Patrick Quist joins Phil and Timur. Patrick chats with us about their work on the Compiler Explorer team and how they got into it. We explore some useful features that may not be as widely known, and take a peek under the hood at how it all runs.
        News

"C++ Package Managers: The Ultimate Roundup" - blog post by Christopher McArthur
"Demystifying Lakos Rule via Visualization and How It Could Relate to Constexpr" blog post by Miro Palmu
"A Year of C++ Improvements in Visual Studio, VS Code, and vcpkg" - blog post by Sy Brand
NVidia interview question - Reddit thread

Links

History of Delphi
Compiler Explorer
Also Compiler Explorer
Compiler Explorer Public Dashboard (live stats)

Compiler Explorer Revisited

Rainer Grimm joins Timur and Phil. Rainer talks to us about what he has learnt from many years of teaching C++ as a professional trainer, how training has become more accessible now more people are taking it online, and his thoughts on modern C++.
        News

The C++ Iceberg
"C++20 Concepts applied - Safe bitmasks using scoped enums" - blog post by Andreas Fertig
ACCU conference: Early-bird tickets and workshops

Links

Reddit thread on Episode 375 with Daveed Vandervoorde
Rainer's website and blog
Rainer at Meeting C++ online, Feb 21st
Rainer's "Concurreny in Modern C++" workshop at C++ Online, March 14th

Teaching and Training Modern C++

Daveed Vandevoorde joins Phil and Timur. Daveed talks a bit about his work at EDG, but mostly his efforts to get Reflection into C++26, along with his co-authors, and how that fits into the big picture.
        News

Meeting C++ 2023 videos (including all keynotes)
 "A 2024 Discussion Whether To Convert The Linux Kernel From C To Modern C++"
How do you correctly implement std::clamp?
Blog post
Reddit discussion  


C++ Online Workshops

Links

P2996R1 - "Reflection for C++26"
P1240R2 - "Scalable Reflection in C++"
"C++ Templates - The Complete Guide" - book (Vandevoorde, Josuttis)

Reflection for C++26

Ville Voutilainen joins Timur and guest co-host, Guy Davidson. Ville talks about his work at The Qt Company and on the C++ standard committee, and about how modern C++ features such as Modules and Sender/Receiver can integrate with the Qt framework.
        News

Matt Godbolt on Computerphile
PVS-Studio C++ quiz
Boston C++ meetup
C++ Now 

Links

P2300R7 - std::execution (a.k.a. Sender/Receiver)

Modern C++ with Qt

Phil and Timur are joined by ... Timur and Phil for a Holiday Special. We look back on the last year, discuss the news, and talk about what we're working on.
        News

 "The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps" - CISA
Experimental EDG Reflection Support
Boost 1.84.0 released
Cling 1.0 released 
"About time - how to unit test code that depends on time" - Björn Fahller
CppNorth:
Call for Speakers
"Earlist Bird" tickets
ACCU Early bird tickets
C++ Online tickets

Links

Phil and Timur speaking at the December meetup in Munich
"Digital Security by Design, CHERI and the Morello Board" - C++ London
P2900R3 - "Contracts for C++"

2023 Holiday Special

Matthias Kretz joins Phil and Timur. Matthias talks about SIMD, including what it is, how it works, and what its useful for. We also discuss his proposal to introduce SIMD vocabulary types and functionality into the C++ standard and how it relates to what was in the Parallelism TS.
        News

MISRA C++ 2023 published
Sonar webinar on MISRA C++ 2023 with Andreas Weis
nlohmann/json 3.11.3 released
reflect-cpp - Reflection library for C++20

Links

P1928R7 - "std::simd — merge data-parallel types from the Parallelism TS 2"
Matthias' CppCon 2023 talk on std::simd

SIMD

Martin Hořeňovský joins Timur and Phil. Martin returns to talk about v3 of Catch2 and how it is different to v2. We also revisit the topic of random numbers and how Martin is still working on portable distributions and why that is important to testing and other domains.
        News

P2662R3 - "Pack Indexing"
P1673R13 - "A free function linear algebra interface based on the BLAS"
P2546R5 - "Debugging Support"
P2996R0 - "Reflection for C++26"
"Why I think C++ is still a desirable coding platform compared to Rust" - Henrique Bucher
CLion Nova

Links
Martin's NDC TechTown 2021 talk on Catch2 v3

Catch2 v3 and Random Numbers

Mateusz Pusz joins Phil and new guest co-host, Anastasia Kazakova. Mateusz talks to us about his physical units (and quantities) library, mp-units, why v2 is a complete redesign compared to the previous version, and how incorporating a system of quantities is so central to this new design.
        News

clang 17 released
Conference videos released in October
AMA with Abbas Sabra (automatic/ static analysis)
Is it too hard for junior developers to get on the C++ career ladder (Reddit)

