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Elm Town 80 – Inspired: Roc with Richard Feldman
Elm pioneer Richard Feldman returns to explain why he made Roc, a direct descendant of Elm. He notes a distinct trade-off of choosing not to have persistent data structures. Later, he shares how his experience teaching E...
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Elm Town 80 – Inspired: Roc with Richard Feldman is an episode from Elm Town by Jared M. Smith. Elm pioneer Richard Feldman returns to explain why he made Roc, a direct descendant of Elm. He notes a distinct trade-off of choosing not to hav...
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Published Sep 17, 2024, 01:03:13 long, audio available.
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Elm pioneer Richard Feldman returns to explain why he made Roc, a direct descendant of Elm. He notes a distinct trade-off of choosing not to have persistent data structures. Later, he shares how his experience teaching Elm informed Roc's design. We even learn about the power of platforms. Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com . Music by Jesse Moore. Recording date: 2024.05.23 Guest Richard Feldman Show notes [00:00:20] Non-introduction Roc Software Unscripted "Making Impossible States Impossible" "Scaling Elm Apps" Elm in Action Elm courses on Frontend Masters [00:01:47] Motivations to make Roc [00:04:53] Back to the beginnings in 2018 [00:15:25] How Roc compares to Elm Aaron VonderHaar's elm-format Elm Style Guide "Bret Victor style reactive debugging" by Laszlo Pandy at Elm Workshop 2013 (YouTube) "Functional Semantics in Imperative Clothing" [00:25:18] Minimizing the erosion of simplicity (governance models) "BDFN" on roc-lang.org Episode "Programming and Industrial Design with Greg Wilson" of Software Unscripted [00:31:36] How teaching Elm informed Roc's design [00:40:34] Design process Episode "The Roc Programming Language with Richard Feldman" of Software Unscripted [00:45:04] Working at Zed Industries Zed [00:50:28] Platforms [00:58:03] Picks Richard's picks Performance-Aware Programming Series by Casey Muratori Software You Can Love (SYCL) Milan 2024 playlist (YouTube) "Hybrid-Level Programming" by Richard Feldman at SYCL Milan 2024 (YouTube) Reliqa Jared's picks Umphrey's McGee Bret Victor
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