Podcast Episodes

Comparing F#, Elm, and Haskell with Michael Newton

Season 1 Episode 91

Richard talks to Michael Newton, a programmer working as a consultant and trainer who has used several different functional programming languages in professional settings. They talk about the differe…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Native UIs without Electron - with Nathan Sobo

Season 1 Episode 90

Richard talks with Nathan Sobo, founder of Zed Industries (which creates the high-performance Zed code editor) about his time as an early developer on the Atom code editor, including how that project…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Compiling Smart Contracts with Lucas Rosa

Season 1 Episode 89

Richard talks with Lucas Rosa, a compiler engineer working on the Aiken programming language for smart contracts, about tradeoffs in language and compiler design, property-based testing, syntax and f…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Gleam 1.0 with Louis Pilfold

Season 1 Episode 88

Richard talks with Louis Pilfold, creator of the Gleam programming language, about the language's 1.0 release, as well as other topics like backwards compatibility, hot-swapping code in production, a…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Compilers and Overly Complex Web Development with Thorsten Ball

Season 1 Episode 87

Richard talks to Thorsten Ball, a programmer at Zed Industries and author of two books on compilers. They start out talking about the differences between compilers and interpreters, what the trickies…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Incremental Compilation with Alex Kladov

Season 1 Episode 86

Richard talks with Rust Analyzer creator Alex Kladov (aka matklad) about compilers, including ways they can do incremental compilation, memory management strategies, modules and boundaries, and even …

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Programming and Industrial Design with Greg Wilson

Season 1 Episode 84

Richard talks with programming teacher Greg Wilson about different types of beginner programmers and how they learn most effectively, what counterintuitive aspects of programming languages they tend …

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Pure Functional Programming in C with Ryan Fleury

Season 1 Episode 84

Richard talks with RAD Game Tools Debugger programmer Ryan Fleury, about memory management in debugging, caching, operator overloading, and pure functional programming in...C?!

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Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Lambda Set Defunctionalization with Ayaz Hafiz

Season 1 Episode 85

Richard talks with Ayaz Hafiz, a contributor to the Roc programming language, about a very specific topic in the Roc compiler, namely lambda set defunctionalization (including explaining what that te…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Implementing Databases with Glauber Costa

Season 1 Episode 82

Richard talks with Glauber Costa about how to implement databases that can do millions of reads per second, how hardware changes have affected the tradeoffs around relational and NoSQL databsaes, and…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago