About Learning New Languages

Regular Programming

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