Kodsnack 703 - The subset needs to fit you, with Harald Achitz

Fredrik chats to Harald Achitz about freelancing, C++ 26, and ten years of running the Swedencpp meetup.

Harald discusses the various oddities of the Swedish consultant and software market, both before but especially in the current environment. Consultants don't cost what you expect them to when compared to employees, and a strange previous focus on headcount has not helped either.

We then talk about the standardization process for C++ and about new things in C++ 26. Harald discusses the issues of adding new things which are good in themselves, but perhaps don't fit into a bigger picture, take a lot of focus and energy which in turn means many other things do not get considered which may be smaller and more widely and immediately useful.

Also: once something is in the standard library, it's eternal. And there is still no real ecosystem around C++. Infrastructure is a hard thing. And Rust is out there.

Finally, we talk about Harald's experience of running the Swedencpp meetup for ten years. What does it mean to run something for so long? Technology, talks, locations, providing a space for presentations, and trying to keep things evolving are all discussed.

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Links

• Harald
• Previous episodes with Harald
• Support us on Ko-fi!
• C++ 26
• ISO
• SC22 WG21 - the standardization group for C++
• The Swedish local mirror for SG22, affectionately known as SIS/TK 611/AG 09
• SIS - Swedish institute of standards
• Swedencpp
• Remember the Vasa! - Bjarne's paper
• Modules - from C++ 20
• "The irony is that since this issue was opened, I have not only learned rust, I also switched to it fully."
• Coroutines
• Compile-time reflection
• Templates
• Orthodox C++ - talk by Harald
• C++ quiz compilation
• Contracts in C++
• Eiffel
• Undefined behavior in C++
• Swift package manager
• Ripgrep
• Sender and receiver
• Profiles in C++
• Cppcheck - by Daniel Marjamäki
• Concepts
• Swedencpp on Youtube
• Swedencpp pro

Titles

• To take communication with Skatteverket
• What is a consultant?
• Horrendous prices for Powerpoint presentations
• Somebody needs an excuse
• Every hour counts
• Flavors of consultant
• I cost so much money
• Why we have time to talk
• Too much gatekeeping
• Still just collecting profiles
• Special in the terms of ISO
• Why does Sweden not have a voice
• I represent this type
• It's still ISO
• A lot of big features again
• They are also awesome
• A lot of things to do, and to know
• All these things deserve their own book
• You can do a lot of magic
• (I became) Too old for liking magic
• There was magic everywhere
• That's really useful
• Infinite ways of doing something
• Define your subset
• The subset needs to fit you
• Awesome, to some extent
• Paperwork is expensive
• Everything is already being re-written
• A step in the right direction
• Where efficiency is a priority
• Based on personal experience
• If you go there, you can't work
• Let's make something accessible
• At least it's not nothing anymore
• Conference over space and time
• What's the next level?
• Still an option