About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Manuel Chakravarty about his contributions to the ghc backend and his insights on Haskell and Swift.

In this episode, we talk to Manuel Chakravarty - specifically, his work on the ghc backend such as data-parallel Haskell and the FFI and how that work segued into type system design. We also discussed Manuel's perspective on Haskell from the language design of Swift.

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