
CppCast
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
Latest episodes

Feb 7, 2017 • 1h 4min
Microsoft's STL
Rob and Jason are joined by Stephan T Lavavej to talk about Microsoft's STL and some of the changes to the Library coming in the VS 2017 release.
Stephan T. Lavavej is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, maintaining Visual C++'s implementation of the C++ Standard Library since 2007. He also designed a couple of C++14 features: make_unique and the transparent operator functors. He likes his initials (which people can actually spell) and cats (although he doesn't own any).
News
CppChat "The Great Functor Debate" is Saturday
Implementing State Machines with std::variant
STL learning resource
Stephan T. Lavavej
@StephanTLavavej
Links
STL Fixes in VS 2017 RTM
C++ 14/17 Features and STL Fixes in VS "15" Preview 5
C++ 14/17 Features and STL Fixes in VS “15” Preview 4
Sponsor
Backtrace
JetBrains

Feb 1, 2017 • 34min
News Roundup
Rob and Jason discuss two weeks worth of C++ news, updates and blog posts.
News
What's in C++17?
CodeChecker
Const, Move and RVO
Add a const here delete a const there
How C++ lambda expressions can improve your Qt code
'yield' keyword to become 'co_yield' in VS 2017
Compiler Explorer now on Patreon
JSON for Modern C++ Version 2.1.0
Catch 1.7
Stop calling "Function Objects" "Functors"
Meeting C++ 2016 Playlist
How to choose good names
Links
@robwirving
@lefticus
Sponsor
Backtrace
JetBrains

Jan 17, 2017 • 43min
Beast
Rob and Jason are joined by Vinnie Falco to talk about the Beast HTTP and Web Sockets library.
Vinnie Falco started programming on an Apple II+ in 1982. He did significant work on Canvas, an early 1990s desktop publishing program that starting on the Macintosh. A while later he wrote BearShare - a Gnutella compatible file sharing program.
After that Vinnie joined up with Ripple, a company that is developing a global financial settlement network built on top of a decentralized cryptocurrency and its associated ledger. Ripple has graciously given him the opportunity to develop and publish Beast, the HTTP and WebSocket library written in C++ and used in Ripple.
News
Winners of the 2016 Software Developer Podcast Awards
The Salami Method
g++7 is C++17 complete
.NET Rocks: C++ for a New Generation with Kate Gregory
Catch 1.6 release
Order Your Members
Vinnie Falco
@falcovinnie
Vinnie Falco's GitHub
Links
Beast Library
CppCon 2016: Vinnie Falco "Introducing Beast: HTTP and WebSockets C++ library"
Ripple
Sponsor
Backtrace

Jan 11, 2017 • 58min
Library Working Group and libc++
Rob and Jason are joined by Marshall Clow to talk about his role on the C++ Standards Committee's Library Working Group.
Marshall is a long-time LLVM and Boost participant. He is a principal engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. in San Diego, and the code owner for libc++, the LLVM standard library implementation. He is also the chairman of the Library Working Group of the C++ standards committee. He is the author of the Boost.Algorithm library and maintains several other Boost libraries.
News
C++Now 2017 Call for Submissions
2017 European LLVM Developers Meeting
Passing functions to functions
A Tourist's Guide to the LLVM Source Code
Marshall Clow
@mclow
Marshall's C++ Musings
Links
"libc++" C++ Standard Library
Qualcomm
The Committee: WG21
CppCon 2016: Marshall Clow "STL Algorithms - why you should use them, and how to write your own"
CppCon 2015: Marshall Clow "string_view"
Sponsor
JetBrains

Jan 5, 2017 • 1h 3min
Memory Algorithm Proposal
Rob and Jason are joined by Brittany Friedman to talk about her accepted C++17 proposal which adds new algorithms and utilities for memory management and the process she went through getting the proposal accepted.
Brittany Friedman is a dense collection of matter formed from molecules originating from inside the sun. She currently works as a programmer at Gearbox Software, where she weaves ones and zeroes into intricate little patterns. Her proposal for new memory management algorithms was accepted for C++17 and a bug that she filed against the C++ standard was fixed the way that she recommended. So basically you do not want to trifle with her.
News
2016 Software Developer Podcast Awards
Keep Disabling Exceptions
C++17 Why it's better than you might think
A new way of blogging about C++
Brittany Friedman
@listenserver
Brittany Friedman's GitHub
Links
Extending memory management tools
drpdb: Convert from Microsoft PDB format into a MySQL database
Symbol Sort: A Utility for Measuring C++ Code Bloat
Gearbox Software
CppCon 2016: Nicholas Ormrod "The strange details of std::string at Facebook"
Sponsor
JetBrains

