CppCon 2017: EA’s Secret Weapon: Packages and Modules--Scott Wardle

By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 6, 2018 11:33 AM | Tags: community

Have you registered for CppCon 2018 in September? Early bird registration is open now.

While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2017 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:

EA’s Secret Weapon: Packages and Modules

by Scott Wardle

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

A lot of people hate build systems. What if using a library was just as easy as header-only libraries?

EA has had a Secret Weapon called “packages” for over 14 years. EA's Packages are like Ruby’s Gems or Perl’s CPAN or Rust’s cargo. If you build a package from the package server it will download all of its dependencies.

This talk will be about what we have learned about packages and versioning while building our large AAA games over the last 10+ years. Finally, what do we see for the future, like how will C++ modules fit in?

In detail I will talk about:
-Package layout
-Package server
-Versioning control and packages
-Libraries teams and platform fragmentation
-Packages' effect on large scale architecture
-C++ Modules TS prototypes

CopperSpice: Overload Resolution

By Ansel Sermersheim | Jun 4, 2018 12:41 AM | Tags: None

New video on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:

Overload Resolution

by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim

About the video:

This video discusses overload resolution and the complications involved in debugging when the compiler does not choose the overload you think it should. This video was very interesting to put together, since we had no idea how much of the standard you need in order to understand the intricacies of overload resolution. Not only is overload resolution complex, but you also need to understand the details of type conversions and template argument deduction.

Please take a look and remember to subscribe!

CppCast Episode 152: C++ London Uni with Tom Breza, Oliver Ddin and Tristan Brindle

By robwirving | Jun 1, 2018 11:26 AM | Tags: None

Episode 152 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Tom Breza, Oliver Ddin and Tristan Brindle to discuss the C++ London Uni group and their approach to teaching C++ to the community.

CppCast Episode 152: C++ London Uni with Tom Breza, Oliver Ddin and Tristan Brindle

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewees:

Tom arrived in London at age 22 with £200 to his name, not knowing a single person. After 6 months Tom managed to start business - PC Service, that provides IT support to SMBs and runs it since then. Tom's team help many customers from small businesses to top celebrities and Royal Families. Now with over 20 years of experience, Tom set his mind on new challenges and decided to learn software development, specifically C++ and helps others to learn through C++ London Uni.

Oliver has been a C++ hater since 2008 - fortunately, that all changed with C++11 and he's firmly an enthusiast now. He's spent his time doing everything from embedded devices to network engineering and now Internet security related endeavours. He's a big proponent of writing software in a style driven by some form of testing and its place in pushing you towards well-architected, maintainable code. In his spare time he also co-organises C++ London Uni which provides free lessons for people wanting to get into developing C++ and the wider ecosystem around it.

Tristan is an independent contractor and C++ enthusiast based in London. He’s particularly interested in standardisation and making C++ an easier language to use and teach. He can be found on Twitter @tristanbrindle and occasionally blogs about C++ at tristanbrindle.com.

CppCast Episode 151: sol2 and std::embed with JeanHeyd Meneide

By robwirving | May 25, 2018 07:17 AM | Tags: None

Episode 151 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by JeanHeyd Meneide to discuss the sol2 library and his proposal for std::embed.

CppCast Episode 151: sol2 and std::embed with JeanHeyd Meneide

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

ThePhD -- known in meatspace as JeanHeyd -- is a Computer Science undergraduate at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering in Columbia University. They are currently working on Open Source C++ and C++ Standardization projects, as well as exploring graphics programming. They are currently dabbling with Haskell and Elm for fun, and are attempting to wrangle their biggest open source project -- sol2 -- into a newer, better version of itself. The nickname is a std::promise<> on their std::future<>.

CopperSpice: C++ Tapas (typename, virtual, pure virtual)

By Ansel Sermersheim | May 18, 2018 12:41 PM | Tags: None

New video on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:

C++ Tapas: typename, virtual, and pure virtual

by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim

About the video:

Continuing our C++ Tapas series, we discuss the typename keyword, where it is used, and what it means. We also talk about the use and meaning of virtual and pure virtual methods.

Please take a look and remember to subscribe!

CppCast Episode 150: Freestanding Proposal with Ben Craig

By robwirving | May 18, 2018 07:14 AM | Tags: None

Episode 150 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Craig to discuss his proposal for a freestanding C++ Library.

CppCast Episode 150: Freestanding Proposal with Ben Craig

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Ben is a Principal Software Engineer at National Instruments, primarily developing device drivers for various operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac, OpenRTOS, vxWorks, ETS Pharlap), and occasionally tinkering with the firmware side of things. Ben is an occasional contributor to libc++ and Apache Thrift.

C++ Weekly Episode 115: Compile Time ARM Emulator—Jason Turner

By Jason Turner | May 14, 2018 02:47 PM | Tags: intermediate efficiency c++17

Episode 115 of C++ Weekly.

Compile Time ARM Emulator

by Jason Turner

About the show:

This episode of C++ Weekly demonstrates a compile time ARM CPU emulator using C++17 constexpr. No special tricks were necessary to accomplish this feat, merely following a rule of "constexpr everything that is reasonable." The code is portable and currently compiles with GCC and Clang in about 2 seconds for simple compile-time test cases.

CppCast Episode 149: CppChat with Phil Nash

By robwirving | May 11, 2018 07:24 PM | Tags: None

Episode 149 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Phil Nash to discuss the rebooted CppChat show, test driven development, a conference announcement and much more.

CppCast Episode 149: CppChat with Phil Nash

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Phil has spent the last year and a half doing things that might sound interesting for the next time he’s interviewed on CppCast. He might have overdone it. Aside from that he’s most commonly known as the original author of the test framework, Catch2. He’s been in or around C++ since the early 90s, but started coding in 1981 on a ZX-81 that he borrowed for six months. He’s worked in many domains, including finance and mobile and is now developer advocate for C++ and Swift tools at JetBrains.

CopperSpice: Lambdas in C++

By Ansel Sermersheim | May 7, 2018 01:12 PM | Tags: None

New video on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:

Lambdas in C++

by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim

About the video:

In this video, we cover an introduction to C++ lambdas, how they differ from function pointers and functors, and why the term functor should really be avoided. We also give a brief overview of how lambdas have been extended since they were introduced in C++11.

Please take a look and remember to subscribe!

CppCast Episode 148: C++ Simplicity with Kate Gregory

By robwirving | May 4, 2018 09:36 AM | Tags: None

Episode 148 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Kate Gregory to discuss her recent talk at ACCU, Pluralsight courses and the new include C++ community.

CppCast Episode 148: C++ Simplicity with Kate Gregory

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Kate Gregory has been using C++ since before Microsoft had a C++ compiler, and has been paid to program since 1979. She loves C++ and believes that software should make our lives easier. That includes making the lives of developers easier! She'll stay up late arguing about deterministic destruction or how C++ these days is not the C++ you remember.

Kate runs a small consulting firm in rural Ontario and provides mentoring and management consultant services, as well as writing code every week. She has spoken all over the world, written over a dozen books, and helped thousands of developers to be better at what they do. Kate is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Visual C++ MVP, an Imagine Cup judge and mentor, and an active contributor to StackOverflow and other StackExchange sites. She develops courses for Pluralsight, primarily on C++ and Visual Studio. Since 2014 she was Open Content Chair for CppCon, the largest C++ conference ever held, where she also delivered sessions.