Lightning talk from Cole Voss

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Claim: learning other languages makes JavaScript better. Examples: CoffeeScript introduces ES2015 idioms and enforces clean whitespace style; stepping into C on a backend reveals static typing and drives adoption of JS doc and Flow for safer APIs; reading hll and closure teaches functional programming and immutability, which then changes how modules and state are modeled. Concrete tool names, the specific language features learned, and which practices get adopted determine whether this is useful.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:18Why Learn Other Languages
3. 1:04What Have I Learned by Learning Other Languages
4. 3:22Closure

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