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
