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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Richard Smith joins Timur and Phil. After the usual news round-up, we chat with Richard about the new C++ successor language, Carbon. Richard is one of the three lead contributors to Carbon and he discusses the philosophy and some of the special features that make Carbon different. News Conan 2.0 release CMake debugger in Visual Studio Unreal Engine - C++ Complete Guide The Italian C++ Conference Links P1881R0 - Epochs proposal P2137R0 - "Goals and priorities for C++" (from March 2020) Carbon GitHub org - with lots of links
Issaquah trip report and how the C++ sausage is made
Nina Ranns joins Timur and Phil. After community news, including conferences, a new C++ community in Africa and a new project manager and build system, we talk to Nina about the recent ISO committee meeting in Issaquah where the technical work on C++23 was finalised, as well as an inside look at how the committee works and Nina's current project: allocator-friendly library types that don't allocate. News Core C++ (cfp open) CppIndia cfp C++ Now - call for volunteers C++ on Sea (speakers and tickets) C++ Africa Zork++ 0.5 Links Orsen Scott Card's Beekeeper Analogy P2806R0 - "Do Expressions" Nina's user type categories talk P2644R1 - "Final Fix of Broken Range‐based for Loop" P2047R1 - "An allocator aware optional type" Embracing Modern C++ Safely P2674R1 - "A trait for implicit lifetime types"
CppNorth and the Forgotten Developers
Mike Daum joins Phil and Timur. After some community news, including the state of modules support in CMake and a new compile-time parsing library inspired by Rust's macros, we talk to Mike about CppNorth - what it is, how it got started and what makes it different - then about company cultures, a new language from Epic, and the importance of catering to 'Dark Matter Developers'. News ACCU Schedule and registration CMake blog post about the state of C++20 Modules support P1689R5 "Format for describing dependencies of source files" "Macro Rules" - compile-time parser library from Max Pasichnyk Reddit discussion of Macro Rules Links CppNorth Exclusive Discount code for CppNorth registration (while available) CppNorth mentoring email CppNorth mentoring channel on Discord Orsen Scott Card's Beekeeper Analogy Verse, the new Unreal scripting language Talk on Verse, by Simon Peyton Jones "C++ Software Design" (book) - Klaus Iglberger
Val and Mutable Value Semantics
Dimi Racordon joins Timur and Phil. They first have a couple more conference speaker calls, a new C++20 test framework, and and some updates about Safety in C++ and the C++ successor languages announced last year. Then they talk to Dimi Racordon about the new language, Val, how it relates to C++, and why mutable value semantics are so powerful. News C++ Now Call for Speakers CppNorth Call for Speakers Snitch v1.0 - a "Lightweight C++20 testing framework" "The Year of C++ Successor Languages" - Lucian Radu Teodorescu "Supporting the Use of Rust in the Chromium Project" - Google Security Blog Links Dimi's CppCon 2022 talk on Val and C++ interop "I'll Build Myself" - Phil's song about building C++ P2739R0 - "A call to action: Think seriously about “safety”; then do something sensible about it" P2759R0 - "DG Opinion on Saftety for ISO C++" "The Rule of Two" val-lang.dev - the official website for Val
From Healthcare to Automotive
Honey Sukesan joins Phil and Timur. They first have a couple more conference announcements, an update on Cpp2 and a round-up of C++ in 2022. Then they talk to Honey Sukesan about her journey from working in Healthcare to working in the Automotive industry, and some of the surprising overlaps - as well as her personal journey during along the way. News CppNorth tickets on sale using std::cpp Call for Speakers "Cpp2 and cppfront: Year-end mini-update" "C++ at the end of 2022" - Bartlomiej Filipek "libstdc++13 gets C++20 " Links ToastMasters "Can software developers draw pictures" (Honey's CppCon 2020 Lightning Talk) "SOLID Principles Unleashed" (Honey's CppIndia 2022 talk)
Holiday Special with Phil Nash and Timur Doumler
Rob and Jason are back, at least for the holidays, and are joined by Timur Doumler and Phil Nash to talk about some of their recent news, and a super secret new project they are working on together. News Boost 1.81.0 released CLion 2022.3 released, with CMake debug and new (opt-in) UI C++ support in JetBrains' Fleet C++ passes Java on the TIOBE index "If we must, let's talk about safety" (Corentin Jabot) P2723R0 "Zero-initialize objects of automatic storage duration" (JF Bastien) NDC TechTown - Call for Speakers (ends May 19th) C++ on Sea - Call for Speakers (ends Jan 8th) ACCU - speakers selected, schedule soon Links P1774R8 "Portable Assumption" ([[assume]]) P2590R2 "Explicit lifetime managerment" (std::start_lifetime_as) "Type punning in modern C++" (video) "The Rules of Three, Five and Zero" (article) "Beyond the Rules of Three, Five and Zero" (article) "The Power of Clean C++" (webinar) Jason's C++ eBooks Jason's C++ print books Jason's "C++ Weekly" Youtube channel "Making C++ Fun, Safe, and Accessible" - Jason's C++ on Sea keynote
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Rob and Jason discuss various news articles, libraries and announcements. News Lexy First Beta Release I made an Online C++ Compiler GCC 12.1 Release Join your local user's group
Elements GUI Library
Joel de Guzman joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about new features in GCC 12 and the latest ISO papers. Then they talk to Joel de Guzman about his history with Open Source and the Boost community, the Elements GUI library and his work with audio software and hardware. News New C++ features in GCC 12 April 2022 Mailing Core C++ Call For Papers NDC TechTown Call for Papers Links Elements C++ GUI Library Artist 2D Canvas Libray Cycfi Research Boost Spirit Patreon CppCast Patreon
Linear Algebra Standardization
Mark Hoemmen joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an debugging improvements in VS Code and C++20/23 features going into MSVC. Then they talk to Mark Hoemmen about his past work on linear algebra libraries Tpetra and Kokkos, and current efforts to get linear algebra into the standard. News What's new for C++ debugging in VS Code Conformance should mean something - fputc, and freestanding MSVC C++20/23 Update Links Tpetra parallel linear algebra P1417R0: Historical lessons for C++ linear algebra library standardization P1673R7: A free function linear algebra interface based on the BLAS P1674R1: Evolving a Standard C++ Linear Algebra Library from the BLAS Patreon CppCast Patreon
Rcpp
Dirk Eddelbuettel joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an updated C++ web framework, and whether C should be considered a programming language or a protocol. Then they talk to Dirk about the R programming language, and RCPP the R/C++ interop library. News Crow v1.0 released C++23 will be really awesome C isn't A Programming Language Anymore Links Rcpp Rcpp: Seamless R and C++ Integration Patreon CppCast Patreon
CppNorth
Diana Ojeda from Intel and Stephanie Brenham from Ubisoft join Rob and Jason. They first talk about the upcoming Pure Virtual C++ conference, an update to WxWidgets and Apple's release of a Metal interface for C++. Then they talk to Diana and Stephanie about the upcoming CppNorth conference, how they got involved and much more. News Sign Up for the Pure Virtual C++ 2022 Conference wxWidgets 3.1.6 Released Getting started with Metal-cpp Links CppNorth CppNorth Workshops CppNorth Registration Patreon CppCast Patreon
Mentorship
Rainer Grimm joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a new implementation of the ninja build system and updates to Qt Creator and CMake. Then they talk to Rainer Grimm about his mentorship program, and history of teaching C++. News N2: revisiting ninja Qt Creator 7 released Cmake 3.23.0 available C++20 Ranges: The Key Advantage - Algorithm Composition Links Modernes C++ Rainer's German Blog Mentoring Program Sponsors Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
Julia
Logan Kilpatrick joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a GDB frontend and an IDE like autocompletion tool for the terminal. Then they talk to Logan Kilpatrick about the Julia programming language. They discuss the origin of the language, and where it fits in today amongst other languages in the scientific computing domain. News Seer - a new gui frontend to gdb IDE style autocomplete for your terminal Nvidia: 'We are a Quantum Computing Company' Links Julia Sponsors Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
Zig
Andrew Kelley joins Rob and Jason. They first say Happy 25th Birthday to Visual Studio and discuss a tool for parsing GCC error logs. Then they talk to Andrew Kelley, the president of the Zig Software Foundation. He talks about the Zig language, upcoming changes to its build tooling, and how Zig can be used with C and C++. News Happy 25th birthday Visual Studio GCC Explorer: A utility for exploring GCC error logs GCC Explorer Divide & Conquer and Sets: The 114 C++ algorithms series C++ Best Practices Game Jam Links Zig Software Language Sponsors Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
Swift and C++ Interoperability
Dave Abrahams joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about JeanHeyd Meneid's blog post on saving C's ABI. Then they talk to Dave about his history as a founding contributor of boost and the current workgroup he is a part of to enable bidirectional interop between swift and C++. News To Save C, We Must Save the ABI Jluna C++ interop for Julia Emulating template named arguments in C++ 20 Links Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement C++ Interoperability Status Getting started with C++ Interoperability Interoperability between Swift and C++ Patreon CppCast Patreon