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Casey Muratori on his "The Big OOPs" Talk Sep 19, 2026

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Casey 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, and plenty of other topics.

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- Casey's The Big OOPs Talk - https://youtu.be/wo84LFzx5nI?si=axXmxlBgJkzzE-uc

- Casey's Performance Aware Programming Course - https://www.computerenhance.com/i/99218768/performance-aware-programming-series

- Casey's Conway's Law Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUj1EZwpJY

- Casey's "The Thirty Million Line Problem" Talk - https://youtu.be/kZRE7HIO3vk?si=vZSmEshgMmVZc2Qk

- Bjarne Stroustrup's Bell Labs Interview - https://youtu.be/69edOm889V4?si=fnTlTTIAEwRnwkq3

- Objective-C Creator Brad Cox interview - https://youtu.be/1xrL2d5omuA?si=1ncZJEzRmyQbyndh

- Richard's "Why isn't FP the Norm?" Talk - https://youtu.be/QyJZzq0v7Z4?si=f9oXRpi7oNbjhVDs

- Richard's "Why Static Typing Came Back" Talk - https://youtu.be/Tml94je2edk?si=by78GlVpNDakO6ys

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Fast Functional Reactive Programming with Datastar Creator Delaney Gillilan Jul 27, 2026

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Richard talks with Datastar creator Delaney Gillilan about fast functional reactive programming, how Datastar outcompetes more mainstream JavaScript libraries on performance, and how he designed it - including how Richard's book Elm in Action turned out to be one of its sources of inspiration.

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- Datastar: https://data-star.dev

- Elm in Action: https://www.manning.com/books/elm-in-action?utm_source=elm_in_action&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=book_rfeldman_elm_4_14_20&utm_content=number2

- Delaney and ClojureScript Lead David Nolen on Datastar: https://youtu.be/2ECucq-mTGg?si=v_4sB7vIEEDGpjm6

- Datastar experience report: https://youtu.be/8W6Lr1hRgXo?si=TAJU_wRirCYiZywm

- Benchmarking the same chat app in Next.js and Datastar: https://zweiundeins.gmbh/en/methodology/spa-vs-hypermedia-real-world-performance-under-load

- Real-Time Collaboration with Datastar: https://vimeo.com/1124980036

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TigerBeetle's Spectacular Jepsen Report - with Joran Greef Jun 19, 2026

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Richard 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 in the past, TigerBeetle passed with flying colors, and Richard and Joran discuss the story of how they got there, how TigerBeetle makes money when their database is open source, and many other topics around software quality in general.

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TigerBeetle's Jepsen Report - https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-06-06-fuzzer-blind-spots-meet-jepsen/
MongoDB's 2020 Jepsen Report - https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6
Zig - https://ziglang.org/
TigerStyle software development methodology - https://tigerstyle.dev/
Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) - https://antithesis.com/docs/resources/deterministic_simulation_testing/
Antithesis - https://antithesis.com/

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AI & Software Quality with Shawn Wang (aka swyx) May 09, 2026

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Richard 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 future of AI in software, and how all of this affects software quality.

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Shawn's Latent Space Podcast - https://www.latent.space/podcast
AI Engineer Conference Series - https://www.ai.engineer/
RAG - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retriev...
Shawn's "WTF Happened in 2025?" site - https://wtfhappened2025.com/
Radiologist shortage - https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/hea... Intro – LLM psychosis & the Ilya Sutskever story

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HTMX Creator Carson Gross on Comp Sci's Evolution Apr 01, 2026

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HTMX 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, jQuery, and how the field of Computer Science education is now changing from the perspective of someone who's been teaching it for years.

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- HTMX - https://htmx.org/

- Version 2 → Version 4 announcement https://htmx.org/essays/the-fetchening/

- Shoutout to other htmx contributors: https://github.com/bencroker https://github.com/benpate https://github.com/alexpetros https://github.com/Telroshan https://github.com/MichaelWest22

- Carson's hardware course - https://github.com/msu/csci-366-spring2025/blob/main/SYLLABUS.md

- Big Sky Dev Conf - https://bigskydevconf.com/

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How Mitchell Hashimoto Builds Ghostty Feb 17, 2026

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Ghostty creator and Hashicorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto talks with Richard about the development of that high-performance terminal emulator: how he's been building Ghostty, how he does native GUI development while sharing code across platforms, how LLMs have affected both the project and his love of coding, his thoughts on AI ethics, and more.

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- Ghostty nonprofit announcement - https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit

- Zig programming language - https://ziglang.org

- Roc programming language - https://www.roc-lang.org

- Zed's Windows 95-inspired launch site - https://www.windowswen.com

- Amp Code - https://ampcode.com

- Wispr Flow - https://wisprflow.ai

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Gleam's Design and Compiler - with creator Louis Pilfold Jan 10, 2026

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Gleam programming language creator Louis Pilfold talks with Richard about Gleam's design and various challenges that came up when implementing its compiler.

- Gleam Language - https://gleam.run

- Erlang Language - https://www.erlang.org

- Elixir Language - https://elixir-lang.org

- Roc Language - https://www.roc-lang.org

- Hadoukenify https://github.com/reibitto/hadoukenify - presumably based on https://twitter.com/dr4goonis/status/476617165463105536

- "Let-generalization: Let's not?" by Ayaz Hafiz - https://github.com/roc-lang/rfcs/blob/e4f05480ed96136395bb466bf5c241e42100bf66/0010-let-generalization-lets-not.md

- "Let Should Not Be Generalised" by Simon Peyton Jones, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, and Tom Schrijvers - https://simon.peytonjones.org/let-generalised/

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Metaprogramming Your IDE in Lean 4 with Harry Goldstein Dec 21, 2025

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Harry 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 of your IDE in realtime. They also discuss other topics like property-based testing, theorem proving, and Smalltalk.

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The Best New Programming Language is a Proof Assistant by Harry Goldstein - https://youtu.be/c5LOYzZx-0c?si=UnTfkczIhdoF7Qkx

The Lean Programming Language - https://lean-lang.org

Simon Peyton-Jones: Escape from the ivory tower: the Haskell journey - https://youtu.be/re96UgMk6GQ?si=8xqpAS8VTQaqgbzg

"Shen: A Sufficiently Advanced Lisp" by Aditya Siram - https://youtu.be/lMcRBdSdO_U?si=VOwJNeLAvnIRUm_n

Hypothesis Property-Based Testing library for Python - https://hypothesis.works/

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Jonathan Blow on Programming Language Design Nov 15, 2025

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Jonathan 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 building for game developers.

Keynote & Tech Demo - https://youtu.be/IdpD5QIVOKQ

ECS and Rust's Borrow Checker - https://youtu.be/4t1K66dMhWk

"The 30 Million Line Problem" - https://youtu.be/kZRE7HIO3vk

"A New Programming Language for Games" - https://youtu.be/TH9VCN6UkyQ?si=Z5cqazo4QU7AibzB

Roc Programming Language - https://roc-lang.org

Casey Muratori's "Performance-Aware Programming" Course - https://www.computerenhance.com/p/welcome-to-the-performance-aware

File Pilot File Explorer - https://filepilot.tech/

Ghostty Terminal - https://ghostty.org/

Language Server Protocol - https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/

WebAssembly Integer Sizes - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Reference/Numeric/Const

Cliff Click's Sea of Nodes Compiler IR - https://github.com/SeaOfNodes/

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