For those who just don’t Git it (Ep 573)

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Pierre-Étienne 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-Étienne’s interest in computing began with the functional programming language OCaml (opens new window), created by Xavier Leroy (opens new window). Before OCaml, Pierre-Étienne explains, “everyone thought functional programming was doomed to be extremely slow.”

Pijul (opens new window) is a free, open-source distributed version control system. You can get started here (opens new window). Want a GitHub-like interface? Find it here (opens new window).

Read the article that led to this conversation: Beyond Git: The other version control systems developers use (opens new window).

Pierre-Étienne is currently working on a new project with the creators of the open-source game engine Godot (opens new window). We hosted Godot cofounder and lead developer Juan Linietsky on the podcast a few months back; listen here (opens new window).

Nix (opens new window) is a package management and system configuration tool. Learn how it works (opens new window) or explore the NixOS community (opens new window).

Connect with Pierre-Étienne on LinkedIn (opens new window).

Congrats to Lifeboat badge (opens new window) winner Rachit (opens new window) for answering Passing objects between fragments (opens new window).