CppCast

Rob and Jason are joined by Robert Schumacher from Microsoft to discuss the vcpkg package manager and more. Robert Schumacher is a developer on the Microsoft Visual C++ Libraries team and the lead developer for vcpkg. He has previously worked on the MSVC implementation of the Modules TS and is the current maintainer of Cpprestsdk. Besides work, he occasionally indulges in functional programming and arguments about whether inheritance is fundamentally flawed. News Teach yourself C++ Where to start Macro Expansions in Quick Info Tooltips Call for a more diverse program at Meeting C++ 2018 Conan 1.4 released Robert Schumacher Robert Schumacher's GitHub Links Vcpkg Vcpkg Docs Sponsors Backtrace Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Tom Breza, Oliver Ddin and Tristan Brindle to discuss the C++ London Uni group and their approach to teaching C++ to the community. Tom arrived in London at age 22 with £200 to his name, not knowing a single person. After 6 months Tom managed to start business - PC Service, that provides IT support to SMBs and runs it since then. Tom's team help many customers from small businesses to top celebrities and Royal Families. Now with over 20 years of experience, Tom set his mind on new challenges and decided to learn software development, specifically C++ and helps others to learn through C++ London Uni. Oliver has been a C++ hater since 2008 - fortunately, that all changed with C++11 and he's firmly an enthusiast now. He's spent his time doing everything from embedded devices to network engineering and now Internet security related endeavours. He's a big proponent of writing software in a style driven by some form of testing and its place in pushing you towards well-architected, maintainable code. In his spare time he also co-organises C++ London Uni which provides free lessons for people wanting to get into developing C++ and the wider ecosystem around it. Tristan is an independent contractor and C++ enthusiast based in London. He’s particularly interested in standardisation and making C++ an easier language to use and teach. He can be found on Twitter @tristanbrindle and occasionally blogs about C++ at tristanbrindle.com. News Bjarne Stroustrup P0977r0 "Remember the Vasa" Celebration of Towel Day with awesome pieces of code that print 42 Pacific++ Call for Speakers CppCon Call for Program Committee Members Tom Breza @TomBreza Oliver Ddin @olipro Tristan Brindle @tristanbrindle Links C++ London Uni Sponsors PVS-Studio The Evil within the Comparison Functions Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by JeanHeyd Meneide to discuss the sol2 library and his proposal for std::embed. ThePhD -- known in meatspace as JeanHeyd -- is a Computer Science undergraduate at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering in Columbia University. They are currently working on Open Source C++ and C++ Standardization projects, as well as exploring graphics programming. They are currently dabbling with Haskell and Elm for fun, and are attempting to wrangle their biggest open source project -- sol2 -- into a newer, better version of itself. The nickname is a std::promise<> on their std::future<>. News Superconstructing super elider, Pt2 Matthew Butler's C++Now 2018 Trip Report Ben Deane's C++Now 2018 Trip Report A CPPNow Travel Guide Matt Godbolt's C++Now Trip Report ThePHD's C++Now 2018 Trip Report JeanHeyd Meneide @thephantomderp JeanHeyd's Blog Links sol2 p1040R0 std::embed Sponsors PVS-Studio The Evil within the Comparison Functions Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Craig to discuss his proposal for a freestanding C++ Library. Ben is a Principal Software Engineer at National Instruments, primarily developing device drivers for various operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac, OpenRTOS, vxWorks, ETS Pharlap), and occasionally tinkering with the firmware side of things. Ben is an occasional contributor to libc++ and Apache Thrift. News Convert Macro to Constexpr in VS 2017 CppCon 2018 Registration is Open How to Adopt Modern C++17 into your C++ Code 7++ Reasons to Move Your C++ Code into Visual Studio 2017 Effective C++/WinRT for UWP and Win32 C++ Insights P0709 Zero overhead deterministic exceptions Ben Craig Ben Craig's GitHub Links Freestanding Proposal Freestanding Trip Report: emBO++ and Jacksonville wg21 2018 experience Sponsors PVS-Studio The Evil within the Comparison Functions Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Phil Nash to discuss the rebooted CppChat show, test driven development, a conference announcement and much more. Phil has spent the last year and a half doing things that might sound interesting for the next time he’s interviewed on CppCast. He might have overdone it. Aside from that he’s most commonly known as the original author of the test framework, Catch2. He’s been in or around C++ since the early 90s, but started coding in 1981 on a ZX-81 that he borrowed for six months. He’s worked in many domains, including finance and mobile and is now developer advocate for C++ and Swift tools at JetBrains. News Safely extract a method in any C++ code Pacific++ Call for Speakers until June 17 Meeting Embedded Call for Speakers until June 10 MeetingC++ Call for Speakers until June 10 CppCon call for submissions until May 11 Phil Nash @phil_nash Level of Indirection Extra Level of Indirection Another Level of Indirection Links CppChat Modern C++ testing with Catch2 - Phil nash - Meeting C++ 2017 C++ on Sea Sponsors PVS-Studio The Evil within the Comparison Functions Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Kate Gregory to discuss her recent talk at ACCU, Pluralsight courses and include C++. Kate Gregory has been using C++ since before Microsoft had a C++ compiler, and has been paid to program since 1979. She loves C++ and believes that software should make our lives easier. That includes making the lives of developers easier! She'll stay up late arguing about deterministic destruction or how C++ these days is not the C++ you remember. Kate runs a small