No doubt that Rust is hot right now. We chat with Christopher Hunt about his journey through Java, Scala, and many other languages and learn why he is now using Rust.

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Rod Johnson (creator of Spring Framework) reflects on his programming and chess journeys.

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Bruce and James often rant about build tools but it turns out they are hard to get right. We dive into the reasons with Josh Suereth who maintained sbt (a Scala build tool) for a number of years.

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Our co-author on Effect Oriented Programming, Bill Frasure, joins us to chat about his programming journey and his involvement in last week's ZIO 2.0 release.

Book repo: https://github.com/EffectOrientedProgramming/book

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Mark McGranaghan joins us to talk about how the Muse app uses Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) for local-first data synchronization.

More details on Local-first: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

Referenced article about hybrid logical clocks: https://archive.jlongster.com/using-crdts-in-the-wild

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Tonya Moore has been helping build developer communities for years. We discuss how to deal with jerks and the importance of building on a foundation of compassion.

Referenced blog from Bill Venners: https://www.artima.com/articles/compassion-in-our-community

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Kotlin Language designer Roman Elizarov, joins us to talk about finding the right balances when designing Kotlin.

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Gabriella Gonzalez joins to teach us about the Dhall configuration language they created and Nix.

References:

The Dhall configuration language

Henk: a typed intermediate language

Pants Build Tool

The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model

Haskell for all: How to use NixOS for lightweight integration tests

How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer

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Martin Odersky, creator of Scala, joins us to chat about Scala, Effects, Exceptions, Experiments, and other Exciting stuff.

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We explore with Matt Anger a blog he wrote about migrating from Python to Kotlin and the trade offs engineering teams make when deciding which technologies to use.

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