Episode #14 - January 2022

In this episode we get a final look at the design of C++23, see how far we can push compile-time computation - and even code generation - in C++20, look at some tools to help us to get there, and what C++ could have been if we weren't burdened with backwards compatiblity.

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Episode #12 - November 2021

This month discuss the best ways to pass string_views, depend on Catch2 v3 and write beautiful C++. We talk more about contracts and look at some new and upcoming tools from JetBrains, as well as new releases of existing tools from JetBrains, SonarSource and Microsoft.

Phil also still manages to get an off-by-one error when mentioning off-by-one errors, at the end!

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Episode #11 - October 2021

This month we attempt an experimental cross-over episode with cpp.chat: in effect we have Jon Kalb on as a guest. Was it a successful experiment? You be the judge!

We look at static analysis, expressive interface and move semantics, three new proposals, and go a little deeper on conferences - especially CppCon, which just passed.

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Episode #10 - September 2021

Lots of standards news, as many proposals are adopted into the C++23 working draft. Plus our usual round up of interesting blog posts and articles, including one from Phil that bridges the worlds of SonarSource and JetBrains. And CLion and ReSharper C++ start their latest EAPs.

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Episode #7 - June 2021

This month we reflect on text formating, compile times, the C++23 schedule, a round-up of tools news, and what C can do that C++ can't!

Standards news includes if consteval, starts_with and ends_with and preventing std::strings from being constructed from nullptr.

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Episode #6 - May 2021

This month has a lot of errors. Finding coding errors, at runtime or compile/ analysis time. Handling error paths in code - all the different ways.

But we also look at building LLVM in 90 seconds, handling ABI breaks, vcpkg, CLion 2021.2 EAP, C++Now 2021 videos, Meeting C++ and C++ on Sea.

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Episode #5 - April 2021

This month we expect the std::expected, subscript in multiple dimensions, zip and enumerate our way to defining contracts, while surveying the C++ community. We also take a look at the latest CLion and ReSharper C++ releases, GCC 11, a Cuda extension for VS Code, and the Pure Virtual C++ and C++ Now conferences (which have already now passed before this episode was released).

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Episode #4 - March 2021

This month we chat about Contracts, Conferences and colonies, CLion and const (east), and a round-up the Russian Coat Check Algorithm, ReSharper-C++, return types and ridding C++ of macros.

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Episode #3 - February 2021

In this month's round-up we cover the latest C++ committee plenary session, what's been approved to go into the C++23 standard, other proposals being worked on, news about Concepts and Modules, Clang Power Tools, Postfix completions in CLion and the C & C++ browser Search Extension

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Episode #2 - January 2021

Another round-up of community and committee news from the start of a new year.

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Episode #1 - December 2020

This month we talk about more news from around the C++ community - with a distinctly 20s theme.


You can watch the show on YouTube, listen to it as a podcast, or read it as a C++ Annotated post on the CLion blog. You can even subscribe to the text format as the C++ Annotated newsletter.

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  • 20 years of LLVM - LLVM started 20 years ago today! From humble beginnings at UIUC, it has grown to include contributions from hundreds of people and powers countless products and impactful languages. How have you used LLVM, contributed to it, or been touched by a product using it?
  • C++20 published
  • C++20 Comparisons in ReSharper C++ 2020.3 - ReSharper C++ 2020.3 brings full support for C++20’s changes to comparison semantics. In this post, we’ll briefly go over the language updates to comparisons in C++20 and take a look at how ReSharper C++ can help you use the new language features
  • Boost 1.75 released - New C++ podcast with Chris Leary and JF Bastien
  • Two's Complement - A Programming Podcast by Matt (Godbolt) and Ben (Rady)
  • CoSy Tech - Why Another C++ (And More™) Conference?
  • Two's Complement - A Programming Podcast by Matt (Godbolt) and Ben (Rady)
  • r/cpp: 'A basic trick question that I've been asked in interview' - Hi everyone, today I had a codepair interview for Graduate C++ Developer position and this was one the question that interviewer asked me. I found it quite interesting.
  • r/cpp: CLion Q&A Session on Reddit: CLion Today and Tomorrow - This Q&A session will focus on the recent 2020.3 release, our overall plans for 2021, and our roadmap for v2021.1. By the end of this year, we’ve enhanced the debugger experience by adding many top-voted feature requests, started bringing MISRA checks to CLion, tuned IDE actions for Qt, and integrated with CTest. Overall IDE performance, as well as making existing features more stable and complete, are our major goals for 2021 for CLion.


Episode #0 - November 2020

Welcome to our pilot episode, covering a selection of this month's news from the C++ community.


You can watch the show on YouTube, listen to it as a podcast, or read it as a C++ Annotated post on the CLion blog. You can even subscribe to the text format as the C++ Annotated newsletter.

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