#121
Effect Oriented Python
In this episode we chat with Sune Debel about his Stateless library which brings Effect Oriented Programming to Python. attempt at at Scala ZIO port to Python
🗓 Aug 03, 2026⏱ 1h 07m
#121
#115
More Python Type Checking! Pyrefly
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 ecosys
🗓 Aug 11, 2025⏱ 1h 02m
#114
ty: Fast Python Type Checking
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. Resources: Richard Feldman: Roc compiler moving from Rust to Zig
🗓 Jul 25, 2025⏱ 1h 05m
#108
Winter Tech Forum and Current Projects
Join us at the 2025 Winter Tech Forum! www.wintertechforum.com Projects Mentioned uv for Python TypeScript Effect Pkl CloudFormation Extras Pkl GitHub Actions Other Episodes Mentioned #81 TypeScript & Effects with Michael Arnaldi #97 The Pkl Configuration Language with Philip Höl
🗓 Jan 30, 2025⏱ 43m 58s
#86
The Journey to OCaml
Sabine went from acedemia and a PhD in formal methods, to Python, Elm, Haskell, and now OCaml. We chat about this journey and some of the reasons why OCaml is an awesome modern language.
🗓 Sep 29, 2023⏱ 1h 10m
#72
Pants Makes Developers Happier & More Productive
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.
🗓 Dec 16, 2022⏱ 1h 08m
#67
Swallowed by a Python
Finally Bruce gets a whole episode about Python with our friend Luciano Ramalho, author of Fluent Python. In the words of Luciano "Thanks James and Bruce for the most enjoyable podcast panel I ever had!"
🗓 Aug 31, 2022⏱ 1h 23m
#57
Technology Trade Offs: Python & Kotlin (With Matt Anger)
We explore with Matt Anger a blog he wrote about migrating from Python to Kotlin and the trade offs engineering teams make when deciding which technologies to use.
🗓 Mar 15, 2022⏱ 1h 00m
#12
The Rise of Python & (Unrelated) Making Illegal States Unrepresentable
Python usage surpasses Java to second place on the Tiobe Index (behind C). Is developer productivity the primary driver? We then switch gears to talk about the concept of "Making Illegal States Unrepresentable" where James continues his crusade against the Builder Pattern.
🗓 Nov 06, 2020⏱ 35m 47s