CppCast

Rob and Jason are joined by Tony Van Eerd. They first discuss some conference news, including Microsoft's upcoming Pure Virtual C++ Conference. Then Tony Van Eerd joins them to discuss his Postmodern C++ talk, and some of his work on the C++ standards committee. News Sign up for Pure Virtual C++ Conference ModernCppStarter Announcing Meeting C++ 2020! Links Tony van Eerd: Postmodern C++ p1085R0 Should Span be Regular? Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2 Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Rob and Jason are joined by Andrew Leaver-Fay from UNC and Jack Maguire from Menten AI. They first discuss a proposal to update both C and C++ and create a unified common core for the languages. Then they talk to Andrew and Jack about Rosetta, a C++ protein modeling library, it's history being ported from Fortran and some of its use cases such as creating HIV vaccines. News C2x Proposal: A Common C/C++ Core Clion AMA Session on May 7 Third Annual C++ Foundation Developer Survey "Lite" Links Rosetta Commons - Software Menten AI Designing Peptides on a Quantum Computer Rosetta@home fold.it Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2

Rob and Jason are joined by Sophia Turner. They first discuss updates to {fmt} and SourceTrail. Then they talk to Sophia about some of the languages she's worked on; including Chaiscript with Jason, Typescript at Microsoft and Rust at Mozilla. They then talk about her current project: NuShell. News Stopping A Laser Beam in Mid-Air Stopping a laser beam in mid-air with Tom Scott (BTS) {fmt} 6.2 released Sourcetrail 2020.1 When is *x also &x Links Nushell Typescript Rust Growing TypeScript and Rust Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2

Rob and Jason are joined by Daniela Engert. They first discuss a blog post on a new static analyzer feature in GCC 10 and Jason's plans to port the classic DOOM game to C++. Then Daniela gives Jason and Rob an introduction to Modules in C++20. News Static analysis in GCC 10 C++ Annotations v11.4.0 Jason's live Doom port to C++ Friday morning Links Modules: The Beginner's Guide Slides Socializing with {fmt} - Daniela Engert - Meeting C++ 2018 Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2

Rob and Jason are joined by Kevin Cadieux and Sy Brand. They first discuss a blog post on Memory Access Patterns and the Clang 10 release. Then they talk about C++ Build Insights, Kevin tells us how vcperf can be used to find places where build performance can be improved in your code. Sy then goes over some of the other recent updates to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. News Vector of Objects vs Vector of Pointers and Memory Access Patterns Post-Prague Mailing Clang 10.0.0 Released Links Download Visual Studio Introducing C++ Build Insights Analyze your builds programmatically with the C++ Build Insights SDK Have full integration of Build Insights within Visual Studio Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2

Rob and Jason are joined by Jussi Pakkanen. They first discuss the ongoing effects that the Corona Virus is having on the C++ Community. Then they talk to Jussi Pakkanen who gives them an update on what's changed in Mesonbuild since he was first on show 201 episodes earlier. Jussi also shares some info about the Meson Manual which is available as an e-book. News C++ Events affected by Corona Virus asm-dom Deleaker review Links The Meson Build System The Meson Manual use coupon code: cppcast2020 "Behind (and under) the scenes of the Meson build system" - Jussi Pakkanen (LCA 2020) Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2

Rob and Jason are joined by Yuri Minaev from PVS-Studio. They first discuss a blog posts on ISO's recent decision not to break the C++ ABI in C++23 and getting rid of volatile in the Qt codebase. Then they talk to Yuri Minaev, one of the developers at PVS Studio working on the static analyzer. They discuss some of the forms of analysis that the tool excels at and how it's changed the way Yuri programs. News HOly Grail of Logging The Day the Standard Library Died The Performance Benefits of Final Classes Getting rid of 'volatile' in (some of) Qt Links Yuri Minaev Blog Posts Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2

Rob and Jason are joined by Barry Revzin. They first discuss a blog post about how to declare a class's data members and methods. They then discuss some of his contributions to C++20 including some necessary fixes to spaceship operator, and some proposals he is working on for C++23 including pack declaration and a new pipe operator. News Announcing TCMalloc How I Declare my class and why Quill Asynchronous Low Latency Logging Library Are you ready for C++Now? Links P1061R1 Structured Bindings can introduce a Pack P1185R2 <=> != == P1858R1 Generalized pack declaration and usage P2011R0 A pipeline-rewrite operator Sponsors Backtrace Software Crash Management for Embedded Devices and IOT Projects Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

Rob and Jason are joined by Thiago Macieira from Intel. They first talk about Visual Studio's Qt support, and articles from Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter. They then talk about Thiago's history with Qt, including his former role as Qt Release Manager and his contributions to QtCore, QtNetwork and more. News Jason's C++ Training Courses in Stuttgart Fuchsia Programming Language Policy Qt to support Visual Studio Linux projects Bjarne Stroustrup on C++20's significance Move, simply Links New Features in Qt 5.15 Clear Linux Project Sponsors Backtrace Software Crash Management for Embedded Devices and IOT Projects Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes

Rob and Jason are joined by Hana Dusikova from Avast. They talk about the final changes that went into the C++20 draft which should become the official new standard in 3 or 4 months. They also discuss the direction of C++23 and some of the papers that were proposed in Prague. News C++20 is here! 2020-02 Prague ISO C++ Committee Trip Report — 🎉 C++20 is Done! Links To boldly suggest an overall plan for C++23 ABI - Now or Never Epochs: a backward-compatible language evolution mechanism std::embed Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Read the article "Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you" about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2