Happy Path Programming

We chat with Paul Snively (https://x.com/JustDeezGuy) about how Functional Programming has gone mainstream.Resources- Winter Tech Forum - https://www.wintertechforum.com- Paul Snively's LambdaConf Talk on Verse - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBT0j14rn5c- Paul Snively's Blog Post on the Verse Calculus - https://paul-snively.github.io/posts/2022-12-15-verse-calculus.html- Eugenio Moggi, "Notions of Computation and Monads" (1991) - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Moggi91.pdf- "Implementing Lazy Functional Languages on Stock Hardware: The Spineless Tagless G-machine"** by Simon Peyton Jones - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/1992/04/spineless-tagless-gmachine.pdf- The Verse Calculus Paper - https://simon.peytonjones.org/verse-calculus/- "How to Solve It" by George Pólya - https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691164076/how-to-solve-it- Fidelity Framework - https://github.com/FidelityFramework- Happy Path Programming Episode #37 from Aug 14, 2021 "The Future of Everything with Paul Snively" - https://open.spotify.com/episode/62iyGUUwh5CBkxkDpJmUuoDiscuss this episode: https://discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF

Bruce & James recap the technology shifts of 2025 and look ahead to what may be ahead in 2026.Resources:Register for the Winter Tech Forum (March 2-6 2026 in Crested Butte, Colorado)The Eternal Return of Abstraction: Why Programming Was Never About CodeThinking in Typesjavadocs.devWhat's New in EmbabelDiscuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF

At Western State Colorado University in Gunnison on Sept 11, 2025, Bruce Eckel, Bill Venners and Dianne Marsh each give their own 10-minute perspectives on finding fulfillment in the field, especially considering the impact of AI and other recent changes in computing. The remainder of the session answers questions from the student audience.Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is "code" but without most of the benefits of being code. Sam Goodwin is reinventing IaC with Alchemy and an upcoming Alchemy Effect project which aims to manage infrastructure dependencies & provisioning in the same way we manage requirements in Effect Oriented Programming.Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF⁠⁠

Excitement around Python type checking continues to grow and the tools continue to evolve. We chat with Aaron Pollack and Steven Troxler about ⁠Pyrefly - a Rust-based Python type checker and IDE extension. We also touch on the adoption and sentiment around types in Python's ecosystem.Resources:Pyrefly DiscordPackage Type Coverage ReportPackages being tracked for moving types from typeshed to the source projectTyping Survey SlidesBlog post with survey analysisPython typing community forumMCP PyreflyDiscuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF⁠⁠