Happy Path Programming

Arty Starr is a PhD student and entrepreneur focused on helping developers thrive. We chat about her research on developer momentum and ways that developers can find joy through more time in the flow state.

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Our chat with John De Goes starts with his Scala & Rust journeys, then goes into Golem Cloud, a serverless durable computing platform underpinned by Wasm, and ends with a discussion about whether business applications really need parallelism.

We chat with Dormain Drewitz about failure and reliability. Ironically our recording software crashed near the end of the episode but we recovered and wrapped things up.

At the Rust Developer Retreat we explored Structured Concurrency with Tokio. With the attendees we chat about our projects and things learned, liked, and disliked about Rust. Then dive into Structured Concurrency generally and specific implementations.

Bruce and James chat about the future of programming.

Renee Shah is a partner at Amplify Partners, an early stage venture capital firm. We discuss some broad industry trends: Edge, Wasm, Distributed Systems, Functional Programming, and much more!

First a short rant about mutability followed by learning about Smithy, an Interface Description Language (IDL), with Jakub Kozłowski.

Holly Cummins, a Senior Principal Software Engineer on Quarkus at Redhat, joins us to chat about Microservices and Quarkus.

WebAssembly (Wasm) finds a way for the web to move forward to near-native performance while avoiding the limitations of JavaScript.  In this episode we chat with Vivek Sekhar, a product manager on the Chrome team, about all the Wasm things and how they relate to a better foundation for cross-platform, high performance apps, in the browser, on the cloud, and maybe just everywhere.

We learn the motivations behind Haskell and why it is the pinnacle of Functional Programming from Kris Jenkins, a Developer Advocate at Confluent.

After being told many times that Nix is all we dream for when it comes to software packaging, we finally chat with Domen Kožar and learn all about Nix.

The Pants build tool is polyglot (Python, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, etc) and focused on helping developers be more productive and happier.  We chat with a co-creator of Pants, Benjy Weinberger, about the history, motivations, and future of the build tool.

Simon Vergauwen shares about Arrow, a collection of Functional Programming libraries for Kotlin.  Sincere apologies for Bruce & James' bad audio.  We forgot to change our input device but figured we'd still publish this as it is tolerable and Simon has so much good stuff to say.  (His audio is great)

Grace Jansen joins us to chat about how bees and biology can help us better understand software development tools & paradigms like Reactive, Kubernetes, and maybe parts of the 15 Factor App methodology (a modernized version of the Twelve-Factor App methodology).

Bruce continues his archaeological dig into the foundations of mainstream programming.

No doubt that Rust is hot right now. We chat with Christopher Hunt about his journey through Java, Scala, and many other languages and learn why he is now using Rust.

Rod Johnson (creator of Spring Framework) reflects on his programming and chess journeys.

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Bruce and James often rant about build tools but it turns out they are hard to get right. We dive into the reasons with Josh Suereth who maintained sbt (a Scala build tool) for a number of years.

Our co-author on Effect Oriented Programming, Bill Frasure, joins us to chat about his programming journey and his involvement in last week's ZIO 2.0 release.

Tonya Moore has been helping build developer communities for years. We discuss how to deal with jerks and the importance of building on a foundation of compassion.

Kotlin Language designer Roman Elizarov, joins us to talk about finding the right balances when designing Kotlin.

Martin Odersky, creator of Scala, joins us to chat about Scala, Effects, Exceptions, Experiments, and other Exciting stuff.

We explore with Daniel Terhorst-North how social and technical feedback loops can help us build the right thing faster.

Magnus Madsen, language designer for the Flix programming language, joins us to talk about the driving principles and innovative features of the language.

Open Source is an essential foundation for pretty much everything. How do we fund it appropriately? What do we do about Log4Shell-types of issues?  Donald Fischer of Tidelift joins us to discuss these economic and human issues.

A stroll through 20 years of Spring with Josh Long. Also: Bruce, James, and Josh announce their new Ska band.

Testcontainers are one of James' favorite modern technologies and in this episode we chat with Sergei Egorov, one of the project creators.  We learn about what Testcontainers are and the new Testcontainers Cloud service created by Sergei's new company, AtomicJar.

Jorge Vasquez has been working on a way to have more precise data modeling while not sacrificing performance or ergonomics. Smart Types in ZIO Prelude are the answer, and they are amazing!

Heather Miller, Computer Science professor at Carnegie Mellon, joins us to talk about her research into composability in distributed systems, the challenges with serialization, and a better approach to Chaos Engineering.

The creator of the new Roc programming language, Richard Feldman, joins us to talk about rocking developers worlds' with better tools & paradigms.

We dive deep on GraalVM and learn from Alina Yurenko about all the problems it solves.

Adam Fraser is a core contributor to Scala ZIO. He joins us to chat about improvements in ZIO 2 and how we can grow adoption.

We chat with Alexander Ioffe, maintainer of the Quill library, about database access approaches and Scala metaprogramming.

We've mentioned the futuristic Unision programming language many times but now we dive deep with one of the co-founders.

The legendary Viktor Klang chats with Bruce & James about information loss, reactive, emergence, and many other mind expanding topics.

Bruce and James chat with Barry Hawkins about software methodologies, their triumphs and abuses.