CppCast

Rob and Jason are joined by David Olsen from NVIDIA. They first discuss the news from the ISO Committee that C++20 has been approved and work on C++23 will continue virtually. Then they talk with David about his work on NVIDIA's C++ compiler to run parallel algorithm code on the GPU and a proposal he's working on to introduce 16-bit floats to standard C++. News C++20 approved, C++23 meetings and schedule update If everyone hates it, why is OOP still so widely spread? New safety rules in C++ Core Check Links Accelerating Standard C++ with GPUs using stdpar P1467R4 Extended floating-point types and standard names Sponsors Clang Power Tools

Rob and Jason are joined by Oleg Rabaev. They first discuss some papers from the latest ISO mailing and a new feature in Microsoft's vcperf tool. Then they talk to Oleg Rabaev about Unit Testing methodologies and why it's important to write testable code. News 2020-08 mailing Introducing vcperf /timetrace for C++ build time analysis Question regarding optional virtual destructor in C++20 Links Bloomberg Blog Sponsors Clang Power Tools

Rob and Jason are joined by Dave Hagedorn. They first discuss a blog post from JeanHeyd Meneide on exception free containers. Then they talk to Dave Hagedorn from TextNow about his teams efforts to transition an existing iOS/Android app to using a cross platform C++ library. News Here I Stand, Free - Allocators and an Inclusive STL Awesome hpp Standard library development made easy with C++20 C++ Montreal Meetup Some things C++ does right Links TextNow Enginering Blog TextNow Careers Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers

Rob and Jason are joined by Basit Ayantunde. They first discuss a blog post on plain old data types and Visual Studio's Address Sanitizer support. Then they talk to Basit about the STX library. News No more plain old data AddressSanitizer for Windows: x64 and Debug Build Support Meeting C++ Online Tickets Available Links STX Basit's Patreon Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers

Rob and Jason are joined by Slobodan Dmitrović. They first discuss a new C++ compiler from NVIDIA to compile conformant C++ code to GPUs. Then they talk to Slobodan about his book: Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners. News Approval Tests Training Course Accelerating Standard C++ with GPUs using stdpar Sign up for Private Preview of VS support for Codespaces Links Amazon: Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners Apress: Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners Sponsors Clang Power Tools

Rob and Jason are joined by Ian Lance Taylor from Google. They first discuss an announcement from Conan and a blog post about embedding files into C++ applications using string literals. Then they talk to Ian Lance Taylor about the Go programming language. News Join the new Conan 2.0 Tribe C++ 70x faster file embeds using string literals Online meetups Links Go Go's GitHub repository Sponsors Clang Power Tools

Rob and Jason are joined by Josh Filstrup from Netflix. They first discuss an update to wxWidgets and a bug fix update in GCC. Then they talk to Josh about his background in Programming Languages and how he transitioned to work in the Visual Effects industry, including his current job at the studio engineering group at Netflix. News wxWidgets 3.14 Release GCC 10.2 Release C++ On Sea videos coming online Links USD VFX Platform Resurrecting the SuperH architecture DCDigital - REAL Dreamcast 1080p HDMI Output CppCon 2014: Chandler Carruth "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures" Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers

Rob and Jason are joined by Andrew Selle from Google. They first discuss Ranges support being added to Visual Studio, and Compiler Explorer's support for using some libraries. Then they talk to Andrew Selle from Google about Machine Learning with Tensorflow and Tensorflow Lite which he was one of the initial architects for. News Initial support for Ranges in MSVC Support for Libraries in Compiler Explorer Cmake 3.18 Release Links TensorFlow TensorFlow users TensorFlow on small and mobile devices Eigen library for linear algebra using expression templates C Bindings for TensorFlow AI Responsibilities Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license PVS-Studio is now in Compiler Explorer! Free PVS-Studio for Students and Teachers

Rob and Jason are joined by Bruno Cardoso Lopes. They first discuss an update to Mesonbuild and CppCon going virtual. Then they talk about Bruno's work on Clang including clang modules and work on a pattern matching implementation. News Meson Release Notes 0.55 Writing an LLVM Optimization CppCon Going Virtual Links SHRINK: Reducing the ISA complexity via instruction recycling SPARC16: A New Compression Approach for the SPARC Architecture P1247R0 - Disabling static destructors Sponsors Clang Power Tools

Rob and Jason are joined by Yining Karl Li and David Adler from Disney Animation Studios. They first discuss C++ conformance changes in Visual Studio 2019. Then Karl and David talk about the Hyperion Renderer and more. News C++20 Features and Fixes in VS 2019 16.1 through 16.6 JSExport: C++ in the browser made easy Magnum 2020.06 released Cpp On Sea: Full schedule, Nico Josuttis Keynote and Remo as a platform Links Disney's Hyperion Renderer Sorted Deferred Shading for Production Path Tracing The Design and Evolution of Disney’s Hyperion Renderer VFX Reference Platform Sponsors Clang Power Tools