Episodes
CppCon happened again this year in Bellevue, Washington! In this video, Steve Carroll chatted with Jon Kalb, the CppCon conference organizer, about the conference and where it's going next, along with a number of speakers who participated. Links to the recordings of the talks are available below. [11:03]: Guy Davidson - Lightweight 2D graphics with io2d[13:10] Billy O'Neal - Inside Visual C++ Parallel Algorithms[14:45] Fabian Renn-Giles - A Semi Compile/Run-time Map with (Nearly) Zero...
Published 11/27/18
We are back with footage from CppCon 2018, which occurred in Bellevue, Washington! In this special GoingNative episode, our host Steve Carroll chats with Gabriel Dos Reis and Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, who spoke this year about Concepts, an exciting new feature coming soon to C++! Overview of CppCon CppCon is the annual, week-long face-to-face gathering for the entire C++ community. The conference is organized by the C++ community for the community. You will enjoy inspirational...
Published 10/12/18
In this GoingNative episode, we go over the latest news from the ISO C++ Standards Committee meeting in Rapperswil, Switzerland! Steve Carroll chats with Gabriel Dos Reis and Billy O'Neal about the latest news! Learn more about the latest C++ Standard news at https://isocpp.org/.
Published 07/09/18
Welcome to GoingNative #66! This is an exciting episode, as we're happy to share our massive C++ Standard conformance progress for the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler that ships with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7. Be sure to also check out our announcements at //BUILD! In this episode, Steve Carroll catches up with Ulzii Luvsanbat, engineering lead on the MSVC Compiler Front-end Team, on our conformance investments.
Published 05/09/18
We are back quickly after our last episode to go over the latest news from the ISO C++ Standards Committee meeting in Jacksonville, Florida! C++20 planning is well on its way now as Steve Carroll chats with Gabriel Dos Reis and Gor Nishanov about new progress with C++ Modules, Coroutines, and more! Some coroutine-related papers accepted for a future version of the C++ standard (provides more context on the code shared in the video): Symmetric control transferParameter preview
Published 03/27/18
We are back quickly after our last episode to go over the latest news from the ISO C++ Standards Committee meeting in Jacksonville, Florida! C++20 planning is well on its way now as Steve Carroll chats with Gabriel Dos Reis and Gor Nishanov about new progress with C++ Modules, Coroutines, and more! Some coroutine-related papers accepted for a future version of the C++ standard (provides more context on the code shared in the video): Symmetric control transferParameter preview
Published 03/27/18
In this episode of GoingNative, Steve Carroll talks to Brent Rector and Kenny Kerr from the Windows team about C++/WinRT! C++/WinRT is a standard C++ header-based library that takes WinRT APIs and exposes them as C++ classes that you can use in your application in a natural and familiar way. You can consume it from any standard C++ application and is the easiest way to get access to the modern Windows APIs. C++/WinRT is designed to offer an improved alternative to C++/CX and works with any...
Published 03/23/18
In this episode of GoingNative, Steve Carroll talks to Brent Rector and Kenny Kerr from the Windows team about C++/WinRT! C++/WinRT is a standard C++ header-based library that takes WinRT APIs and exposes them as C++ classes that you can use in your application in a natural and familiar way. You can consume it from any standard C++ application and is the easiest way to get access to the modern Windows APIs. C++/WinRT is designed to offer an improved alternative to C++/CX and works with any...
Published 03/23/18
We are back after a long break with GoingNative #63, where Steve Carroll chats with Andrew Pardoe about the Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools and daily compiler builds on myget.org! The Build Tools is an alternative wau to get the compiler, libraries, and Windows SDKs for C++ development without having to install the IDE. Great for build servers, CI servers, and other environments where an IDE is not necessary. You can download the Build Tools at: http://aka.ms/buildtools. We also now offer a...
Published 03/19/18
We are back after a long break with GoingNative #63, where Steve Carroll chats with Andrew Pardoe about the Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools and daily compiler builds on myget.org! The Build Tools is an alternative wau to get the compiler, libraries, and Windows SDKs for C++ development without having to install the IDE. Great for build servers, CI servers, and other environments where an IDE is not necessary. You can download the Build Tools at: http://aka.ms/buildtools. We also now offer a...
Published 03/19/18
In this episode of GoingNative, Steve Carroll talks to Rich Chiodo and Nick Uhlenhuth about the C++ unit testing experience, and the latest investments we've made to support CTest, Google Test, and Boost.Test. Check out the following blog posts on Google Test & Boost.Test: Unit Testing: Test Adapter for Google Test goes in-box!Unit Testing: Test Adapter for Boost.Test goes in-box!
Published 12/20/17
In this episode of GoingNative, Steve Carroll talks to Rich Chiodo and Nick Uhlenhuth about the C++ unit testing experience, and the latest investments we've made to support CTest, Google Test, and Boost.Test. Check out the following blog posts on Google Test & Boost.Test: Unit Testing: Test Adapter for Google Test goes in-box!Unit Testing: Test Adapter for Boost.Test goes in-box!
Published 12/20/17
We went to cppcon this year and talked to a number of speakers. Check out this video to learn more about their talks and why you should watch them! Links to the recordings of the talks are available below. Check out the cppcon 2017 playlist on YouTube. Jon Kalb [00:47] - General information about cppconCarl Cook [06:53] - When a Microsecond Is an Eternity: High Performance Trading Systems in C++Piotr Padlewski [08:45] - Undefined Behavior is Awesome! (link coming soon)Allan Deutsch [10:56] -...
Published 10/23/17
We went to cppcon this year and talked to a number of speakers. Check out this video to learn more about their talks and why you should watch them! Links to the recordings of the talks are available below. Check out the cppcon 2017 playlist on YouTube. Jon Kalb [00:47] - General information about cppconCarl Cook [06:53] - When a Microsecond Is an Eternity: High Performance Trading Systems in C++Piotr Padlewski [08:45] - Undefined Behavior is Awesome! Allan Deutsch [10:56] - Esoteric Data...
Published 10/23/17
We are back with footage from cppcon 2017, which occurred in Bellevue, Washington! In this special GoingNative episode, our host Steve Carroll chats with Gabriel Dos Reis and Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, about his keynote this year on the topic of education: Learning and Teaching Modern C++ (available on YouTube). Overview of cppcon: CppCon is the annual, week-long face-to-face gathering for the entire C++ community. The conference is organized by the C++ community for the...
Published 10/19/17
We are back with footage from cppcon 2017, which occurred in Bellevue, Washington! In this special GoingNative episode, our host Steve Carroll chats with Gabriel Dos Reis and Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, about his keynote this year on the topic of education: Learning and Teaching Modern C++ (available on YouTube). Overview of cppcon: CppCon is the annual, week-long face-to-face gathering for the entire C++ community. The conference is organized by the C++ community for the...
Published 10/19/17
We are back with GoingNative #61, where Steve Carroll talks to Kyle Reed about C++ Core Check rule sets you can enable in Visual Studio to improve the quality of your code. These rules are based on the C++ Core Guidelines introduced several years ago. More resources: Guidelines Support Library (GSL)Blog Post: C++ Core Guidelines Checker in Visual Studio 2017Blog Post: Managing warnings in the C++ Core Guidelines Checker
Published 09/27/17
In this episode of GoingNative, Steve Carroll chats with Gabriel Dos Reis and Billy O'Neal about what happened at the C++ standards meeting in Toronto, Canada. Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting (Toronto) News, Status & Discussion about Standard C++
Published 08/10/17