For those who just don’t Git it (Ep. 573)
Pierre-Etienne Meunier, creator and lead developer of open-source version control system Pijul, joins the home team to talk about version control, functional programming, and why OCaml is a source of French national pride.
Pierre-Etienne Meunier, creator and lead developer of open-source version control system Pijul, joins the home team to talk about version control, functional programming, and why OCaml is a source of French national pride.
Episode notes:
Pierre-Etienne’s interest in computing began with the functional programming language
OCaml
, created by
Xavier Leroy
. Before OCaml, Pierre-Etienne explains, “everyone thought functional programming was doomed to be extremely slow.”
Pijul
is a free, open-source distributed version control system. You can get started
here
. Want a GitHub-like interface? Find it
here
.
Read the article that led to this conversation:
Beyond Git: The other version control systems developers use
.
Pierre-Etienne is currently working on a new project with the creators of the open-source game engine
Godot
. We hosted Godot cofounder and lead developer Juan Linietsky on the podcast a few months back; listen
here
.
Nix
is a package management and system configuration tool. Learn
how it works
or explore the NixOS
community
.
Connect with Pierre-Etienne on
LinkedIn
.
Congrats to
Lifeboat badge
winner
Rachit
for answering
Passing objects between fragments
.
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