Links

mp-units on GitHub
mp-units - Documentation
C++ on Sea 2023 video
The Mars Climate Orbiter crash
p1935 - "A C++ Approach to Physical Units"
p2980 - "A motivation, scope, and plan for a physical quantities and units library"
p2981 - "Improving our safety with a physical quantities and units library"
p2982 - "std::quantity as a numeric type"
p3003 - "The design of a library of number concepts"

Physical Units and a System of Quantities

Frances Buontempo joins Phil and returning guest co-host, Matt Godbolt. Frances talks to us about her new book on modern C++ as well as her the topic of her previous book on machine learning. We discuss the differences between LLM-based AI and more statistical approaches, as well as where random numbers fit into all this and the limitations of their current support in C++.
        News

CppCon programme announced
C++ on Sea videos
"Inside STL" - The Old New Thing (August archive)
Open source C++ projects that use modern C++ features (Reddit)

Links

"C++ Bookcamp" (title may change) - Frances' new book
"Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning for Programmers" - Frances' previous book
Overload issues (submit articles on the main ACCU site)
Frances' paper bag escapology certificate
Shannon's mind reading paper
ERNIE (Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment)
P2059R0 - "Make Pseudo-random Numbers Portable" (defunct)
"Using, Generating and Testing with Pseudo-Random Numbers" - Frances' ACCU 2023 talk
"Program your way out of a paper bag" series:
"How to program your way out of a paper bag" (slides)
"How to Evolve Your Way Out of a Paper Bag" (video)
"Diffuse your way out of a paper bag" (video)
"How to Evolve Your Way Out of a Paper Bag" (video)
"Crowd Your Way Out of a Paper Bag" (video)

AI and Random Numbers

Abbas Sabra joins Phil and Timur. Abbas talks to us about static analysis, the challenges - and benefits - of analysing C++ code, and a new feature from Sonar that can scan public repos with zero config.
        News

Boost 1.83.0 released
fmt 10.1 released
The downsides of C++ Coroutines

Links

"All the defaults are backwards" - Phil's Lightning Talk
"No, C++ static analysis does not have to be painful" - Sonar blog
video showing Sonar's Automatic Analysis in action
Sonar Community Discourse forums

Automatic Static Analysis

Mark Gillard joins Timur and guest co-host Jason Turner. Mark talks to us about reflection, SIMD, and his library soagen, a structure-of-arrays generator for C++.
        News

What is Low Latency C++? C++Now 2023, part 1
What is Low Latency C++? C++Now 2023, part 2
Inside STL: The vector
Inside STL: The string
Experimenting with Modules in Flux
pycmake
cpptrace

Links

Soagen on GitHub
Soagen documentation
Mike Acton: Data-Oriented Design and C++ at CppCon 2014
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach on SoA and reflection at ACCU 2023
Data-Oriented Design and Modern C++ at CppNow 2023
Godbolt's law
toml++ on GitHub
PVS-Studio: 60 terrible tips for a C++ developer

Soagen

Dmitry Kozhevnikov joins Timur and guest co-host Matt Godbolt. Dmitry talks to us about how the CLion IDE works under the hood.
        News

mold 2.0.0 released
CLion 2023.2 released
Should we stop writing functions?

Links

C++ Lambda Idioms: technique to separate user-specified and deduced template parameters
The Kotlin Foundation
JetBrains Runtime
CLion data flow analysis engine
PVS-Studio: 60 terrible tips for a C++ developer

How CLion works under the hood

Bjarne Stroustrup joins Phil and Timur. Bjarne talks to us about safety in C++ through profiles, as well as modules and concepts - and looks ahead to what else is coming next.
        News

C++ Now 2023 videos
ACCU 2023 videos
JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey 2023
Upcoming Boost 1.83 release

Links

P2739R0 - 'A call to action: Think seriously about “safety"; then do something sensible about it'
P2687R0 - 'Design Alternatives for Type-and-Resource Safe C++'
'Contemporary C++ in Action' (video) - Daniela Engert

Safety, Security and Modern C++, with Bjarne Stroustrup

Tristan Brindle joins Timur and Phil. Tristan talks to us about a safer alternative to iterators and his library, Flux, that implements it.
        News

60 terrible tips for a C++ developer
Big, combined, committee trip report from Varna
CLion 2023.2 EAP4: AI Assistant
"Making C++ Memory-Safe Without Borrow Checking, Reference Counting, or Tracing Garbage Collection"

Links

Episode 78 of CppCast, mentioning Cling
Episode of ADSP recorded at C++ on Sea
Episode 152 of CppCast, with Tristan and the C++ London Uni team
Flux on GitHub

Sequence-Oriented Programming

Joshua Berne joins Phil and Timur. Joshua talks to us about the previous week's ISO C++ meeting in Varna, Bulgaria, then focuses on the current state of the contracts proposal that he has been central to, as well as a bit of its history.
        News

ISO C++ trip report's from Varna:
Herb Sutter's trip report
Jonathan Müller's trip report


GCC 14 NRVO enhancements (Reddit)
P2025 proposes guaranteed NRVO
How to get NRVO before C++26


