Richard Feldman - Zed, Roc Lang - Elm but for everywhere

This week we're joined by Richard Feldman, the author of Rocklang, a futuristic functional programming language. Richard is a software engineer at Zed, a company that making a new code editor that's built on the Rust programming language and integrates AI. We talk about all the crazy feature that Rocklang has, and how it might change the way you write code. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rtfeldman/ https://github.com/rtfeldman https://x.com/rtfeldman?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.roc-lang.org/ Episode sponsored By MUX (https://mux.com) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:31 Richard's Journey to Zed 00:09:07 Ad 00:10:54 Rocklang: A Functional Language 00:14:17 Design Philosophy of Rocklang 00:21:51 Rocklang's Platform Concept 00:32:47 Abilities in Rocklang 00:40:14 Balancing Type Checking and Compilation Speed 00:42:30 Error Handling in Rock 00:48:34 Async and Task Handling in Rock 00:54:08 The Future of Programming Languages 00:57:51 Community and Contributions 01:06:52 The Future of Programming 01:13:41 Conclusion