About this podcast
This is the Haskell Interlude, where the five co-hosts (Wouter Swierstra, Andres Löh, Alejandro Serrano, Niki Vazou, and Joachim Breitner) chat with Haskell guests!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 89 episodes
- 88: Tom Schrijvers · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 88In this Haskell Interlude, we sat down with Tom Schrijvers, the head of the Functional Programming team at KU Leuven. He has been a prolific contributor to the foundations of…
- 87: Edward Kmett · 1 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 87For the new Haskell Interlude, we sat down with Edward Kmett. Ed is the Founder and Chief Scientist of Positron AI. More importantly, he's a legend in the Haskell community for…
- 86: Michael Hanus · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 86In this episode, we sat down with Michael Hanus. Michael is a professor at the University of Kiel and is one of the founders of functional logic programming, the combination of…
- 85: Brent Yorgey · 60 min · Season 1 Episode 85In today’s episode, we’re joined by Brent Yorgey, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Hendrix College and the creator, among other things, of the Diagrams vector graphics…
- 84: Sylvain Henry · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 84In this episode of the Haskell Interlude, we are joined by Sylvain Henry, one of the all-time top contributors to GHC. He tells us about his work on GHC, the bignum library…
- 83: POPL 2026 - Part 2 · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 83This is the first part of a miniseries on this year’s Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, a.k.a. POPL 2026, hosted by Jessica Foster. In this episode we talk about…
- 82: Fraser Tweedale · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 82We talked to Fraser Tweedale. Fraser works at Red Hat, and is on the Haskell Security Response Team. We talked about security in the context of Haskell, both technical and…
- 81: Torsten Grust · 1 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 81Mike and Andres sat down with Torsten Grust, who is a professor of DB systems at the University of Tübingen. Even though Torsten loves SQL, he's used functional programming and…
- 80: POPL 2026 - Part 1 · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 80This is the first part of a miniseries on this year’s Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, a.k.a. POPL 2026, hosted by Jessica Foster. In this episode, we talk…
- 79: Peter Thiemann · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 79Peter is a professor at the University of Freiburg, and he was doing functional programming right when Haskell got started. So naturally we asked him about the early days of…
- 78: Jamie Willis · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 78In this episode, we focus on a particular part of Haskell: teaching it. To help us, we are joined by Jamie Willis who is a Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London. The episode…
- 77: Franz Thoma · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 77Franz Thoma is Principal Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting, and an organizer of MuniHac. Franz sees functional programming and Haskell as a tool for thinking about…
- 76: Jeffrey Young · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 76Welcome to the Haskell Interlude. Today, Matti and Mike talk to Jeffrey Young. Jeff has had a long history of working with Haskell and on ghc itself. We talk about what makes…
- 75: Kathrin Stark · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 75We are joined by Kathrin Stark, a professor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Kathrin works on program verification with proof assistants, so her focus is not exactly on…
- 74: Lennart Augustsson · 1 h 20 min · Season 1 Episode 74This episode is a deep dive into the evolution of Haskell and functional programming with one of its pioneers, Lennart Augustson. It reflects on decades of work in language…
- 73: Jean-Philippe Bernardy · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 73In this Interlude, we’re joined by Jean-Philipe Bernardy, a Senior Lecturer at University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. We discuss letting types be your…
- 72: Manuel Chakravarty · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 72In this episode, we talk to Manuel Chakravarty - specifically, his work on the ghc backend such as data-parallel Haskell and the FFI and how that work segued into type system…
- 71: Stefan Wehr · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 71Stefan Wehr is a professor at the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences. Before becoming a professor, Stefan worked in industry on a large Haskell codebase - specifically one…
- 70: Phil Wadler · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 70We sat down with Phil Wadler, one of the most influential folks in the Haskell community, functional programming, and programming languages, responsible for type classes, monads…
- 69: Jurriaan Hage · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 69Today’s guest is Jurriaan Hage. Jurriaan is a professor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh who’s worked with and on Haskell for many years. He’s known for the Helium Haskell…
