Traits
Signed Integers are Two's Complement
Sponsors
Backtrace
Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting...
2019-09-1941 min
CppCastmdspan and /r/cppRob and Jason are joined by Bryce Adelstein Lelbach from NVIDIA. They discuss the mdspan proposal that first introduced Bryce to the C++ ISO committee. They also review Bryce's role as moderator for the /r/cpp subreddit and talk about the upcoming CppCon 2019 conference.
News
Resharper 2019.2 released
Game Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2019 16.2
The German Center for Aerospace (DLR) just open sourced CosmoScout VR, which is a universe 'simulator' written in modern C++
Links
P0009r9: mdspan: A Non-Owning Multidimensional Array Reference
P1684r0: mdarray: An Owning Multidimensional Array Analog of mdspan
...
2019-08-1552 minCppCastmdspan and /r/cppRob and Jason are joined by Bryce Adelstein Lelbach from NVIDIA. They discuss the mdspan proposal that first introduced Bryce to the C++ ISO committee. They also review Bryce's role as moderator for the /r/cpp subreddit and talk about the upcoming CppCon 2019 conference.
News
Resharper 2019.2 released
Game Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2019 16.2
The German Center for Aerospace (DLR) just open sourced CosmoScout VR, which is a universe 'simulator' written in modern C++
Links
P0009r9: mdspan: A Non-Owning Multidimensional Array Reference
P1684r0: mdarray: An Owning Multidimensional Array Analog of mdspan
P1767r0: Packaging C++...
2019-08-1552 min
CppCastSecure CodingRob and Jason are joined by Matt Butler to discuss his perspective on the ISO Cologne meeting and Secure Coding.
Matthew Butler is a security researcher who has been using C++ professionally since 1990. He has spent the past three decades as a systems architect and software engineer developing systems for network security, law enforcement and national defense. He primarily works in signals intelligence and security on platforms ranging from embedded micro-controllers to FPGAs to large-scale, real-time platforms.
He is on the staff of both CppCon and C++Now as well as a member of the C++ Standards...
2019-08-0858 minCppCastSecure CodingRob and Jason are joined by Matt Butler to discuss his perspective on the ISO Cologne meeting and Secure Coding.
Matthew Butler is a security researcher who has been using C++ professionally since 1990. He has spent the past three decades as a systems architect and software engineer developing systems for network security, law enforcement and national defense. He primarily works in signals intelligence and security on platforms ranging from embedded micro-controllers to FPGAs to large-scale, real-time platforms.
He is on the staff of both CppCon and C++Now as well as a member of the C++ Standards...
2019-08-0858 minCppCastApproval TestsRob and Jason are joined by Clare Macrae to discuss Approval Tests and how they can be used to quickly test legacy C++ code.
Clare is an independent consultant, helping teams streamline their work with legacy and hard-to-test C++ and Qt code.
She has worked in software development for over 30 years, and in C++ for 20 years.
Since 2017, she has used her spare time to work remotely with Llewellyn Falco on ApprovalTests.cpp, to radically simplify testing of legacy code. She has enjoyed this so much that she recently went independent, to focus even more on...
2019-08-0152 mincpp.chatYou Do Not Understand Anything as Well as You Think You DoThis week we chat with Ivan Čukić about Functional Programming, despite him not wanting to be known as "The Functional Programming Guy", TMP and OO, and how he was taught C++ in high school.
How does Ivan balance writing books (in fact will he write another book?) and speaking at conferences internationally, while teaching full time at university?Links:CppCon announcementsReSharper C++ 2019.1 release- Explore the dozens of significant performance improvements inside, as well as dedicated support for Unreal Engine 4, more flexible integration with Clang-Tidy, naming conventions, and the new Doctest unit testing framework.Top Te...
2019-05-1858 mincpp.chatYou Do Not Understand Anything as Well as You Think You DoThis week we chat with Ivan Čukić about Functional Programming, despite him not wanting to be known as "The Functional Programming Guy", TMP and OO, and how he was taught C++ in high school.
How does Ivan balance writing books (in fact will he write another book?) and speaking at conferences internationally, while teaching full time at university?Links:CppCon announcementsReSharper C++ 2019.1 release- Explore the dozens of significant performance improvements inside, as well as dedicated support for Unreal Engine 4, more flexible integration with Clang-Tidy, naming conventions, and the new Doctest unit testing framework.Top Te...
