Analyzing static analysis

Matan Peled from Technion University joins Natalie & Mat to discuss his PhD research on meta programming and static analyzers. How does Go’s measure up? What would Matan’s look like if he built one? All that and more!

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Featuring:

• Matan Peled – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub
• Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Static program analysis
• Rice’s theorem
• Halting problem
• What is meta-programming
• Codex paper (GitHub Copilot)
• TabNine
• Taint checking
• staticcheck.io
• Points-to analysis
• what rr does
• Debugging a flaky Go test with Mozilla rr
• Reflections on Trusting Trust
• Book recommendation: Gödel, Escher, Bach
• Small-Step Live Programming by Example
• Shout At: Go West conf (CFP)

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