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Join us at the 2025 Winter Tech Forum! www.wintertechforum.com Projects Mentioned uv for Python TypeScript Effect Pkl CloudFormation Extras Pkl GitHub Actions Other Episodes Mentioned #81 TypeScript & Effects with Michael Arnaldi #97 The Pkl Configuration Language with Philip Höl
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We chat with Philip Hölzenspies, one of the maintainers of the new Pkl configuration language (pkl-lang.org). Resources James' Pkl for GitHub Actions: github.com/jamesward/pklgha
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Announcing Graboo, a collection of experiments to reduce friction with Gradle. Repo Buy your Happy Path Programming Shirt
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Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) is a set of tools & practices that help engineers be more productive. We chat with Justin Reock, field CTO at Gradle, about why more organizations need DPE and what that really means. Learn more at
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After being told many times that Nix is all we dream for when it comes to software packaging, we finally chat with Domen Kožar and learn all about Nix.
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The Pants build tool is polyglot (Python, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, etc) and focused on helping developers be more productive and happier. We chat with a co-creator of Pants, Benjy Weinberger, about the history, motivations, and future of the build tool.
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Bruce and James often rant about build tools but it turns out they are hard to get right. We dive into the reasons with Josh Suereth who maintained sbt (a Scala build tool) for a number of years.
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Gabriella Gonzalez joins to teach us about the Dhall configuration language they created and Nix. References The Dhall configuration language Henk: a typed intermediate language Pants Build Tool The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model Haskell for all: How to use NixOS for
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Once again we lament build tools. Then we get blocked talking about Reactive, async, non-blocking, actors, and concurrency.
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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 S