consulting firm in rural Ontario and provides mentoring and management consultant services, as well as writing code every week. She has spoken all over the world, written over a dozen books, and helped thousands of developers to be better at what they do. Kate is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Visual C++ MVP, an Imagine Cup judge and mentor, and an active contributor to StackOverflow and other StackExchange sites. She develops courses for Pluralsight, primarily on C++ and Visual Studio. Since 2014 she was Open Content Chair for CppCon, the largest C++ conference ever held, where she also delivered sessions. News CppChat Design Patterns in Modern C++ Announcing a single C++ library manager for linux, macOS and Windows: vcpkg Conan 1.3.0 released March 2018 ISO C++ Meeting Trip Report (SG1 Concurrency and Parallelism) Kate Gregory @gregcons Kate Gregory's Blog Links Meeting C++ 2017 - Kate Gregory: "It's Complicated" ACCU 2018 - Kate Gregory: "Simplicity: not just for beginners" Meeting C++ 2017 - Kate Gregory: "5 Things I figured out while..." Pluralsight: C++ Fundamentals Including C++17 Sponsors PVS-Studio The Evil within the Comparison Functions Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Kevlin Henney to discuss C++ Patterns and things every programmer should know. Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. He has been a columnist for a number of magazines and sites, including C++ Report and C/C++ Users Journal, and has been on far too many committees (it has been said that "a committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled"), including the the BSI C++ panel and the ISO C++ standards committee. He is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and the forthcoming 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know. He lives in Bristol and online. News Spectre diagnostic in VS 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 4 Microsoft MakeCode: from C++ to TypeScript and Blockly (and Back) Introduction to web development in C++ with WT 4 Kevlin Henney @KevlinHenney Kevlin Henney's Blog Links Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know ACCU 2018 - Kevlin Henney: "Procedural Programming: It's Back? It Never Went Away" Sponsors PVS-Studio JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Jason Rice to discuss C++ Web Application Development and his libraries CppDock and nbdl. Jason is a web applications programmer with an appetite for C++ metaprogramming having made small contributions to Boost.Hana. He is actively working on the library Nbdl, waiting for the day when C++ takes over the web. News #include C++ Blast from the Past: Borland C++ on Windows 98 Boost 1.67.0 Released Jason Rice @JasonRice_ Jason Rice's GitHub Links CppDock Nbdl C++Now 2017: Jason Rice "Nbdl: A library that uses metaprogramming... A lot" Sponsors PVS-Studio JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Bartłomiej Filipek to discuss blogging, Simplifying C++ Code with C++17, and the work he's doing at Xara. Bartłomiej Filipek (Bartek as a shorter version) is a C++ software developer at Xara where he works mostly on text features for advanced document editors. He works remotely from Cracow/Poland. Apart from graphics applications, Bartek also has experience with game development, large-scale systems for aviation, writing graphics drivers and even biofeedback. For seven years Bartek has been regularly blogging. In the early days the topic revolved around graphics programming, and now he focuses on Core C++. In his spare time, he loves assembling trains and Lego with his little son. And he's a collector of large Lego Star Wars models. News CppCon 2018 call for submissions Developing Talk Ideas SG13 graphics why it failed Source to windows file manager released (not C++, it is C) Octal Zero considered harmful CppCast Gear Bartłomiej Filipek @fenbf Bartek's coding blog Links C++17 Resources Xara Xara Cloud: Getting Started C++ User Group Krakow Sponsors JetBrains CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason discuss Jacksonville trip reports, April Fools posts and more. News Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20 No new new: Raw pointers removed from C++ C++ will no longer have pointers HPX 1.1.0 Released Freestanding trip report: emBO++ and Jacksonville Oh, lock-free circular buffers, yay! Hey, no 2D graphics? Jacksonville trip report JetBrains Trip Report Clion 2018.1 release Cmake 3.11 Release Configuring C++ Intellisense and Browsing Links @robwirving @lefticus Sponsor JetBrains Listener Survey CppCast Listener Survey

Rob and Jason are joined by Ólafur Waage to discuss the work done at Ubisoft Massive using C++ and Typescript for application development and much more. Ólafur Waage is a Generalist Programmer at Ubisoft Massive where he works on the Uplay PC client and services. His work focuses mainly on programming with C++ but Python and C# do appear from time to time. In his spare time he plays video games which is not surprising given his job but he also likes puzzles, non fiction audio books and it would be a very strange day if it were not filled with music in some way. News Explore the design of a modern C++ library: MemCache++ case study Usability improvements in GCC 8 My Little Optimization: The Compiler is Magic Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing! Ólafur Waage @olafurw Ólafur Waage's GitHub Links Malmö C++ User Group Massive Entertainment Sponsors Backtrace JetBrains Listener Survey CppCast Listener Survey Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Patrice Roy to discuss the Jacksonville C++ Committee meeting and the state of features that may make it into C++20, new Study Groups and much more. 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 C++Now 2018 schedule online Text Formatting at the ISO C++ Standards meeting in Jacksonville 2018 Jacksonville ISO C++ Committee Reddit Trip Report Patrice Roy @PatriceRoy1 Patrice Roy's Blog Links ISO C++ Jacksonville Agenda Sponsors Backtrace JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason discuss catch up on two weeks' worth of C++ news on a very special Pi day episode. News WG21 pre-Jacksonville telecon Results summary: C++ Foundation Developer Survey ClangFormat Support in Visual Studio 2017 C++ Code Analysis Improvements for Visual Studio 2017 Linux C++ Workload improvements to the Project System, Console Window, rsync and Attach to Process LLVM 6.0 Release Profiling: Optimisation Simplify code with 'if constexpr' in C++17 Lvalues, rvalues, glvalues, prvalues, xvalues, help! Tip of the Week #55: Name Counting and unique_ptr Links @robwirving @lefticus Sponsor JetBrains

