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.

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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