2019-05-1858 mincpp.chatThe Puns Only Appeared after We Added Co_After a break of a few weeks we're back with an episode actually recorded on March 12th (when Phil had a cold). We chat with Gor Nishanov about Coroutines, which were just adopted into the draft standard for C++20.
We talk about what Coroutines are, why recent talks may have been given the wrong impression (as they focused on a library writer's perspective,) what is going into the standard (the core language features) and what is not (library support, performance guaranteed by construction) and why.
We also look at Microsoft's open-sourcing of the Calculator source...
2019-04-291h 02cpp.chatThe Puns Only Appeared after We Added Co_After a break of a few weeks we're back with an episode actually recorded on March 12th (when Phil had a cold). We chat with Gor Nishanov about Coroutines, which were just adopted into the draft standard for C++20.
We talk about what Coroutines are, why recent talks may have been given the wrong impression (as they focused on a library writer's perspective,) what is going into the standard (the core language features) and what is not (library support, performance guaranteed by construction) and why.
We also look at Microsoft's open-sourcing of the Calculator source...
2019-04-291h 02
CppCastCPPPRob and Jason are joined by Fred Tingaud and Joel Falcou to discuss the CPPP conference, quick-bench and more.
Fred Tingaud is a Principal Software Engineer at Murex where he maintains the C++ UI and front-end APIs. He is also the creator of quick-bench.com, co-organizer of CPPP conference, co-host of Paris C++ Meetup and an organizer of #include . His interests range from code efficiency and readability to UI ergonomics.
Computer Science Engineer, PhD, Associate professor at University Paris Saclay, Joël Falcou is the creator and president of C++FrUG, C++ Meetup host and an International s...
2019-04-2555 minCppCastCPPPRob and Jason are joined by Fred Tingaud and Joel Falcou to discuss the CPPP conference, quick-bench and more.
Fred Tingaud is a Principal Software Engineer at Murex where he maintains the C++ UI and front-end APIs. He is also the creator of quick-bench.com, co-organizer of CPPP conference, co-host of Paris C++ Meetup and an organizer of #include . His interests range from code efficiency and readability to UI ergonomics.
Computer Science Engineer, PhD, Associate professor at University Paris Saclay, Joël Falcou is the creator and president of C++FrUG, C++ Meetup host and an International s...
2019-04-2555 minCppCastKona Trip ReportRob and Jason are joined by Peter Bindels to talk about features approved at the ISO C++ Kona meeting for C++20 including Modules, Coroutines and much more.
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. Since the last time he's been on CppCast he presented at multiple conferences about build tooling and simple code. In combining both, he created the build tool Evoke from cpp-dependencies and other smaller projects, leading to a simple to use build system...
2019-02-2857 min
CppCastBoost DI and SMLRob and Jason are joined by Kris Jusiak to discuss [Boost].DI and [Boost].SML libraries.
Kris is a C++ Software Engineer who currently lives a couple of doors down from CppCon 2019. He has worked in different industries over the years including telecommunications, games and most recently finance for Quantlab Financial. He has an interest in modern C++ development with a focus on performance and quality. He is an open source enthusiast with multiple open source libraries where he uses template metaprogramming techniques to support the C++ rule - "Don't pay for what you don't use" whilst trying to...
2019-01-1755 minCppCastBoost DI and SMLRob and Jason are joined by Kris Jusiak to discuss [Boost].DI and [Boost].SML libraries.
Kris is a C++ Software Engineer who currently lives a couple of doors down from CppCon 2019. He has worked in different industries over the years including telecommunications, games and most recently finance for Quantlab Financial. He has an interest in modern C++ development with a focus on performance and quality. He is an open source enthusiast with multiple open source libraries where he uses template metaprogramming techniques to support the C++ rule - "Don't pay for what you don't use" whilst trying to...
2019-01-1755 min
CppCastTrivially RelocatableRob and Jason are joined by Arthur O'Dwyer to discuss board games, his 3 ISO C++ papers and much more!
