'We Speak Your Language' is a podcast from Raincode Labs, created by compiler engineers, for compiler engineers, featuring real life stories from experts in the field, giving us their two cents on their own personal experiences.Each month you can enjoy a new episode featuring an external guest, from every corner of the world, each episode featuring a different discussion in the field of compiler technology.
Ralf Lämmel has been an IT professional and computer science academic since 1990, specializing in software development, software languages, and more recently, AI methods in this field. He is currently a full professor at the University of Koblenz in Germany, focusing on software languages and computer science.Throughout his career, he has held research and development positions at the University of Rostock, CWI Amsterdam, Microsoft USA, and Facebook London, where he worked on AI applications ...
13 Jun 2024
Bertrand Meyer
Help the world produce better software and produce software better.Specialties: Software engineering, object-oriented programming, program verification, formal methods, Eiffel, Design by Contract, concurrent programming, multicore, software testing, software consulting, arbitration, legal expertise on software topics, project management, project rescue
8 Feb 2024
Martin Odersky
Martin Odersky is a German computer scientist and professor of programming methods at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He specializes in code analysis and programming languages. He spearheaded the design of Scala and Generic Java.In 1989, he received his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich under the supervision of Niklaus Wirth, who is best known as the designer of several programming languages, including Pascal. He did postdoctoral work at IBM and Yale University.In 1997, he...
8 Nov 2022
Episode 3 - Roberto Ierusalimschy
Roberto Ierusalimschy is a legend: he is the designer and main implementer of Lua, the de facto standard for scripting languages used in video games such as Roblox, World of Warcraft and many others. More than his (incredible) stories, his (equally incredible) insights, what sets Roberto aside is his light-hearted attitude to sharing his work with the masses, and his unique sense of humor. A wonderful interview of an inspiring personality!
27 Sept 2022
Episode 2 - Walter Bright
Over his career, Walter Bright has accomplished many wonderful things, his most notable work being the D programming language. In this episode Walter discusses his life's work, including how he embarked upon the creation of the D language and also his work creating the Zortech C++ compiler.
31 Aug 2022
Episode 1 - Nora Sandler
At just 30 years old, Nora has achieved some things that some people would not achieve in their entire lifetime. After studying at the University of Chicago, Nora went on to study at the Recurse Centre in New York, where she expanded her knowledge of compilers. In this episode, Nora will talk about her book “Writing a C Compiler” which will be published next year.
14 Jun 2022
Episode 6 - Cliff Click
Cliff Click wrote his first compiler at just 15 years old. During his career Cliff has proceeded to write the Java HotSpot JIT compiler. This compiler was one of the very first of its kind, which gracefully brought Java into the mainstream in the manner it is used today, which Cliff will discuss in this episode.
17 May 2022
Episode 5 - Manuel Serrano
Manuel Serrano is a researcher at INRIA in Sophia Antipolis, where he focuses on language design and implementation of high-level programming languages. In this episode, among other topics, he will discuss his work on the development of his ahead of time Javascript compiler.
5 Apr 2022
Episode 4 - Leandro Melo
Leandro Melo, from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, first began his studies in control and automaton engineering before realising that his true passion lay in compiler technology. During his career he has worked intensively with the C++ language, including his work on the Nokia Qt IDE project. In this episode he will discuss his transition to compiler engineering and some of the challenges he has faced.
24 Feb 2022
Episode 3 - Gérard Berry
Gerard Berry is a pioneer of compiler technology for safety-critical systems. He began his studies in computer science all the way back in 1968. Gerard has watched software technology grow into what it is today - he has seen it all, and then some. In this episode he will discuss the history, infancy, and development of his very own language, ESTEREL.
25 Jan 2022
Episode 2 - Doug Lea
Next, we would like to introduce Doug Lea, whose life’s work has been devoted to developing the design of Java libraries for concurrency memory management. Doug’s malloc library is widely used by software developers across the world. Doug is currently a professor of computer science and the current head of the computer science department of SUNY Oswego in New York.
9 Dec 2021
Episode 1 - Julien Verlaguet
For our first episode we would like to introduce Julien Verlaguet. Having been employed at Facebook for almost a decade, Julien worked predominantly as the head open source developer on their type PHP Hack. Julien since continued at Facebook to develop the SKIP language and currently works self-employed as the head open source developer of SKIP.
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