Software Unscripted

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 fa...

21 Apr 202459min

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, an...

2 Apr 20241h 10min

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 trickiest...

17 Mar 20241h 13min

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 m...

3 Mar 20241h 23min

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 t...

14 Feb 202457min

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

7 Feb 20241h 40min

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 ter...

25 Jan 202445min

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 ...

23 Jan 202448min