Richard talks with Will Sentance, the teacher of the Hard Parts series and the founder and CEO of CodeSmith, which... more

Richard talks with Kyle Boddy about the biomechanical and data analysis software Kyle wrote—and continues to write—as the founder and... more

For the 100th episode of Software Unscripted, Richard talks with Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, the Clang C++ compiler, LLVM,... more

Richard talks with Eli Dowling about his contributions to the Roc programming language, as well as the intersection of language... more

Richard talks with Kelly Shortridge about the CrowdStrike Incident that caused many computers worldwide to get stuck in a boot... more

Richard talks with distributed systems scientist Jonathen Magen about functional programming in distributed systems, including languages like Gleam, Elixir, Ballerina,... more

Richard talks with Tom Ballinger about undo and redo in the context of REPLs and running effects, stateful systems in... more

Richard talks with Juan Vuletich, creator of Cuis Smalltalk, about the past, present and future of Smalltalk - including quite... more

Richard talks with Wolfgang Schuster about his experiences first as a professional game developer, and then later as a professional... more

Richard talks with Brendan Hansknecht, an AI compiler engineer at Modular, about various testing techniques, including fuzzing, property-based tests, database... more

Richard talks with Ian Jeffries about his experiences as a Haskeller exploring modern Smalltalk (arguably the original object-oriented programming language),... more

Richard talks to Michael Newton, a programmer working as a consultant and trainer who has used several different functional programming... more

Richard talks with Nathan Sobo, founder of Zed Industries (which creates the high-performance Zed code editor) about his time as... more

Richard talks with Lucas Rosa, a compiler engineer working on the Aiken programming language for smart contracts, about tradeoffs in... more

Richard talks with Louis Pilfold, creator of the Gleam programming language, about the language's 1.0 release, as well as other... more

Richard talks to Thorsten Ball, a programmer at Zed Industries and author of two books on compilers. They start out... more

Richard talks with Rust Analyzer creator Alex Kladov (aka matklad) about compilers, including ways they can do incremental compilation, memory... more

Richard talks with programming teacher Greg Wilson about different types of beginner programmers and how they learn most effectively, what... more

Richard talks with Ayaz Hafiz, a contributor to the Roc programming language, about a very specific topic in the Roc... more

Richard talks with Glauber Costa about how to implement databases that can do millions of reads per second, how hardware... more