Software Unscripted

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Richard talks to Daniel Lemire about his work on simdjson, arguably the fastest JSON parser in the world. They also talk about parsing performance in other contexts, benchmarking, NodeJS string representations, and textbook approaches to performance versus real-world experimentation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard talks with former Rust core team member Ashley Williams, aka ag_dubs,, about various different types of niche domain knowledge - from CSS tricks in web development to low-level systems programming, package managers, and even organization-specific domain knowledge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard talks with HashiCorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto about a side project of his: a high-performance terminal emulator that he wrote using Zig and Swift, and which has become his daily driver terminal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Richard talks to to Alex Shroyer about his unusually extensive experiences with Array Languages like APL and J - where they come from, how they have more to offer than just extreme conciseness, and what feature creep looks like in a language that's mostly symbols. Links to Alex's website and more info about array languages:alexshroyer.comhttps://nsl.com/https://vector.org.uk/https://github.com/int...

Richard talks with Simon Lydell, a programmer whose open-source JavaScript work ended up contributing to what might be the most infamous package-related outage in programming history. In addition to talking about that story, they also talk about open source in general, breaking changes in general, and specific projects like CoffeeScript, Prettier, Elm, and Roc. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

Richard talks to Will Kurt, an AI Engineer at Hex as well as the author of both the countbayesie.com blog as well as the book Get Programming with Haskell, from Manning Publications. They talk about the book, about Haskell in general, and end up comparing Haskell to R, as well as type systems and artificial intelligence! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard talks to Ayaz Hafiz about his work on the Roc programming language. They discuss behind-the-scenes compiler details like implementing ad-hoc polymorphism and defunctionalization using lambda sets. Along the way they get into how these implementation details interact with design of the language, and the experience of using the language. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

Richard talks to Jakub Konka, a programmer who works on the Zig programming language. They talk about the low-level systems programming involved in Jacob's work on Zig and other projects, including things like disassembling binaries, hot code loading in a systems language, writing a linker from scratch, and testing machine code without access to the actual hardware - or even an emulator! Hosted on...

Richard talks to Chelsea Troy, a programmer working at Mozilla who has a side gig teaching Masters' Computer Science students at the University of Chicago. This is highly unusual, considering she does not have a computer science degree! They talk about how she landed that job, including how the interview process differs from industry interviews, among other topics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...

Richard talks with Josh Warner, who has been working on making improvements to the Roc programming language, particularly around the parser and formatter. They start out talking about syntax and code formatting, but after some plot twists, the conversation ends up on AI and the future of programming itself! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard talks with Ryan Haskell-Glatz, author of the open-source Elm projects elm-spa and Elm Land. They get into things like new user onboarding experiences, framework churn, and dynamics between authors and users in open-source communities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard talks to Stachu Koric about the Dark programming language's shift to being a programming language built around AI, as well as their own personal experiences so far exploring chatGPT, Copilot, and other emerging AI tools. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dizzy Smith talks with Richard about his career path from C++ to Erlang to Management and now back to C++. Along the way, they talk about package management and several other languages - including Go, Rust, JavaScript, and even Perl. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Richard talks with Nicholas Nethercote, a member of the Rust programming language's Performance Working Group and author of the Rust Performance Book. They discuss how he and others have worked to speed up Rust's compiler, different strategies for speeding up compilers in general, and how compiler performance fits into the working dynamic of Rust's ecosystem of contributors. Hosted on Acast. See a...

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Richard talks with Ashley Davis, author of the book Bootstrapping Microservices, about their differing perspectives on microservices, monoliths, and everything in between! Ashley is also the author of Rapid Fullstack Development, available at https://rapidfullstackdevelopment.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Richard talks to Eric Normand about his experiences using both Haskell and Clojure in production, and his perspectives on comparing and contrasting the approaches of the two languages. Eric hosts a podcast (https://ericnormand.me/podcast) and you can use code podsoftunsc22 at checkout to get a discount on his book Grokking Simplicity: https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-simplicity Hosted on Aca...

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Richard talks with Scott Wlaschin, author of the book Domain Modeling Made Functional and the website F# for Fun and Profit, about using F# in production and the minimal essence of functional programming. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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