Arthur O'Dwyer started his career writing pre-C++11 compilers for Green Hills Software; he currently writes C++14 for Akamai Technologies. Arthur is the author of "Colossal Cave: The Board Game," "Mastering the C++17 STL" (the book), and "The STL From Scratch" (the training course). He is occasionally active on the C++ Standards Committee and has a blog mostly about C++.
News
Add an interactive command line to your applications
"Modern" C++ Ruminations
Initialization in C++ is...
2019-01-101h 00CppCastTrivially RelocatableRob and Jason are joined by Arthur O'Dwyer to discuss board games, his 3 ISO C++ papers and much more!
Arthur O'Dwyer started his career writing pre-C++11 compilers for Green Hills Software; he currently writes C++14 for Akamai Technologies. Arthur is the author of "Colossal Cave: The Board Game," "Mastering the C++17 STL" (the book), and "The STL From Scratch" (the training course). He is occasionally active on the C++ Standards Committee and has a blog mostly about C++.
News
Add an interactive command line to your applications
"Modern" C++ Ruminations
Initialization in C++ is Seriously Bonkers
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2019-01-101h 00CppCastISO Papers and Merged ModulesRob and Jason are joined by Isabella Muerte to discuss her experience presenting multiple papers at her first ISO meeting in San Diego and her thoughts on Merged Modules.
Isabella Muerte is a C++ Bruja, Build System Titan, and an open source advocate. She cares deeply about improving the workflow and debugging experience the C++ community currently has and is designing and implementing an experimental next-generation build system called Coven based on ideas mentioned in her CppCon 2017 talk "There Will Be Build Systems", while also simultaneously ripping CMake apart and putting it back together again with a library titled...
2019-01-031h 00
CppCastTDD, BDD, Low Latency and CppConRob and Jason are joined by Lenny Maiorani from Quantlab to discuss high performance computing, pair programming, volunteering for CppCon and the site of next year's CppCon.
Lenny has been using C++ off and on since 1995. Since graduating from SUNY Plattsburgh with a degree in Computer Science, he has been working at startups focused on high-throughput applications. About 2 years ago he joined Quantlab and discovered a different type of high-performance computing in low latency systems. Lenny lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife Lexey and their dog. He can be found hiking in the Colorado mountains while thinking about...
2018-11-2956 minCppCastTDD, BDD, Low Latency and CppConRob and Jason are joined by Lenny Maiorani from Quantlab to discuss high performance computing, pair programming, volunteering for CppCon and the site of next year's CppCon.
Lenny has been using C++ off and on since 1995. Since graduating from SUNY Plattsburgh with a degree in Computer Science, he has been working at startups focused on high-throughput applications. About 2 years ago he joined Quantlab and discovered a different type of high-performance computing in low latency systems. Lenny lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife Lexey and their dog. He can be found hiking in the Colorado mountains while thinking about...
2018-11-2956 minCppCastMeeting C++ and EmbeddedRob and Jason are joined by Jens Weller to discuss the upcoming Meeting C++ and Meeting Embedded conferences as well as some new from the Meeting C++ platform.
Jens Weller is the organizer and founder of Meeting C++. Doing C++ since 1998, he is an active member of the C++ Community. From being a moderator at c-plusplus.de and organizer of his own C++ User Group since 2011 in DĂĽsseldorf, his roots are in the C++ Community. Today his main work is running the Meeting C++ Platform (conference, website, social media and recruiting). His main role has become being a C...
2018-10-2646 mincpp.chatControl over Space and TimeAfter a bit of a break in the lead up to CppCon,
in this interview we chat with Herb Sutter - in front of a live audience at CppCon itself.
We chat a bit about the conference, how it has been "the best ever" (yet again),
but also how it is the last one in that location (CppCon moves to Aurora,
just north of Denver, Colorado, next year).
We then dig into Herb's Static(aly-typed, deterministic) Exceptions proposal -
what it really means for everyone in the community -
and how it fits into Herb's...
2018-10-2044 mincpp.chatControl over Space and TimeAfter a bit of a break in the lead up to CppCon,
in this interview we chat with Herb Sutter - in front of a live audience at CppCon itself.
