Software Unscripted
by Richard Feldman
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Casey Muratori on his "The Big OOPs" Talk
Casey Muratori on his "The Big OOPs" Talk
About this podcast
Software Unscripted, A weekly podcast of casual conversations about code hosted by Richard Feldman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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- Casey Muratori on his "The Big OOPs" Talk · 1 h 29 minCasey Muratori talks with Richard about Casey's 2025 talk "The Big OOPs" about the history of Object-Oriented Programming, as well as performance, architecture, software quality…
- Fast Functional Reactive Programming with Datastar Creator Delaney Gillilan · 1 h 33 minRichard talks with Datastar creator Delaney Gillilan about fast functional reactive programming, how Datastar outcompetes more mainstream JavaScript libraries on performance, and…
- TigerBeetle's Spectacular Jepsen Report - with Joran Greef · 1 h 18 minRichard talks with TigerBeetle founder Joran Greef about how their team's database achieved a wildly successful Jepsen Report. Where other databases have been famously skewered…
- AI & Software Quality with Shawn Wang (aka swyx) · 1 h 28 minRichard talks with AI expert Shawn "swyx" Wang about all sorts of AI topics, including how it fits into IDEs, AI agent implementations, the economics of AI subscriptions, the…
- HTMX Creator Carson Gross on Comp Sci's Evolution · 1 h 27 minHTMX creator and Montana State University instructor Carson Gross talks to Richard about why HTMX moved from version 2 straight to version 4, API boundaries in library design…
- How Mitchell Hashimoto Builds Ghostty · 1 h 3 minGhostty creator and Hashicorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto talks with Richard about the development of that high-performance terminal emulator: how he's been building Ghostty…
- Gleam's Design and Compiler - with creator Louis Pilfold · 1 h 11 minGleam programming language creator Louis Pilfold talks with Richard about Gleam's design and various challenges that came up when implementing its compiler. - Gleam Language…
- Metaprogramming Your IDE in Lean 4 with Harry Goldstein · 41 minHarry Goldstein talks with Richard Feldman about the Lean 4 programming language's compile-time metaprogramming capabilities, including how they can be used to control elements…
- Jonathan Blow on Programming Language Design · 1 h 41 minJonathan Blow, creator of popular games Braid and The Witness, talks with Richard about programming language design - including the design of the programming language he's been…
- Zig Creator Andrew Kelley · 1 h 49 minRichard talks with Zig Creator Andrew Kelley. - Support Zig - https://ziglang.org/zsf/ - Zig's "Writergate" - https://ziglang.org/download/0.15.1/release-notes.html#Writergate…
- Securing Evolving Software with Noah Hall · 60 minxz vulnerability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor Spectre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability) Meltdown…
- Andreas Kling on Ladybird Browser, SerenityOS, and Powerlifting · 1 h 20 minLadybird Browser - https://ladybird.org SerenityOS - https://serenityos.org Story of the man who used powerlifting to recover after falling off a roof…
- GPU Programming and Language Design with Chris Lattner · 1 h 18 min · Episode 109Richard talks with Swift, LLVM, Clang, and Mojo creator Chris Lattner about programming on the GPU and on the CPU, as well as a number of programming language design topics. •…
- Broken AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik · 1 h 19 min · Season 1 Episode 108Longtime 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…
- Language Design Deep Dive with Elixir Creator José Valim · 2 h 26 min · Season 1 Episode 107Elixir 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…
- From Scala to Roc with Monica McGuigan · 1 h 7 min · Season 1 Episode 106Monica 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…
- Testing in Production with Mike Bryzek · 1 h 17 min · Season 1 Episode 105Mike 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!…
- Building Video Editing Software with Andrew Lisowski · 1 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 104Richard 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…
- The EYG Language with Peter Saxton · 1 h 17 min · Season 1 Episode 103Richard 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…
- AI in Programming Education with Will Sentance · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 102Richard 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…
