CppCast

Rob and Jason are joined by Sean Parent and Dave Abrahams. They first talk to Dave about his history with C++, Boost and the Swift programming language. Then they talk with Sean and Dave about Adobe's Software Technology Lab and their plans to focus on Concurrency in C++. News A Neat trick with consteval Constexpr memory allocation Comprehensive Catalog of C++ Books Links stlab stlab on GitHub Sponsors C++ Builder

Rob and Jason are joined by Hartmut Kaiser and Mikael Simberg. They first discuss some blog posts on returning multiple values from a function and C++ Ranges. Then they talk to Hartmut Kaiser and Mikael Simberg on the latest version of HPX, how easy it is to gain performance improvements with HPX, and DLA Futures, the Distributed Linear Algebra library built using HPX. News An Unexpected Article About Our Unicorn: Who Is the PVS-Studio Mascot? How to Return Several Values from a Function in C++ C++20 ranges benefits: avoid dangling pointers Links HPX HPX on GitHub HPX 1.7.0 released DLA Future on GitHub Sponsors C++ Builder

Rob and Jason are joined by Ivica Bogosavljevic from Johny's Software Lab. They first talk about an open sourced 3d game engine and C++ documentation tools. Then they talk to Ivica Bogosavljevic from Johny's Software Lab where he writes about methods to improve performance in C++ applications. News Open 3D Engine Doc Tools for C++ Libraries CppCon 2021 call for submissions Second set of Meeting C++ AMAs Links Johny's Software Lab easyperf Sponsors PVS-Studio Team: Switching to Clang Improved PVS-Studio C++ Analyzer's Performance Beta-Testing of PVS-Studio Plugin for JetBrains CLion PVS-Studio podcast transcripts

Rob and Jason are joined by Damien Buhl and Yannic Staudt from tipi.build. They first talk about a new text encoding library and whether const should be the default for variables. Then they talk about tipi.build, the Compiler-as-a-Service that understands C++ code and can build it without scripts. News Any Encoding, Ever - ztd.text and Unicode for C++ Should every variable be const by default? Reversing words of a string with ranges -#thatsarotate Links tipi.build Join tipi.build beta tipi.build blog @TipiBuild Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables

Rob and Jason are joined by Ondřej Čertík from Los Alamos National Laboratory. They first talk about ISO Papers and Github's CoPilot AI programmer. Then they talk to Ondřej about LFortran, a modern LLVM based Fortran compiler that can compile Fortran code into C++. News June 2021 ISO Mailing C++ Library Include Times GitHub Copilot CppCon Field Trip Links LFortran Fortran Fortran Package Manager Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables

Rob and Jason are joined by Pejman Ghorbanzade. They first talk about changes to the format library to enable better compile time errors, and some conference news from CppCon, C++ on Sea and NDC TechTown. Then they talk to Pejman about Touca, a new tool he's created for continuous regression testing. News Palanteer A quest for safe text formatting API C++ On Sea starting soon CppCon call for submissions NDC TechTown call for papers Links Touca Touca's vision for the future of regression testing Touca SDK on GitHub Sponsors Incredibuild

Rob and Jason are joined by Patryk Obara. They first talk about in Visual Studio 2019 and a Trip Report from Herb Sutter on the Summer ISO meeting. Then they talk to Patryk Obara about the dosbox project itself and the dosbox staging repository where he's been working to modernize dosbox. News <format> in Visual Studio 2019 v16.10 Trip report: Summer 2021 ISO C++ Standards meeting (virtual) Painless coroutines part 4 Links DOSBox Staging DOSBox Staging on GitHub DOSBOX Sponsors Incredibuild

Rob and Jason are joined by Darrell Wright. They first talk about a gameboy emulator written by Ben Smith and a new regression testing tool. Then they talk to Darrell Wright about DAW JSON Link, his JSON serialization library. News FTXUI POKEGB gameboy emulator that only plays Pokemon blue (68 lines of C++) Automated regression testing with Touca Links DAW JSON Link on GitHub DAW JSON Link Documentation Sponsors C++ Builder

Rob and Jason are joined by Dana Rochman and Amir Kirsh from Incredibuild. They first discuss conference news and a blog post from Andreas Kling. Then they talk to Dana and Amir about the latest from Incredibuild, including new support for accelerating builds in the cloud, and build caching. News C++ On Sea Schedule Core C++ I quit my job to focus on Serenity OS Full time 13 C++ Libraries To Watch Out For Links Incredibuild Sponsors C++ Builder

Rob and Jason are joined by Todd Gamblin and Greg Becker. They first discuss a documentation tool, a blog post about floating point numbers, and yet another post about ABI changes. Then they talk to Todd and Greg from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) who both work on Spack, the popular open source package manager aimed at HPC. News Poxy: a Doxygen frontend with extra fancy Mostly harmless: An account of pseudo-normal floating point numbers Removing an empty base class can break ABI Links Spack Spack on GitHub Spack Tutorial Spack Slack Build all the things with Spack: a package manager for more than C++ - Todd Gamblin - CppCon 2020 Clingo: A grounder and solver for logic programs Build: Solving the Software Complexity Puzzle Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables