

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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Jan 6, 2022 • 60min
Modern C for Absolute Beginners
Rob and Jason are joined by Slobodan Dmitrovic. They first talk about the latest update to the {fmt} library, another Raymond Chen blogpost, and a summary of ISO standardization progress made in 2021. Then they talk to Slobodan about his new book Modern C for Absolute Beginners.
News
{fmt} v8.1.0 released
You can't copy code with memcpy
2021 C++ Standardization Highlights
Links
Modern C for Absolute Beginners
C++ and Friends
Patreon
CppCast Patreon

Dec 31, 2021 • 1h 1min
New Years 2022
Rob and Jason discuss various news articles, libraries and announcements on the last episode of 2021 before the new year.
News
C++ logging library - something I've been working on, Pt. 2
Do vectors get more use than what my textbook implies?
This year receive the gift of a free Meson manual
Microsoft VS 2022 and Floating-point to Integer Conversions
Top 10 bugs found in C++ projects in 2021
Visual Studio Code C++ December 2021 Update: clang-tidy
ImGui Command Palette
Brand new C++20 serialization library (one header)
CLion Bug-Fix Update 2021.3.1 and Roadmap for 2022.1
C++ on Sea 2022
Your New Mental Model of constexpr - Jason Turner - CppCon 2021
C++Now 2022 Call For Submissions
C++ North
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Dec 16, 2021 • 60min
Distributing C++ Modules
Rob and Jason are joined by Daniel Ruoso and Bret Brown from Bloomberg. They first talk about Jason's new Object Lifetime Puzzle book and a blost post from Kevlin Henney on Agile processes. Then they talk to Daniel and Bret about their research into using Modules at Bloomberg, and some of the changes still needed from compilers and build systems to use Modules in large scale software development.
News
Boost v1.78
Object Lifetime Puzzlers Book 1
Agility ≠ Speed
Links
p2409: Requirements for Usage of C++ Modules at Bloomberg
p2473: Distributing C++ Module Libraries
What Agile is Actually About?
CppCon - Lessons Learned from Packaging 10,000+ C++ Projects - Bret Brown & Daniel Ruoso - CppCon 2021
CppCon - Modern CMake Modules - Bret Brown - CppCon 2021
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Dec 9, 2021 • 60min
Beautiful C++
Rob and Jason are joined by Kate Gregory and Guy Davidson. They first talk about a free online game development course and updates to CLion. Then they talk to Kate and Guy about their upcoming book: Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code.
News
C++ Game Programming course on YouTube
CLion 2021.3
Modernizing Your Code With C++20
Links
Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code on Amazon
Kate Gregory's Blog - Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code
Sample Code for Beautiful C++ on Compiler Explorer
C++ North - The Canadian C++ Conference
C++ Reflection TS: A First Look
Total War: Warhammer III
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C++ tools evolution: static code analyzers:
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Dec 2, 2021 • 60min
Software Architecture with C++
Rob and Jason are joined by Adrian Ostrowski and Piotr Gaczowki. They first talk about profiling tools and reverse iterators. Then they talk to Adrian and Piotr about their book on C++ Software Architecture, and what all C++ developers can learn from it.
News
Another way of looking at C++ reverse iterators
C++ Profiling and Benchmarking Tools in 2021
A footnote on "Three reasons to pass std::string_view by value"
Links
Software Architecture with C++
Software Architecture with C++ on Amazon
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Nov 25, 2021 • 60min
Mdspan and Too Cute C++ Tricks
Rob and Conor are joined by Daisy Hollman. They first talk about C++23's approaching feature freeze including Daisy's work on the mdspan proposal. Then they talk to Daisy about her recent 'too cute' CppCon talk and whether you should be writing cute code in production.
News
JetBrains CppCon Talks
C++23: Near the Finish Line
Cmake 3.22.0 available for download
Links
p0009 mdspan
Daisy Hollman - What you can learn from being too cute - Meeting C++ online
Petrify App
PMD Source Code Analyzer
#include
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Nov 11, 2021 • 60min
Deducing This
Rob and Jason are joined by Gašper Ažman. They first talk about some resources for learning C++ and learning how to work on the LLVM compiler. Then they talk to Gašper about the Deducing This feature coming to C++23, how the feature worked its way through the ISO committee and what it will change.
News
ADSP: The Podcast
The Array Cast
C++ By Example
JetBrains CppCon Early Access
CppCon 2021 trip report
How to learn Compilers LLVM Edition
Links
p0847 Deducing This
Defining Contracts
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Nov 4, 2021 • 60min
Visual Studio 2022
Rob and Jason are joined by Sy Brand from Microsoft. They first talk about the recent CppCon conference, the hybrid format and some of their favorite talks. Then they talk to Sy about the upcoming Visual Studio 2022 release, what's new in the IDE and new features and improvements for C++ developers.
News
WG21 October Mailing
CppCon 2021 Virtual Trip Report, A User Story
Extending and Simplifying C++: Thoughts on Pattern Matching using is and as - Herb Sutter
Links
Visual Studio 2022 Release Notes
Visual Studio 2022 Launch Day Event
C++20 DR tracker
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PVS-Studio Learns What strlen is All About
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Oct 28, 2021 • 60min
C++23 ISO Progress
Rob and Jason are joined by Bryce Adelstein Lelbach. They first talk about SonarLint analysis, and searching algorithm performance and an observation on compiler diversity. Then they talk to Bryce about the proposals that are heading for C++23, including major changes to the executor and networking proposals.
News
Supercharge your C++ analysis with SonarLint for Clion
Efficiently searching an array with GCC, Clang and ICC
C++ Committee polling results for asynchronous programming
Links
P0443R13 - A Unified Executors Proposal for C++
P2300R0 - std::execution
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PVS-Studio Learns What strlen is All About
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Oct 21, 2021 • 60min
JIT Compilation and Exascale Computing
Rob and Jason are joined by Hal Finkel from the US Department of Energy. They first talk to Hal about the LLVM 13 release and why the release notes were lacking. Then they talk to Hal about his C++ JIT Proposal, the Clang prototype and how it could be used. They also talk about Hal's work at DOE, Exascale computing and more.
News
LLVM 13 released
Some lesser-known powers of std::optional
Barbarian, an open and distributed Conan package index!
Links
ClangJIT
P1609R1 C++ Should Support Just-in-Time Compilation
Hal Finkel "Faster Compile Times and Better Performance: Bringing Just-in-Time Compilation to C+"
US Department of Energy: Advanced Scientific Computing Research
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