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May 28, 2020 • 54min

Rider for Unreal Engine

Rob and Jason are joined by Anastasia Kazakova. They first discuss news from Herb Sutter that the November ISO meeting has been postponed and a new Visual Studio preview release. Then they talk to Anastasia Kazakova from JetBrains about Rider for Unreal Engine and other updates to CLion and ReSharper for C++ as well as information about the C++ ecosystem. News MAME Emulation Project VS 2019 16.7 Preview 1 New York ISO C++ meeting is postponed Visual Leak Detector Links Rider for Unreal Engine Blog posts with FAQ and some details on Rider for UE CLion turns 5, birthday tale from Phil Nash CLion Makefiles prototype JetBrains turned 20, main news Sponsors Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
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May 21, 2020 • 54min

Catch2 and std::random

Rob and Jason are joined by Martin Hořeňovský. They first discuss some ISO papers and Jason learning Rust from his cousin Jonathan. Then Martin tells them about his work maintaining Catch 2, including his plans for future updates of the unit testing library. Martin also talks about SAT solvers and problems with std::random. News 2020-05 Standards mailing Jonathan Teach Jason Rust!) C++ Events affected by Coronavirus Links Catch2 CppCon 2019: Martin Hořeňovský "Solve Hard Problems Quickly Using SAT Solvers" P2058 Make std::random_device Less Inscrutable P2059 Make Pseudo-random Numbers Portable P2060 Make Random Number Engines Seedable Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Checking the GCC 10 Compiler with PVS-Studio" covering 10 heroically found errors despite the great number of macros in the GCC code. Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
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May 14, 2020 • 52min

Physical Units

Rob and Jason are joined by Mateusz Pusz. They first discuss the 10.1 update of GCC and an article from Raymond Chen. Then they talk to Mateusz about his physical units library and his efforts to get physical units into the standard. News Worldwide C++ user groups events C++ Community events GCC 10.1 Released The C++ preprocessor doesn't understand anything about C++, and certainly not templates Links mp-units A C++ Approach to Physical Units (CppCon talk) P1935: A C++ Approach to Physical Units Advanced Modern C++ Training Meeting C++ Trainings Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Checking the GCC 10 Compiler with PVS-Studio" covering 10 heroically found errors despite the great number of macros in the GCC code. Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
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May 7, 2020 • 59min

MSVC's STL and vcpkg

Rob and Jason are joined by Billy O'Neal from Microsoft. They first discuss some news from various conferences and user groups that are going online. Then they talk to Billy O'Neal from Microsoft's Visual C++ team. He tells them how he joined the team and some of the projects he's worked on, including some recent work on vcpkg. News Modules the beginner's guide - Daniela Engert - Meeting C++ 2019 C++ London goes online We're welcoming you to CoreCpp C++ On Sea On Line Useful tools for checking and fixing C/C++ code Links Envoy Proxy Microsoft STL Changelog Vcpkg 2020.04 Update and Product Roadmap binskim Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Checking the GCC 10 Compiler with PVS-Studio" covering 10 heroically found errors despite the great number of macros in the GCC code. Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
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Apr 30, 2020 • 54min

Envoy Proxy

Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Klein from Lyft. They first discuss an update to Microsoft's Guidelines Support Library with changes to span. Then they talk to Matt Klein who dicusses Envoy Proxy and how it's used in Cloud Native applications. News Tweet re: SPMD Lambdas CppCon 2020 Call for Submissions GSL 3.0.0 Release Links Envoy Proxy Envoy Proxy on GitHub Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Checking the GCC 10 Compiler with PVS-Studio" covering 10 heroically found errors despite the great number of macros in the GCC code. Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
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Apr 23, 2020 • 1h 2min

Postmodern C++ Revisited

Rob and Jason are joined by Tony Van Eerd. They first discuss some conference news, including Microsoft's upcoming Pure Virtual C++ Conference. Then Tony Van Eerd joins them to discuss his Postmodern C++ talk, and some of his work on the C++ standards committee. News Sign up for Pure Virtual C++ Conference ModernCppStarter Announcing Meeting C++ 2020! Links Tony van Eerd: Postmodern C++ p1085R0 Should Span be Regular? Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2 Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
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Apr 16, 2020 • 52min

Rosetta

Rob and Jason are joined by Andrew Leaver-Fay from UNC and Jack Maguire from Menten AI. They first discuss a proposal to update both C and C++ and create a unified common core for the languages. Then they talk to Andrew and Jack about Rosetta, a C++ protein modeling library, it's history being ported from Fortran and some of its use cases such as creating HIV vaccines. News C2x Proposal: A Common C/C++ Core Clion AMA Session on May 7 Third Annual C++ Foundation Developer Survey "Lite" Links Rosetta Commons - Software Menten AI Designing Peptides on a Quantum Computer Rosetta@home fold.it Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2
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Apr 9, 2020 • 58min

Making Nu Languages

Rob and Jason are joined by Sophia Turner. They first discuss updates to {fmt} and SourceTrail. Then they talk to Sophia about some of the languages she's worked on; including Chaiscript with Jason, Typescript at Microsoft and Rust at Mozilla. They then talk about her current project: NuShell. News Stopping A Laser Beam in Mid-Air Stopping a laser beam in mid-air with Tom Scott (BTS) {fmt} 6.2 released Sourcetrail 2020.1 When is *x also &x Links Nushell Typescript Rust Growing TypeScript and Rust Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2
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Apr 2, 2020 • 58min

Intro to Modules

Rob and Jason are joined by Daniela Engert. They first discuss a blog post on a new static analyzer feature in GCC 10 and Jason's plans to port the classic DOOM game to C++. Then Daniela gives Jason and Rob an introduction to Modules in C++20. News Static analysis in GCC 10 C++ Annotations v11.4.0 Jason's live Doom port to C++ Friday morning Links Modules: The Beginner's Guide Slides Socializing with {fmt} - Daniela Engert - Meeting C++ 2018 Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2
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Mar 26, 2020 • 42min

C++ Build Insights

Rob and Jason are joined by Kevin Cadieux and Sy Brand. They first discuss a blog post on Memory Access Patterns and the Clang 10 release. Then they talk about C++ Build Insights, Kevin tells us how vcperf can be used to find places where build performance can be improved in your code. Sy then goes over some of the other recent updates to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. News Vector of Objects vs Vector of Pointers and Memory Access Patterns Post-Prague Mailing Clang 10.0.0 Released Links Download Visual Studio Introducing C++ Build Insights Analyze your builds programmatically with the C++ Build Insights SDK Have full integration of Build Insights within Visual Studio Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2

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