We chat a bit about the conference, how it has been "the best ever" (yet again),
but also how it is the last one in that location (CppCon moves to Aurora,
just north of Denver, Colorado, next year).
We then dig into Herb's Static(aly-typed, deterministic) Exceptions proposal -
what it really means for everyone in the community -
and how it fits into Herb's...
2018-10-2044 min
KodsnackKodsnack 281 - Den stora C++-konferensenFredrik snackar med Arno Lepisk (känd från avsnitt 191) om C++ för hela slanten, och speciellt årets upplaga av Cppcon där Arno inte bara deltog utan också presenterade. Det blir trevligheter från konferensen, intressanta nyheter i kommande versioner av C++ och givetvis lite om hur Arnos egen presentation gick. Som avslutning blir det tips på ytterligare konferenser kring C++. Ett stort tack till Cloudnet som sponsrar vår VPS! Har du kommentarer, frågor eller tips? Vi är @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @iskrig, @itssotoday och @bjoreman på Twitter, har en sida på Facebook och epostas p...
2018-10-0954 min
CppCastCppCon Lightning InterviewsRob and Jason give a brief trip report of CppCon before being joined by several guests who gave Lightning Talks at CppCon 2018.
Lightning Talkers
Anastasia Kazakova
Timur Doumler
Phil Nash
Staffan Tjernström
Matthew von Arx
Tony Wasserka
Jens Weller
Anny G.
Borislav Stanimirov
Ezra Chung (@eracpp on slack)
Jean-Louis Leroy
Links
CppCon 2019 will be in Denver, Colorado from September 15 to 20th
CppCon 2018: Bjarne Stroustrup "Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming (the future is here)"
CppCon 2018: Mark Elendt "Patterns and Techniques Used in the Houdini 3D Graphics Application"
CppCon 2018: Kate Gregory "Simplicity: N...
2018-10-041h 08CppCastCppCon Lightning InterviewsRob and Jason give a brief trip report of CppCon before being joined by several guests who gave Lightning Talks at CppCon 2018.
Lightning Talkers
Anastasia Kazakova
Timur Doumler
Phil Nash
Staffan Tjernström
Matthew von Arx
Tony Wasserka
Jens Weller
Anny G.
Borislav Stanimirov
Ezra Chung (@eracpp on slack)
Jean-Louis Leroy
Links
CppCon 2019 will be in Denver, Colorado from September 15 to 20th
CppCon 2018: Bjarne Stroustrup "Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming (the future is here)"
CppCon 2018: Mark Elendt "Patterns and Techniques Used in the Houdini 3D Graphics Application"
CppCon 2018: Kate Gregory "Simplicity: Not Just For Beginners"
C...
2018-10-041h 08
CppCastCppCon PreviewRob and Jason are joined by Bryce Adelstein Lelbach to discuss his work on the upcoming CppCon conference, his thoughts on the graphics proposal and more.
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach is a software engineer on the CUDA driver team at NVIDIA. Bryce is passionate about parallel programming. He maintains Thrust, the CUDA C++ core library. He is also one of the initial developers of the HPX C++ runtime system. He spent five years working on HPX while he was at Louisiana State University's Center for ComCppputation and Technology, and three years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (a US Department of...
2018-09-201h 02CppCastCppCon PreviewRob and Jason are joined by Bryce Adelstein Lelbach to discuss his work on the upcoming CppCon conference, his thoughts on the graphics proposal and more.
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach is a software engineer on the CUDA driver team at NVIDIA. Bryce is passionate about parallel programming. He maintains Thrust, the CUDA C++ core library. He is also one of the initial developers of the HPX C++ runtime system. He spent five years working on HPX while he was at Louisiana State University's Center for ComCppputation and Technology, and three years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (a US Department of...
2018-09-201h 02CppCastCppCon Poster Program and Interface DesignRob and Jason are joined by Bob Steagall to discuss his history with C++, the CppCon poster program and his upcoming talks.
Bob is a Principal Engineer with GliaCell Technologies. He's been working almost exclusively in C++ since discovering the second edition of The C++ Programming Language in a college bookstore in 1992. The majority of his career was spent in medical imaging, where he led teams building applications for functional MRI and CT-based cardiac visualization. After a brief detour through the worlds of DNS and analytics, he's now working in the area of distributed stream processing. Bob is a...
