Three Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Languages

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Peter Alvaro talks about the reasons one should engage in language design and why many of us would (or should) do something so perverse as to design a language that no one will ever use. He shares some of the extreme and sometimes obnoxious opinions that guided his design process.

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[jfltech]

Now this is a Comp-Sci professor i would like to have a beer with...

[HoraceMash]

Wow! This is a tour de force of deep thinking, persistence in the pursuit of understanding, and brilliant science communication. Thanks Peter for opening the door to new insights. Respect!

[stas]

amazing talk, exactly what I needed to hear

[divine_follower]

oh wait this isn’t like fictional languages this is computer languages

[tytrdev]

Gonna watch this a few hundred times to see if I get it.

[magne]

27:27 Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of computing?

[alanhere]

Really bad showing from people calling themselves coders to give you trouble for wanting to design a language for distributed systems, how is that even controversial? Stack exchange is awesome, but also has that gross problem too.

[laur-unstagenameactuallyca]

well... this is going to save me tons of time I hope.

[stackoverflow]

7:58 "nO laNgUagE haTing!" She must be a rust dev. We will hate whichever language we please. Seethe and cope.

[cookiemonstera]

bruv, you went to middleburry slow your roll :)