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**Software Unscripted**

Software Unscripted, A weekly podcast of casual conversations about code hosted by Richard Feldman.

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Latest Episodes:

Gradual vs Static Typing with José Valim Sep 21, 2023

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The SemVer Rabbit Hole with Predrag Gruevski Sep 12, 2023

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Richard talks with Predrag Gruevski, author of the cargo-semver-checks tool for detecting accidental semantic versioning mistakes in Rust packages, as well as Trustfall, which is an incredibly flexible query engine. They talk about why semantic versioning is so especially tricky to get right in Rust, tradeoffs in different package managers' approaches to semver in general, and how his work on cargo-semver-checks motivated him to create a tool for querying data in just about any format.

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Type System Complexity with Chris Krycho Sep 07, 2023

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Making Parsing I/O Bound with Daniel Lemire Aug 17, 2023

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Richard talks to Daniel Lemire about his work on simdjson, arguably the fastest JSON parser in the world. They also talk about parsing performance in other contexts, benchmarking, NodeJS string representations, and textbook approaches to performance versus real-world experimentation.

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Niche Domain Knowledge with Ashley Williams Aug 08, 2023

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Richard talks with former Rust core team member Ashley Williams, aka ag_dubs,, about various different types of niche domain knowledge - from CSS tricks in web development to low-level systems programming, package managers, and even organization-specific domain knowledge.

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Building a Terminal in Zig and Swift with Mitchell Hashimoto Jul 19, 2023

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Richard talks with HashiCorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto about a side project of his: a high-performance terminal emulator that he wrote using Zig and Swift, and which has become his daily driver terminal.

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React Hooks Design Review Jul 11, 2023

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Thinking in Array Languages with Alex Shroyer Jul 05, 2023

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Richard talks to to Alex Shroyer about his unusually extensive experiences with Array Languages like APL and J - where they come from, how they have more to offer than just extreme conciseness, and what feature creep looks like in a language that's mostly symbols.Links to Alex's website and more info about array languages:alexshroyer.comhttps://nsl.com/https://vector.org.uk/https://github.com/interregna/arraylanguage-companieshttps://tryapl.org/https://bqnpad.mechanize.systems/https://www.arraycast.com/https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL_Farmhttps://discord.com/invite/yHna7nt7zx

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My Contribution to the Left-Pad Incident with Simon Lydell Jun 27, 2023

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Richard talks with Simon Lydell, a programmer whose open-source JavaScript work ended up contributing to what might be the most infamous package-related outage in programming history. In addition to talking about that story, they also talk about open source in general, breaking changes in general, and specific projects like CoffeeScript, Prettier, Elm, and Roc.

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Comparing Haskell to R with Will Kurt Jun 20, 2023

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Richard talks to Will Kurt, an AI Engineer at Hex as well as the author of both the countbayesie.com blog as well as the book Get Programming with Haskell, from Manning Publications. They talk about the book, about Haskell in general, and end up comparing Haskell to R, as well as type systems and artificial intelligence!

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