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#121 Effect Oriented Python with Sune Debel Aug 03, 2026

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In this episode we chat with Sune Debel about his Stateless library which brings Effect Oriented Programming to Python.https://github.com/suned/statelessPrior attempt at at Scala ZIO port to Python:https://github.com/suned/pfun

#120 Aver AI-Native Programming Language with Szymon Teżewski Jun 02, 2026

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We dive into the new Aver programming language with its creator, Szymon Teżewski: The AI-native language where code explains itself.Aver is a language where every function carries its intent, side effects are visible in the type system, and tests are executable specs next to the code. The optimization target is the reviewer, not the generator.Resources:- Aver: https://averlang.dev/- Agent Languages: https://agentlanguages.dev/

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#119 FP Reaches the Masses with Paul Snively Jan 24, 2026

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We chat with Paul Snively (https://x.com/JustDeezGuy) about how Functional Programming has gone mainstream.Resources- Winter Tech Forum - https://www.wintertechforum.com- Paul Snively's LambdaConf Talk on Verse - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBT0j14rn5c- Paul Snively's Blog Post on the Verse Calculus - https://paul-snively.github.io/posts/2022-12-15-verse-calculus.html- Eugenio Moggi, "Notions of Computation and Monads" (1991) - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Moggi91.pdf- "Implementing Lazy Functional Languages on Stock Hardware: The Spineless Tagless G-machine"** by Simon Peyton Jones - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/1992/04/spineless-tagless-gmachine.pdf- The Verse Calculus Paper - https://simon.peytonjones.org/verse-calculus/- "How to Solve It" by George Pólya - https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691164076/how-to-solve-it- Fidelity Framework - https://github.com/FidelityFramework- Happy Path Programming Episode #37 from Aug 14, 2021 "The Future of Everything with Paul Snively" - https://open.spotify.com/episode/62iyGUUwh5CBkxkDpJmUuoDiscuss this episode: https://discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF

#118 Effects of 2025 Jan 02, 2026

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Bruce & James recap the technology shifts of 2025 and look ahead to what may be ahead in 2026.

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Register for the Winter Tech Forum (March 2-6 2026 in Crested Butte, Colorado)
The Eternal Return of Abstraction: Why Programming Was Never About Code
Thinking in Types
javadocs.dev
What's New in Embabel

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#117 Special Episode: Entering Computer Science as a New Graduate Nov 18, 2025

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At Western State Colorado University in Gunnison on Sept 11, 2025, Bruce Eckel, Bill Venners and Dianne Marsh each give their own 10-minute perspectives on finding fulfillment in the field, especially considering the impact of AI and other recent changes in computing. The remainder of the session answers questions from the student audience.

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#116 Infrastructure as Effects with Sam Goodwin Sep 19, 2025

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Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is "code" but without most of the benefits of being code. Sam Goodwin is reinventing IaC with Alchemy and an upcoming Alchemy Effect project which aims to manage infrastructure dependencies & provisioning in the same way we manage requirements in Effect Oriented Programming.

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#115 More Python Type Checking! Pyrefly with Aaron Pollack & Steven Troxler Aug 11, 2025

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Excitement around Python type checking continues to grow and the tools continue to evolve. We chat with Aaron Pollack and Steven Troxler about ⁠Pyrefly - a Rust-based Python type checker and IDE extension. We also touch on the adoption and sentiment around types in Python's ecosystem.Resources:

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#114 ty: Fast Python Type Checking with Carl Meyer Jul 25, 2025

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Carl Meyer works on the ty Python type checker, built in Rust by Astral the creators of Ruff and uv. We chat about type systems, the evolution of static typing in Python, and the focus on performance.

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Richard Feldman: Roc compiler moving from Rust to Zig

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#113 Graph & RAG with Jennifer Reif Jul 21, 2025

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We chat with Jennifer Reif about integrating LLMs with data using RAG, vectorized data, and Graph databases.

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#112 AI Agents Get More 9's with Rod Johnson Jul 02, 2025

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Rod Johnson, creator of the Spring Framework, has created a JVM-based AI Agent framework called Embabel. We dive in and learn how enterprises can build more reliable Agents using deterministic planning and domain-driven orchestration.

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