

CppCast
Timur Doumler & Phil Nash
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
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Dec 21, 2018 • 49min
Semantic Merge
Rob and Jason are joined by Pablo Santos from Codice Software to discuss Semantic Merge, Plastic SCM and more.
Prior to entering start-up mode to launch Plastic SCM back in 2005, Pablo worked as R&D engineer in fleet control software development (GMV, Spain) and later digital television software stack (Sony, Belgium). Then he moved to a project management position (GCC, Spain) leading the evolution of an ERP software package for industrial companies. During these years he became an expert in version control and software configuration management working as a consultant and participating in several events as a speaker. Pablo founded Codice Software in 2005 and since then is focused on his role as chief engineer designing and developing Plastic SCM and SemanticMerge among other SCM products.
News
Boden Cross-platform Framework
SG20 Education and Recommend Videos for Teaching C++
C++ Now Call for Submissions
C++ on Sea Volunteer and Student Programmes
Pablo Santos
Pablo Santos
Links
Semantic Merge
Plastic SCM
gmaster
Plastic SCM Blog
Sponsors
Download PVS-Studio
Technologies used in the PVS-Studio code analyzer for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus

Dec 13, 2018 • 1h 3min
San Diego EWGI Trip Report
Rob and Jason are joined by JF Bastien from Apple to discuss the San Diego C++ Committee meeting from his perspective as the chair of the new Evolution Working Group Incubator.
JF Bastien is the C++ lead for Apple's clang front-end, where he focuses on new language features, security, and optimizations. He’s an active participant in the C++ standards committee, where he chairs the Language Evolution Working Group Incubator (“oogie” for short). He previously worked on WebKit’s JavaScriptCore Just-in-Time compiler, on Chrome’s Portable Native Client, on a CPU's dynamic binary translator, and on flight simulators.
News
Exploring C++20 Designated initialisers
std::embed for the poor (C++17)
RangeOf: A better span
JF Bastien
@jfbastien
Links
2018 San Diego ISO C++ Committee Trip Report
C++ Current Status
Sponsors
Download PVS-Studio
Technologies used in the PVS-Studio code analyzer for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus

Dec 6, 2018 • 54min
Performance Analysis and Optimization
Rob and Jason are joined by Denis Bakhvalov from Intel to discuss C++ performance analysis and optimization techniques
Denis is C++ developer with almost 10 years of experience. Denis started his journey as a developer of desktop applications, then moved to embedded and now he works at Intel, doing C++ compiler development. He enjoys writing the fastest-possible code and staring at the assembly. Denis is a father of 2, he likes to play soccer and chess.
News
Meeting C++ / Embedded conan trip report
Introducing the C++ Lambda Runtime
SIMD Visualiser
Announcing Live Share for C++: Real-Time Sharing
Denis Bakhvalov
@dendibakh
Links
emBO++ 2018 Denis Bakhvalov about Dealing with performance analysis in C and C++
Code alignment issues
Basics of profiling with perf
Performance analysis vocabulary
Sponsors
Backtrace
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus

Nov 29, 2018 • 57min
TDD, BDD, Low Latency and CppCon
Rob and Jason are joined by Lenny Maiorani from Quantlab to discuss high performance computing, pair programming, volunteering for CppCon and the site of next year's CppCon.
Lenny has been using C++ off and on since 1995. Since graduating from SUNY Plattsburgh with a degree in Computer Science, he has been working at startups focused on high-throughput applications. About 2 years ago he joined Quantlab and discovered a different type of high-performance computing in low latency systems. Lenny lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife Lexey and their dog. He can be found hiking in the Colorado mountains while thinking about container access patterns and wondering if std::map can be renamed to std::ordered_map.
News
Better template support and error detection in C++ Modules with MSVC 2017 15.9
What's new in Clion 2018.3
Std::string is not a Container for Raw Data
Counterpoint
Lenny Maiorani
@lennymaiorani
Links
Quantlab
CppCon 2014: Lightning Talks - Lenny Maiorani "Test-Drive Performance"
Sponsors
Backtrace
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus

Nov 22, 2018 • 60min
SIMD Wrapper Libraries
Rob and Jason are joined by Jeff Amstutz to discuss SIMD and SIMD wrapper libraries.
Jeff is a Software Engineer at Intel, where he leads the open source OSPRay project. He enjoys all things ray tracing, high performance and heterogeneous computing, and code carefully written for human consumption. Prior to joining Intel, Jeff was an HPC software engineer at SURVICE Engineering where he worked on interactive simulation applications for the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, implemented using high performance C++ and CUDA.
News
Freestanding in San Diego
Getting Started Qt with WebAssembly
Trip Report: Fall ISO C++ standards meeting (San Diego)
Jeff Amstutz
@jeffamstutz
Links
CppCon 2018: Jefferson Amstutz "Compute More in Less Time Using C++ SIMD Wrapper Libraries"
tsimd - Fundamental C++ SIMD types for Intel CPUs (sse to avx512)
OSPRay
Sponsors
Download PVS-Studio
We Checked the Android Source Code by PVS-Studio, or Nothing is Perfect
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus

Nov 15, 2018 • 53min
San Diego LEWG Trip Report
Rob and Jason are joined by Ashley Hedberg to discuss the San Diego C++ Committee meeting from her perspective on the Library Evolution Working Group.
Ashley Hedberg has been working at Google for the last three years. She currently works on Abseil, an open-source collection of C++ library code designed to augment the C++ standard library. San Diego was her second WG21 meeting.
News
How to Write a Good Proposal to C++
TL:DR for #CppSan
CppCon Videos and Lightning Talks
Ashley Hedberg
Ashley Hedberg
Ashley's GitHub
Links
2018 San Diego ISO C++ Committee Trip Report
C++ Current Status
Abseil
#include
Sponsors
Download PVS-Studio
We Checked the Android Source Code by PVS-Studio, or Nothing is Perfect
JetBrains
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus

Nov 8, 2018 • 50min
Learning C++
Rob and Jason are joined by Devon Labrie to discuss his experience learning C++ at Augusta Tech and being a first time attendee at CppCon.
Devon is a 26 year old coming from a military family, he enjoys challenges physically and mentally, playing video games and creating them, learning, watching tv, puzzles, art, science, comedy, philosophy, programming and of course C++.
News
Common Package specification
Modules are not a tooling opportunity
Herb Pre-trip report
Devon Labrie
@labrie_devon
Links
Augusta Technical College
SFML
C++ Game Programming Udemy Course
Sponsors
Backtrace
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus

Nov 1, 2018 • 53min
C++ Bestiary
Rob and Jason are joined by Adi Shavit to discuss his spooky C++ Bestiary Blog post, CppCon talks and an announcement from the Core C++ User Group in Israel.
Adi is an entrepreneur, speaker, consultant, software architect and a computer vision and machine learning expert with an emphasis on real-time applications. He specializes in building cross-platform, high-performance software combined with high production quality and maintainable code-bases. Adi is the founder of the Core C++ users group in Israel.
Having worked on proprietary software for most of his career, his most visible contribution to the world of open-source software is, somewhat ironically, the design of the OpenCV logo.
News
C++ on Sea Schedule
What Happens in 2098 with C++?
JSON For Modern C++ version 3.3.0 released
Meeting C++ 2018 Schedule
San Diego Pregame - Optional Choices to Make
Adi Shavit
@AdiShavit
Adi Shavit's Blog
Links
The C++ Bestiary
Core C++ Conference
C++ Cryptozoology - A Compendium of Cryptic Characters
The Salami Method of Cross Platform Development
Sponsors
Backtrace
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus

Oct 26, 2018 • 47min
Meeting C++ and Embedded
Rob and Jason are joined by Jens Weller to discuss the upcoming Meeting C++ and Meeting Embedded conferences as well as some new from the Meeting C++ platform.
Jens Weller is the organizer and founder of Meeting C++. Doing C++ since 1998, he is an active member of the C++ Community. From being a moderator at c-plusplus.de and organizer of his own C++ User Group since 2011 in Düsseldorf, his roots are in the C++ Community. Today his main work is running the Meeting C++ Platform (conference, website, social media and recruiting). His main role has become being a C++ evangelist, as this he speaks and travels to other conferences and user groups around the world.
News
Why optional references didn't make it into C++17
2018-10 pre-San Diego mailing available
CppCon 2018 Contest Results: the most awful, surprising, horrific, inventive, well-formed C++ construct you can fit in a tweet
CppCon 2018 Videos
Jens Weller
@meetingcpp
Jens Weller's GitHub
Links
Meeting C++ 2018
Meeting Embedded 2018
Meeting C++ Recruiting
Sponsors
Download PVS-Studio
We Checked the Android Source Code by PVS-Studio, or Nothing is Perfect
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus

Oct 19, 2018 • 46min
Compile Time Regular Expressions
Rob and Jason are joined by Hana Dusíková to discuss her compile time regular expressions library, the Prague user group and her proposal for implicit constexpr.
Hana is working as a senior researcher in Avast Software. Her responsibility is exploring new ideas and optimizing existing ones. She also propagates modern C++ techniques and libraries in internal techtalks and gives talks at local C++ meetups.
She studied computer science at Mendel university and subsequently taught several courses there, including: Data Structures, Computability and Complexity, and Formal Languages and Automata.
News
ACCU 2019 Call For Papers
"auto to stick"
GNU Tools Cauldron 2018 Videos online
Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac Support Updates
Hana Dusíková
@hankadusikova
Hana's GitHub
Links
Compile Time Regular Expression v2
CppCon 2018: Hana Dusíková "Compile Time Regular Expressions"
Compile Time Regular Expressions Presentation Slides
Avast Prague C++ Meetup
P1235R0: Implicit constexpr
Sponsors
Download PVS-Studio
We Checked the Android Source Code by PVS-Studio, or Nothing is Perfect
Hosts
@robwirving
@lefticus