Episode 172: 🇺🇸 Sean Parent on Flash, Chains & Memory Safety

In this episode, Conor and Bryce interview Sean Parent about Adobe Flash, his new library and idea called Chains and his latest thoughts on memory safety in programming languages and C++.

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• Conor Hoekstra
• Bryce Adelstein Lelbach

About the Guest:

Sean Parent is a senior principal scientist and software architect managing Adobe’s Software Technology Lab. Sean first joined Adobe in 1993 working on Photoshop and is one of the creators of Photoshop Mobile, Lightroom Mobile, and Lightroom Web. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2024-03-07
Date Released: 2024-03-08

• Apple TrueType
• Adobe Flash
• Conor’s Metric 6.4 DEMO (Stock Screening Program)
• Adobe LightRoom
• Adobe Photoshop Express
• asm.js
• Pinnacle Studio
• NVIDIA Tesla
• NYC++: March 2024 at Adobe ft., Sean Parent
• Sean Parent’s Chains Talk
• Sean Parent’s chains Library
• C++ Senders and Receivers
• NVIDIA/stdexec - Senders - A Standard Model for Asynchronous Execution in C++
• Circle C++ Compiler
• CppFront

Intro Song Info

Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic
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