250 RR Programming Language Evolution and Design with Gilad Bracha

About this Episode

02:00 - Gilad Bracha Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Dart
  • JavaScript Jabber Episode #008: V8 and Dart with Lars Bak and Kasper Lund
  • Dartium

09:17 - Programming Language Evolution and Design

• Elm
  • Ruby Rogues Episode #212: Elm with Richard Feldman and Evan Czaplicki

10:47 - Capabilities and Language Features

• Newspeak
• “Functional”

12:46 - Actors

16:41 - Live Programming

• Bret Victor on Live-Coding

19:07 - Smalltalk

• REPL (Read–eval–print loop)
• Monkey patching

29:01 - Designing a Language

• “Programming is an experience.”

38:59 - Complexity

42:41 - Newspeak (Con’t)

45:58 - Smalltalk or Newspeak?

• Squeak
• Pharo
• Dolphin Smalltalk
• VisualWorks

48:13 - How are programming languages like shrubberies

Picks

Stroopwafels (Chuck)
Staked: The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne (Chuck)
Calamity (The Reckoners) by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck)
Katrina Owen: Here be Dragons (Jessica)
The Slow Party Parrot Emoji (Jessica)
Umberto Eco (Gilad)