Podcasts

Colin Eberhardt on What WebAssembly Is, and Plans for Version 2.0

In this podcast Wes talks to Colin Eberhardt, the technology director at Scott Logic, about what WebAssembly (WASM) is, a bit of the history of JavaScript, and plans for WebAssembly 2.0 including the threading model and GC.

Sander Mak on the Java Module System

Sander Mak discusses the module system with Java. We’ll hit on some of the practical advice he’s seen preparing and then implementing migrations to 9 (with and without the classpath). We’ll discuss some of the benefits and pitfalls to look for as you plan and execute your migrations.

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.