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Mike Samuel - Temper

Join us as we chat with Mike Samuel, an engineer who was at google for 17 years and built the original version of google calendar. He's now the founder and CEO of Temper, a programming language specifically design for translating logic into other programming languages.

Eric Seidel - Flutter, Shorebird

This week we have Eric Seidel, co-creator of Flutter and founder of Shorebird. Eric shares his journey from building WebKit at Apple and Chrome at Google to creating Flutter, a multi-platform UI framework that compiles to native code. We talk about the technical challenges of browser engines, why the web couldn't deliver high-quality mobile apps, and how Shorebird is solving Flutter's code push problem to enable instant app updates without app store approval.https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericseidel/https://shorebird.dev/https://bsky.app/profile/eseidel.comhttps://github.com/eseidel

Oliver Medhurst - Porffor - JavaScript Ahead of Time Compiler

This week we have Oliver Medhurst, the creator of Porffor. Porffor is a JavaScript ahead of time compiler that compiles JavaScript to WebAssembly. We talk about the technical details of how it works, and the future of JavaScript engines.https://x.com/canadahonkhttps://porffor.dev/https://github.com/CanadaHonk/porfforhttps://goose.icu/

Gabriel Nordeborn - Rescript

This week we talk to Gabriel Nordeborn, a core member of the Rescript team. Rescript is a langauge that compiles to JS but has some serious superpowers. Whether it is it's awesome pattern matching, or greate react integartoin there is a lot to love. Come learn about it with us.https://rescript-lang.org/https://github.com/zthhttps://x.com/___zth___

Nathan Flurry - Rivet - The Future of Serverless is Stateful

This week we talk to Nathan Flurry, co-founder of Rivet, a platform for building stateful serverless applications. Rivet started as a platform for building multiplayer games, but has since evolved to be a general purpose computing platform. They're actors are a first class primitive that makes it easy to build stateful serverless applications.Rivet GitHub: https://github.com/rivet-gg/rivetRivetKit: https://github.com/rivet-gg/rivetkitDocumentation: https://rivet.gg/docsNathan's Twitter/X: https://x.com/NathanFlurryNathan's GitHub: https://github.com/NathanFlurryY Combinator Profile: https://ycombinator.com/companies/rivet