CppCast

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

Rob and Jason catch up on some news at the end of a week of traveling. News Usability improvements in GCC 9 Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading Counting Bugs in Windows Calculator Understanding C++ Modules: Part 1: Hello Modules, and Module Units Modern CMake Examples CMake 3.14.0 available for download Introduction into Logging with Loguru Little-known C++: function-try-block Links @robwirving @lefticus Sponsor Backtrace Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Kirk Shoop to talk about the RxCpp library and the future of Executors in C++. Kirk stumbled into an internship at Microsoft in the 90s that turned into contracting and eventually employment at Microsoft. At Microsoft Kirk sometimes pushed the compiler to its knees in the pursuit of libraries that prevent common errors. In 2013 Kirk joined Microsoft Open Technologies Inc to work on open source. Kirk began investing heavily in rxcpp in the belief that it is a better abstraction for async than the primitives commonly used. Now Kirk works at Facebook with Eric Niebler and Lewis Baker to build async range concepts and algorithms (with coroutines) into the c++ std library. News Kona: A trip report Are C++ Modules DOA 2 C++ Breaking the Rules with Inline Variables and Functions Kirk Shoop @kirkshoop Kirk Shoop's GitHub Kirk Shoop's Blog Links RxCpp ReactiveX CppCon 2016: Kirk Shoop "Algorithm Design For Values Distributed In Time" Sponsors Backtrace Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob 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 presented at CppCon 2018. Earlier this year he presented its companion 2D Graphics library for absolute called Pixel at CppOnSea. He's active in both standards development as well as helping out with various things at conferences. News 2019-02 Kona ISO C++ Committee Trip Report All Meeting C++ 2018 talks on youtube Core C++ Speaker List Peter Bindels @dascandy42 Peter Bindels' GitHub Links CppCon 2018: Peter Bindels "Build Systems: a Simple Solution to a Complicated Problem" C++Now 2018: Peter Bindels "A View to a View" Concerns about module toolability Sponsors Download PVS-Studio Technologies used in the PVS-Studio code analyzer for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by John Regehr to talk about his job as a professor at the University of Utah teaching C++ courses and some of his research projects including souper and csmith. John Regehr is a professor at the University of Utah where he's been on the faculty since 2003. He likes to work on compilers and software correctness, but used to work on real-time and embedded systems. When he has free time he likes to go hiking in the desert with his kids. News Five Awesome C++ Papers for Kona 2019 ISO Meeting The future of Catch2 Some C++ on Sea videos already available Between linear and binary search John Regehr @johnregehr John Regehr's Personal Page John Regehr's Blog Links Souper Csmith C-Reduce C++Now 2018: John Regehr "Closing Keynote: Undefined Behavior and Compiler Optimizations" Sponsors Download PVS-Studio Technologies used in the PVS-Studio code analyzer for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Edaqa Mortoray to talk about his experience designing the Leaf language and writing it's compiler in C++, and his book 'What is Programming?' Edaqa Mortoray grew up programming. From interface design to scientific simulations, including video games and development products, he's coded a bit of everything. He's got a successful programming blog and is the author of the book "What is Programming?" News Moving iterators in C++ C++ 3D Game Tutorial Series Legacy Code Programmer's Toolbox C++17 - The Complete Guide C++17 in Detail Edaqa Mortoray @edaqa Edaqa's Blog Links What is Programming? Edaqa & Stephane (Podcast) Leaf Programming Language dev.to Awesome Podcasts Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Eric Fiselier to talk about libc++ and his contributions to the library. Eric is as Software Engineer at Google working on Abseil and other core libraries. He is also a maintainer of libc++ and active member of the standards committee. In addition to writing C++ libraries, Eric enjoys hacking on Clang. Most recently Eric has been interested in using tooling to make C++ code healthier. News C++ Productivity Improvements in VS 2019 Preview 2 Pre-Kona 2019 C++ Standards Mailing Italian C++ Conference 2019 Call for sessions Core C++ Early Bird Tickets End Tomorrow Eric Fiselier @Eric01 Eric Fiselier's GitHub Links libc++ documentation constinit proposal P1337 Aliasing the standard library as a means to save C++ C++Now Volunteer/Student Program Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Christopher Di Bella to talk about SG20, the C++ Education Study Group Christopher is a Staff Software Engineer on the ComputeCpp Runtime for Codeplay Software and a co-founding member of SG20. He is passionate about teaching people how to write programs using idiomatic C++, and also advocates for developers to consider adopting algorithms and ranges. News I implemented a proposed C++ paper Raytracing in 256 lines of bare C++ How McSema Handles C++ Exceptions Core C++ 2019 in TLV: Tickets Available Christopher Di Bella Christopher Di Bella's GitHub Links P1231: Proposal for Study Group: C++ Education SG20 Education and Recommended Videos for Teaching C++ D1389R0 Standing Document for SG20: Guidelines for Teaching C++ to Beginners CppCon 2018: Christopher Di Bella "How to Teach C++ and Influence a Generation" Sponsors Download PVS-Studio Technologies used in the PVS-Studio code analyzer for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob 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 be as declarative as possible with a help of domain-specific languages. Kris is also a keen advocate of extreme programming techniques, test/behaviour driven development and truly believes that 'the only way to go fast is to go well!'. News Meeting C++ 2018 Playlist C++Now Submission Deadline Jan 23 If constexpr isn't broken Kris Jusiak @krisjusiak Kris Jusiak's GitHub Kris Jusiak's Website Links [Boost].DI [Boost].SML CppCon 2018: Kris Jusiak "State Machines Battlefield - Naive vs STL vs Boost" CppCon 2018: Kris Jusiak "[Boost].DI - Inject all the things!" C++Now 2016: Kris Jusiak: A C++14 Dependency Injection Library Concepts driven design - Kris Jusiak - Meeting C++ 2017 Sponsors Download PVS-Studio Technologies used in the PVS-Studio code analyzer for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities Hosts @robwirving @lefticus