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