Jonathan Müller

foonathan

C++ Library Developer at think-cell

Biography

Jonathan is a C++ Library Developer at think-cell.

He is the author of open source projects like type_safe, a library of safety utilities, foonathan/memory, a memory allocator library, and cppast, a C++ reflection tool. More recently, he’s taken an interest in programming languages and compilers and has published lexy, a C++ parser library, and lauf, a bytecode interpreter.

He also blogs at foonathan.net, talks at conferences, and is on the C++ standardization committee.

Experience

Software Engineer

think-cell

since April 2023
C++ Committee Member

C++ Standardization Committee

since July 2019
FOSS Project Maintainer

March 2015–April 2023

Education

MSc in Computer Science

RWTH Aachen University; with distinction (1.0)

Focus: semantics of programming languages, verification, formal methods

October 2020–December 2022
BSc in Computer Science

RWTH Aachen University; very good (1.2)

Focus: computer graphics, physical simulation

October 2016–October 2019
BSc in Physics

RWTH Aachen University; paused

April 2018–September 2022

Selected Talks

C++ Features You Might Not Know

https://www.jonathanmueller.dev/talk/cpp-features/ C++ on Sea June, 2023
A deep dive into dispatching techniques

https://www.jonathanmueller.dev/talk/deep-dive-dispatch/ C++Now May, 2023
Using C++20’s Three-way Comparison <=>

https://www.jonathanmueller.dev/talk/cpp20-three-way-comparison/ Meeting C++ November, 2019
Writing Cache-Friendly C++

https://www.jonathanmueller.dev/talk/cache-friendly-cpp/ Meeting C++ November, 2018

Selected Projects

lexy: github.com/foonathan/lexy

C++ parser library
lauf: github.com/foonathan/lauf

Bytecode interpreter
foonathan/memory: github.com/foonathan/memory

STL compatible C++ memory allocator library
type_safe: github.com/foonathan/type_safe

Zero overhead utilities for preventing bugs at compile time.