CppCast

Rob and Jason are joined by Niall Douglas to talk about Google Summer of Code, Boost and his proposed Outcome library. Niall Douglas is a consultant for hire, is one of the authors of the proposed Boost.AFIO v2 and Boost Outcome, he is also currently the primary Google Summer of Code administrator for Boost. News C++Now 2017 Report Error Handing in C++ or: Why You Should Use Eithers in Favor of Exceptions and Error-Codes JavaScript/C++ Rosetta Stone CppCon 2017 Call for Submissions Niall Douglas @ned14 Niall Douglas' blog Links Google Summer of Code Boost.Outcome Boost.AFIO v2 ACCU 2017: Niall Douglas "Mongrel Monads, Dirty, Dirty, Dirty" CppCon 2015: Niall Douglas "Racing the File System" CppCon 2016: Niall Douglas "Better mutual exclusion on the filesystem using Boost.AFIO Sponsors Conan.io Hosts @robwirving @lefticus Better C++/Chicago

Rob travels to the Microsoft Build Developer's Conference to interview Kenny Kerr from the Windows team and Marian Luparu from the Visual Studio C++ team. Kenny Kerr is an engineer on the Windows team at Microsoft, an MSDN Magazine contributing editor, Pluralsight author, and creator of moderncpp.com (C++/WinRT). He writes at kennykerr.ca and you can find him on Twitter at @kennykerr. Marian Luparu is currently leading the team responsible for making Visual Studio more productive for C++ developers. News Better C++/Chicago Kenny Kerr @kennykerr Marian Luparu @mluparu Links Microsoft Build (Channel 9 Recordings) C++ at Microsoft Build 2017 Channel 9 C++ Panel Interview (STL, Kenny Kerr, Marian Luparu, Gaby dos Reis) C++/WinRT Available on GitHub 7++ reasons to move your C++ code to Visual Studio 2017 Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Bjarne Stroustrup, designer and original implementer of C++ to discuss the current state of C++, his vision for the future as well as some discussion of the past. Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++ as well as the author of The C++ Programming Language (Fourth Edition) and A Tour of C++, Programming: Principles and Practice using C++ (Second Edition), and many popular and academic publications. Dr. Stroustrup is a Managing Director in the technology division of Morgan Stanley in New York City as well as a visiting professor at Columbia University. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and an IEEE, ACM, and CHM fellow. His research interests include distributed systems, design, programming techniques, software development tools, and programming languages.  To make C++ a stable and up-to-date base for real-world software development, he has been a leading figure with the ISO C++ standards effort for more than 25 years. He holds a master’s in Mathematics from Aarhus University and a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University, where he is an honorary fellow of Churchill College. News C++ Montreal HPX V1.0 Released A serious bug in GCC What's New in ReSharper C++ 2016.3 and 2017.1 Bjarne Stroustrup Bjarne Stroustrup's homepage Links A Tour of C++ The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) CppCon 2016: Bjarne Stroustrup "The Evolution of C++ Past, Present and Future" Sponsors Backtrace JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Udit Patidar and Anoop Prabha from Intel to discuss Intel's C++ Compiler and suite of Performance tuning Software Development Tools. Anoop Prabha is currently a Software Engineer in Software and Services Group at Intel working with Intel® C++ Compiler Support. He played paramount role in driving customer adoption for features like Intel® Cilk™ Plus, Explicit Vectorization, Compute Offload to Intel® Processor Graphics across all Intel targets by creating technical articles and code samples, educating customers through webinars and 1-on-1 engagements. He is currently driving the Parallel STL feature adoption (new feature in 18.0 beta Compiler). Before joining Intel, Anoop worked at IBM India Private Ltd as a Software Developer for 3 years in Bangalore, India and later completed his graduation from State University of New York at Buffalo. Udit Patidar works in the Developer Products Division of Intel, where he is a product manager for Intel software tools. He was previously a developer working on Intel compilers, focusing on OpenMP parallel programming model for technical and scientific computing workloads. He has extensive experience in high performance computing, both at Intel and previously. Udit holds an MBA in General Management from Cornell University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Houston. News Sandstorm Cap'n Proto cppast - A library to parse and work with the C++ AST Exposing containers of unique pointers Clang-include-fixer Anoop Prabha Anoop Prabha Udit Patidar Udit Patidar Links Free Intel Software Development Tools Intel Parallel Studio XE Suite Page Intel System Studio Suite Page Intel C++ Compiler Product Page C++11 support C++14 support C++17 support Intel C++ Compiler Forum Sponsors Conan.io JetBrains