2018-09-0759 min
CppCastCppCon Poster Program and Interface DesignRob and Jason are joined by Bob Steagall to discuss his history with C++, the CppCon poster program and his upcoming talks.
Bob is a Principal Engineer with GliaCell Technologies. He's been working almost exclusively in C++ since discovering the second edition of The C++ Programming Language in a college bookstore in 1992. The majority of his career was spent in medical imaging, where he led teams building applications for functional MRI and CT-based cardiac visualization. After a brief detour through the worlds of DNS and analytics, he's now working in the area of distributed stream processing. Bob is a...
2018-09-0759 minCppCastSYCLRob 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
2018-08-2446 minCppCastExpectations and ExceptionsRob 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
2018-08-0249 min
CppCastExpectations and ExceptionsRob 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
2018-08-0249 minCppCastConference News and CppChatRob and Jason are joined by Jon Kalb to discuss upcoming C++ conferences, CppChat and east const.
Jon does onsite training in C++ and chairs C++Now, CppCon, and the Boost Steering Committee.
Next month he will be speaking at the ACCU conference in Bristol, and keynoting the C++ Russia conference in Saint Petersburg.
News
Market share of the most used C/C++ IDEs in 2018
A cake for your cherry, what should go in the C++ standard library
Batteries not included: what should go in the C++ standard library?
CMake 3.11: "add_library() and add...
2018-03-0150 minCppCastAPI & ABI VersioningRob and Jason are joined by Mathieu Ropert to discuss C++ API & ABI compatibility issues and Modern CMake.
Mathieu is a french C++ expert with an eclectic background. He's worked in various fields including kernels, virtualization, web development, databases, REST microservices, build systems and package management, all those in (or about) C or C++.
He is presently awaiting his next challenge in the video game industry that should come up next May in Stockholm, Sweden.
Until then, Mathieu lives and works in Paris, France where he is also host of the C++ French User Group.
News
...
2018-02-1652 minCppCastReverse DebuggingRob and Jason are joined by Dr. Greg Law from Undo to talk about the magic of reverse debugging and how it is becoming more widely known in the programming community.
Greg is the co-founder and CEO of Undo. He is a coder at heart, but likes to bridge the gap between the business and software worlds. (Sadly, these days most of Greg's coding is done on aeroplanes.)
Greg has 20 years’ experience in the software industry and has held development and management roles at companies including the pioneering British computer firm Acorn, as well as fast-growing start up...
2017-12-1449 min
CppCastPacific++ Road ShowRob and Jason discuss recent news and the first ever Pacific++ conference in New Zealand.
News
Next Pacific++ Location
Does C++ need a universal package manager
Petra: C++17 runtime to compile-time mappings
Bjarne Stroustrup Interview at CppCon 2017
C++17 is Here: Interview with Herb Sutter
CppCon 2017 Talks
CppCon 2017 Lightning Talks
Links
@robwirving
@lefticus
Sponsor
JetBrains
2017-11-0237 minCppCastPacific++ Road ShowRob and Jason discuss recent news and the first ever Pacific++ conference in New Zealand.
News
Next Pacific++ Location
Does C++ need a universal package manager
Petra: C++17 runtime to compile-time mappings
Bjarne Stroustrup Interview at CppCon 2017
C++17 is Here: Interview with Herb Sutter
CppCon 2017 Talks
CppCon 2017 Lightning Talks
Links
@robwirving
@lefticus
Sponsor
JetBrains
2017-11-0237 minCppCastBuild Systems and ModulesRob and Jason are joined by Isabella Muerte to talk about her recent talk at CppCon 2017 where she discussed some of her concerns with the Modules TS.
Isabella Muerte is a C++ Bruja and Build System Trash Goblin. She taught herself to program by writing a build system and immediately regretting the decision. Her first computer ran Windows Millennium Edition and her parents forbade her from upgrading to anything else for 5 years. She is still bitter about this. In her spare time, she is into open source software, tattoos, computer keyboards, and making fake cover bands like 'Rage Against...
2017-10-261h 06
CppCastAbseilRob and Jason are joined by Titus Winters from Google to talk about the Open Sourcing of Google's Abseil library.
