Software Unscripted

Richard talks with Datastar creator Delaney Gillilan about fast functional reactive programming, how Datastar outcompetes more mainstream JavaScript libraries on performance, and how he designed it - including how Richard's book Elm in Action turned out to be one of its sources of inspiration.This episode was sponsored by mailtrap.io - modern email delivery for developers. Try Mailtrap for free: https://l.rw.rw/software_unscripted_5Patreon supporters get ad-free episodes! https://www.patreon.com/SoftwareUnscripted/- Datastar: https://data-star.dev- Elm in Action: https://www.manning.com/books/elm-in-action?utm_source=elm_in_action&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=book_rfeldman_elm_4_14_20&utm_content=number2- Delaney and ClojureScript Lead David Nolen on Datastar: https://youtu.be/2ECucq-mTGg?si=v_4sB7vIEEDGpjm6- Datastar experience report: https://youtu.be/8W6Lr1hRgXo?si=TAJU_wRirCYiZywm- Benchmarking the same chat app in Next.js and Datastar: https://zweiundeins.gmbh/en/methodology/spa-vs-hypermedia-real-world-performance-under-load- Real-Time Collaboration with Datastar: https://vimeo.com/1124980036 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Monica McGuigan, a Scala programmer at JP Morgan, talks with Richard about her experiences learning Roc with a Scala background. They get into topics like how language design affects beginners and experts, what parts of functional programming are easier and harder to learn than others, and how language designers inform their design decisions.Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoftwareUnscriptedMonica's chapter on JSON decoders: https://github.com/roc-lang/book-of-examples/pull/68Grapheme clusters: https://unicode.org/glossary/#extended_grapheme_clusterRoc's string operations: https://www.roc-lang.org/builtins/StrTalk: The Functional Purity Inference Plan: https://youtu.be/42TUAKhzlRI?si=TwxYoqMgh0UXQLfn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard talks with Andrew Lisowski, a Senior Engineer at Descript - which makes audio and video editing software that has been used to edit this very podcast! They talk about some of the surprising challenges of dealing with video editing compared to audio alone, the economics of niche podcasts and programming conferences, and the evolution of Web browsers!Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoftwareUnscriptedDescript: https://www.descript.comAndrew Lisowski: https://www.hipstersmoothie.comdevtools.fm episode that was on HN frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41301639Zencastr: https://zencastr.com/?via=richard-feldmanForced Aligners: https://github.com/MahmoudAshraf97/ctc-forced-alignerGentle Aligner: https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard talks with Will Sentance, the teacher of the Hard Parts series and the founder and CEO of CodeSmith, which is a Software Engineering and AI immersive education program. They talk about how AI is intersecting with modern programming education, what's considered "fundamentals" these days, and how Will thinks about teaching object-oriented and functional programming.Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SoftwareUnscriptedJavaScript: The Hard Parts: https://frontendmasters.com/courses/javascript-hard-parts-v2/AI for Software Engineers: https://frontendmasters.com/workshops/engineering-and-ai/CodeSmith: https://www.codesmith.io/Richard's courses: https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/richard-feldman/#courses Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the 100th episode of Software Unscripted, Richard talks with Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, the Clang C++ compiler, LLVM, and now the Mojo programming language, about Mojo, Roc, API design, compiler optimizations, and language design!"Swift for C++ Practitioners" by Doug Gregor - https://www.douggregor.net/posts/swift-for-cxx-practitioners-value-types/Mojo - https://www.modular.com/mojoModular Computing - https://www.modular.comRoc - https://roc-lang.orgLLVM - https://llvm.orgClang - https://clang.llvm.orgSwift - https://www.swift.orgCUDA - https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-zoneSIMD - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_instructionmultipledatacmov instruction - https://github.com/marcin-osowski/cmov Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard talks with Kelly Shortridge about the CrowdStrike Incident that caused many computers worldwide to get stuck in a boot loop on July 19, 2024.A video version of this episode is available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzjaZssBEiI or ad-free to our wonderful Patreon supporters! https://www.patreon.com/posts/109888395The incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incidentKelly Shortridge: https://www.kellyshortridge.comKelly's book: https://securitychaoseng.comHillel Wayne's interviews with traditional engineers who have also been software engineers: https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/crossover-projectGell-Mann amnesia effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard talks with Tom Ballinger about undo and redo in the context of REPLs and running effects, stateful systems in general, hot code loading, and database query planning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.