Richard Whaling

Richard Whaling, author of Modern Systems Programming with Scala Native, shares his unique insights on software development, focusing on low-level system programming. He discusses how to build faster software using glibc and modern techniques like manual memory management with raw pointers. The conversation highlights the importance of optimizing performance for data processing, the challenges of integrating Scala with C, and navigating software dependencies with a self-sufficient approach. Whaling also addresses modern systems programming challenges and the potential of emerging languages.