Richard talks with Peter Saxton, creator of the EYG programming language, about the problems Peter aims to solve with EYG,... more

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

Richard talks with HTMX creator Carson Gross about some of the ways in which modern web development has arguably regressed... more

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Richard talks with Chris Nuernberger about his experiences making code run faster in the context of the Java Virtual Machine... more

Richard talks with Casey Muratori, a game engine programmer who's known for creating the term Immediate Mode GUIs, for his... more

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Richard talks with Nikita Prokopov, an open-source Clojure developer and creator of the Fira Code typeface, about some of the... more

Richard talks with Brian Carroll about his experience using WebAssembly in practice - including some of the benefits and challenges... more

Richard talks with Matt Godbolt, author of the godbolt.org Compiler Explorer, about how certain aspects of the Compiler Explorer work,... more

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Richard talks with Predrag Gruevski, author of the cargo-semver-checks tool for detecting accidental semantic versioning mistakes in Rust packages, as... more

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Richard talks to Daniel Lemire about his work on simdjson, arguably the fastest JSON parser in the world. They also... more

Richard talks with former Rust core team member Ashley Williams, aka ag_dubs,, about various different types of niche domain knowledge... more

Richard talks with HashiCorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto about a side project of his: a high-performance terminal emulator that he wrote... more

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Richard talks to to Alex Shroyer about his unusually extensive experiences with Array Languages like APL and J - where... more

Richard talks with Simon Lydell, a programmer whose open-source JavaScript work ended up contributing to what might be the most... more