XCode 15 beta

Links

P2831 - "Functions having a narrow contract should not be noexcept"
P2521 - The current contracts MVP
P2695 - "A proposed plan for Contracts in C++"
P2811 - "Contract-Violation Handlers"
P2834 - "Semantic Stability Across Contract-Checking Build Modes"
P2877R0 - "Contract Build Modes, Semantics, and Implementation Strategies"
P2751 - "Evaluation of Checked Contract-Checking Annotations"
P2552 - "On the ignorability of standard attributes"
p2786 - "Trivial relocatability options"
P2839 - "Nontrivial Relocation via a New owning reference Type"
P0843R8 - "inplace_vector"

Contracts

Daniel Ruoso joins Phil and Timur. After covering a couple of blog posts and a new UI library, we welcome Daniel back to talk with us about modules, package and build systems and SG15, the tooling study group. We also revisit the Ecosystem International Standard.
        News

Modern C++ In-Depth — Is string_view Worth It?
How to check if a pointer is in a range of memory - Raymond Chen
Nui - new C++ Webview UI library
Nui on Reddit
Timur's Undefined Behaviour survey

Links

P2898R0 - "Importable Headers are Not Universally Implementable"
"Clang Automated Refactoring for everyone with clangmetatool" - Daniel's C++ Now 2019 talk
P1689R5 - "Format for describing dependencies of source files" (Kitware)

Modules and build systems

Antony Peacock joins Timur and Phil. After rounding up the news, we chat with Antony about what it's like to work in finance as a C++ developer, the similarities and differences to games dev and how you can break in to a role in finance. We also discuss what it's like to work in tech as someone with dyslexia.
        News

Visual Studio 17.6 released
Valgrind 3.21 released
Snitch 1.1
Meeting C++ Call for Speakers (until June 18)
CppCon Call for Speakers (until June 25)

Links

P2547R1 - "Language Support for Customisable Functions"
Maven on C++
"How to get into the tech industry" (Maven's blog)
Interview question at Maven
"C++ 20 Techniques for Algorithmic Trading" (webinar)
"C++ Concepts and Fireside Chat on Algorithmic Trading" (webinar)
"C++ and Python for Algorithmic Trading" (webinar)
Example algo trading code from webinar series (1)
Example algo trading code from webinar series (2)
Antony's article on Neurodiversity and Dyslexia
Diversita (UK)
P0201R6 - "polymorphic_value: A Polymorphic Value Type for C++"
P1950R2 - "indirect_value: A Free-Store-Allocated Value Type For C++"
EVE - the Expressive Vector Engine
P1385R7 - "Linear Algebra"
P1935R2 - "A C++ Approach to Physical Units"
mp-units - Mateusz Pusz' implementation of physical units
P2547R0 - "Language support for customisable functions"
"Why tag_invoke is not the solution I want" - Barry Revzin

C++ in Finance

Luis Campos joins Phil and Timur. After some compiler and language news, we chat with Luis about the recent Conan 2.0 release, the state of package management in C++, today and what's happening in the world of C++ standards that may impact it in the future.
        News

GCC 13 released
CppFront "spring update"
Mojo - a new language with Python-like syntax but runs like C++
CrabLang - a fork of Rust
Timur's Undefined Behaviour survey

Links

Conan 2.0
P2656R2 - "C++ Ecosystem International Standard"
Conan on Twitter
"A Lock-free Atomic shared_ptr" - Timur's C++ Now 2022 talk
"Advanced Dependencies Model in Conan 2.0" - Diego's ACCU 2022 talk

Conan 2.0

Ashot Vardanian joins Timur and Phil. After some conference updates, news about the ISO C++ Developer Survey, Sonar integration in Compiler Explorer and some posts on modules and performance, we chat with Ashot Vardanian about AI and the infrastructure that underpins it. Ashot talks to us about some of the libraries and tools he and his startup have been developing over the past few years with some impressive numbers behind them.
        News

Core C++ (Israel) - 5th-8th June
Meeting C++ 2023 - 12th-14th November
C++ Now 2023 - 7th-12th May
C++ on Sea 2023 schedule announced - 27th-30th June
CppNorth - 17th-19th July
2023 ISO C++ Developer Survey
"Sonar ❤️ Compiler Explorer: Write clean C++ code inside your browser"
"C++20 modules in clang"
"Horrible Code, Clean Performance"

Links

Unum (Ash's AI research company)
Unum repos on GitHub
Cpp Armenia User Group

AI Infrastructure

Mathew Benson joins Phil and Timur. After some news on new dev tool releases and some welcome improvements to iostreams in GCC13, we talk to Mathew Benson about what it's like to learn and use C++ in Africa and the implications for the hardware and our choices in programming language. Mathew also draws an interesting parallel to natural languages.
        News

CLion 2023.1 released
Qt Creator 10 released
Buck2 released
"A leaner &lt;iostream&gt; in libstdc++ for GCC 13"

Links

Timur's three-question Undefined Behaviour survey
CppAfrica on Twitter
CppAfrica on Discord

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