C++ in Finance

Antony Peacock joins Timur and Phil. After rounding up the news, we chat with Antony about what it's like to work in finance as a C++ developer, the similarities and differences to games dev and how you can break in to a role in finance. We also discuss what it's like to work in tech as someone with dyslexia.
News

• Visual Studio 17.6 released (devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/visual-studio-1…)

• Valgrind 3.21 released (reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/137is3a/valgrind_321…)

• Snitch 1.1 (reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/13gdlbw/the_snitch_v…)

• Meeting C++ Call for Speakers (until June 18) (meetingcpp.com/mcpp/submittalk)

• CppCon Call for Speakers (until June 25) (cppcon.org/cfs2023)

Links

• P2547R1 - "Language Support for Customisable Functions" (open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2022/p…)

• Maven on C++ (mavensecurities.com/maven-on-c)

• "How to get into the tech industry" (Maven's blog) (mavensecurities.com/how-to-get-into-tech)

• Interview question at Maven (mavensecurities.com/revisiting-interview-quest…)

• "C++ 20 Techniques for Algorithmic Trading" (webinar) (profitview.net/events/algo-trading-cpp-20-ranges)

• "C++ Concepts and Fireside Chat on Algorithmic Trading" (webinar) (profitview.net/events/cpp-concepts-low-latency…)

• "C++ and Python for Algorithmic Trading" (webinar) (profitview.net/events/cpp-python-algo-trading)

• Example algo trading code from webinar series (1) (github.com/profitviews/heisenberg)

• Example algo trading code from webinar series (2) (github.com/profitviews/fast-python-backtest)

• Antony's article on Neurodiversity and Dyslexia (diversita.co.uk/_files/ugd/ddc8ad_164bb501ee6d…)

• Diversita (UK) (diversita.co.uk)

• P0201R6 - "polymorphic_value: A Polymorphic Value Type for C++" (open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2022/p…)

• P1950R2 - "indirect_value: A Free-Store-Allocated Value Type For C++" (open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2022/p…)

• EVE - the Expressive Vector Engine (github.com/jfalcou/eve)

• P1385R7 - "Linear Algebra" (open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2022/p…)

• P1935R2 - "A C++ Approach to Physical Units" (open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p…)

• mp-units - Mateusz Pusz' implementation of physical units (github.com/mpusz/units)

• P2547R0 - "Language support for customisable functions" (open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2022/p…)

• "Why tag_invoke is not the solution I want" - Barry Revzin (brevzin.github.io/c++/2020/12/01/tag-invoke)