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Software Unscripted

by Richard Feldman
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  • Casey Muratori on his "The Big OOPs" Talk

    September 19, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

    Casey Muratori talks with Richard about Casey's 2025 talk "The Big OOPs" about the history of Object-Oriented Programming, as well as performance, architecture, software quality, and plenty of other topics. This episode is sponsored by…

  • Fast Functional Reactive Programming with Datastar Creator Delaney Gillilan

    July 27, 2026 · 1 hr 33 min

    Richard talks with Datastar creator Delaney Gillilan about fast functional reactive programming, how Datastar outcompetes more mainstream JavaScript libraries on performance, and how he designed it - including how Richard's book Elm in…

  • TigerBeetle's Spectacular Jepsen Report - with Joran Greef

    June 19, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

    Richard talks with TigerBeetle founder Joran Greef about how their team's database achieved a wildly successful Jepsen Report. Where other databases have been famously skewered in the past, TigerBeetle passed with flying colors, and…

  • AI & Software Quality with Shawn Wang (aka swyx)

    May 9, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

    Richard talks with AI expert Shawn "swyx" Wang about all sorts of AI topics, including how it fits into IDEs, AI agent implementations, the economics of AI subscriptions, the future of AI in software, and how all of this affects software…

  • HTMX Creator Carson Gross on Comp Sci's Evolution

    April 1, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min

    HTMX creator and Montana State University instructor Carson Gross talks to Richard about why HTMX moved from version 2 straight to version 4, API boundaries in library design, jQuery, and how the field of Computer Science education is now…

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  • How Mitchell Hashimoto Builds Ghostty

    February 17, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    Ghostty creator and Hashicorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto talks with Richard about the development of that high-performance terminal emulator: how he's been building Ghostty, how he does native GUI development while sharing code across…

  • Gleam's Design and Compiler - with creator Louis Pilfold

    January 10, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

    Gleam programming language creator Louis Pilfold talks with Richard about Gleam's design and various challenges that came up when implementing its compiler. - Gleam Language - https://gleam.run - Erlang Language - https://www.erlang.org…

  • Metaprogramming Your IDE in Lean 4 with Harry Goldstein

    December 21, 2025 · 41 min

    Harry Goldstein talks with Richard Feldman about the Lean 4 programming language's compile-time metaprogramming capabilities, including how they can be used to control elements of your IDE in realtime. They also discuss other topics like…

  • Jonathan Blow on Programming Language Design

    November 15, 2025 · 1 hr 42 min

    Jonathan Blow, creator of popular games Braid and The Witness, talks with Richard about programming language design - including the design of the programming language he's been building for game developers. Keynote & Tech Demo…

  • Zig Creator Andrew Kelley

    October 9, 2025 · 1 hr 49 min

    Richard talks with Zig Creator Andrew Kelley. - Support Zig - https://ziglang.org/zsf/ - Zig's "Writergate" - https://ziglang.org/download/0.15.1/release-notes.html#Writergate - "What Color is Your Function?" by Robert Nystrom…

  • Securing Evolving Software with Noah Hall

    September 20, 2025 · 60 min

    xz vulnerability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor Spectre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability) Meltdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerability) Heartbleed…

  • Andreas Kling on Ladybird Browser, SerenityOS, and Powerlifting

    September 1, 2025 · 1 hr 20 min

    Ladybird Browser - https://ladybird.org SerenityOS - https://serenityos.org Story of the man who used powerlifting to recover after falling off a roof https://startingstrength.com/articles/brian_jones_story.pdf StrongLifts 5x5…

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Software Unscripted, A weekly podcast of casual conversations about code hosted by Richard Feldman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.