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