Friends-and-Family Special
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Phil and Timur are joined by Jason Turner, Matt Godbolt, Anastasia Kazakova and Guy Davidson to celebrate 400 episodes of CppCast and catch up with the co-hosts that have helped us keep up for the last 50 of them! Show Notes News Links
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From Refactoring to (physical) Relocation
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Kristen Shaker joins Timur and Phil. Kristen talks to us about her C++ on Sea keynote about the C++ interview process, her previous work at Google, and why she has made a slightly unusual career change. Show Notes News Links
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libstdc++
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Jonathan Wakely joins Phil and Timur. Jonathan talks to us about libstdc++ (GCC's standard library implementation), of which he is the lead maintainer, and tackles some tough questions like ABI compatibility - and how GCC and libstdc++ approach it. Show Notes News Links
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Software development in a world of AI
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Daisy Hollman joins Phil and Anastasia. Daisy talks to us about the current state of the art in using LLM-based AI agents to help with software development, as well as where that is going in the future, and what impacts it is having (good and bad). Show Notes News Conferences: Links
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Standard Library Hardening
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Louis Dionne joins Phil and Timur. Louis talks to us about his role as code owner of libc++ (clang's standard library implementation) and the standard library hardening proposal that was just accepted into C++26, why this is important, and what you can do even today. Show Notes News Links
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News and Catch-up
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Timur and Phil return after an extended break with news and updates Show Notes News Conferences round-up: New Meetups: Links
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Tease Your C++ Brain
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Anders Knatten joins Phil and Timur. Anders reminds us about cppquiz.org and tells to us about his new book, C++ Brain Teasers, how that relates to the site and why it's has good practical applicability. Show Notes News Links
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Realtime Sanitizer and the Performance Constraints attributes
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Christoper Apple joins Timur and Phil. Chris talks to us about his work on the new Realtime Sanitizer in the Clang20 release, as well as the associated Performance Constraints attributes, how they differ, and how they work together. Show Notes News Links
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Type Erasure, SIMD-Within-a-Register and more
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Eduardo Madrid joins Phil and Timur. Eduardo talks to us about the Zoo libraries, including his advanced type-erasure library, as well as the SWAR library which simulates ad-hoc SIMD within a register. We also discuss how he has taken inspiration and cues from the worlds of Biology and Physics to arrive at new thinking around software development, design and architecture. Show Notes News Links Klaus Iglberger's talks on Type Erasure: (Some of ) Ed's talks:
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Parsing and Analysing C++
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Yuri Minaev joins Timur and Phil. Yuri talks to us about static analysis and how PVS Studio helps. Then we chat about his work on a custom C++ parser, and what challenges he's encountered. Show Notes News CppCon 2024 keynotes on YouTube (via CppCon site): Links This episode sponsored by...
info_outlineRob and Jason are joined by Nicole Mazzuca from Microsoft. They first talk about a differential equation library, and modules support in build2 and meson. Then they talk to Nicole from Microsoft's vcpkg team about some new features in vcpkg to enable teams to host their own libraries.
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- Solving Differential Equations with LLVM
- Complete C++20 Modules Support with GCC in build2
- Meson Build System 0.57.0 is out w/ experimental suport for C++ Modules, Qt6, ThinLTO and more
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- Registries: Bring your own libraries to vcpkg
- Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies
Sponsors
- PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license
- The Evil within the Comparison Functions
- Top 10 Bugs Found in C++ Projects in 2020