Rob and Jason are joined by Jon Kalb to discuss upcoming C++ conferences, CppChat and east const. Jon does onsite training in C++ and chairs C++Now, CppCon, and the Boost Steering Committee. Next month he will be speaking at the ACCU conference in Bristol, and keynoting the C++ Russia conference in Saint Petersburg. News Market share of the most used C/C++ IDEs in 2018 A cake for your cherry, what should go in the C++ standard library Batteries not included: what should go in the C++ standard library? CMake 3.11: "add_library() and add_executable() commands can now be called without any sources and will not complain as long as sources are added later via the target_sources() Jon Kalb @_jonkalb // info - Jon Kalb's blog Links C++Now C++Now 2018 Registration is Open C++Now Accepting Student/Volunteer Applications CppCon C++ Community Events A Foolish Consistency Sponsors think-cell software Embo++ Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Conor Hoekstra to discuss Competive Coding websites and competitions. Conor Hoekstra works at Moody's Analytics as a C++ Software Developer helping maintain and develop an insurance software program called AXIS. Wanting to develop better algorithm and data structure knowledge he started using online sites like HackerRank and LeetCode to do so. He now has a YouTube channel where he reviews the contests from the last week of Competitive Coding sites like HackerRank, LeetCode, topcoder and Codeforces) and also covers solutions to the trickier problems. News Announcing Tensor Comprehensions Google summer of code for GCC Pacific++ 2018 location and dates confirmed 59+ videos now up from Meeting C++ 2017 CppNow Registration Open Conor Hoekstra @code_report Links Code_Report YouTube Channel HackerRank LeetCode TopCoder CodeForces Sponsors think-cell software Embo++ Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Mathieu Ropert to discuss C++ API & ABI compatibility issues and Modern CMake. Mathieu is a french C++ expert with an eclectic background. He's worked in various fields including kernels, virtualization, web development, databases, REST microservices, build systems and package management, all those in (or about) C or C++. He is presently awaiting his next challenge in the video game industry that should come up next May in Stockholm, Sweden. Until then, Mathieu lives and works in Paris, France where he is also host of the C++ French User Group. News C++ in 2018 Inspector - A drop-anywhere C++ REPL The 15 C++11 features you must really use in your project Mathieu Ropert @MatRopert Links CppCon 2017: Mathieu Ropert "API & ABI Versioning..." CppCon 2017: Mathieu Ropert "Using Modern CMake Patterns to Enforce a Good Modular Design" Meeting C++ 2017: Mathieu Ropert "The need for a package manager interface" The Ultimate Guide to Modern CMake Bincrafters Blog Sponsors think-cell software Embo++ Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Sarah Smith to talk about her career in Mobile Development with C++ and Qt. Sarah Smith comes to mobile development & entrepreneurship with a background in Software Engineering for companies like Nokia & Google, and over a decade of mobile device experience. She builds on a love of game development since creating Dungeons & Dragons modules on her own web-server while studying for a BSc (Comp Sci) in the late 90's. Realizing a goal to develop independent games & apps, Sarah opened Smithsoft in 2012. In January 2016 development went to the next level with Sarah moving to The Coterie (Brisbane's premier creative co-working space) to set up a studio as Smithsoft Games. The new studio's first title Pandora's Books was developed by Sarah and her team of part-time collaborators through 2016. In 2017 Sarah founded Artlife Solutions Pty Ltd with a team out of the Creative Startup Weekend, winning first prize there, going on to win a spot in Collider Accelerator 2017. Currently working on Sortal - the startup's revolutionary AI powered photo software - Sarah is responsible for all things tech including the scalable architecture, mobile implementation and deep-learning technology. Sarah is an international speaker and expert in creative teams and agile projects; mobile development and technical architecture for apps. She has worked for a decade in her discretionary time on diversity in hiring and helping women coders. News Outcome accepted into Boost C++ Modules, Working Draft N4720 Dr Bjarne Stroustrup Named Recipient of the 2018 IEEE-CS Computer Pioneer Award Sarah Smith @sarah_j_smith Sarah Smith on LinkedIn Sarah Smith's GitHub Links Pacific++ 2017: Sarah Smith "Postcards from the Cross-platform Frontier" Qt DevDays 2011, 3D-Programming Using Qt Quick on N9, Part 2: Sarah Smith Sortal Smithsoft Sponsors think-cell software Embo++ Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Jonathan Müller to talk about his experience at University and some of his recent projects. Jonathan is a CS student passionate about C++. In his spare time he writes libraries like foonathan/memory which provides memory allocator implementations. He is also working on standardese which is a documentation generator specifically designed for C++. Jonathan tweets at @foonathan and blogs about various C++ and library development related topics at foonathan.net. News GCC 7.3 Released C++ Tip: Erase-remove Idiom Revisited Beast: A Non-Traditional Source Code Review Inclusiveness, accessibility and CppCon 2017 videos Jonathan