CppCast

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