About Learning New Languages
Everyone's favorite idempotent podcast returns to discuss learning new languages and concepts. Can mixing and matching new concepts and syntax help or hinder language adoption? A new concept but a familiar syntax might make a language easier for all the drifting Javascript developers to grab on to.
Lars considers picking up a lisp at some point.
It's harder to pick up new languages when you're mainly keen on building. Lars is very much in a building phase. He has problems, but they are his problems.
Lars is currently learning - among other things - by working with other people, putting himself out there, and arranging a conference.
Links
- Alan Perlis
 - A language that does not affect the way you're thinking is not worth knowing
 - Domain-specific languages
 - Rails
 - Phoenix
 - Elixir
 - Erlang
 - Prolog
 - Gleam
 - Elm
 - The CodeBEAM Gleam keynote by Hayleigh Thompson and Louis Pilfold is not out in video form yet
 - Ant (the build system)
 - Bash
 - XLST - Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
 - Xquery
 - SAX parser
 - SweetXml
 - Exercism course on Gleam
 - Lustre web framework
 - Sprocket web framework - Gleam-style implementation of Liveview
 - OTP
 - AtomVM
 - Cardputer
 - REPL - read-eval-print loop
 - NIF
 - GHC - the Haskell compiler
 - Lua
 - Dave Lucia and Robert Virding talking about Lua on the BEAM - also not out in video form yet
 - The Konami code
 - Uiua
 - ZFS
 - Evan - creator of Elm - in Kodsnack 604
 - Smalltalk
 - Pony