Podcast Episodes

The EYG Language with Peter Saxton

Season 1 Episode 103

Richard talks with Peter Saxton, creator of the EYG programming language, about the problems Peter aims to solve with EYG, and some of the unique design decisions he's made with it. A type-safe eval(…

Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago

AI in Programming Education with Will Sentance

Season 1 Episode 102

Richard talks with Will Sentance, the teacher of the Hard Parts series and the founder and CEO of CodeSmith, which is a Software Engineering and AI immersive education program. They talk about how AI…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Software for Elite Athletes with Kyle Boddy

Season 1 Episode 101

Richard talks with Kyle Boddy about the biomechanical and data analysis software Kyle wrote—and continues to write—as the founder and CTO of Driveline Baseball, a data-driven player development compa…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Mojo with Chris Lattner

Season 1 Episode 100

For the 100th episode of Software Unscripted, Richard talks with Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, the Clang C++ compiler, LLVM, and now the Mojo programming language, about Mojo, Roc, API design, com…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Tooling-Aware Language Design with Eli Dowling

Season 1 Episode 99

Richard talks with Eli Dowling about his contributions to the Roc programming language, as well as the intersection of language design and editor tooling, parsers that recover from errors, tree-sitte…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

The CrowdStrike Incident with Kelly Shortridge

Season 1 Episode 98

Richard talks with Kelly Shortridge about the CrowdStrike Incident that caused many computers worldwide to get stuck in a boot loop on July 19, 2024.

A video version of this episode is available on Yo…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Distributed Functions with Jonathan Magen

Season 1 Episode 97

Richard talks with distributed systems scientist Jonathen Magen about functional programming in distributed systems, including languages like Gleam, Elixir, Ballerina, and Jolie. They also talk about…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Undo-Redo and Persistent State with Tom Ballinger

Season 1 Episode 96

Richard talks with Tom Ballinger about undo and redo in the context of REPLs and running effects, stateful systems in general, hot code loading, and database query planning.

Hosted on Acast. See acas…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Smalltalk's Past, Present, and Future with Juan Vuletich

Season 1 Episode 95

Richard talks with Juan Vuletich, creator of Cuis Smalltalk, about the past, present and future of Smalltalk - including quite a bit of interesting history and programming philosophy!

Hosted on Acast…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

From Game Dev to Web Dev

Season 1 Episode 94

Richard talks with Wolfgang Schuster about his experiences first as a professional game developer, and then later as a professional Web developer. Theytalk about the differences in programming practi…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago