Things that Matter

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Argues that language success comes from concrete early choices and shows how those choices play out with examples: Ruby’s Matz is nice so we are nice incubation and Rails tooling that actually drove adoption, Elm’s big “learn” button and accessibility, Erlang/OTP’s let it crash concurrency model and Elixir’s pipes macros and defprotocol composition, plus Haskell type classes and Idris’s type-level code. Focuses on real tools and designs, which ones scaled, and which quirks either enabled or impeded growth.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:41The Incubator
3. 5:14Accessibility
4. 7:03Lua
5. 9:22Language Goals
6. 10:48Community
7. 12:18ObjectOriented Languages
8. 15:01Accessibility Matters
9. 23:23Stans Elm
10. 24:23Meta Programming
11. 27:53Pipe Operator
12. 29:13Macros
13. 30:53Type classes
14. 32:53Wrap up

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