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Jonathan Blow on Programming Language Design

Jonathan Blow on Programming Language Design



Jonathan Blow, creator of popular games Braid and The Witness, talks with Richard about programming language design - including the design of the programming language he's been building for game deve…


Published on 13 hours ago

Zig Creator Andrew Kelley

Zig Creator Andrew Kelley



Richard talks with Zig Creator Andrew Kelley.


- Support Zig - https://ziglang.org/zsf/

- Zig's "Writergate" - https://ziglang.org/download/0.15.1/release-notes.html#Writergate

- "What Color is Your Func…


Published on 1 month ago

Securing Evolving Software with Noah Hall

Securing Evolving Software with Noah Hall



xz vulnerability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

Spectre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability)

Meltdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vuln…


Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Andreas Kling on Ladybird Browser, SerenityOS, and Powerlifting

Andreas Kling on Ladybird Browser, SerenityOS, and Powerlifting



Ladybird Browser - https://ladybird.org

SerenityOS - https://serenityos.org

Story of the man who used powerlifting to recover after falling off a roof https://startingstrength.com/articles/brian_jones_…


Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

GPU Programming and Language Design with Chris Lattner

GPU Programming and Language Design with Chris Lattner


Episode 109


Richard talks with Swift, LLVM, Clang, and Mojo creator Chris Lattner about programming on the GPU and on the CPU, as well as a number of programming language design topics.


Chris's "Democratizing AI …


Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Broken AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik

Broken AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik


Season 1 Episode 108


Longtime Rust contributor Steve Klabnik talks with Richard about the broken state of AI discourse, from excessive hype to excessive hate, and reasonable alternatives we could pursue instead.


Steve's b…


Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Language Design Deep Dive with Elixir Creator José Valim

Language Design Deep Dive with Elixir Creator José Valim


Season 1 Episode 107


Elixir creator José Valim goes into a very deep dive on language design with Richard, centered around some upcoming major design changes to the Roc programming language.


- https://elixir-lang.org

- htt…


Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

From Scala to Roc with Monica McGuigan

From Scala to Roc with Monica McGuigan


Season 1 Episode 106


Monica McGuigan, a Scala programmer at JP Morgan, talks with Richard about her experiences learning Roc with a Scala background. They get into topics like how language design affects beginners and ex…


Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Testing in Production with Mike Bryzek

Testing in Production with Mike Bryzek


Season 1 Episode 105


Mike Bryzek has been a technical cofounder of two very successful companies using some very unorthodox technical strategies that have worked out very well for him and his teams! These include testing…


Published on 10 months, 1 week ago

Building Video Editing Software with Andrew Lisowski

Building Video Editing Software with Andrew Lisowski


Season 1 Episode 104


Richard talks with Andrew Lisowski, a Senior Engineer at Descript - which makes audio and video editing software that has been used to edit this very podcast! They talk about some of the surprising c…


Published on 11 months ago





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