Podcasts

Andrea Magnorsky on Paradigm Shifts and the Adoption of Programming Languages

In this podcast we talk about paradigm shifts and the adoption of programming languages with Andrea Magnorsky, tech lead at Goodlord on their engineering squads; she has a background in Scala, C#, and organised conferences.

Charles Humble and Wes Reisz Take a Look Back at 2017 and Speculate on What 2018 Might Have in Store

In this podcast Charles Humble and Wes Reisz talk about Java 9 and beyond, Kotlin, .NET Core 2, the surge in interest in organisational culture, quantum computing, and more.

Martin Hadley on R and the Modern R Ecosystem

In this podcast Werner Schuster talks to Martin Hadley, data scientist at University of Oxford. They discuss the state of the R language, the rich R ecosystem that covers development (RStudio), notebooks for publication (R Notebooks, RPubs), writing web apps (Shiny), and the pros/cons of the different data frames implementations.

Pony Language Designer Sylvan Clebsch on Pony’s Design, Garbage Collection, and Formal Verification

In this podcast Charles Humble talks to Sylvan Clebsch, who is the designer of the actor-model language Pony programming and now works at Microsoft Research in Cambridge in the Programming Language Principles group. They talk about the inspirations behind Pony, how the garbage collector avoids stop-the-world pauses, the queuing systems, work scheduler, and formal verification.