
CppCast
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
Latest episodes

Mar 5, 2021 • 60min
The Old New Thing
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.
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Feb 26, 2021 • 54min
Vcpkg Registries
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
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The Evil within the Comparison Functions
Top 10 Bugs Found in C++ Projects in 2020

Feb 19, 2021 • 54min
Trading Systems
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
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The Evil within the Comparison Functions
Top 10 Bugs Found in C++ Projects in 2020

Feb 12, 2021 • 54min
Going Cross Platform
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
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Feb 5, 2021 • 54min
Clang Power Tools and C++ Myths
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
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Jan 28, 2021 • 54min
SOLID Design Principles
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
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Jan 21, 2021 • 54min
Cheerp
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
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Jan 15, 2021 • 54min
Priorities for C++23
Rob and Jason are joined by Corentin Jabot. They first talk about a Visual Studio blog post on performance improvements in the 'inner build loop', and a ray tracer built into CMake. Then they talk to Corentin about his work in the C++ ISO committee on the Library Evolution Working Group and his thoughts on what could and should make it into C++23.
News
f(t)
Faster C++ Iteration Builds
Ray Tracing in pure Cmake
Is Zero a Butterfly?
Links
What is the standard Library
P2172 - What do we want from a modularized Standard Library?
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Jan 7, 2021 • 1h 1min
Open Frameworks and Creative Coding
Rob and Jason are joined by Zach Lieberman, professor at MIT's Media Lab and co-founder of the School for Poetic Computation. They first talk about Herb Sutter's 2020 wrap up blog post and the ISO mailing from December 2020. Then Zach discusses Open Frameworks, a C++ toolkit he co-created 10 years ago for creative coding.
Transcript
Text Broadcast of CppCast 281 from PVS Studio
News
Firsts in 2020
Last 2020 ISO Mailing
Links
Open Frameworks
Open Frameworks Book
ofxAddons
ShaderToy
The Book of Shaders
Graffiti Research Lab L.A.S.E.R Tag
A Visual Journery Through Addiction
Connected Worlds
Vera Molnar: Pioneer of Computer Art
Digital Harmony: The Life of John Whitney, Computer Animation Pioneer
Muriel Cooper
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Dec 31, 2020 • 1h 1min
Goodbye 2020
Rob and Jason are discuss various news articles, libraries and announcements on the last episode of 2020 before the new year.
News
Embo++ 2021
Runtime access to tuple elements
YouTube C++ Series - Project from Scratch for C++ Beginners
Bona - C++20 based modern file information viewer
Concepts appreciation thread
A new C++ Logging Library
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Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project