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Join us to learn more about the latest developments in C and C++ programming. The ISO standards body has ratified C++23, the latest version of the standard, making this the best version of C++ so far. The C++ programming language supports a wide variety of programming styles, from procedural to object-oriented to functional to generic. If you haven't touched base with C++ lately, come join us to experience the joy of using modern C++!
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Virtual meeting recordings can be found on our YouTube channel Utah Cpp Programmers.
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Modern GPU Programming with SDL3
·OnlineOnlineSDL has long been a convenient portability layer for windows, input, audio, and simple rendering. SDL3 adds a new GPU API that exposes modern graphics and compute functionality through a portable interface over native backends such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and Metal.
This month, Richard Thomson will give us a gentle introduction to SDL3 GPU programming. We will look at what SDL3 GPU is, what problem it is trying to solve, and how it compares to using OpenGL, Vulkan, Direct3D, or Metal directly.
We will build up a small C++ example that creates an SDL window, creates a GPU device, uploads data, creates shaders and pipelines, records command buffers, renders to a swapchain texture, and optionally runs a simple compute pass.
We will also cover the practical parts of using the API in a C++ project: consuming SDL3 from vcpkg, organizing shader assets, dealing with backend-specific shader formats, and deciding when SDL_shadercross is useful. Along the way we will point out the parts of the API that feel familiar to Vulkan/D3D12/Metal programmers and the parts that SDL deliberately simplifies.
This is not a deep dive into graphics theory. The goal is to understand whether SDL3 GPU is a useful middle ground for C++ applications that need more than SDL_Renderer, but do not want to own separate graphics backends for every platform.
Topics include:- Creating an SDL3 GPU device
- Swapchains, textures, buffers, and transfer buffers
- Graphics pipelines and render passes
- Compute pipelines and storage buffers/textures
- Shader formats and SDL_shadercross
- vcpkg and CMake integration
- Debugging with RenderDoc and backend validation layers
- Where SDL3 GPU fits, and where it does not
No prior Vulkan, Direct3D 12, or Metal experience is required, but basic familiarity with C++, CMake, and graphics concepts such as textures and shaders will be helpful.
This will be an online meeting, so drinks and snacks are on you!
Join the meeting here: https://meet.xmission.com/Utah-Cpp-Programmers
Watch previous topics on the Utah C++ Programmers YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@UtahCppProgrammersFuture topics: https://utahcpp.wordpress.com/future-meeting-topics/
Past topics: https://utahcpp.wordpress.com/past-meeting-topics/10 attendeesTBD
·OnlineOnlineTBD
This will be an online meeting, so drinks and snacks are on you!
Join the meeting here: https://meet.xmission.com/Utah-Cpp-Programmers
Watch previous topics on the Utah C++ Programmers YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@UtahCppProgrammersFuture topics: https://utahcpp.wordpress.com/future-meeting-topics/
Past topics: https://utahcpp.wordpress.com/past-meeting-topics/1 attendeeTBD
·OnlineOnlineTBD
This will be an online meeting, so drinks and snacks are on you!
Join the meeting here: https://meet.xmission.com/Utah-Cpp-Programmers
Watch previous topics on the Utah C++ Programmers YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@UtahCppProgrammersFuture topics: https://utahcpp.wordpress.com/future-meeting-topics/
Past topics: https://utahcpp.wordpress.com/past-meeting-topics/1 attendeeTBD
·OnlineOnlineTBD
This will be an online meeting, so drinks and snacks are on you!
Join the meeting here: https://meet.xmission.com/Utah-Cpp-Programmers
Watch previous topics on the Utah C++ Programmers YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@UtahCppProgrammersFuture topics: https://utahcpp.wordpress.com/future-meeting-topics/
Past topics: https://utahcpp.wordpress.com/past-meeting-topics/1 attendee
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