In this episode, Bryce and Conor interview Dave Abrahams and talk about C++Now (aka BoostCon), C++ and Swift!

About the Guest:

Dave Abrahams is a contributor to the C++ standard, a founding contributor of the Boost C++ Libraries project and of the BoostCon/C++Now conference, and was a principal designer of the Swift programming language. He recently spent seven years at Apple, culminating in the creation of the declarative SwiftUI framework, worked at Google on Swift for TensorFlow, and is now a principal scientist at Adobe, where he and Sean Parent are rebooting the Software Technology Lab.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2021-10-03
Date Released: 2021-10-22

• C++Now (formerly BoostCon)
• Swift Programming Language
• C++ Move Constructors
• Boost C++ Libraries
• C++ Standard Template Library
• Stepanov Website
• Chris Lattner on Twitter
• Jeremy Siek’s Profile
• Rust Programming Language
• C++ std::mutex
• C++ std::shared_mutex
• The Day The Standard Library Died (blog that mentions std::string ABI break)

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