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02/19/21
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Rob and Jason are joined by Carl Cook from Optiver. They first talk discuss an announcement from Khronos that SYCL 2020 has been released, and a blog post from Microsoft on updates to the Visual Studio Code C++ extension. Then they talk to Carl Cook from Optiver about how they use C++ to power everything they do.
News
- Khronos Releases SYCL 2020 for C++ Heterogeneous Parallel Programming
- VS Code C++ Extension: Cross-Compilation IntelliSense Configurations
- Modern C++ Tip of the Week
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- 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
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Going Cross Platform
February 12, 2021
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Rob and Jason are joined by Sebastian Theophil from think-cell. They first talk discuss a blog post on building a 1 billion LOC project with the Threadripper 3990X and a browser extension for easily searching for C++ reference help. Then they talk to Sebastian about his teams efforts to port their Windows C++ codebase onto MacOS and some of the challenges they dealt with, as well as recent efforts to start porting some of the code into Web Assembly.
News
- Threadripper 3990X: The Quest to Compile 1 Billions lines of C++ on 64 cores
- Looking for Approachable Open Source Projects to Contribute to
- C++ Search Extension v0.2 released
Links
- think-cell: Join us as a C++ developer
- Windows, macOS and the Web: Lessons from cross-platform development at think-cell
- tcjs library for generating type-safe JavaScript bindings for C++/Emscripten
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Vcpkg Registries
February 26, 2021
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Rob 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.
News
- 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
Links
- Registries: Bring your own libraries to vcpkg
- Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies
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- 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
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