Müller @foonathan foonathan::blog() Links type_safe library cppast library Jonathan Müller's Patreon Sponsors Backtrace Embo++ Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Arno Schödl to talk about the work he does at think-cell with C++ and their custom range library. Arno Schödl, Ph.D. is the Co-Founder and Technical Director of think-cell Software GmbH, Berlin. think-cell is the de facto standard when it comes to professional presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint. Arno is responsible for the design, architecture and development of all our software products. He oversees think-cell’s R&D team, Quality Assurance and Customer Care. Before founding think-cell, Arno worked at Microsoft Research and McKinsey & Company. Arno studied computer science and management and holds a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a specialization in Computer Graphics. News Pacific++ 2017: Sarah Smith "Postcards from the Cross-platform Frontier" Outcome v2 Boost peer review begins CppCMS C++ Web Framework version 1.2.0 released under MIT license Spectre mitigations in MSVC Arno Schödl Arno Schödl Links think-cell range library think-cell Talks and Publications think-cell Funds the Working Group for Programming Languages of the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) think-cell Sponsors the Standard C++ Foundation think-cell C++ Jobs Work Life at think-cell Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Balázs Török to talk about his work in the Video Game Industry and his thoughts on Data Oriented Design. Balázs Török is a Senior Tech Programmer at Techland. He has more than 10 years of experience in the games industry. Balázs learned the ropes at Hungarian companies by making smaller titles and then moved to Poland to work on The Witcher series. He was the Lead Engine programmer on The Witcher 3 and now he is working at Techland on another promising project. News Matt Godbolt: Meltdown and Spectre CppCast YouTube Channel Free ebook on C++ Notes for Professionals Conan C/C++ Package Manager hits 1.0 Meltdown checker/PoC written in C++ Guy Davidson - Diversity and Inclusion - Secret Lightning Talks @ Meeting C++ 2017 Balázs Török @m0radin Links CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++" StackOverflow: What is Data Oriented Design? Sponsors Backtrace Embo++ Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Godbolt to talk about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities and how they affect C++ Programmers. Matt is a developer at trading firm DRW. Before that he's worked at Google, run a C++ tools company, and spent over a decade in the games industry making PC and console games. He is fascinated by performance and created Compiler Explorer, to help understand how C++ code ends up looking to the processor. When not performance tuning C++ code he enjoys writing emulators for 8-bit computers in Javascript. News More C++ Idioms C++ Tips of the Week (Abseil) Retpoline: a software construct for preventing branch-target-injection GCC 8.0 supports std::filesystem now Matt Godbolt @mattgodbolt Matt Godbolt's blog Links Compiler Explorer CppCon 2017: Matt Godbolt "What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid" GOTO 2016: Matt Godbolt "Emulating a 6502 system in Javascript" GOTO 2014: Matt Godbolt "x86 Internals for Fun & Profit" Patreon: Matt Godbolt is creating Compiler Explorer Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerability Note VU#584653 Sponsors Backtrace Embo++ Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Antony Palukhin to talk about some of the Boost libraries he's contributed to including Any, Conversion, DLL, LexicalCast, Stacktrace, TypeTraits and Variant; as well as his Boost Application Development book. Antony Polukhin was born in Russia. Since university days he started contributing to Boost and became a maintainer of the Boost.LexicalCast library. Today, he works for Yandex, helps Russian speaking people with C++ standardization proposals, consults Russian companies in C++, continues to contribute to the open source and to the C++ language in general. You may find his code in Boost libraries such as Any, Conversion, DLL, LexicalCast, Stacktrace, TypeTraits, Variant, and others. News Clang Running in Browser (Web Assembly) Kate Gregory - It's Complicated - Meeting C++ 2017 Keynote Speeding up the Build of C and C++ Projects C++17 constexpr everything (or as much as the compiler can) Antony Polukhin Antony Polukhin's GitHub Antony Polukhin's Blog Links Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook Boost C++ Libraries StdCppRu Telegram C++ Channel Sponsors Undo Embo++ Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Nicole Mazzuca to talk about the C++ Object Model, and some of the differences between Rust and C++. Nicole is someone who's thought a bit too much about object models and error handling. She started in C, moved to Rust, and then fell into C++ a year ago. She also loves coffee, and latte art. News Meson 0.44.0 is out C++Now 2018 Call for submissions MSVC code optimizer improvements in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 and 15.3 Broken warnings theory Nicole Mazzuca @ubsanitizer Nicole Mazzuca's GitHub Links CppCon 2017: Nicole Mazzuca "Values, Objects, and References, oh my: The C++ Object Model, and Why it Matters to You" Sponsors Undo Audible Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Dr. Greg Law from Undo to talk about the magic of reverse debugging and how it is becoming more widely known in the programming community. Greg is the co-founder and CEO of Undo. He is a coder at heart, but likes to bridge the gap between the business and software worlds. (Sadly, these days most of Greg's coding is done on aeroplanes.) Greg has 20 years’ experience in the software industry and has held development and management roles at companies including the pioneering British computer firm Acorn, as well as fast-growing start ups, NexWave and Solarflare. It was at Acorn that Greg met Julian and on evenings and weekends, they invented