CppCast

Rob and Jason are joined by David Barr (aka javidx9). They first discuss Microsoft open sourcing calculator, an update to CMake and the March 2021 ISO Mailing. Then they talk to David about his YouTube channel, One Lone Coder, what inspired him to start it, and PixelGameEngine, the 2D game engine he works on with the One Lone Coder community. News Freestanding avr-libstdc++ Calc.exe is now open source Cmake 3.20.0 available for download ISO C++ March Mailing Links javidx9 - One Lone Coder YouTube Channel javidx9 - Twitch Channel One Lone Coder Community Sponsors C++ Builder

Rob and Jason are joined by Alex Gallego. They first discuss blog posts from Visual C++ on Intellisense updates and a tutorial for programming Starcraft AI. Then they talk to Alex Gallego about Red Panda, the event streaming platform written in C++ that's compatible with the Kafka API. Episode Transcripts PVS-Studio Episode Transcripts News MTuner Intellisense Improvements In Visual Studio 2019 STARTcraft - Complete Beginner Starcraft: Broodwar AI Programming Tutorial with C++ / BWAPI STARTcraft Git source has a banned.h file that blocks use of certain C functions Links Vectorized.io RedPanda on GitHub The Kafka API is great; now let's make it fast! Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables

Rob and Jason are joined by Arnaud Desitter. They first discuss blog posts on parameter passing, fuzzing and push_back vs emplace_back. Then they talk to Arnaud Desitter about his successes improving application performance by reducing memory allocations found using heaptrack. Episode Transcripts PVS-Studio Episode Transcripts News Hacking on Clang is surprisingly easy Parameter Passing in C and C++ Fuzzing Image Parsing in Windows, Part Two: Uninitialized Memory Don't blindly prefer emplace_back to push_back Links Reducing Memory Allocations in a Large C++ Application - Arnaud Desitter [ C++ on Sea 2020 ] Reducing Memory Allocations in a Large C++ Application - Slides- Arnaud Desitter [ C++ on Sea 2020 ] heaptrack Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license The Evil within the Comparison Functions Top 10 Bugs Found in C++ Projects in 2020

Rob and Jason are joined by Raymond Chen from Microsoft. They first talk about Herb Sutter's virtual ISO Plenary Trip Report and some new features voted into the C++23 draft. Then they talk to Raymond Chen from Microsoft about his career working on Windows and the Old New Thing blog. News Trip report: Winter 2021 ISO C++ standards meeting (virtual) Learn C++, Qt and QML the easy way Links Raymond’s blog The Old New Thing. Here’s the post that made his July 4 family picnic a little more stressful Raymond is managing editor of the Windows Universal Samples and the Windows Classic Samples repos on GitHub. Here’s a YouTube playlist of Raymond’s One Dev Minute short videos. Raymond can be found on GitHub as @oldnewthing, and his necktie’s Twitter account is @ChenCravat. Sponsors Visual Assist

Rob and Jason are joined by Nicole Mazzuca from Microsoft. They first talk about a differential equation library, and modules support in build2 and meson. Then they talk to Nicole from Microsoft's vcpkg team about some new features in vcpkg to enable teams to host their own libraries. News Solving Differential Equations with LLVM Complete C++20 Modules Support with GCC in build2 Meson Build System 0.57.0 is out w/ experimental suport for C++ Modules, Qt6, ThinLTO and more Links Registries: Bring your own libraries to vcpkg Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license The Evil within the Comparison Functions Top 10 Bugs Found in C++ Projects in 2020

Rob and Jason are joined by Carl Cook from Optiver. They first talk discuss an announcement from Khronos that SYCL 2020 has been released, and a blog post from Microsoft on updates to the Visual Studio Code C++ extension. Then they talk to Carl Cook from Optiver about how they use C++ to power everything they do. News Khronos Releases SYCL 2020 for C++ Heterogeneous Parallel Programming VS Code C++ Extension: Cross-Compilation IntelliSense Configurations Modern C++ Tip of the Week Links Optiver Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license The Evil within the Comparison Functions Top 10 Bugs Found in C++ Projects in 2020

Rob and Jason are joined by Sebastian Theophil from think-cell. They first talk discuss a blog post on building a 1 billion LOC project with the Threadripper 3990X and a browser extension for easily searching for C++ reference help. Then they talk to Sebastian about his teams efforts to port their Windows C++ codebase onto MacOS and some of the challenges they dealt with, as well as recent efforts to start porting some of the code into Web Assembly. News Threadripper 3990X: The Quest to Compile 1 Billions lines of C++ on 64 cores Looking for Approachable Open Source Projects to Contribute to C++ Search Extension v0.2 released Links think-cell: Join us as a C++ developer Windows, macOS and the Web: Lessons from cross-platform development at think-cell tcjs library for generating type-safe JavaScript bindings for C++/Emscripten Sponsors Visual Assist

Rob and Jason are joined by Victor Ciura. They first talk about different ways to filter a C++ container and a blog post on the Visual C++ blog from the Diablo 4 development team. They then talk to Victor about the Clang Power Tools plugin for Visual Studio which has recently been made free for both open source and commercial use. They also talk about C++ Myths. News 12 Different Ways to Filter Containers in Modern C++ More_concepts library Blizzard Diablo IV debugs Linux core dumps from Visual Studio Visual Studio's Native Debugging Framework Tutorial Links Next steps for Clang Power Tools C++ Mythbusting with Victor and Jason Sponsors Visual Assist

Rob and Jason are joined by Klaus Iglberger. They first talk about changes to make the Win32 API more accessible, some C++20 coroutine examples and ISO news. Then they talk to Klaus Iglberger about the SOLID design principles, why they still matter and what C++ developers should know about them. News Making Win32 APIs More Accessible to More Languages Motivated Examples for coroutines January 2021 ISO Mailing Links Breaking Dependencies: The SOLID Principles - Klaus Iglberger - CppCon 2020 Meeting C++ Training: Modern C++ Design Patterns CppCon 2020: Modern C++ Design Patterns Cpp On Sea: Modern C++ Design Patterns YOW! 2013 Kevlin Henney - The SOLID Design Principles Deconstructed Sponsors Visual Assist

Rob and Jason are joined by Alessandro Pignotti. They first talk about a linker project, a better assert for constexpr code. Then they talk about Cheerp, LeaningTech's C++ WebAssembly compiler, how it differs from emscripten, Cheerp optimizations and some of LeaningTech's other Cheerp products. News mold: A Modern Linker C++ Jobs Q1 A slightly better assert using C++20's is_constant_evaluated How can I write a C++ class that iterates over its base classes Links Cheerp Extreme WebAssembly 2: the sad state of WebAssembly tail calls CheerpX: a WebAssembly-based x86 virtual machine in the browser, Yuri Iozzelli CheerpX repl Sponsors Visual Assist