CppCast

Rob and Jason are joined by Herb Sutter to discuss C++20 and some of his proposals that aim to Simplify C++. Herb Sutter is an author, chair of the ISO C++ committee, and a systems languages architect at Microsoft. News No one knows the type of char + char C++ Now 2019 Trip Report, Extension Points and Summer Opportunities JSON Link Herb Sutter @herbsutter Herb Sutter's GitHub Sutter's Mill Links P1000 - C++ IS Schedule P1185 - <=> != == P1186 - When do you actually use <=> Keynote: De-fragmenting C++: Making exceptions more affordable and usable - Herb Sutter CppCon 2018: Herb Sutter "Thoughts on a more powerful and simpler C++ (5 of N) C++ Coding Standars: 101 Rules, Guidelines, and Best Practices Sponsors PVS-Studio Facebook PVS-Studio Telegram PVS-Studio Twitter JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Daveed Vandevoorde to discuss his contributions to the C++ standard and his recent work on constexpr evaluation. David ("Daveed") Vandevoorde is a Belgian computer scientist who lives near Princeton, NJ, USA. He is vice-president of engineering at the Edison Design Group (EDG), where he contributes primarily to the implementation of their C++ compiler front end. He is an active member of the C++ standardization committee where he is primarily active in the core language evolution work. His recent work in that context has primarily been about extending the capabilities of “constexpr evaluation”. Daveed is also one of the five members of the committee’s “direction group”. He is the primary author of the well-regarded “C++ Templates: A Complete Guide” (now available in its second edition). News Report from using std::cpp 2019 Exploring undefined behavior using constexpr Linux Development with C++ in Visual Studio 2019: WSL, ASAN for Linux, Seperation of Build and Debug EnTT v3 is release Announcing C++Now 2020 Daveed Vandevoorde Daveed Vandevoorde Links C++ Russia 2018: Daveed Vandevoorde, Reflective Metaprogramming in C++ C++ Templates: The Complete Guide Direction for ISO C++ Scalable Reflection in C++ Sponsors PVS-Studio Facebook PVS-Studio Telegram PVS-Studio Twitter JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Alex Denisov to discuss the Mutation Testing in general and the clang based Mull project. Alex is a Software Engineer who is working at PTScientists GmbH, a German aerospace startup that is planning to land a spacecraft on the Moon. After work, he is organizing LLVM Social in Berlin and researching the topic of mutation testing. He is generally interested in developer tools, low-level development, and software hardening. News Converting from Boost to std::filesystem Kate Gregory ACCU trip report GCC 9.1 Released Alex Denisov @1101_debian Alex Denisov's GitHub Alex Denisov's Blog Links Mull Project Awesome Mutation testing 2019 EuroLLVM Developers' Meeting: A. Denisov "Building an LLVM-based tool: lessons learned" Sponsors Backtrace Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by David Sankel to discuss the Reflection TS and more. David Sankel is a Software Engineering Manager/TL at Bloomberg and an active member of the C++ Standardization Committee. His experience spans microservice architectures, CAD/CAM, computer graphics, visual programming languages, web applications, computer vision, and cryptography. He is a frequent speaker at C++ conferences and specializes in large-scale software engineering and advanced C++ topics. David’s interests include dependently typed languages, semantic domains, EDSLs, and functional reactive programming. He is the project editor of the C++ Reflection TS, a member of the Boost steering committee, and an author of serveral C++ proposals including pattern matching and language variants. News ReSharper C++ 2019.1 More Responsive, Better for Unreal Engine, and with New Language Features Top 25 C++ API design mistakes and how to avoid them 2019 Annual C++ Developer Survey David Sankel David Sankel's GitHub Links C++ Reflection TS C++Now 2018: David Sankel "C++17's std::pmr Comes with a Cost" CppCon 2017: David Sankel "So, you inherited a large code base..." Sponsors Backtrace Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob 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 speaker. Joel has been actively participating in the C++ international community with more than 7 years of international talks at BoostCon, C++Now, C++Russia, C++Con and Meeting-C++. He is also a member of the C++Now and CppCon Program Committee. He is a member of the French National Body of the ISO Standard Committee for C++ since 2014. News ClangJIT Enhancing C++ with Just in Time compilation C++ 17/20 Features and Fixes in VS 2019 ACCU Trip Report CppCon 2019 Call for Submissions Registration for CppCon 2019 is Open Fred Tingaud @FredTingaudDev Fred Tingaud's GitHub Joël Falcou @joel_f Joël Falcou's GitHub Links CPPP Quick C++ Benchmark Practical C++ Metaprogramming CppCon 2018: Fred Tingaud "A Little Order: Delving into the STL algorithms" CppCon 2017: Joël Falcou "I Wish I could Use C++ 1x/y/z" Sponsors Wanna Play a Detective? Find the Bug in a Function from Midnight Commander False Positives in PVS-Studio: How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Victor Zverovich to discuss the fmt modern formatting library and the proposal to bring it to C++20. Victor Zverovich is a software engineer at Facebook working on the Thrift RPC framework. Before joining Facebook in 2016, he worked for several years on modeling systems for mathematical optimization. He is an active contributor to open-source projects, an author of the {fmt} library and the ISO proposal P0645 to add a new formatting facility to C++. News eclipsecon: Docker Container Build/Run/Debug Support for C/C++ Projects Professional, zero-cost setup for C++ projects (1 of N) In-Editor Documentation for Cmake in Visual Studio Understanding when not to std::move in C++ Announcing CPPP - Paris 2019 Victor Zverovich @vzverovich Victor Zverovich's GitHub Links fmt - A modern formatting library P0645 - Text Formatting P1361 - Integration of chrono with text formatting Sponsors Wanna Play a Detective? Find the Bug in a Function from Midnight Commander False Positives in PVS-Studio: How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Guy Davidson to talk about his work with the ISO C++ committee including proposals for a linear algebra library and audio api. Guy Davidson is the Principal Coding Manager of Creative Assembly, makers of the Total War franchise, Alien: Isolation and Halo Wars 2, Guy has been writing games since the early 1980s. He is now also a contributor to SG14, the study group devoted to low latency, real time requirements, and performance/efficiency especially for Games, Financial/Banking, and Simulations, and to SG13, the HMI study group. He speaks at schools, colleges and universities about programming and likes to help good programmers become better programmers. News NFHTTP a cross platform C++ HTTP library Understanding C++ Modules part 2 Blend2D - 2D Vector Graphics Powered by a JIT Compiler C++ Lambda Story Free Ebook Guy Davidson @hatcat01 Links linear.algebra - A proposal to add linear algebra support to the C++ standard library A Standard Audio API for C++:Motivation, Scope, and Basic Design CppCon 2018: Guy Davidson "Lightweight 2D graphics with io2d" Sponsors Backtrace Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Marcus Tillmanns and Tobias Lensing to talk about the Boden Cross-Platform Framework. Marcus is currently the main software developer of Boden. He has a strong background in C++ graphics and UI development. He worked with Qt for more than 10 years on audio software and embedded projects. Tobias is currently working as a software developer and product manager on Boden. He’s passionate about start-ups and entrepreneurship. Tobias also has a background as CTO in audio software, cloud technology, and web development. News Visual Studio 2019 goes live C++23 fullptr to replace nullptr Conan 1.14 Release Marcus Tillmanns @Maddimax3 Tobias Lensing @tobiaslensing Links Boden @bodenhq Sponsors Backtrace Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Gal Zaban to talk about Reverse Engineering C++. Gal is currently working as a Security Researcher. Her passion is Reverse Engineering with a particular interest in C++ code. In her spare time, when not delving into low-level research, she designs and sews her own clothes and loves to play the Clarinet. News LLVM Clang 8.0 Released C++Now Keynote Announcement: Hana Dusíková on Compile Time Regular Expressions Nameof operator for modern C++ The 3 least secure programming languages Gal Zaban @0xgalz Gal Zaban's GitHub Links Virtuailor IDAPython CoreC++: Behind Enemy Lines - Reverse Engineering C++ in Modern Ages When Virtual Hell Freezes Over - Reversing C++ Code Sponsors Wanna Play a Detective? Find the Bug in a Function from Midnight Commander False Positives in PVS-Studio: How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob talks to several members of the Visual C++ team about both Visual Studio Code and the upcoming Visual Studio 2019 release and more. Marian Luparu is the Lead Program Manager of the C++ team responsible for the C++ experience in Visual Studio, VS Code as well as Vcpkg. Sy Brand is Microsoft’s C++ Developer Advocate. Their background is in compilers and debuggers for embedded accelerators, but they’re also interested in generic library design, metaprogramming, functional-style C++, undefined behaviour, and making our communities more welcoming and inclusive. Tara Raj is the Program Manager for the C++ experience in Visual Studio Code and Vcpkg. She is interested in developer tools and Linux. Bob Brown is the engineering manager for C++ experiences in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. Marian Luparu, Sy Brand, Tara Raj and Bob Brown @mluparu @TartanLlama @tara_msft Bob Brown Links Visual Studio 2019 Launch Event Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 Blog Rollup Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension: January 2019 Update Sponsors Wanna Play a Detective? Find the Bug in a Function from Midnight Commander False Positives in PVS-Studio: How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes Hosts @robwirving @lefticus