the core technology that would eventually become UndoDB. Greg left Solarflare in 2012 to lead Undo as CEO and has overseen the company as it transitioned from the shed in his back garden to a scalable award-winning business. Greg holds a PhD from City University, London, that was nominated for the 2001 British Computer Society Distinguished Dissertation Award. He lives in Cambridge, UK with his wife and two children and in his spare time, catches up on email. News Building a C++ SIMD abstraction C++17 Feature Removals and Deprecations A call for data on exceptions Greg Law @gregthelaw Links Undo Undo Blog Reverse debugging / time-travel debugging: a brief history of time CppCon 2016: Greg Law "GDB - A Lot More Than You Knew" CppCon 2017: J. McNellis, J. Mola, K. Sykes "Time Travel Debugging" Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Arvid Gerstmann from Appico to talk about bringing his new C++ Tour project, building your own C Compiler, using FASTBuild and more. Arvid Gerstmann is a passionate programmer and computer enthusiast, with a focus on writing high-performance C++. His area of expertise include, but is not limited to, writing compilers, implementing the included standard libraries, and creating game engines and games. He is currently the CTO of Appico. If he is not programming, he enjoys reading books while drinking a nice cup of self-brewed coffee. He currently lives in the sunny Hamburg, Germany. News Intel offers Parallel STL implementation to GNU libstdc++ Exceptions vs expected: Let's find a compromise Interactive workflows for C++ with Jupyter C++17 published C++Now Call for Submissions Embo++ call for papers and ticket are for sale Arvid Gerstmann @ArvidGerstmann Arvid Gerstmann's blog Arvid Gerstmann's GitHub Links Appico Cpp Tour FASTBuild Kai Wolf's Effective CMake Book Sponsors Undo JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Victor Ciura from Caphyon to talk about bringing clang tidy magic to Visual Studio C++ Developers with Clang Power Tools. Victor Ciura is a Senior Software Engineer at CAPHYON and Technical Lead on the Advanced Installer team. For over a decade, he designed and implemented several core components and libraries of Advanced Installer such as: IIS, Repackager, OS virtualization and others. He’s a regular guest at Computer Science Department of his Alma Mater, University of Craiova, where he gives student lectures & workshops on “Using C++STL for Competitive Programming and Software Development”. Currently, he spends most of his time working with his team on improving and extending the repackaging and virtualization technologies in Advanced Installer, helping clients migrate their Win32 desktop apps to the Windows Store (AppX). News Sy Brand Meeting C++ Trip Report C++ Coroutines: Understanding operator co_await Cmake 3.1.0 released Launching Tech Talks in your workplace 2017 Coding Toys Victor Ciura @ciura_victor Links Advanced Installer Caphyon Clang Power Tools Clang Power Tools GitHub CppCon 2017: Victor Ciura "Bringing Clang-tidy Magic to Visual Studio C++ Developers" Sponsors Backtrace JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Dave Moore from Oculus Research to talk about the Oculus C++ SDK and Augmented Reality. Dave Moore started programming after getting fired from his college work study job. This worried his parents, but it seems to have worked out in the end. After spending 17 years in and around the computer games industry, most recently at RAD Game Tools, he's now a software engineer at Oculus Research, working to advance the computer vision technology underlying virtual and augmented reality. News Cheerp the C++ compiler for the Web The wrong way of benchmarking the most efficient integer comparison function Programming Accelerators with C++ (PACXX) What should be part of the C++ standard library Dave Moore @dmmfix Links Oculus Developer Center Oculus Research Oculus Connect 3 Opening Keynote: Michael Abrash Sponsors Backtrace JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Rong Lu to talk about C++ support with the Visual Studio Code Editor and some of the recent improvements made to it. Rong Lu is a Program Manager in the Visual C++ team at Microsoft. She has been on the Visual Studio team since she graduated with her master degree in computer science 10 years ago. She currently works on Visual Studio tools for games, C++ mobile, and the C++ experience in Visual Studio Code. Before joining the C++ team, she spent 4 years building the VS SharePoint and architecture tools. News Trip Report: Fall ISO C++ Standards meeting (Albuquerque) Pacific++ Videos Available C++/WinRT is now included in the Windows SDK Don't use C++ auto? Catch2 released London and Sweden distributed meetup writeup Rong Lu @davorabbit Links Visual Studio Code C++ for Visual Studio Code CppCon 2017: Rong Lu "C++ Development with Visual Studio Code" Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension Nov 2017 Update - Multi-root workspaces support is here! Visual C++ Team Blog Sponsors Backtrace JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason discuss recent news and the first ever Pacific++ conference in New Zealand. News Next Pacific++ Location Does C++ need a universal package manager Petra: C++17 runtime to compile-time mappings Bjarne Stroustrup Interview at CppCon 2017 C++17 is Here: Interview with Herb Sutter CppCon 2017 Talks CppCon 2017 Lightning Talks Links @robwirving @lefticus Sponsor JetBrains

