Interview with Simon Peyton Jones

Raph's new blog post: https://linebender.org/blog/towards-fearless-simd/A transcript is available here: https://www.popovit.ch/interviews/raph-levien-simdRaph's 2018 Fearless SIMD blog post: https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/simd/2018/10/19/fearless-simd.htmlWe cover what SIMD is, its applications, challenges when using it in Rust, and potential future improvements to make SIMD programming more accessible and safer.

Raph's new blog post: https://linebender.org/blog/towards-fearless-simd/
A transcript is available here: https://www.popovit.ch/interviews/raph-levien-simd
Raph's 2018 Fearless SIMD blog post: https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/simd/2018/10/19/fearless-simd.html

We cover what SIMD is, its applications, challenges when using it in Rust, and potential future improvements to make SIMD programming more accessible and safer.

This episode was recorded in August of 2019 so not everything you hear will necessarily be up to date. Granule is a functional programming language with a very powerful graded modal type system. An update that will extend it to also support dependent types is being developed. Learn more about Granule at https://granule-project.github.io/.  

Today I have Jon Goodwin to discuss his Cone programming language - distinguished by "do it your way" memory management.