Dec 21, 2016 • 56min
Regular Void
Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Calabrese to talk about his Regular Void Proposal, template<auto>, the state of Concepts and more.
Matt Calabrese is a software engineer working primarily in C++. He started his programming career in the game industry and is now working on libraries at Google. Matt has been active in the Boost community for over a decade, is currently a member of the Boost Steering Committee, and is a member of the Program Committee for C++Now. Starting in the fall of 2015, he has been attending C++ Standards Committee meetings, authoring several proposals targeting the standard after C++17, notably including a proposal to turn the void type into an instantiable type and a proposal for the standard library to introduce a generic algorithm for invoking standard Callables with argument types and argument amounts that may be partially calculated at compile-time or at runtime. He is also the author of the controversial paper "Why I want Concepts, but why they should come later rather than sooner", which may have contributed to the decision to not include the concepts language feature in C++17.
News
2016 Software Developer Podcast Awards
My take at times
A C++ program to get CPU usage from command line in Linux
Pointer comparison an invalid optimization in GCC
Matt Calabrese
@cppsage
Links
Boost
C++Now
P0146: Regular Void (Revision 1)
P0376: A Single Generalization of std::invoke, std::apply, and std::visit
P0240: Why I want Concepts, but why they should come later rather than sooner
Sponsor
Backtrace

Dec 14, 2016 • 41min
Catch 2 and C++ the Community
Rob and Jason are joined by Phil Nash, Developer Advocate at JetBrains, to talk about updates to the Catch Unit test library and new features coming to CLion and ReSharper for C++.
Phil started coding back in the early 80s, on 8-bit home computers: from the ZX-81 to the Commodore 64, in BASIC and assembler. He later moved on to PCs and C++ in the early 90s and, despite forays into other languages, keeps coming back to C++. His career has taken him through domains such as anti-virus, mobile, finance and developer tools - among others. He's the original author of the C++ test framework, Catch and is now Developer Advocate at JetBrains for CLion, AppCode and ReSharper C++. His hobbies include writing podcast bios and trolling the podcast hosts.
News
Minimal, Header only Modern C++ library for colors in your terminal
The view from Nov 2016 C++ standard Meeting Issaquah
C++ version of ruby's integer::times via user-defined literals
Phil Nash
@phil_nash
Level of Indirection
Extra Level of Indirection
Links
Catch
C++::London
Munich User Group: Functional C++ for Fun and Profit
YouTube: Functional C++ for Fun and Profit
JetBrains
ReSharper Ultimate 2016.3 is Released
JetBrains CLion Discounts
JetBrains AppCode Discounts
JetBrains ReSharper C++ Discounts
CppCon 2016: Nicholas Ormrod "The strange details of std::string at Facebook"
Sponsor
JetBrains

Dec 8, 2016 • 55min
C++ Game Development at Ubisoft
Nicolas Fleury, Technical Architect at Ubisoft Montreal with 13 years of experience in the video game industry, talks about C++ game development techniques at Ubisoft, including performance tuning and code porting. They also discuss small string and buffer optimization in C++ and the importance of skilled C++ developers.

Nov 30, 2016 • 41min
Backtrace
Rob and Jason are joined by Abel Mathew, Co-Founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O, to talk about the debugging platform and its features for C++ developers.
Abel Mathew is the co-founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O. Prior to Backtrace, Abel was a Head of Engineering at AppNexus where he led a team of developers to improve ad optimization and reduce platform-wide costs. He spent multiple years as a developer and a team lead on AppNexus’ Adserver Team where he helped design and implement their low-latency advertising platform. Before AppNexus, Abel was a kernel module and tools developer at IBM and a server room monkey at AMD.
News
Give Visual C++ a Switch to Standard Conformance
Zapcc: a faster C++ compiler
Better, stronger, faster … there is zapcc
Conan Joins JFrog
What do YOU use C++ for
Abel Mathew
@nullisnt0
Abel Mathew on GitHub
Links
Backtrace
Backtrace Blog
Minidump Free Beta
Surge 2016 - Abel Mathew - Post-mortem Debugging: could you be the one?
Bazel
Sponsor
Backtrace

Nov 16, 2016 • 36min
Cppcheck
Rob and Jason are joined by Daniel Marjamäki to talk about developing the CppCheck static analysis tool.
Daniel lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his wife and son. He has a degree in electronics but has never worked as an electronics engineer. Daniel works as a consultant at Evidente in Sweden which provides consultants and contractors for embedded software development and static analysis.
Daniel started Cppcheck almost 10 years ago as a hobby project that he works on in his spare time. Daniel sometimes works on other hobby projects such as an open source retro mobile phone with a rotary dial plate instead of buttons or a screen.
News
Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed
Cheatsheet of modern C++ language and library features
Compiler Explorer Beta now with early support for MSVC
WebAssembly Browser Preview
Trip report: Fall ISO C++ standards meeting
Daniel Marjamäki
Daniel Marjamäki on GitHub
Links
Cppcheck
Sponsor
Backtrace