CppCast

Logan Kilpatrick joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a GDB frontend and an IDE like autocompletion tool for the terminal. Then they talk to Logan Kilpatrick about the Julia programming language. They discuss the origin of the language, and where it fits in today amongst other languages in the scientific computing domain.

News

• Seer - a new gui frontend to gdb
• IDE style autocomplete for your terminal
• Nvidia: 'We are a Quantum Computing Company'

Links

• Julia

Sponsors

• Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Andrew Kelley joins Rob and Jason. They first say Happy 25th Birthday to Visual Studio and discuss a tool for parsing GCC error logs. Then they talk to Andrew Kelley, the president of the Zig Software Foundation. He talks about the Zig language, upcoming changes to its build tooling, and how Zig can be used with C and C++.

News

• Happy 25th birthday Visual Studio
• GCC Explorer: A utility for exploring GCC error logs
• GCC Explorer
• Divide & Conquer and Sets: The 114 C++ algorithms series
• C++ Best Practices Game Jam

Links

• Zig Software Language

Sponsors

• Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Robert Seacord joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about a constexpr wordle game and constexpr unique_ptr being added to the standard. Then they talk to Robert Seacord about secure coding and his thoughts on integers.

News

• Wordlexpr: compile-time wordle in C++20
• January ISO Mailing
• Constexpr unique_ptr accepted
• Rainer's bundle on sale 1/2 off with sales going to support Ukraine

Links

• Joy of Coding Humble Bundle
• Effective C - An Introduction to Professional C Programming
• Secure Coding in C and C++, 2nd Edition
• The CERT C Coding Standard
• SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard
• ISO/IEC TS 17961
• ISO/IEC TS 17961 - Review Draft

Sponsors

• Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Howard Butler joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an announcement from Swift on a C++ interoperability workgroup. Then they talk to Howard Butler about the C++ Geospatial libraries GDAL and PDAL, and his involvement with geospatial development.

News

• Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement
• The mystery of the crash that seems to be on a std::move operation
• How we used C++20 to eliminate an entire class of runtime bugs

Links

• hobu
• GDAL
• GDAL on GitHub
• PDAL
• PDAL on GitHub
• Cloud Optimized Point Cloud

Sponsors

• Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount

Rob and Jason are joined by Jackie Kay from Marble to discuss the use of C++ in the Robotics industry and some of the unique challenges in Robotics development.

After spending her childhood wanting to become a novelist, Jackie switched over from writing stories to writing code during college. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2014 with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and went on to work at the Open Source Robotics Foundation for two years, supporting Gazebo, a physics simulator for robotics R&D, and ROS, an open source application framework for robotics development. She recently started as an early employee at Marble in San Francisco, a startup working on autonomous delivery.

Jackie was a speaker at CppCon 2015 and 2016 and a volunteer at C++ Now 2016 and frequently attends the Bay Area ACCU meetups. Her hobbies include rock climbing, travelling, and reading (books, not just blog posts).

News

• What does "Modern C++" really mean
• The "unsigned" Conundrum
• C++ Variadic templates from the ground up

Jackie Kay

• @jackayline
• Jackie Kay's GitHub
• Jackie Kay's website

Links

• ROS (Robot Operating System)
• ROS 2
• Gazebo (Robot simulation)
• Gazebo's Bitbucket Repository
• Caffe - Deep Learning Framework
• TensorFlow - Machine Intelligence Library
• Marble
• CppCon 2016: Jackie Kay "Lessons Learned From An Embedded RTPS in Modern C++"
• Code examples from "Lessons Learned From An Embedded RTPS in Modern C++"
• Work-in-progress implementation on DDS/RTPS

Sponsor

• Backtrace