Hosted by Bruce Eckel & James Ward · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 119 episodes
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No-frills discussions between Bruce Eckel and James Ward about programming, what it is, and what it should be.Buy the Happy Path Programming t-shirt: https://happy-path.printify.me/products
Bruce Eckel & James Ward hosts Happy Path Programming, a technology show with 119 episodes published.
We dive into the new Aver programming language with its creator, Szymon Teżewski: The AI-native language where code explains itself.Aver is a language where every function carries its intent, side effects are visible in
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:/
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: W
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 imp
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 &
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
Carl Meyer works on the ty Python type checker, built in Rust by Astral the creators of Ruff and uv. We chat about type systems, the evolution of static typing in Python, and the focus on performance. Resources: Richard
We chat with Jennifer Reif about integrating LLMs with data using RAG, vectorized data, and Graph databases. Discuss this episode: discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
Rod Johnson, creator of the Spring Framework, has created a JVM-based AI Agent framework called Embabel. We dive in and learn how enterprises can build more reliable Agents using deterministic planning and domain-driven
We chat with Steve Manuel (of dylibso.com and mcp.run) about LLM "plugins" with Wasm & MCP (Model Context Protocol). Discuss this episode: discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
Justin Reock has spent a lot of his career thinking about how to help developers be more productive. In this episode we learn about the methodologies that can help developers spend more time in "flow state" - happily cod
Lize Raes teaches us about AI models, LLMs, Tools, Agents, and MCP. Article from Anthropic on Agent architectures: Building effective agents Discuss this episode: discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
Join us at the 2025 Winter Tech Forum! www.wintertechforum.com Projects Mentioned: uv for Python TypeScript Effect Pkl CloudFormation Extras Pkl GitHub Actions Other Episodes Mentioned: #81 TypeScript & Effects with Mich
We chat with Dave Thomas, co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer, about the joy of programming and the tensions between our and others needs. Discuss this episode: discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
Jutta Eckstein is expanding the concepts of Agile to be a company-wide model, instead of a niche process for software developers. We chat with her about the book "Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space &
Nathan Sobo is co-founder of Zed, a super-fast, collaborative, AI-powered, code editor. We chat about his journey to build the ultimate code editor: lessons learned from building Atom, Electron and its challenges, CRDTs,
After 4 years in development, our book is out! Along with our friend and lead-author, Bill Frasure, we we discuss the book, its motivation and the process we used to create it. Now available in digital and print forms at
Stephan Janssen is always on the bleeding edge of both helping developers grow and with how he uses technology to accomplish amazing things. He led the creation of Devoxx but is a coder at heart. Stephan shares his jou
We chat with Venkat about his upcoming dev2next conference and the new Stream Gatherers API (preview in JDK 22). Discuss this episode: discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
Johannes Schickling (@schickling | schickling.dev) gets us up-to-speed on Effect, the ZIO-inspired Effect System for TypeScript, and the Local-First movement. Resources: Local-First Podcast: www.localfirst.fm Ink & Swit
Sam Goodwin
keynote speaker, bestselling author, founder of SGI Ventures · SGI Ventures
1 appearance on this show
Rod Johnson
creator of the Spring Framework · Embabel
1 appearance on this show
Anthropic
Anthropic
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Dave Thomas
co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer, pioneer of the Agile Manifesto · Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation
1 appearance on this show
Venkat Subramaniam
Java Champion, author, speaker, founder of Agile Developer, co-founder of dev2next conference, teacher at the University of Houston
1 appearance on this show
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