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. Show Notes 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 b ..read more

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. Show Notes 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 Jun ..read more

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. Show Notes News CLion 2023.1 released Qt Creator 10 released Buck2 released "A leaner in libstdc++ for GCC 13" Links Timur's three-question Undefined Behaviour survey CppAfrica on Twitter CppAfrica on Discord   ..read more

Herb Sutter joins Phil and Timur. We catch up on the news about LLVM 16 being released, a new book on initialisation in C++ and a couple of new user groups. Then we talk to Herb about his new language/ alternate syntax, Cpp2, which compiles down to C++ in much the same way that C with Classes compiled down to C. Show Notes News LLVM 16.0.0 released "C++ initialisation story" - a new book by Bartlomiej Filipek New user group forming in Prague - Miloš Anđelković New user group forming in Helsinki - Timur Doumler Links CppFront - the compiler for Cpp2 "Can C++ be 10x Simpler & Safer?" - He ..read more

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 <iostream> in libstdc++ for GCC 13" Links Timur's three-question Undefined Behaviour survey CppAfrica on Twitter CppAfrica on Discord ..read more

Herb Sutter joins Phil and Timur. We catch up on the news about LLVM 16 being released, a new book on initialisation in C++ and a couple of new user groups. Then we talk to Herb about his new language/ alternate syntax, Cpp2, which compiles down to C++ in much the same way that C with Classes compiled down to C. News LLVM 16.0.0 released "C++ initialisation story" - a new book by Bartlomiej Filipek New user group forming in Prague - Miloš Anđelković New user group forming in Helsinki - Timur Doumler Links CppFront - the compiler for Cpp2 "Can C++ be 10x Simpler & Safer?" - Herb's CppCon ..read more

Andreas Weis joins Timur and Phil. After some news about Boost, std::format and performance, Andreas talks to us about safety critical application domains, safety in C++ in general, and the difference between safety in security. News Boost libraries may drop support for older language versions "Fun with printing tables with std::format and C++20" - Bartlomiej Filipek "C++20 Formatting Library, Parts 1. 2 and 3" - Gajendra Gulgulia "Decreasing the Number of Memory Accesses, 1/2" - Ivica Bogosavljevic "using std::cpp (conference in Madrid)" Links MUC++ (The Munich C++ User Group) ComicSansMs ..read more

Nina Ranns joins Timur and Phil. After community news, including conferences, a new C++ community in Africa and a new project manager and build system, we talk to Nina about the recent ISO committee meeting in Issaquah where the technical work on C++23 was finalised, as well as an inside look at how the committee works and Nina's current project: allocator-friendly library types that don't allocate. News Core C++ (cfp open) CppIndia cfp C++ Now - call for volunteers C++ on Sea (speakers and tickets) C++ Africa Zork++ 0.5 Links Orsen Scott Card's Beekeeper Analogy P2806R0 - "Do Expressions ..read more

Mike Daum joins Phil and Timur. After some community news, including the state of modules support in CMake and a new compile-time parsing library inspired by Rust's macros, we talk to Mike about CppNorth - what it is, how it got started and what makes it different - then about company cultures, a new language from Epic, and the importance of catering to 'Dark Matter Developers'. News ACCU Schedule and registration CMake blog post about the state of C++20 Modules support P1689R5 "Format for describing dependencies of source files" "Macro Rules" - compile-time parser library from Max Pasichnyk ..read more

Honey Sukesan joins Phil and Timur. They first have a couple more conference announcements, an update on Cpp2 and a round-up of C++ in 2022. Then they talk to Honey Sukesan about her journey from working in Healthcare to working in the Automotive industry, and some of the surprising overlaps - as well as her personal journey during along the way. News CppNorth tickets on sale using std::cpp Call for Speakers "Cpp2 and cppfront: Year-end mini-update" "C++ at the end of 2022" - Bartlomiej Filipek "libstdc++13 gets C++20 " Links ToastMasters "Can software developers draw pictures" (Honey's Cpp ..read more