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SE Radio 558: Michael Fazio on Modern Android Development

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SE Radio 558: Michael Fazio on Modern Android Development

Michael Fazio, Engineering Manager (Android) at Albert and author of Kotlin and Android Development featuring Jetpack from the Pragmatic Programmers, speaks with SE Radio’s Gavin Henry about how the Android ecosystem looks today, and why it’s an excellent time to write native Android apps. They explore a wide range of topics about modern Android development, […]

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Episode 490: Tim McNamara on Rust 2021 Edition

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Episode 490: Tim McNamara on Rust 2021 Edition

Tim McNamara, author of Rust in Action, an introduction Rust for programmers who have never used a systems programming language, discusses the top three benefits of Rust and why they make it a performant, reliable and productive programming language. Host Gavin Henry spoke with McNamara about its rich type system, ownership models, memory safety, thread […]

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Episode 486: Bob Nystrom on Dart

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Episode 486: Bob Nystrom on Dart

Bob Nystrom, author of Crafting Interpreters and a software engineer at Google working on the Dart programming language, discusses the key features of Dart that make it an excellent choice for fast apps on any platform. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Nystrom about Dart’s history, hardware out of your control, async-await, concurrency, mobile platforms, threads, […]

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Episode 414: Jens Gustedt on Modern C

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Episode 414: Jens Gustedt on Modern C

Jens Gustedt, author of the Modern C book, former co-editor of the C standard document ISO/IEC 9899:2018 and a senior scientist at the French National Institute for Computer Science and Control (INRIA) discuss what is classed as Modern C, what is legacy C and what has changed in the past 50 years in the C […]

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