From Whitespace to Idris: Interview With Edwin Brady

As part of our interview series, we interviewed Edwin Brady, the creator of Idris, a dependently-typed programming language.

In the interview, we discussed two of the programming languages Edwin has participated in the creation of: Whitespace and Idris. Edwin also shared some tips and tricks about language creation and talked about the future plans of the Idris language.

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0:00 Intro
0:46 Brief elevator pitch for Idris
2:15 Propagation of PLT innovations, success typing
5:19 Edwin's first steps in compiler development
9:50 Whitespace
13:32 Dragon book & compiler development
18:20 Edwin's opinion about LLVM
23:36 Making languages with multiple backends
26:27 Idris compared to Haskell, Agda, and Coq
35:22 Idris & the two kinds of research
38:10 Linearity in Idris 2
41:42 Differences between Idris 1 and Idris 2
46:43 Adoption of Idris
49:02 What people are doing with Idris
52:46 Choosing "blessed" libraries
55:15 Future plans
59:17 Metaprogramming
1:01:58 Q&A