#121
Effect Oriented Python
In this episode we chat with Sune Debel about his Stateless library which brings Effect Oriented Programming to Python. Prior attempt at a Scala ZIO port to Python: pfun
🗓 Aug 03, 2026⏱ 1h 07m
#121
#93
Nerd Sniping via the 1B Row Challenge
When Gunnar Morling announced the 1 Billion Row Challenge a few weeks ago, he had no idea it'd go crazy viral. Resources Challenge details: www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge Rust 1BRC Blog: aminediro.com/posts/billion_row/ Cliff Click's implementation walkthrough: ww
🗓 Jan 19, 2024⏱ 59m 06s
#92
Virtual Threads Looming
We chat with Adam Warski about Loom, Virtual Threads, and his Loom-based Scala library, Ox, for structured concurrency & Go-Like Channels. Referenced articles & code Ox EasyRacer Client Go statement considered harmful Go-like selects using jox channels in Java Limits of Loom's pe
🗓 Jan 12, 2024⏱ 1h 07m
#89
Algebraic Effects
We learn about Algebraic Effects with the Scala library Kyo ( getkyo.io) from the creator, Flavio Brasil.
🗓 Dec 08, 2023⏱ 1h 07m
#85
Scala, Rust, and Durable Computing
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.
🗓 Sep 15, 2023⏱ 1h 19m
#81
TypeScript & Effects
Michael created Effect, a functional effect system inspired by Scala ZIO, for TypeScript. We chat about Functional Programming, the TypeScript language, and Effects.
🗓 Jun 30, 2023⏱ 1h 06m
#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
#66
The Journey to Rust
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.
🗓 Aug 13, 2022⏱ 1h 20m
#65
Rod's Gambit - Spring, Scala, TypeScript, and Chess
Rod Johnson (creator of Spring Framework) reflects on his programming and chess journeys. References ScalaDays 2013 Talk Stockfish Chess Engine
🗓 Aug 08, 2022⏱ 1h 04m
#64
Building Build Tools is Hard
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.
🗓 Jul 22, 2022⏱ 1h 03m
#58
Scala 3: Significant indentation and other things we love (With Martin Odersky)
Martin Odersky, creator of Scala, joins us to chat about Scala, Effects, Exceptions, Experiments, and other Exciting stuff.
🗓 Mar 20, 2022⏱ 1h 08m
#45
ZIO 2 - Better, Faster, Friendlier
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.
🗓 Oct 29, 2021⏱ 1h 01m
#44
Tired of Getting N+1'd by Your ORM? A Chat
We chat with Alexander Ioffe, maintainer of the Quill library, about database access approaches and Scala metaprogramming.
🗓 Oct 29, 2021⏱ 59m 47s
#41
"Never gonna give you up" (FP that is)
Bruce and James hear about Wiem's journey in Functional Programming, her contributions to Scala ZIO, and how she never gave up despite the challenges she faced.
🗓 Sep 26, 2021⏱ 1h 00m
#34
Fear, Uncertainty, and Monads
FEE, FOO, FUD, and FUM (Fear, Uncertainty, and Monads) - Scala Giant, Dick Wall, joins Bruce and James to talk about life, work, and Functional Programming.
🗓 Jul 09, 2021⏱ 1h 01m
#30
Programming in (not with) Scala 3 but
Bruce and James chat with their long time friend Bill Venners about Scala 3 and the updates to his "Programming in Scala" book.
🗓 May 28, 2021⏱ 1h 04m
#27
Side-Effects of a Scala 3 Release
With the eminent release of Scala 3, we chat about the language changes, effect systems (ZIO), and reliability.
🗓 Apr 23, 2021⏱ 1h 03m
#16
Kotlin for Scala Devs. Reflection is the Devil. Meta-Programming.
James, as a Scala "True Believer," talks about his experiences with Kotlin and how they compare to Scala. Then he switches gears to rant about runtime reflection which leads to a deeper conversation about meta-programming and alternatives to runtime reflection.
🗓 Dec 19, 2020⏱ 1h 07m
#15
Atomic Kotlin Done! Cloud Events. TestContainers / Serverless Cassandra. Scala ZIO CLI.
Bruce shares exciting news about completing the Atomic Kotlin book. The rest is a mishmash of topics related to newsworthy announcements including Spring Boot Cloud Event support, Serverless + TestContainer + Kubernetes Cassandra support, and Scala ZIO CLI.
🗓 Dec 14, 2020⏱ 1h 06m