Scale By The Bay 2018: Bryan Cantrill, Rust and Other Interesting Things

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited again and again as the framework for discussing languages in terms of values, and how organizational values shape software quality.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

FunctionalTV

Topic

programming language values

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

10

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• As a huge fan of Julia i got to fully agree. Although i would probably not "no longer recommend Julia" but "give huge caveats when mentioning Julia". Organisations (that includes those who maintain programming language) have values Bryan Cantrill has an excellent talk on this …

• Bryan Cantrill explains a very interesting thought about that here: [VIDEO] I'm sure there are many other factors that play into this (just look at Gary Bernhardt's "WAT" talk), but essentially, I agree that this has to be a big part of the problem. If …

• No, I'm not. Or at least, not as I see it. How would you describe javascript's values, compared to other languages? This is a great chart / explanation of this kind of thinking from Bryan Cantrill: [VIDEO]