Rob and Jason are joined by Isabella Muerte to talk about her recent talk at CppCon 2017 where she discussed some of her concerns with the Modules TS. Isabella Muerte is a C++ Bruja and Build System Trash Goblin. She taught herself to program by writing a build system and immediately regretting the decision. Her first computer ran Windows Millennium Edition and her parents forbade her from upgrading to anything else for 5 years. She is still bitter about this. In her spare time, she is into open source software, tattoos, computer keyboards, and making fake cover bands like 'Rage Against the Abstract Machine' News A use for the poop emoji in C++ C++ Core Guidelines: Class Hierarchies Partitioning with the STL The Coming Software Apocalypse Isabella Muerte @slurpsmadrips Links Millennials Are Killing the Modules TS CppCon 2017: Isabella Muerte "There Will Be Build Systems: I Configure Your Milkshake" Sponsors JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Gina Stephens to talk about the C++ Foundations presence at the Grace Hopper Conference, the St Louis C++ Meetup and a proposal for a new access specifier. Gina Stephens is a software engineer with over 20 years' experience, 13 of those years leading development teams. Most of her experience has been with C++, in addition to Java, .NET and various scripting language. The breadth of her development experience includes DOD, FDA, DOI, Hospitality, and Finance. Gina has a Bachelors in Computer Science from MS&T in Rolla, MO and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Missouri – STL. She also founded and runs the STL C++ User Group. Gina is also a Desert Storm Air Force veteran during which she worked on the B-52 bombers that were carpet-bombing Iraq. She is happily married with 2 sons, both of whom are serving in the US Navy. News Facebook Has Been Working On C++ Modules Support For GCC A Branchless UTF-8 Decoder Interactive Auralization and Visualization of Sorting Algorithms Trip Report JetBrains at CppCon Gina Stephens Gina Stephens Links Grace Hopper Celebration St Louis C++ Meetup Sponsors JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Titus Winters from Google to talk about the Open Sourcing of Google's Abseil library. Titus Winters has spent the past 6 years working on Google's core C++ libraries. He's particularly interested in issues of large scale software engineer and codebase maintenance: how do we keep a codebase of over 100M lines of code consistent and flexible for the next decade? Along the way he has helped Google teams pioneer techniques to perform automated code transformations on a massive scale, and helps maintain the Google C++ Style Guide. News CppCon 2017 Trip Report My CppCon 2017 Trip Report - 10 great talks to watch and learn from Kdevelop 5.2 beta 1 released Titus Winters Titus Winters Links Abseil CppCon 2017: Titus Winters C++ as a "Live at Head Language" Sponsors Backtrace JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Bentley to talk about his work on plf::list and discuss some updates from the SG14 Working Group. Matt Bentley was born in 1978 and never recovered from the experience. He started programming in 1986, completing a BSc Computer Science 1999, before spending three years working for a legal publishing firm, getting chronic fatigue syndrone, quitting, building a music studio, recovering, getting interested in programming again, building a game engine, and stumbling across some generalized solutions to some old problems. News From Algorithms to Coroutines in C++ A Beginner's Guide to CppCon 2017 CppCon2017 videos online Matt Bentley @xolvenz Matt Bentley on GitHub Links PLF C++ Library Sponsors Backtrace JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Patricia Aas to talk about Java and some of the similarities and differences between the Managed language and C++, she also talks about her work on the Vivaldi Browser. Patricia has been a C++ programmer for 12 years. Currently she is working on the Vivaldi Browser. Previously she has worked on the Opera Browser, on embedded telepresence systems at Cisco and even did a two year stint as a Java consultant. She is passionate about learning and teaching, as well as trying to make the world in general and tech in particular, a more inclusive place. News Bjarne Stroustrup awarded 2017 Faraday Medal Orbit C Performance Profiler Introducing Abseil, a new common libraries project CppCon Videos Patricia Aas @pati_gallardo Links C++ for Java Developers (Slides) C++ for Java Developers (Video) Java Vivaldi Browser Sponsors Backtrace JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Josh Peterson to talk about C# and some of the similarities and differences between the Managed language and C++, he also talks about his work at Unity 3D on IL2CPP. Josh is a programmer working at Unity Technologies, where he focuses on integration and development of scripting runtimes for the Unity 3D game engine. He enjoys learning about CPU architectures and assembly language, including the recent development of an MOS 6510 emulator in C#. In his free time, he coaches a number of youth soccer teams and reads philosophy and theology. News Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages C++ World Café Useful GCC warning options not enabled by -Wall -Wextra Josh Peterson @petersonjm1 Links Microsoft C# Guide Unity 3D An introduction to IL2CPP internals Sponsors Backtrace JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Jonathan Boccara to talk about the FluentC++ blog and the benefit of doing daily C++ talks at your office. Jonathan Boccara is a passionate C++ developer working for Murex on a large codebase of financial software. His interests revolve around making code expressive. He regularly blogs on Fluent C++, where he explores how to use the C++ language to write expressive code, make existing code clearer, and also about how to keep your spirits up when facing unclear code. Jonathan loves writing, making videos, reading programming books, hanging out at conferences, meeting people, learning new languages and making trainings and presentations. News C++17 is formally approved Clang 5.0.0 Released (already on the compiler explorer) Two-phase name lookup support comes to MSVC CppCast compiles on godbolt Jonathan Boccara @JoBoccara Links FluentC++ STL Learning Resource Spread Knowledge in Your Company with Your "Daily C++" Murex Going Native 2013: Sean Parent "C++ Seasoning" Sponsors Backtrace JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Jan Wilmans to talk about the DebugView++ debug and logging tool and some of his other open source projects. Jan is a Software Engineer at Promexx, contracted