This is the Func Prog Podcast, a podcast about functional programming.
Func Prog Podcast
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This is the Func Prog Podcast, a podcast about functional programming.
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Recent Episodes
March 24, 2026
#17 Don Syme
<p>I sit down with Don Syme, the creator of F#! We chat about language design, the "sweet spot" of type system expressivity, and how A.I. will affect the future of software development.</p><p><br></p><p>Topics covered:</p><ul><li>The origin story of F#</li></ul><ul><li>Why types, data modeling, and functions beats type-level wizardry</li><li>The Object-Oriented tidal wave of the 90s</li><li>Designing programming languages for the real world</li><li>The case against type classes, and why simpler systems often win in real engineering.</li><li>How task-oriented AI workflows are reshaping developer productivity.</li><li>Why writing good constraints and guardrails may become as important as writing good code.</li><li>Will programming languages still matter?</li><li>Continuous AI for teams</li><li>Natural language as a programming model<br></li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li><a href="https://dsyme.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><br></a></li><li><a href="https://dsyme.net/2025/09/02/what-kind-of-programming-is-natural-language-programming/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">What Kind of Programming is Natural Language Programming?</a></li><li><a href="https://dsyme.net/2025/08/27/on-natural-language-programming/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">On Natural Language Programming</a></li><li><a href="https://fsharp.org/history/hopl-final/hopl-fsharp.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">The Early History of F#</a></li><li><a href="https://chrisbora.substack.com/p/boras-law-intelligence-scales-with" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Bora's Law</a></li><li><a href="https://dsyme.net/2021/09/09/my-position-on-type-classes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">On Type Classes</a></li><li><a href="https://dsyme.net/2022/09/01/the-max-abstraction-impulse-and-everything-else-wrong-with-type-level-genericity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">The Max-Abstraction Impulse, and Everything Else Wrong with Type-Level Genericity</a></li></ul>
March 2, 2026
#16 Adam Tornhill
<p>In this episode I sit down with Adam Tornhill, founder of CodeScene, to talk about technical debt, Clojure, and why it's so hard to write good software.</p><p><strong>Topics covered</strong></p><ul><li>From electrical engineering to software psychology</li><li>Why writing good code is so hard</li><li>The origin story of CodeScene</li><li>What technical debt really is, and why traditional metrics like cyclomatic complexity fall short</li><li>Code health: measuring what makes code hard to understand</li><li>Visualizing code to align engineering and management</li><li>The story behind Your Code as a Crime Scene</li><li>Making the business case for refactoring</li><li>Lean manufacturing vs. software: the visibility problem</li><li>Code quality and business impact (10× slower, 15× more defects)</li><li>AI-friendly code: when LLMs break (and why)</li><li>How technical debt amplifies AI failure rates</li><li>AI as an engineering force multiplier (or multiplier of chaos)</li><li>The future developer: AI team lead?</li><li>Why Adam chose Clojure for CodeScene</li><li>Immutability, REPLs, and iterative problem solving</li><li>Test-driven development as cognitive support</li><li>Performance myths in dynamic languages</li><li>Parallelism made simple with immutability</li><li>The real drawbacks of Clojure</li><li>Static vs dynamic typing in large codebases</li><li>Hiring in niche languages: small pool, strong engineers</li><li>Naming, domain modeling, and long-term code health</li></ul><p><strong>Links</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://codescene.com/hubfs/whitepapers/AI-Ready-Code-How-Code-Health-Determines-AI-Performance.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">AI-Ready Code: How Code Health Determines AI Performance</a></li><li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04374" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality</a></li><li><a href="https://pragprog.com/titles/atcrime/your-code-as-a-crime-scene/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Your Code as a Crime Scene</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FApEq8wum4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Treat Your Code as a Crime Scene</a></li><li><a href="https://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Beating the Averages</a></li><li><a href="https://codescene.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">CodeScene.com</a></li><li><a href="https://www.adamtornhill.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">AdamTornhill.com</a></li></ul>
January 30, 2026
#15 Giacomo Cavalieri
<p>In this episode, I talk to Giacomo Cavalieri, a core Gleam team member. We cover what makes Gleam special and why developers love it, and how it brings modern type safety to the battle-tested Erlang ecosystem. How did Gleam become Stack Overflow's 2nd most admired language in such a short time? Listen to the episode and find out!</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Topics Covered</strong></p><ul><li>Gleam's design philosophy of simplicity and the "one way of doing things" approach</li><li>Statically typed functional programming with the Hindley-Milner type system</li><li>How Gleam targets the BEAM VM and JavaScript for full-stack development</li><li>The history of BEAM and OTP</li><li>Who uses Gleam in production</li><li>The Lustre framework for building web applications in Gleam</li><li>Integrating Gleam with OTP</li><li>How Gleam made it to 2nd Most Admired Language in the Stack Overflow 2025 Survey</li><li>How to speak at conferences</li><li>Why Gleam deliberately excludes type classes and traits</li><li>The future of Gleam</li></ul><p><strong>Links</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://gleam.run/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Gleam.run</a></li><li><a href="https://tour.gleam.run/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Gleam Language Tour</a></li><li><a href="https://gleam.run/roadmap" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Gleam Roadmap</a></li><li><a href="https://gleam.run/case-studies/strand/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Gleam Case Studies</a></li><li><a href="https://giacomocavalieri.me/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Giacomo Cavalieri's Website</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMrKEaAi4RI" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Giacomo's Func Prog Conference Talk</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/giacomocavalieri" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Giacomo's GitHub</a></li><li><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/giacomocavalieri.me" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Giacomo's BlueSky</a></li><li><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/giacomo_cavalieri" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Giacomo's Twitch</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/lustre-labs/lustre" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Lustre Web Framework</a></li><li><a href="https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_otp/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Gleam OTP Library</a></li><li><a href="https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025</a></li><li><a href="https://funcprogconf.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Func Prog Conference</a></li><li><a href="https://codebeameurope.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Code BEAM Europe</a></li><li><a href="https://gotocph.com/2024" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">GOTO Copenhagen</a></li><li><a href="https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2025" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Lambda Days Conference</a></li><li><a href="https://gleam.run/case-studies/strand/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Strand Case Study</a></li><li><a href="https://www.uncover.co/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Uncover</a></li><li><a href="https://peps.python.org/pep-0020/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Zen of Python (PEP 20)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Paul Graham's Blub Paradox</a></li></ul>
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