CppCast

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

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

Rob and Jason are joined by Damien Buhl to discuss the current state of WebAssembly, nxxm and the belle::vue library. Damien was a Qt on Android Contributor which he presented at Droidcon 2011 in Berlin. He maintains ADAPT_STRUCT and Boost.Fusion. For a long time Damien worked for a 100 year old IoT company and now works on nxxm. He has a passion for C++ and JavaScript. News An Introduction to Torch (PyTorch) C++ front end CppQuiz Android App now available Std::any: How, when and why Damien Buhl @daminetreg Links nxxm belle::vue open source project C++ Everywhere with WebAssembly C++ Everywhere with WebAssembly Slidedeck Calls between Javascript and WebAssembly are finally fast Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason give a brief trip report of CppCon before being joined by several guests who gave Lightning Talks at CppCon 2018. Lightning Talkers Anastasia Kazakova Timur Doumler Phil Nash Staffan Tjernström Matthew von Arx Tony Wasserka Jens Weller Anny G. Borislav Stanimirov Ezra Chung (@eracpp on slack) Jean-Louis Leroy Links CppCon 2019 will be in Denver, Colorado from September 15 to 20th CppCon 2018: Bjarne Stroustrup "Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming (the future is here)" CppCon 2018: Mark Elendt "Patterns and Techniques Used in the Houdini 3D Graphics Application" CppCon 2018: Kate Gregory "Simplicity: Not Just For Beginners" CppCon 2018: Herb Sutter "Thoughts on a more powerful and simpler C++ (5 of N)" CppCon 2018: Chandler Carruth "Spectre: Secrets, Side-Channels, Sandboxes, and Security" Sponsors Backtrace Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Bryce Adelstein Lelbach to discuss his work on the upcoming CppCon conference, his thoughts on the graphics proposal and more. Bryce Adelstein Lelbach is a software engineer on the CUDA driver team at NVIDIA. Bryce is passionate about parallel programming. He maintains Thrust, the CUDA C++ core library. He is also one of the initial developers of the HPX C++ runtime system. He spent five years working on HPX while he was at Louisiana State University's Center for ComCppputation and Technology, and three years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (a US Department of Energy research facility) developing and analyzing new parallel programming models for exascale and post-Moore architectures. He also helped start the LLVMLinux initiative, and has occasionally contributed to the Boost C++ libraries. Bryce is an organizer for the C++Now and CppCon conferences as well as the Bay Area C++ user group, and he is passionate about C++ community development. He is a member of the ISO C++ standard committee. He worked on the C++17 parallel algorithms; today, he works on standardizing better futures, executors, and multi-dimensional arrays. News Crash course in Qt for C++ developers Using C++ 17 Parallel Algorithms for Better Performance CppCon Lightning Talks and Challenge Bryce Adelstein Lelbach @blelbach Bryce Adelstein Lelbach's GitHub Links CppCon p1062R0 Diet Graphics Sponsors Download PVS-Studio We Checked the Android Source Code by PVS-Studio, or Nothing is Perfect Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Anders Knatten to discuss the CppQuiz.org website, it's inspiration, recent updates and more. Anders is here as the author of cppquiz.org. He's been working as a programmer since 2001, in fields ranging from multiphase flow simulations to web development. He’s been doing everything from working on compilers to being CTO, and has been using a wide variety of languages. C++ is closest to his heart, but he’s been doing other things for the last five years. He’s very happy to be back as a C++ developer from October 1, in his new job at Zivid Labs. Anders is also a father of two, and in his spare time he’s the producer and frontman of the futurepop band Modulo One. News C++ Alliance Sponsors Cpplang slack and more CMakeRC A standalone Cmake based C++ Resource Compiler Anders Knatten @knatten C++ on a Friday Links C++Quiz Non-virtual destructors Destroy All Software Lightning Talk Zivid Labs Oslo C++ Users Group Sponsors Download PVS-Studio We Checked the Android Source Code by PVS-Studio, or Nothing is Perfect Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Bob Steagall to discuss his history with C++, the CppCon poster program and his upcoming talks. Bob is a Principal Engineer with GliaCell Technologies. He's been working almost exclusively in C++ since discovering the second edition of The C++ Programming Language in a college bookstore in 1992. The majority of his career was spent in medical imaging, where he led teams building applications for functional MRI and CT-based cardiac visualization. After a brief detour through the worlds of DNS and analytics, he's now working in the area of distributed stream processing. Bob is a relatively new member of the C++ Standardization Committee, and launched a blog earlier this year to write about C++ and topics related to software engineering. He holds BS and MS degrees in Physics, is an avid cyclist, and lives in fear of his wife's cats. News Frama-C Frama-C Tutorial Frama-Clang plugin The Errata Evaluation Problem Use Boost.Hana with MSVC 2017 Update 8 Function poisoning in C++ Bob Steagall Bob Steagall's GitHub The State Machine Links C++Now 2018: Bob Steagall "If I had My 'Druthers: A Proposal for Improving Containers in C++2x" Fancy Pointers for Fun and Profit Fast Conversion From UTF-8 with C++, DFAs, and SSE Intrinsics Interface Design for Modern C++ Sponsors Backtrace Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Fernandez from Intel Labs to discuss Formal Verification. Matthew Fernandez is a Research Scientist with Intel Labs. Matt began his programming career building Windows GUI applications and designing databases, before moving into operating system architecture and security. He has a PhD in formal verification of operating systems from the University of New South Wales in Australia, and worked with the Australian research group Data61. In the past, he has worked on compilers, device drivers and hypervisors, and now spends his days exploring new tools and techniques for functional correctness and verification of security properties. On the weekends, you can usually find Matt in a park with a good book, hunting for good coffee or helping a newbie debug their code. He hopes to avoid saying “monad” on this podcast. News C++17 in Detail now available Cross-language interfaces between C and C++ Spaceship Operator Matt Fernandez @wattsamata Links The sel4 Microkernel Isabelle - Generic Proof Assistant The Coq Proof Assistant Dafny - Microsoft language and program verifier Z3 Theorem Prover Sponsors Backtrace Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Gordon Brown to discuss his work on SYCL the OpenCL abstraction layer for C++. Gordon is a senior software engineer at Codeplay Software in Edinburgh, specialising in designing and implementing heterogeneous programming models for C++. Gordon spends his days working on ComputeCpp; Codeplay's implementation of SYCL and contributing to various standards bodies including the Khronos group and ISO C++. Gordon also co-organises the Edinburgh C++ user group and occasionally blogs about C++. In his spare time, Gordon enjoys dabbling in game development, board games and walking with his two dogs. News CppCon 2018 Poster Program Announced A bug in the C++ Standard Synapse submitted for Boost review New C++ London Uni Course Sept 18 Gordon Brown @AerialMantis Gordon Brown's blog Links SYCL ComputeCpp Parallel Programming with Modern C++: from CPU to GPU P0443r7: A Unified Executors Proposal for C++ CppCon 2017: Gordon Brown "Designing a Unified Interface for Execution" SYCL building blocks for C++ libraries - Gordon Brown - Meeting C++ 2016 Sponsors PVS-Studio February 31 Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Eberhard Gräther to discuss his work on Sourcetrail, a cross-platform source explorer for C++ code. Eberhard Gräther is software developer, user experience designer and founder at Coati Software. He started programming C++ during his undergraduate CS degree at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, majoring in game development. During multiple internships in the Google Chrome Team he worked on tools for rendering performance analysis. He then specialized in Human Computer Interaction and developer tooling during a Master's degree, where he started working on Sourcetrail, a cross-platform source explorer for faster understanding of unfamiliar source code. News Interactive Websites: Using Boost.Beast WebSockets and Networking TS New Educational Video Series: How to CMake Good Using MSVC in a Docker Container for your C++ projects Win a free ticket to C++ on Sea! Eberhard Gräther @egraether egraether.com Links Sourcetrail Sourcetrail 2018.3 C++Now 2018: Eberhard Gräther "The Untapped Potential of Software Visualization" Sponsors PVS-Studio February 31 Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus