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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
HPX and DLA Future
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
Improving Performance
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
Tipi.build
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
LFortran
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
Regression Testing with Touca
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
Modernizing DOSBox
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
DAW JSON Link
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
Incredibuild in the Cloud
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
Spack
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
ABI Stability
Rob and Jason are joined by Marshall Clow. They first discuss some bugs Microsoft found using ASAN in open source projects, and new libraries. Then they talk to Marshall Clow, longtime maintainer of libc++, on his perspective on the C++ ABI, and why stability is important. News Finding Bugs with AddressSanitizer: Patterns from Open Source Projects RmlUI 4.0 Release Not Enough Standards, my C++17/20 library for cross-platform utilities Meeting C++ 2021 Announced Links What is an ABI, and Why is Breaking it Bad? - Marshall Clow - CppCon 2020 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
Djinni
Rob and Jason are joined by Harald Achitz. They first discuss performance updates for debug builds coming in the next version of Visual Studio. Then they talk about Djinni, the cross platform language binding generator tool initially developed by Dropbox that is now being supported by the C++ Mobile Development community. News 2x-3x Performance Improvements for Debug Builds Vcpkg site now has search Should we break ABI is the wrong question Links Djinni Djinni on GitHub Mobile C++ Slack C++ User Groups of Sweden C++ Community Organizers Sponsors C++ Builder
SonarSource Analysis Tools
Rob and Jason are joined by Loïc Joly from SonarSource. They first discuss compiler updates in GCC and MSVC as well as survey results of most used C++ features. Then they talk to Loïc about the SonarSource static analysis tools for C++, what sorts of bugs they discover, and what goes into creating a new analysis rule. News VS 2019 STL is C++20 feature complete GCC 11.1 Released Meeting C++ survey results: the most popular C++ standard features Links SonarSource The NeverEnding Story of writing a rule for argument passing in C++ Sponsors C++ Builder
Defer is better than Destructors
Rob and Jason are joined by JeanHeyd Meneide. They first discuss alternative operators in C++, upcoming virtual conferences and papers in the April ISO mailing. Then they talk to JeanHeyd about his work on the C and C++ committees, including embed, defer and more. News Just discovered C++ has keywords 'and'/'or'/'not' etc. Pure Virtual C++ April Mailing Links Defer Mechanism for C: The Movie p1967 Preprocessor embed - Binary Resource Inclusion p0052 Generic Scope Guard and RAII Wrapper for the Standard Library No Us Without You - elifdef and elifndef CoSy Tech Con Sponsors Incredibuild
ScummVM
Rob and Jason are joined by Eugene Sandulenko. They first discuss the announcement of Visual Studio 2022 and Facebook open sourcing a new machine learning library. Then they talk to Eugene Sandulenko all about ScummVM, how the project got started and more. News Visual Studio 2022 coming this summer Flashlight - a C++ standalone library for machine learning open sourced by Facebook 2021 Annual C++ Developer Survey "Lite" Links ScummVM Sponsors Incredibuild