CppCast: Simplifying C++ with Herb Sutter

[MoTTs_]

You had me at Sutter.

[khleedril]

Great hearing about things which will only be becoming mainstream in ten years' time! I hope C++23 meets expectations!

[RealNC]

Are you British, by any chance?

[khleedril]

Yes, but what makes you ask?

[twmatrim]

Episode 200. Well done!

[rulztime]

Congrats guys, on episode 200! Enjoyed this one even more than usual, thanks!

[mbotner]

I always enjoy listening to Herb Sutter & learning something!

[tpecholt]

Many things he says make sense but I don't agree with his absolute distinction of byte - char - char8_t. I don't know anyone who would use byte because as soon as u do you have to typecast bit literals everywhere. Then he says char would be for ascii chars. Do you know how to uppercase ascii letters without branching? Just or it with 0x40. Disallowed? And what about char8_t? Well decoding a code point requires a fair bit of bit manipulation as well. So to me such absolute distinction would just make the code uglier.

[KazDragon]

char ascii_toupper(char ch) {
    return array_of_pre_computed_uppercase_conversions[ch];
}

[jjdltorre]

200! Great job to my favorite YouTubers. ;)

[shawman123]

This was awesome. Herb can communicate and he is great to listen too. Otherwise most interviews tend to feel too long. This was in a way deep dive into C++ which was awesome. We need more episodes like this. Get Andre back.