Three Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Languages

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Peter Alvaro talks about the reasons one should engage in language design and why many of us would (or should) do something so perverse as to design a language that no one will ever use. He shares some of the extreme and sometimes obnoxious opinions that guided his design process.
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[@jfltech]

Now this is a Comp-Sci professor i would like to have a beer with...

[@HoraceMash]

Wow! This is a tour de force of deep thinking, persistence in the pursuit of understanding, and brilliant science communication. Thanks Peter for opening the door to new insights. Respect!

[@stas4112]

amazing talk, exactly what I needed to hear

[@divine_follower7775]

oh wait this isn’t like fictional languages this is computer languages

[@karen-7057]

Loved this talk. Really inspiring

[@tytrdev]

Gonna watch this a few hundred times to see if I get it.

[@magne6049]

27:27 Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of computing?

[@alan2here]

Really bad showing from people calling themselves coders to give you trouble for wanting to design a language for distributed systems, how is that even controversial? Stack exchange is awesome, but also has that gross problem too.

[@user-vs7cw2rg7r]

I think that suggests that the quackademic that laughed him out of the room had also tried to write his own language and failed.

[@420_gunna]

dudes rock

[@laur-unstagenameactuallyca1587]

well... this is going to save me tons of time I hope.

[@anonymousperson420]

So, where can we learn his language?

[@GordeevVladimirV]

It is called Dedalus. There is a paper describing it's semantics, but I couldn't find the implementation. There are several similar languages though.

[@stackoverflow2155]

7:58 "nO laNgUagE haTing!" She must be a rust dev. We will hate whichever language we please. Seethe and cope.

[@cookiemonstera9218]

bruv, you went to middleburry slow your roll :)

[@cookiemonstera9218]

oh, and love ya, cuz

[@KevinSeverud]

I ended up here from: twitter.com/NikolasGoebel/status/1174018579366367235?s=20