{"podcast":{"title":"Software Unscripted","slug":"software-unscripted-5320480","podcast_index_feed_id":5320480,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/664fde3eda02bb0012bad909","website_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/software-unscripted","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/664fde3eda02bb0012bad909/show-cover.jpg","author":"Richard Feldman","episode_count":119,"summary":"Software Unscripted, A weekly podcast of casual conversations about code hosted by Richard Feldman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T20:20:49.192637+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/software-unscripted-5320480"},"episode":{"title":"From Scala to Roc with Monica McGuigan","slug":"from-scala-to-roc-with-monica-mcguigan","published_at":"2025-01-27T18:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/software-unscripted-5320480/from-scala-to-roc-with-monica-mcguigan","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/software-unscripted-5320480","url":"https://shows.acast.com/software-unscripted/episodes/from-scala-to-roc-with-monica-mcguigan","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/664fde3eda02bb0012bad909/e/6797ac0fae8b037c91b5f5d0/media.mp3","summary":"Monica McGuigan, a Scala programmer at JP Morgan, talks with Richard about her experiences learning Roc with a Scala background. They get into topics like how language design affects beginners and experts, what parts of functional programming are easier and harder to learn than others, and how language designers inform their design decisions. Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoftwareUnscripted Monica's chapter on JSON decoders: https://github.com/roc-lang/book-of-examples/pull/68 Grapheme clusters: https://unicode.org/glossary/#extended_grapheme_cluster Roc's string operations: https://www.roc-lang.org/builtins/Str Talk: The Functional Purity Inference Plan: https://youtu.be/42TUAKhzlRI?si=TwxYoqMgh0UXQLfn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Monica McGuigan, a Scala programmer at JP Morgan, talks with Richard about her experiences learning Roc with a Scala background. They get into topics like…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4062,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/software-unscripted-5320480/episodes/from-scala-to-roc-with-monica-mcguigan/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/software-unscripted-5320480/from-scala-to-roc-with-monica-mcguigan.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}