Elm Town 84 – Wonder: Elm all the way down with Justin Lubin

JUNE 3RD, 2025
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Justin Lubin sketches his journey from undergrad research at UChicago with Ravi Chugh on output-directed and bidirectional programming environments (Sketch-n-Sketch) to graduate work at UC Berkeley with Sarah E. Chasins, focusing on programming language theory, researching how statically-typed functional programmers write code, and beyond, to helping domain experts.

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Justin Lubin sketches his journey from undergrad research at UChicago with Ravi Chugh on output-directed and bidirectional programming environments (Sketch-n-Sketch) to graduate work at UC Berkeley with Sarah E. Chasins, focusing on programming language theory, researching how statically-typed functional programmers write code, and beyond, to helping domain experts.

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Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2024.12.09

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Show notes

[00:00:44] Introducing Justin

[00:07:07] Elm all the way down

[00:08:36] What is Sketch-n-Sketch?

[00:11:03] From Parker Ziegler: Getting started in a large Elm codebase

[00:13:01] The  Sketch-n-Sketch cinematic universe

[00:22:21] Research on how  statically-typed functional programmers write code

[00:35:11]  From Parker Ziegler: Ergonomics vs. hindrances

[00:40:25] Fork of the Elm compiler

[00:45:04] Cobbler

[00:47:36] Justin's current work

[00:51:45] Picks

Justin's pick

Jared's pick

© 2024 Jared M. Smith