THE VIDEO SHELF · programming language economics
"The Economics of Programming Languages" by Evan Czaplicki (Strange Loop 2023)
Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm, examines how programming languages are funded. He looks at where compiler engineers' salaries come from, why Go has about 5 engineers while Dart has about 30, and how this limits language design.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended repeatedly as a funny, informative talk on the economics behind programming languages and open source.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Strange Loop Conference
- Topic
- programming language economics
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 10
- HN mentions in dataset
- 19
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2026
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__rito__ on Hacker News · 2023-12
In Ask HN: Best tech talks you have heard in 2023?> This talk explain why, it's not technical: [VIDEO] Really good talk, I remember watching it when it came out. Elm is what got me looking into FP several years ago, a nice language it was.
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