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Language design with Leo White
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Length:
68 minutes
Released:
Oct 21, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Equal parts science and art, programming language design is very much an unsolved problem. This week, Ron speaks with Leo White, from Jane Street's Tools & Compilers team, about cutting-edge language features, future work happening on OCaml, and Jane Street's relationship with the broader open-source community. The conversation covers everything from the paradox of language popularity, to advanced type system features like modular implicits and dependent types. Listen in, no programming languages PhD required!You can find the transcript for this episode along with links to things we discussed on our website.
Released:
Oct 21, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (20)
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