Elm Town 84 – Wonder: Elm all the way down with Justin Lubin

Elm Town 84 – Wonder: Elm all the way down with Justin Lubin

From Elm Town by Jared M. Smith

June 3, 2025 · 56 min · Episode 84

About this episode

Justin Lubin discusses his academic journey and research in programming languages.

Justin Lubin sketches his journey from undergrad research at UChicago with Ravi Chugh on output-directed and bidirectional programming environments (Sketch-n-Sketch) to graduate work at UC Berkeley with Sarah E. Chasins, focusing on programming language theory, researching how statically-typed functional programmers write code, and beyond, to helping domain experts.

People in this episode

Host: Jared M. Smith

Guest: Justin Lubin

Topics covered

  • programming language theory
  • functional programming
  • output-directed programming
  • bidirectional programming
  • domain experts

Keywords

  • Elm
  • programming
  • UChicago
  • UC Berkeley
  • functional programming
  • Sketch-n-Sketch
  • bidirectional programming

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UChicago, UC Berkeley

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