Happy Path Programming

James is a Dynamic Programming Language Denier but realizes only a part of his code is actually statically typed. And programming languages so full of quirks that you have to hold the quick reference book in your teeth. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Culture - the hidden force that sometimes reveals itself through code reviews. What is it & how does it form / change? Also, Developer Marketing and how most companies do it wrong. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Change happens, but slowwwwly. How can we accelerate the adoption of new & better programming language features? Should we? Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Software architectures, organizational management, hiring practices, and many other normal part of life give us an illusion of control.  But is there another way? Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Bruce and James have struggled with Gradle for years and Bruce this week blogged about some of his gripes: The Problem with Gradle. This prompted a lengthy response from Cédric Champeau. James has mostly stuck to Java 8 and Bruce is exploring Java 11. Finally, James rants about SemVer for the 3.1.4'th time. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

James, as a Scala "True Believer," talks about his experiences with Kotlin and how they compare to Scala. Then he switches gears to rant about runtime reflection which leads to a deeper conversation about meta-programming and alternatives to runtime reflection. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Bruce shares exciting news about completing the Atomic Kotlin book. The rest is a mishmash of topics related to newsworthy announcements including Spring Boot Cloud Event support, Serverless + TestContainer + Kubernetes Cassandra support, and Scala ZIO CLI. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Most developers have been exposed to inheritance based polymorphism but there are other ways to deal with overlapping functionality. In this episode we talk about ad-hoc polymorphism, parametric polymorphism, and type classes. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Python usage surpasses Java to second place on the Tiobe Index (behind C). Is developer productivity the primary driver? We then switch gears to talk about the concept of "Making Illegal States Unrepresentable" where James continues his crusade against the Builder Pattern. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Our friend Joey Gibson joins us to talk about Smalltalk, the well known grandfather of Object Oriented Programming.  James is assigned some homework to get a Smalltalk web app running on Google Cloud Run, which he did (after recording). Check out the source: https://github.com/jamesward/hello-pharo Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF