Programming Language Design Videos Hacker News Recommends

talk#7

How Python was Shaped by leaky Internals, Armin Ronacher, Flask framework

Видео с мероприятий {speach!

“This excellent talk describes how the semantics of the "add" operation are much more complex than generally described.”

15 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

talk#77

Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman

Metosin

“This talk by Richard Feldman is an excellent discussion about why Functional Programming is not the norm”

12 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#80

Maybe Not - Rich Hickey

ClojureTV

“Rich Hickey's "Maybe Not" should be watched by anyone who thinks nulls/nils/undefineds are okay.”

14 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

demo#98

Conway's Game Of Life in APL

Dyalog

“Try watching this video; it will only take you 8 minutes”

11 HN recommenders · 2010–2024

lecture#106

Lecture 1A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986

MIT OpenCourseWare

“blew my mind and made me switch from being a UX designer dabbling in Rails to a full blown programmer.”

11 HN recommenders · 2012–2024

lecture#113

Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years

YUI Library

“I urge you to watch this. It really is worth it!”

10 HN recommenders · 2013–2022

talk#118

Growing a Language, by Guy Steele

Bill Pugh

“This is probably the best talk ever on the general topic”

11 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

talk#126

Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey

ClojureTV

“Whole video is gold, is my fav programming talk of all time.”

10 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

talk#127

Brian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering Parts

ClojureTV

“Brian Goetz's talk nails it on the head why the languages in my day-to-day are sub-optimal”

10 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

talk#146

JavaScript: The Good Parts

Google TechTalks

“This video changed my mind”

11 HN recommenders · 2009–2020

talk#184

Ideas about a new programming language for games.

Jonathan Blow

“I also found watching his process for inventing the language extremely instructive, just as a programmer.”

7 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

talk#212

"Propositions as Types" by Philip Wadler

Strange Loop Conference

“best ~40 minutes I've ever spent.”

9 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

commentary#217

Object-Oriented Programming is Bad

Brian Will

“I highly recommend this video by Brian Will who does a much better job explaining this problem than I could.”

13 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

talk#252

Invited Talk - Guy Steele

ClojureTV

“Excellent talk by Guy Steele explaining the history of maths/comp notations”

7 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

demo#271

7 minutes of Pharo Smalltalk for Rubyists

Avdi Grimm

“As a Ruby developer this video about Pharo smalltalk made me a smalltalk believer”

5 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

talk#281

"The Economics of Programming Languages" by Evan Czaplicki (Strange Loop 2023)

Strange Loop Conference

“Very highly recommend this funny, informative talk to understand aspects of creating a programming language other than the theoretical ones.”

10 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

talk#284

Julia: to Lisp or not to Lisp?

European Lisp Symposium

“the recent brilliant talk about design of Julia”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

talk#310

"Stop Writing Dead Programs" by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop 2022)

Strange Loop Conference

“One of my favorite talks is”

9 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

talk#321

Zig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity –  Andrew Kelley

Recurse Center

“here's a great talk on zig from the recurse center”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#325

"Unison: a new distributed programming language" by Paul Chiusano

Strange Loop Conference

“this talk might be a better introduction than just skimming at the landing page.”

7 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#353

Domain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin

NDC Conferences

“If anyone is looking for a really eye-opening video take a look at that this.”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#398

The Road to Zig 1.0 - Andrew Kelley

ChariotSolutions

“Andrew Kelley's intro[0] is probably the best talk I've ever seen”

5 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#461

"Production Prolog" by Michael Hendricks

Strange Loop Conference

“gives an excellent high-level survey of the uses, advantages, and drawbacks of Prolog”

6 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

talk#490

Co-dfns Live Stream: Compiler Design and Architecture

Aaron Hsu (arcfide)

“Nothing has ever convinced me about the potential for array languages in practice quite like watching Aaron Hsu”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#498

OOPSLA Conference: Growing a Language

Computer History Museum

“In case anyone hasn't seen this most excellent talk on this topic, I highly recommend”

6 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#505

dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated

dotconferences

“It's an active choice of the language to not allow many syntactic sugars that make the code have a much higher learning curve.”

7 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

interview#534

Hewitt, Meijer and Szyperski: The Actor Model (everything you wanted to know...)

jasonofthel33t

“It's truly a masterclass.”

5 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

talk#564

2016 - On The Shoulders Of Giants - Damian Conway

The Perl and Raku Conference - Greenville, SC 2026

“the whole thing is like watching a great movie”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

lecture#574

In Search of Tomorrow

Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)

“very good talk about the background of eve”

9 HN recommenders · 2015–2018

talk#596

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch | Stefan Karpinski | JuliaCon 2019

The Julia Programming Language

“a talk by a core developer at JuliaCon 2019 titled 'The unreasonable effectiveness of multiple dispatch'”

9 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#599

Evan Czaplicki - Let's be mainstream! User focused design in Elm - Curry On

Curry On!

“He makes a strong case for Elm not as a language-to-rule-them-all, but as a tool for the average programmer”

7 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

talk#628

Taking Vector Transposes Seriously | Jiahao Chen | JuliaCon 2017

The Julia Programming Language

“but seriously take the time to watch this, it's fantastic”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

talk#631

Can C++ be 10x Simpler & Safer? - Herb Sutter - CppCon 2022

CppCon

“One of those few talks that left me genuinely enthused about the topic.”

6 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

talk#647

"I See What You Mean" by Peter Alvaro

Strange Loop Conference

“I highly recommend watching Peter Alvaro’s Strangeloop talk about creating Dedalus”

6 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

talk#658

RailsConf 09: Robert Martin, "What Killed Smalltalk Could K

O'Reilly

“I find this talk [0] very informative and useful while interacting with other languages and communities.”

5 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

talk#672

Factor: an extensible interactive language

Google TechTalks

“It absolutely blew my mind.”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

talk#683

"Shen: A Sufficiently Advanced Lisp" by Aditya Siram

Strange Loop Conference

“@deech's talks, though older now, are fantastic and relevant[1,2].”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

talk#719

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

FunctionalTV

“Bryan Cantrill has an excellent talk on this”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

talk#754

Dconf 2014 Day 2 Keynote: The Last Thing D Needs -- Scott Meyers

The D Language Foundation

“everyone should watch Scott Meyers's awesome presentation at a D conference”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#784

Alan Kay - Programming and Scaling

Colin McDonnell

“This talk is excellent and will cue you in on how to go about thinking about the fact”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

talk#814

The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages - SXSW

Vulk Coop

“one of the best and eye-opening talks I've ever heard”

6 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

lecture#827

Simon Peyton-Jones: Escape from the ivory tower: the Haskell journey

Churchill College, University of Cambridge

“It's a funny talk and it's worth watching in full”

5 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

talk#859

On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages by Shriram Krishnamurthi [PWLConf 2019]

PapersWeLove

“Shriram Krishnamurthi's talk from two years ago on this paper might be more approachable.”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

lecture#930

Great Impractical Ideas in Computer Science: PowerPoint Programming

Tom Wildenhain

“Strong recommend!”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#978

Design Patterns vs Anti pattern in APL by Aaron W Hsu at FnConf17

ConfEngine

“On the readability of APL (terrific video)”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

talk#996

Domain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin - KanDDDinsky 2019

KanDDDinsky

“this talk opened my eyes to the power of f# philosophy and type system”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

interview#1009

Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart

DartlangTV

“Debate (almost 10 years ago) TypeScript vs. Dart about the best way to improve JavaScript”

4 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

talk#1032

Edwin Brady - Idris 2 - Type-driven Development of Idris

Curry On!

“Watch Edwin Brady's demo of Idris 2 [2] to see this form of interactive development in action.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2023