Happy Path Programming
Bruce Eckel & James Ward
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
Episodes (120)
#121 Effect Oriented Python with Sune Debel
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#120 Aver AI-Native Programming Language with Szymon Teżewski
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#119 FP Reaches the Masses with Paul Snively
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#118 Effects of 2025
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#117 Special Episode: Entering Computer Science as a New Graduate
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#116 Infrastructure as Effects with Sam Goodwin
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#115 More Python Type Checking! Pyrefly with Aaron Pollack & Steven Troxler
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#114 ty: Fast Python Type Checking with Carl Meyer
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#113 Graph & RAG with Jennifer Reif
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#112 AI Agents Get More 9's with Rod Johnson
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#111 Wasm & MCP with Steve Manuel
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#110 Unlocking Developer Productivity with Justin Reock
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#109 AI, LLMs, and MCP with Lize Raes
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#108 Winter Tech Forum and Current Projects
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#107 The Joy of Programming with Dave Thomas
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#106 Agile Organizations with Jutta Eckstein
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#105 Nathan Sobo's Pursuit of the Ultimate Code Editor
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#104 Effect Oriented Programming: The Book
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#103 AI Augmented Programming with Stephan Janssen
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#102 Gathering Nerds and Java Gatherers with Venkat Subramaniam
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#101 Effects and Local-First with Johannes Schickling
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#100 Thinking about Thinking with Diana Montalion
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#99 The Agile Illusion with Trond Hjorteland
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#98 Continuous Deployment with Valentina Servile
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#97 The Pkl Configuration Language with Philip Hölzenspies
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#96 Compassionate Coding with April Wensel
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#95 21st Century Databases with Gwen Shapira
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#94 Build Ops & Developer Productivity With Trisha Gee
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#93 Nerd Sniping via the 1B Row Challenge with Gunnar Morling
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#92 Virtual Threads Looming with Adam Warski
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#91 'Tis The Season For Reducing Gradle Friction
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#90 The Best Manager with Sushila Sahay
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#89 Algebraic Effects with Kyo (Flavio Brasil)
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#88 Developers Thriving In the Flow with Arty Starr
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#87 Diving Deeper into Wasm with Zalim Bashorov
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#86 The Journey to OCaml with Sabine
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#85 Scala, Rust, and Durable Computing with John De Goes
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#84 Inevitable Failure with Dormain Drewitz
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#83 Rust Developer Retreat & Structured Concurrency
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#82 The Future of Programming
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#81 TypeScript & Effects with Michael Arnaldi
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#80 Investing in Developer Tools with Renee Shah
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#79 Domain-Driven Design and Moduliths with Oliver Drotbohm
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#78 Immutability & IDLs for Declarative Services with Jakub Kozłowski
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#77 Quarkus and Microservices with Holly Cummins
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#76 WebAssembly (Wasm) "The Web Finds a Way" with Vivek Sekhar
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#75 Haskell "Not as Scary as You Think" with Kris Jenkins
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#74 Developer Joy = Developer Productivity with Justin Reock
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#73 Nix - Functional Programming for Software Packaging with Domen Kožar
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#72 Pants Makes Developers Happier & More Productive with Benjy Weinberger
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