Titus Winters has spent the past 6 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
CppCon 2017...
2017-10-1252 minCppCastAbseilRob and Jason are joined by Titus Winters from Google to talk about the Open Sourcing of Google's Abseil library.
Titus Winters has spent the past 6 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
CppCon 2017 Trip Report
...
2017-10-1252 minCppCastVolta and Cuda C++Rob and Jason are joined by Olivier Giroux from NVidia to talk about programming for the Volta GPU.
Olivier Giroux has worked on eight GPU and four SM architecture generations released by NVIDIA. Lately, he works to clarify the forms and semantics of valid GPU programs, present and future. He was the programming model lead for the new NVIDIA Volta architecture. He is a member of WG21, the ISO C++ committee, and is a passionate contributor to C++'s forward progress guarantees and memory model.
News
Visual C++ for Linux Development with Cmake
Sourcetrail 2017.3 released...
2017-09-011h 02CppCastCoroutinesRob 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"
...
2017-07-1956 minCppCastCopperSpiceRob 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...
2017-07-101h 00CppCastTeaching ConceptsRob 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 software engineer at Codeplay and previously taught C++.
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
Christopher Di Bella's GitHub
Links
CppCon: Exploring the C++...
2017-07-0553 minCppCast and more Rob and Jason are joined by Howard Hinnant from Ripple to talk about , 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++...
2017-06-2854 min
CppCast and more Rob and Jason are joined by Howard Hinnant from Ripple to talk about , 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...
2017-06-2854 minCppCastBoost OutcomeRob 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...
2017-05-2555 min
CppCastBoost OutcomeRob 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
2017-05-2555 minCppCastSafe NumericsRob and Jason are joined by Robert Ramey to discuss his Safe Numerics library and the process of submitting libraries to both Boost and the C++ Standards Committee.
Robert Ramey is a freelance C++ programmer for around 20 years. He has worked on a variety of applications including desktop retail applications, embedded systems on tiny micro controllers and combinations of these. For the last 10 of those years he has been active in the Boost Organization and
Author and Maintainer of the Boost Serialization library
Instigator of the Boost Library Incubator (www.blincubator.com)
Given talks on Boost/C++ related...
2017-03-2354 minCppCastC++ Game Development at BlizzardRob and Jason are joined by Ben Deane from Blizzard Entertainment to talk about C++ game development and more.
Ben started in the games industry in the UK in 1995, when he got hired at Bullfrog straight after graduating from university. While there he worked on several games there like Syndicate Wars and Dungeon Keeper. By the late 1990s he had stopped using C and was allowed to use C++ at
work. In 2001 he moved to Kuju Entertainment and did a couple of games on XBox and PS2, then in 2003 he was hired by EA again and moved to Los...
2017-03-1654 min
CppCastC++ Game Development at BlizzardRob and Jason are joined by Ben Deane from Blizzard Entertainment to talk about C++ game development and more.
Ben started in the games industry in the UK in 1995, when he got hired at Bullfrog straight after graduating from university. While there he worked on several games there like Syndicate Wars and Dungeon Keeper. By the late 1990s he had stopped using C and was allowed to use C++ at
work. In 2001 he moved to Kuju Entertainment and did a couple of games on XBox and PS2, then in 2003 he was hired by EA again and moved to Los...
2017-03-1654 minCppCastJumping into C++Rob and Jason are joined by Alex Allain from Dropbox to talk about Dropbox's Djinni code generator and Alex's book Jumping into C++.
Alex Allain is a Director of Engineering at Dropbox. He was one of the first engineers on the Dropbox Business product before leading Dropbox's Product Platform group, whose initiatives includes the Dropbox Sync Engine, shared mobile C++ and developer tools. Alex has run Cprogramming.com since 1998 and is the author of Jumping into C++, a book for new programmers.
News
CppChat: The Great Functor Debate (Ben, Jackie, and Jonathan)
Monads in C++
COMMS...
2017-02-1547 minCppCastC++ Game Development at UbisoftRob and Jason are joined by Nicolas Fleury, Technical Architect at Ubisoft Montreal, to talk about the development and performance tuning techniques used at Ubisoft on games like Rainbow Six Siege.
