Longtime Rust contributor Steve Klabnik talks with Richard about the broken state of AI discourse, from excessive hype to excessive hate, and reasonable alternatives we could pursue instead.

Steve's blog post: "I am disappointed in the AI discourse" - https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am-disappointed-in-the-ai-discourse/

Deep dive into why Rust's compile times are slow: https://www.pingcap.com/blog/rust-compilation-model-calamity/

Y Combinator partners on "100x productivity" claims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IACHfKmZMr8&t=155s

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Elixir creator José Valim goes into a very deep dive on language design with Richard, centered around some upcoming major design changes to the Roc programming language.

- https://elixir-lang.org

- https://roc-lang.org

- Unison's algebraic effects: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/fundamentals/abilities/

- Koka's algebraic effects: https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html#why-effects

- OCaml's algebraic effects: https://ocaml.org/manual/5.3/effects.html

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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.

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Monica's chapter on JSON decoders: https://github.com/roc-lang/book-of-examples/pull/68

Grapheme clusters: https://unicode.org/glossary/#extended_grapheme_cluster

Roc's string operations: https://www.roc-lang.org/builtins/Str

Talk: The Functional Purity Inference Plan: https://youtu.be/42TUAKhzlRI?si=TwxYoqMgh0UXQLfn

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Mike Bryzek has been a technical cofounder of two very successful companies using some very unorthodox technical strategies that have worked out very well for him and his teams! These include testing in production, spending the first few months of a brand-new company's life investing in automation and tooling before shipping a product, and microservices - but not done in the way I've usually heard them described.

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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!

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Descript: https://www.descript.com

Andrew Lisowski: https://www.hipstersmoothie.com

devtools.fm episode that was on HN frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41301639

Zencastr: https://zencastr.com/?via=richard-feldman

Forced Aligners: https://github.com/MahmoudAshraf97/ctc-forced-aligner

Gentle Aligner: https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle

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Richard talks with Peter Saxton, creator of the EYG programming language, about the problems Peter aims to solve with EYG, and some of the unique design decisions he's made with it. A type-safe eval() operation even comes up in the discussion!

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EYG: https://eyg.run

Unison: https://unison-lang.org

Roc: https://roc-lang.org

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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.

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JavaScript: 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

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Richard talks with Kyle Boddy about the biomechanical and data analysis software Kyle wrote—and continues to write—as the founder and CTO of Driveline Baseball, a data-driven player development company that has landed numerous players in Major League Baseball, including multiple Most Valuable Players and 2024's number one draft pick. They talk about Kyle's background in PHP and the C++ he wrote to coordinate budget high-speed cameras back when Driveline was a one-programmer garage shop, up through today where large language models have become an integral part of the development team's daily work.

Driveline Baseball: https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/

Washington Post article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/10/op-moneyballai/

Documentary about Driveline: https://youtu.be/K5Dnshu7atU

Phind AI: https://www.phind.com

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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/mojo

Modular Computing - https://www.modular.com

Roc - https://roc-lang.org

LLVM - https://llvm.org

Clang - https://clang.llvm.org

Swift - https://www.swift.org

CUDA - https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-zone

SIMD - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_instructionmultipledata

cmov instruction - https://github.com/marcin-osowski/cmov

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Richard talks with Eli Dowling about his contributions to the Roc programming language, as well as the intersection of language design and editor tooling, parsers that recover from errors, tree-sitter, going beyond the language server protocol, and the downsides of macros.

Perceus paper - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020/11/perceus-tr-v1.pdf

The Koka Programming Language - https://koka-lang.github.io

"The Quicksort Talk" (Outperforming Imperative with Pure Functional Languages) - https://youtu.be/vzfy4EKwG_Y

Tree-Sitter - https://tree-sitter.github.io

Neovim Editor - https://neovim.io

Helix Editor - https://helix-editor.com

Zed Editor - https://zed.dev

Language Server Protocol (LSP) - https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol

Hygienic Macros - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygienic_macro

Rust Macros - https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-06-macros.html

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