by ThermoFisher Scientific to work on integration of motion controllers in Transmission Electron Microscopes. He has been programming for 25 years, started with basic, z80 assembly and later C++. He is now a C++ enthusiast, an open source developer and likes to keep up to date on new c++ developments. In his free time he enjoys playing video games and watching science fiction together with his wife Babette. News CppCon Call for Volunteers Live++ C++ Live Coding Build your first C++ app Why undefined behavior may call a never-called function Jan Wilmans @janwilmans Jan Wilmans' GitHub Links DebugView++ LibIdentify OpenCanary Executors Proposal Sponsors Backtrace JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Olivier Giroux from NVidia to talk about programming for the Volta GPU. Olivier Giroux has worked on eight GPU and four SM architecture generations released by NVIDIA. Lately, he works to clarify the forms and semantics of valid GPU programs, present and future. He was the programming model lead for the new NVIDIA Volta architecture. He is a member of WG21, the ISO C++ committee, and is a passionate contributor to C++'s forward progress guarantees and memory model. News Visual C++ for Linux Development with Cmake Sourcetrail 2017.3 released - cross platform source explorer Call for CppCon Lightning Talks and Open Content C++17 STL Cookbook Book Review Olivier Giroux @simt Links CppCon: Designing C++ Hardware Inside Volta: The World’s Most Advanced Data Center GPU Inside Volta Slidedeck NVidia Dev Blog Sponsors Backtrace JetBrains Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Jens Weller to talk about the upcoming Meeting C++ conference, the /r/cpp_review community and more. 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 Aqua Math - Android game developed in C++ with Cocos2d-x Cocos2d-x LLVM on Windows now supports PDB Debug Info Ranges, Coroutines, and React: Early Musings on the Future of Async in c++ An Intro to Compilers Jens Weller @meetingcpp Jens Weller's GitHub Links Meeting C++ Meeting C++ 2017 Conference /r/cpp_review Meeting Embedded Ultimate List of Developer Podcasts Dlib - a modern C++ toolkit containing machine learning algorithms The Cherno Project Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Sy Brand from Codeplay Software to talk about building C++ debuggers and the hardware and C++ firmware of a custom keyboard. News N3886: A Proposal to add a Database Access Layer to the Standard Library C++ London "University" C++17 Features and STL Fixes in VS 2017 15.3 The reviews have begun Links minidbg - A mini x86 linux debugger for teaching purposes Building my first custom keyboard Accelerating your C++ on GPU with SYCL Codeplay Software Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Samy Bahra from Backtrace to talk about lesser known synchronization primitives and his work on the Concurrency Kit. Samy Al Bahra is the cofounder of Backtrace, where he is helping build a modern debugging platform for today’s complex applications. Prior to Backtrace, Samy was a principal engineer at AppNexus, where he played a lead role in the architecture and development of many mission-critical components of the ecosystem. His work at AppNexus was instrumental in scaling the system to 18 billion impressions with orders of magnitude in efficiency improvements. Prior to AppNexus, Samy was behind major performance improvements to the core technology at Message Systems. At the George Washington University High Performance Computing Laboratory, Samy worked on the UPC programming language, heterogeneous computing, and multicore synchronization. Samy is also the founder of the Concurrency Kit project, which several leading technology companies rely on for scalability and performance. Samy serves on the ACM Queue Editorial Board. News ReactiveX Beast accepted to Boost A summary of the metaclasses proposal for C++ C++17 in details: Filesystem CppCon 2017 Schedule Samy Bahra @0xF390 Links C++Now 2017: Samy Bahra "Multicore Synchronization: The Lesser-Known Primitives" "Multicore Synchronization: The Lesser-Known Primitives" Slides Concurrency Kit Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Krister Walfridsson to talk about some of his contributions to the GCC Compiler. Krister got introduced to low-level programming by the C64/Amiga demo scene in the 80s. This led to an interest in operating systems and compilers, and he has been involved in the NetBSD and GCC projects for more than 20 years. His career has been split between OS-level development on embedded platforms and compiler development, and he most enjoys working with "strange" custom-made architectures. News libq Metaclasses: Thoughts on generative C++ 6 Reasons Why We Distribute C++ Libraries as Source Code Undefined Behavior in 2017 Krister Walfridsson @kwalfridsson Krister Walfridsson's Blog Links Why volatile is hard to specify and implement Branch prediction Designing a CPU in VHDL, Part 1: Rationale, tools, methods Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Patrice Roy to talk about the changes made to the C++20 Draft at the Toronto C++ Standards Committee Meeting. 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 Diagnostic Improvements in VS 2017 15.3.0 Boost to move to cmake build and test Trip Report: My first ISO C++ Standards meeting Patrice Roy @PatriceRoy1 Patrice Roy's Blog Links Patrice's Trip Report (French) CppCon Course: Practical Modern C++ Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Gor Nishanov to talk about the C++ Coroutines proposal. Gor Nishanov is a Principal Software Design Engineer on the Microsoft C++ team. He works on design and standardization of C++ Coroutines, and on asynchronous programming models. Prior to joining C++ team, Gor was working on distributed systems in Windows Clustering team. News Verdigris: Qt without moc Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting A C++ review community Future Ruminations Gor Nishanov @gornishanov Gor Nishanov's GitHub Links CppCon 2015: Gor Nishanov "C++ Coroutines - a negative