Rob and Jason are joined by Peter Bindels to discuss the Hippomocks mocking library and the cpp-dependencies analyzer. 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. He's worked for a contractor for a few years and then made the switch to work at Tomtom, where he's been working on various parts of the software chain, last of which was a major cleanup in the navigation code base. In doing so he developed a tool to determine, check and improve dependencies between components, which allows quicker structural insight in complicated systems. He also created HippoMocks in 2008, one of the first full fledged C++ mocking frameworks that is still a relevant choice today. He has given two talks at Meeting C++ 2016 and will be giving his third talk, on Mocking in C++, at CppNow 2017. News Fluent C++ - The Design of the STL Fluent C++ - Inserting several elements into an STL container efficently 2017 Keynote - Ryan Newton - Haskell Taketh Away CLion 2017.1 released: C++14, C++17, PCH, disassembly view, Catch, MSVC and more An introduction to Reflection in C++ Peter Bindels @dascandy42 Peter Bindels' GitHub Links Hippomocks framework cpp-dependencies Meeting C++ 2016: Peter Bindels - How to understand million-line C++ projects Lightning Talks Meeting C++ 2016: Peter Bindels - Mocking C++ Sponsors Conan.io JetBrains

Rob and Jason are joined by Akim Demaille to discuss VCSN, a platform for automata and rational expressions, and some of the interesting problems he faced while working on the library. Akim has been participating in free software for about 20 years, starting with a2ps, an anything to PostScript tool written in C. In order to ensure its portability, he became a major contributor to GNU Autoconf, GNU Automake and GNU Bison. Akim has been teaching and researching at EPITA, a French CS Graduate School, for eighteen years. He has taught formal languages, logics, OO design, C++ and compiler constructions, which includes the Tiger compiler, an educational project where students implement a compiler in C++. This project, whose assignment is regularly updated, keeps track of the C++ eveolutions, and this year's version uses C++17 features. Akim's recent research interests are focused on the Vcsn platform, dedicated to automata and rational expressions. He's recently been recruited by former students of his to be part of the Infinit team at Docker. News Announcing Meeting C++ 2017 C++Now 2017 Keynote: Ali Çehreli - Competitive Advantage with D Reduce C++ Build Times by Reducing Header Dependencies Capturing *this in C++11, 14 and 17 Akim Demaille Akim Demaille's GitHub Links Vcsn home page Vcsn Online Sandbox The Tiger Project Johnny Five Technical report about runtime instantiation in C++ Sponsors Incredibuild JetBrains

Rob and Jason are joined by Sara Chipps to discuss Jewelbots, Arduino and getting girls interested in STEM fields. Sara Chipps is a JavaScript developer based in NYC. She has been working on Software and the Open Source Community since 2001. She’s been obsessed with hardware and part of Nodebots since 2012. She is the CEO of Jewelbots, a company dedicated towards drastically changing the number of girls entering STEM fields using hardware. She was formerly the CTO of Flat Iron School, a school dedicated to teaching people of all ages how to build software and launch careers as software developers. In 2010 she cofounded Girl Develop It, a non-profit focused on helping more women become software developers. Girl Develop It is in 45 cities, and has taught over 17,000 women how to build software. News The C++ Annotations, a free up-to-date learners book/reference manual Choosing "Some C++" Over C GCC's move to C++ PacifiC++ Sara Chipps @SaraJChipps Sara Chipps' Blog Links Jewelbots Jewelbots Support Jewelbots is a friendship bracelet that teaches girls how to code Johnny Five Girl Develop It Flat Iron School Sponsors Incredibuild JetBrains

Rob and Jason are joined by Patrice Roy to discuss the state of C++17 after the recent ISO Standards meeting at Kona. Patrice Roy has been playing with C++, either professionally, for pleasure or (most of the time) both for over 20 years. After a few years doing R&D and working on military flight simulators, he moved on to academics and has been teaching computer science since 1998. Since 2005, he’s been involved more specifically in helping graduate students and professionals from the fields of real-time systems and game programming develop the skills they need to face today’s challenges. The rapid evolution of C++ in recent years has made his job even more enjoyable. He’s been a participating member in the ISO C++ Standards Committee since late 2014 and has been involved with the ISO Programming Language Vulnerabilities since late 2015. He has five kids, and his wife ensures their house is home to a continuously changing number of cats, dogs and other animals. News Herb Sutter's Trip report: Winter ISO C++ standards meeting, C++17 is complete Botond's Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Kona, February 2017 Software Engineering Institute Makes CERT C++ Coding Standard Freely Available C++ Now 2017 Program Available Patrice Roy @PatriceRoy1 Patrice Roy's Blog Links C++ Standards Consistent comparison (Herb Sutter's Comparison Proposal) Sponsors Incredibuild JetBrains

Rob and Jason are joined by Robert Ramey to discuss his Safe Numerics library and the process of submitting libraries to both Boost and the C++ Standards Committee. Robert Ramey is a freelance C++ programmer for around 20 years. He has worked on a variety of applications including desktop retail applications, embedded systems on tiny micro controllers and combinations of these. For the last 10 of those years he has been active in the Boost Organization and Author and Maintainer of the Boost Serialization library Instigator of the Boost Library Incubator (www.blincubator.com) Given talks on Boost/C++ related topics at C++Now and CPPCon Written articles in print periodicals such as Software Development and ACCU Overload Of late his interest has become more focused on practical approaches to improving program correctness. This has motivated recent talks at CPP Con ( boost units library, C++ and abstract algebra) and most recently the Safe Numerics library - which has very recently been accepted as an official Boost Library. News Does const mean thread-safe? Meeting C++ Live: Multithreading with Rainer Grimm Implementation Challenge flag_set: Type-safe hard to misuse bitmask Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers Robert Ramey @robertramey1 Robert Ramey Software Development Links Safe Numerics Library CppCon 2016: Robert Ramey "Safe Numerics Library" Boost Library Incubator Sponsors Incredibuild JetBrains

Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Deane from Blizzard Entertainment to talk about C++ game development and more. Ben started in the games industry in the UK in 1995, when he got hired at Bullfrog straight after graduating from university. While there he worked on several games there like Syndicate Wars and Dungeon Keeper. By the late 1990s he had stopped using C and was allowed to use C++ at work. In 2001 he moved to Kuju Entertainment and did a couple of games on XBox and PS2, then in 2003 he was hired by EA again and moved to Los Angeles, where he worked on the Medal of Honor series. He's always been a network game programmer, and in 2008 after a project cancellation at EA, he joined Blizzard as a lead engineer on Battle.net, working on technology for all of Blizzard's games. Today he's a principal engineer at Blizzard and the technical lead on the Battle.net desktop application. He's also a functional programming hobbyist who tries to use what he learns in Haskell to write better C++, and in recent years he has given several C++ conference talks at C++Now and CppCon. News Insomniac Games Cache Simulator Functors are not dead: the double functor trick Pi Day Challenge I'm Done - Geschafft: Words about the Future of my Blogs Check for const correctness with the C++ Core Guidelines Checker Ben Deane @ben_deane Ben Deane on GitHub Ben Deane's Blog Links Blizzard Entertainment Blizzard Careers CppCon 2016: Ben Deane "Using Types Effectively" CppCon 2016: Ben Deane "std::accumulate: Exploring an Algorithmic Empire" Sponsor Incredibuild JetBrains