Nicolas has 13 years of experience in the video game industry, more years in the software industry in telecoms, in speech recognition and in computer assisted surgery. Technical Architect on Tom Clancy's: Rainbow Six Siege, he is one of the key Architects behind some collaboration initiatives at Ubisoft and was also Technical Architect on games like Prince of Persia. He presented at CppCon 2014 "C++ in Huge AAA Games".
2016-12-0854 min
CppCastC++ Game Development at UbisoftRob and Jason are joined by Nicolas Fleury, Technical Architect at Ubisoft Montreal, to talk about the development and performance tuning techniques used at Ubisoft on games like Rainbow Six Siege.
Nicolas has 13 years of experience in the video game industry, more years in the software industry in telecoms, in speech recognition and in computer assisted surgery. Technical Architect on Tom Clancy's: Rainbow Six Siege, he is one of the key Architects behind some collaboration initiatives at Ubisoft and was also Technical Architect on games like Prince of Persia. He presented at CppCon 2014 "C++ in Huge AAA Games".
2016-12-0855 min
CppCastC++/WinRTRob and Jason are joined by Kenny Kerr from Microsoft to discuss the C++/WinRT library, previously known as ModernCpp, a standard C++ projection for the Windows Runtime.
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.
News
VOTE! Support debugging of C++ code with IntelliTrace
All CppCon 2016 Videos Are Up!
Visual Studio "15" Preview 5 Now Available
Compiler Tools Layout in Visual Studio "15"
C++ 14/17 Features...
2016-10-1243 minCppCastC++/WinRTRob and Jason are joined by Kenny Kerr from Microsoft to discuss the C++/WinRT library, previously known as ModernCpp, a standard C++ projection for the Windows Runtime.
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.
News
VOTE! Support debugging of C++ code with IntelliTrace
All CppCon 2016 Videos Are Up!
Visual Studio "15" Preview 5 Now Available
Compiler Tools Layout in Visual Studio "15"
C++ 14/17 Features and STL...
2016-10-1243 minCppCastCppCon 2016Rob and Jason are joined by Chandler Carruth from Google, in this live interview from CppCon 2016 Chandler discusses the topics of his two CppCon talks and using Modules at Google.
Chandler Carruth leads the Clang team at Google, building better diagnostics, tools, and more. Previously, he worked on several pieces of Google’s distributed build system. He makes guest appearances helping to maintain a few core C++ libraries across Google’s codebase, and is active in the LLVM and Clang open source communities. He received his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Wake Forest University, but disa...
2016-09-2547 min
CppCastCppCon 2016Rob and Jason are joined by Chandler Carruth from Google, in this live interview from CppCon 2016 Chandler discusses the topics of his two CppCon talks and using Modules at Google.
Chandler Carruth leads the Clang team at Google, building better diagnostics, tools, and more. Previously, he worked on several pieces of Google’s distributed build system. He makes guest appearances helping to maintain a few core C++ libraries across Google’s codebase, and is active in the LLVM and Clang open source communities. He received his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Wake Forest University, but disa...
2016-09-2547 minCppCastHPC and moreRob and Jason are joined by Bryce Lelbach to discuss High Performance Computing and other C++ topics.
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach is a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), a US Department of Energy research facility. Working alongside a team of mathematicians and physicists, he develops and analyzes new parallel programming models for exascale and post-Moore architectures. Bryce is one of the developers of the HPX C++ runtime system; he spent five years working on HPX while he was at Louisiana State University's Center for Computation and Technology. He also helped start the LLVMLinux initiative, and has occasionally contributed...
2016-02-0941 min
CppCastHPC and moreRob and Jason are joined by Bryce Lelbach to discuss High Performance Computing and other C++ topics.
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach is a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), a US Department of Energy research facility. Working alongside a team of mathematicians and physicists, he develops and analyzes new parallel programming models for exascale and post-Moore architectures. Bryce is one of the developers of the HPX C++ runtime system; he spent five years working on HPX while he was at Louisiana State University's Center for Computation and Technology. He also helped start the LLVMLinux initiative, and has occasionally contributed...
2016-02-0941 minCppCastCppCon WrapupRob and Jason are joined by Jon Kalb to talk about this year's CppCon, his trip to the Kona standards committee meeting and much more.
Jon has been writing C++ for two and half decades and does onsite C++ training. He chairs the CppCon and C++Now conferences and the C++ Track for the Silicon Valley Code Camp. He serves as chair of the Boost Libraries Steering Committee and is a Microsoft MVP.
News
Using variadic templates cleanly
A sad story about get_temporary_buffer
C++ and zombies: a moving question
Jon Kalb
@_jonkalb
...
2015-11-1957 min
CppCastCppCon WrapupRob and Jason are joined by Jon Kalb to talk about this year's CppCon, his trip to the Kona standards committee meeting and much more.
Jon has been writing C++ for two and half decades and does onsite C++ training. He chairs the CppCon and C++Now conferences and the C++ Track for the Silicon Valley Code Camp. He serves as chair of the Boost Libraries Steering Committee and is a Microsoft MVP.
News
Using variadic templates cleanly
A sad story about get_temporary_buffer
C++ and zombies: a moving question
Jon...
2015-11-1957 minCppCastStop Teaching C (When Teaching C++)Rob and Jason are joined by Kate Gregory to talk about how we should be teaching C++ without the C.
Kate Gregory has been using C++ since before Microsoft had a C++ compiler, and has been paid to program since 1979. She loves C++ and believes that software should make our lives easier. That includes making the lives of developers easier! She'll stay up late arguing about deterministic destruction or how C++ these days is not the C++ you remember.
Kate runs a small consulting firm in rural Ontario and provides mentoring and management consultant services, as well...
2015-10-1448 min
CppCastStop Teaching C (When Teaching C++)Rob and Jason are joined by Kate Gregory to talk about how we should be teaching C++ without the C.
Kate Gregory has been using C++ since before Microsoft had a C++ compiler, and has been paid to program since 1979. She loves C++ and believes that software should make our lives easier. That includes making the lives of developers easier! She'll stay up late arguing about deterministic destruction or how C++ these days is not the C++ you remember.
Kate runs a small consulting firm in rural Ontario and provides mentoring and management consultant services, as well...
2015-10-1448 min
CppCastSoftware Transactional MemoryRob and Jason are joined by Brett Hall to discuss Software Transactional Memory.
Brett Hall is the lead engineer on Dynamics, a desktop application that collects and analyzes data from the light scattering instruments built by Wyatt technology. Prior to joining Wyatt, Brett worked in web application development, remote sensing, and spent a summer in the games industry. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Part of his research work involved using C++ to solve the PDE systems generated by the rest of the research. All told he’s been using C++ for ar...
2015-09-0250 minCppCastSoftware Transactional MemoryRob and Jason are joined by Brett Hall to discuss Software Transactional Memory.
Brett Hall is the lead engineer on Dynamics, a desktop application that collects and analyzes data from the light scattering instruments built by Wyatt technology. Prior to joining Wyatt, Brett worked in web application development, remote sensing, and spent a summer in the games industry. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Part of his research work involved using C++ to solve the PDE systems generated by the rest of the research. All told he’s been using C++ for ar...
2015-09-0250 minCppCastJon Kalb loves the C++ CommunityEpisode number 1 of CppCast with guest Jon Kalb
Jon has been writing C++ for two and half decades, does onsite C++ training, and works on the Amazon search engine for A9.com. He chairs the CppCon and C++Now conferences. He also programs the C++ Track for the Silicon Valley Code Camp and serves as chair of the Boost Libraries Steering Committee.
Links
cppcon
cppcon YouTube Channel
C++Now!
Boost Library Incubator
Does C++ need its own podcast?
Jon Kalb
@_JonKalb
Exception-Safe Coding in C++
2015-02-1750 min
CppCastJon Kalb loves the C++ CommunityEpisode number 1 of CppCast with guest Jon Kalb
Jon has been writing C++ for two and half decades, does onsite C++ training, and works on the Amazon search engine for A9.com. He chairs the CppCon and C++Now conferences. He also programs the C++ Track for the Silicon Valley Code Camp and serves as chair of the Boost Libraries Steering Committee.
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Exception-Safe Coding in C++
2015-02-1750 min