In this episode, Conor interviews Mitchell Kember about the state of tooling in BQN.

Socials

• Tacit Talk YouTube Playlist
• Conor Hoekstra (Twitter)
• Conor Hoekstra (GitHub)

About the Guest

Mitchell Kember is a programming language enthusiast who enjoys working on compilers and developer tools. He maintains the BQN extension for VS Code.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2024-11-23
Date Released: 2024-11-24

BQN Tooling:

• BQN VS Code Extension
• BQN VS Code Extension (GitHub)
• BQN VS Code Extension - Create an Issue
• bqn-test
• bqn-lint

Other Links:

• Fushia (OS)
• FIDL (Fuchsia Interface Definition Language)
• J Nuvoc
• Advent of Code
• Zig Language
• BQN Language
• Uiua Language
• BQNPAD
• University of Waterloo
• AWK
• Lua
• Pandoc
• Tree-sitter
• Black (Python)
• pytest
• C++26 Reflection
• Jelly Language
• ArrayCast Episode 83: Jelly, Code Golf and a Sad Goodbye
• Roc Language
• Software You Can Love Conference
• Software You Can Love Blog Post
• Defeating the Optimizer: How to Write (and avoid) Unoptimizable Code - Martin Wickham
• Data-Oriented Design Revisited: Type Safety in the Zig Compiler - Matthew Lugg
• CppCon 2014: Mike Acton “Data-Oriented Design and C++”
• NotebookLM
• Problems with BQN
• Software Unscripted Podcast
• Developer Voices Podcast
• CoRecursive Podcast

In this episode, Conor moderates the first “Implementer Panel” with Marshall Lochbaum (BQN), Adám Brudzewsky (Dyalog APL), Elias Mårtenson (Kap) and Kai Schmidt (Uiua).

Socials

• Tacit Talk YouTube Playlist
• Conor Hoekstra (Twitter)
• Conor Hoekstra (GitHub)

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2024-10-22
Date Released: 2024-10-23

• Dyalog APL
• BQN
• Kap
• Uiua
• CBQN
• Singeli
• Dyalog APL ⎕DT
• What is a primitive? (in BQN)
• BQN Crate
• Marshalls bqn-libs
• Dyalog APL ⎕R
• Arithmetic progression vector
• Uiua Types
• Mandelbrot in Kap
• Uiua Under ⍜
• BQN Under ⌾
• Kap Under ⍢
• Lambda World 2024 - The Power of Function Composition - Conor Hoekstra
• Kap Dice Rolls Example

Cool Code:

• BQN /⁼
• BQN /↕
• Dyalog APL ⍸⍳
• Kap ⍸⍳
• Dyalog APL ⊥⍨
• Uiua °▽ (Run Length Encode)
• Uiua Gif
• BQN +⌜´
• Kap ∥ (Parallel Operator)

In this episode, Conor interviews Zach Smith about Combinatory Programming.

Socials

• Tacit Talk YouTube Playlist
• Conor Hoekstra (Twitter)
• Conor Hoekstra (GitHub)

About the Guest

Zach Smith is a Brooklyn-based writer and computer programmer. His independent research tends to focus on novel intersections between computer programs and the liberal arts.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2024-09-27
Date Released: 2024-09-28

• Combinatory Programming
• The Recurse Center
• Learn You A Haskell for Great Good!
• “Point-Free or Die: Tacit Programming in Haskell and Beyond” by Amar Shah
• Janet
• APCL (A Practical Combinator Library)
• apcl-js
• apcl-janet
• apcl-erl
• apcl-ex
• History of Mathematical Notation
• ArrayCast Episode 84: Tacit #6
• zdsmith.com

In this episode, Conor interviews Adám Brudzewsky, head of language design at Dyalog Ltd.

Socials

• Tacit Talk YouTube Playlist
• Conor Hoekstra (Twitter)
• Conor Hoekstra (GitHub)

About the Guest

Adám Brudzewsky is the head of language design at Dyalog Ltd. He is a lifelong APL programmer, founder of the APL Orchard, and the creator of Extended Dyalog APL and APLcart.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2024-08-09
Date Released: 2024-08-11

• www.dyalog.com
• TryAPL
• ArrayCast Podcast
• Dyalog User Meeting YouTube Channel
• Dyalog Ltd YouTube Channel
• Mastering Dyalog APL by Bernard Legrand
• Learning APL by Stefan Kruger
• Programming in APL by Ray Polivka
• Tacit Workshop Link (Tacit Techniques)
• Combinator Table Tweet
• Dyalog Help - Operator Syntax
• Withe Glyph
• The Power of Function Composition - Conor Hoekstra | Craft Conference 2024
• Having Fun with Point Free Programming in APL
• J Modifier Trains
• Chess Problem / Solution
• TinyAPL
• TinyAPL Combinators
• Dyalog RIDE

In this episode, Conor interviews Elias Mårtenson, creator of the Kap programming language.

Socials

• Tacit Talk YouTube Playlist
• Conor Hoekstra (Twitter)
• Conor Hoekstra (GitHub)

About the Guest

Elias Mårtenson is the creator or the Kap programming language.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2024-07-12
Date Released: 2024-07-13

• Array Cast Episode 72: Elias Mårtenson and the Kap array programming language
• GNU APL
• A+
• IBM APL2
• NARS2000 APL
• Dyalog APL
• Kap Programming Language YouTube Channel
• Elias’ Blog Post: Array languages vs. the curse of the spreadsheet
• Kap HashMap
• The Carlisle Group GitHub (APL Repos)
• Design Patterns vs Anti pattern in APL by Aaron W Hsu at FnConf17
• Co-dfns
• Kap HashMaps
• Kap if/else
• Jelly Language
• array/standard-lib/base-functions.kap
• array/standard-lib/output3.kap
• Kai Schmidt: The Quest for Tacit; Combinators, Arrays, and Beyond
• Lang NEXT 2014 Panel Systems Programming in 2014 and Beyond

In this episode, Conor interviews Marshall Lochbaum, creator of the BQN, I and Singeli programming languages.

Socials

• Tacit Talk YouTube Playlist
• Conor Hoekstra (Twitter)
• Conor Hoekstra (GitHub)

About the Guest

Marshall Lochbaum is the creator of the I, BQN and Singeli programming languages. He discovered J in high school and has made contributions to the J interpeter. He worked at Dyalog Ltd from 2017 to 2020 at which point he left to focus on developing BQN. He has also been a panelist on the ArrayCast podcast since 2022.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2024-05-27
Date Released: 2024-05-28

• Marshall Lochbaum’s APL Wiki Page
• BQN Programming Language
• I Programming Language
• Singeli Programming Language
• I Examples
• Where APL Glyphs Came From (Timeline of APL primitives)
• ArrayCast Episode 7: Marshall Lochbaum and the BQN array language

In this episode, Conor interviews Kai Schmidt, creator of the Uiua language.

Socials

• Tacit Talk YouTube Playlist
• Conor Hoekstra (Twitter)
• Conor Hoekstra (GitHub)

About the Guest

Kai Schmidt is a Rust developer, language enthusiast and the creator of the Uiua programming language, a general purpose, stack-based, array-oriented programming language.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2024-05-10
Date Released: 2024-05-11

• Uiua
• Gleam Language
• Kap Language
• Uiua Pad
• proglangcast Podcast
• Combinators in Uiua
• Combinatory Programming blog by Zach Smith
• Planet Notation in Uiua