Rob and Jason are joined by Guy Davidson to talk about his work with the ISO C++ committee including proposals for a linear algebra library and audio api.

Guy Davidson is the Principal Coding Manager of Creative Assembly, makers of the Total War franchise, Alien: Isolation and Halo Wars 2, Guy has been writing games since the early 1980s. He is now also a contributor to SG14, the study group devoted to low latency, real time requirements, and performance/efficiency especially for Games, Financial/Banking, and Simulations, and to SG13, the HMI study group. He speaks at schools, colleges and universities about programming and likes to help good programmers become better programmers.

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Links

• linear.algebra - A proposal to add linear algebra support to the C++ standard library
• A Standard Audio API for C++:Motivation, Scope, and Basic Design
• CppCon 2018: Guy Davidson "Lightweight 2D graphics with io2d"

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