Peter Strömberg, aka "PEZ", is a Clojure programmer and creator of the popular Calva plug-in for VSCode. In this episode we do a deep-dive into Clojure and explore the power of Lisp and dynamically typed functional programming.

Topics covered:

REPL-driven development

Data-oriented programming

Lisp and Macros

What makes Clojure special

Popular Clojure libraries

Episode links:

Func prog conf

Calva

Calva MCP

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Guardrails⁠

Jank

Babashka

Squint

Malli

The Value of Values

Simple Made Easy

⁠⁠"Just use maps"

Kandria

GOAL - Game-oriented Assembly Lisp

Purely Functional Data Structures

Paul Graham's Lisp paper

David Nolen

Parens of the Dead

Fred Overflow

Christian Johansen

Easel Editor

In this episode we do a deep-dive into Scala and Zio with Lachezar Yankov! We talk about how a strong type system can help productivity, what the Zio ecosystem has to offer, and much more...

The appeal of static typing

The pragmatic side of statically typed functional programming

The basics of Zio

Effect Systems

Headline-oriented programming

Episode links:

Lachezar's personal website

Lachezar's Zio presentation⁠

Zio

Ziverge on YouTube

Zionomicon

Scala Times

Sergei Winitzki is a functional programming aficinado with a background in theoretical physics. We get into a whole bunch of topics, including:

What makes a good programming language?

Why the future of programming is declarative.

How to design a programming language.

Dhall and System F Omega.

Why recursion is more dangerous than you might think.

Episode links:

The Science of Functional Programming

Programming in System F⍵

⁠Alan Kay - Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"?⁠

Beautiful Racket

The Dhall Configuration Language

Scall - A Dhall implementation in Scala

Dhall implementation guide

Intro Music: Lofi Rnb Music by SigmaMusicArt