overhead abstraction" CppCon 2016: Gor Nishanov "C++ Coroutines: Under the covers" Wandbox: Coroutines with Ranges Compiler Explorer: Coroutines clang demo Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim to talk about the CopperSpice C++ GUI Library. Barbara is an independent consultant working as a programmer and software developer for over 25 years. She has been a featured speaker at more than a dozen trade shows and computer conferences in the US and on two separate occasions Barbara taught an extended class in software architecture and GUI design for the Panama Canal Commission in Panama. Ansel has been working as a programmer for over 15 years. Ansel worked for 8 years at a communications company designing scalable, high performance, multi-threaded network daemons in C++ and he is currently a software consultant for RealityShares in San Francisco. News 5 years of Meeting C++ Why you should really care about C/C++ static analysis Hotspot a GUI for the linux perf profiler Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim Barbara Geller's GitHub Ansel Sermersheim's GitHub Links CopperSpice CopperSpice GitHub CopperSpice YouTube Channel DoxyPress CppCon 2015: Barbara Geller & Ansel Sermersheim "CopperSpice: A Pure C++ GUI Library" CppCon 2015: Barbara Geller & Ansel Sermersheim "Doxygen to DoxyPress" Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus

Rob and Jason are joined by Christopher Di Bella to talk about his experience teaching C++ and his proposed changes to Concepts. Christopher Di Bella will soon be a software engineer at Codeplay and previously taught C++. He is an avid C++ programmer and also enjoys film, board games, and snowboarding in his spare time. News CppCon Last Call for Early Bird Pricing Introducing the Splash Damage C++ Tech Blog Security features in Microsoft Visual C++ Meeting Embedded Catch Survey Christopher Di Bella Christopher Di Bella's GitHub Links CppCon: Exploring the C++ Standard Library Concepts TS Range v3 Library Range TS/STL2 C++ Extension for Ranges Advanced C++ Programming Course Notes Book: "Writing Secure Code" Book: "Code Complete" Book: "A Tour of C++" Seth Bling "Hacking the Super Mario World" Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus Better C++/Chicago

Rob and Jason are joined by Howard Hinnant from Ripple to talk about <chrono>, his date & time library (and proposal) and his work on move semantics. Howard Hinnant is a Senior Software Engineer at Ripple and the lead author of several C++11/14 features including: move semantics, unique_ptr, chrono, condition_variable_any, shared_mutex and std::lock. He is also the lead author of two LLVM projects libc++ and libc++abi. News Noexcept: lightweight error handling library for C++11 7 Ways to Get Better at C++ During this Summer After 17 yrs of active development, does the Boost C++ library meet its original vision Howard Hinnant Howard Hinnant Links CppCon 2016: Howard Hinnant "A \<chrono> Tutorial" CppCon 2015: Howard Hinnant “A C++14 approach to dates and times" CppCon 2016: Howard Hinnant "Welcome To The Time Zone" A Proposal to Add Move Semantics Support to the C++ Language Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus Better C++/Chicago

Rob and Jason are joined by Charley Bay from F5 Networks to talk about his recent CppNow talk on system_error and the Boost Outcome review. Charley Bay is a Software developer at F5 Networks with 25+ years experience in large-scale and distributed systems for low-latency C and C++. News C++ Web Frameworks Full Http/WebSocket Server framework using Beast and Boost.Asio Quick-Bench.com Simple Online C++ Performance Benchmark Turing Tumble Kickstarter Charley Bay Charley Bay Links C++Now 2017: Charles Bay "C++11's Quiet Little Gem: " Boost Formal Review Process Boost Outcome Boost Outcome Review Report Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus Better C++/Chicago

Rob and Jason are joined by Felix Petriconi to talk about his contributions to the stlab Concurrency library and the future of C++ futures. Felix Petriconi is working as professional programmer since 1993 after he had finished his study of electrical engineering. He started his career as teacher for intellectually gifted children, freelance programmer among others in telecommunication and automotive projects. Since 2003 he is employed as programmer and development manager at the MeVis Medical Solutions AG in Bremen, Germany. He is part of a team that develops and maintains radiological medical devices. His focus is on C++ development, training of modern C++, and application performance tuning. He is a regular speaker at the C++ user group in Bremen and a member of the ACCU’s conference committee. News CppCon 2017 Keynote Speakers ACCU: Kotlin for C++ Developers Configure-cmake Beast v52 released, 3 weeks until Boost review Felix Petriconi @felixpetriconi Felix Petriconi's GitHub Links stlab concurrency stlab GitHub ACCU 2017 'The Art of Writing Reasonable Concurrent Code' ACCU 2016 'Leaving The Dark Side - Developing a C++ Based Medical Device' Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus Better C++/Chicago

Rob and Jason are joined by Tony Van Eerd to talk about his recent award winning C++Now talk on Postmodern C++ and his views on lock-free programming. Tony Van Eerd has been coding for well over 25 years, and hopefully coding well for some of that. Mostly in graphics/video/film/broadcast (at Inscriber & Adobe), writing low level pixel++, high level UI, threading, and everything else. He now enables painting with light at Christie Digital. He is on the C++ Committee. He is a Ninja and a Jedi. News C++ News Sources: /r/cpp C++ Enthusiasts Meeting C++ Blogroll IsoCpp Announcing C++Now 2018 C++Now 2017 Playlist C++ Coding Guidelines (Howard Hinnant) Why I Put const On The Right Speakers announced for pacific++ Tony Van Eerd @tvaneerd Tony Van Eerd's GitHub Links Christie Digital Christie Digital Projection Mapping Videos C++Now 2017: Tony Van Eerd "Postmodern C++" Sponsors Backtrace Hosts @robwirving @lefticus Better C++/Chicago