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107: Code Security and Reliability with Isaac Evans

Imagine if you could perform static analysis, find bugs, and enforce code standards in more than seventeen languages with a single tool.


Imagine if you could scan your code with more than 1,000 community pre-written rules and if you could easily add your own rules to match your code perfectly. Imagine if you could then flag the issues and get results in pull requests, Slack, or anywhere else without as much as a click of a mouse. 

Well, it appears that you can do all of this and more. Today we talk with Isaac Evans, an MIT alumnus, a former computer scientist at the US Department of Defence, and a founder and CEO of r2c. His company, r2c, stands behind Semgrep, a lightweight, offline, open-source, static analysis tool that profoundly improves software security and reliability to safeguard human progress. 

When you finish listening to the episode, see how Sengrep can improve your code at https://semgrep.dev, or visit https://r2c.dev if you need enterprise solutions for large businesses. 

Mentioned in this episode:

Isaac Evans on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacevans/

Semgrep at https://semgrep.dev

r2c at https://r2c.dev

Brian Foote, Joseph Yoder, The Selfish Class at http://www.laputan.org/selfish/selfish.html

Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene at https://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Gene-Anniversary-Landmark-Science-dp-0198788606/dp/0198788606/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

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In this show, hosts M. Scott Ford and Ray Myers are out to change the way you think about legacy code.

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