Rijnard van Tonder, creator of Comby

The Sourcegraph Podcast

Episode | Podcast

Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2020 16:00:00 -0700

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/rvtond">Rijnard van Tonder</a> is the creator of <a href="https://comby.dev/">Comby</a>, a pattern-matching syntax and command-line tool that offers a more expressive and more user-friendly alternative to regular expressions for many common patterns in code.</p><p>Rijnard was previously a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, and we chat about the state of the art in static analysis and automated bug-fixing, new tools made in industry like Pyre and Sapienz, and what place machine learning has in the world of developer tools.<br /><br />Show notes: <a href="https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/rijnard-van-tonder/notes">https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/rijnard-van-tonder/notes</a><br />Rate this podcast: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sourcegraph-podcast/id1516219009">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sourcegraph-podcast/id1516219009</a><br />Discuss this episode on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/srcgraph/status/1290110717484392448">https://twitter.com/srcgraph/status/1290110717484392448</a></p>