Programming Language Design Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 2

demo#1111

Stephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Language

Wolfram

“The demos are all pretty impressive”

4 HN recommenders · 2014–2015

podcast#1143

Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160

Lex Fridman

“a real gem of an interview, in my opinion”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

talk#1145

Rust's Journey to Async/Await

InfoQ

“It will show you how meticulous the core team is and how long it took to arrive at this incredible, best in class design.”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#1158

RustLatam 2019 - Without Boats: Zero-Cost Async IO

Rust Programming Language

“I really loved this talk by Without Boats”

5 HN recommenders · 2019–2020

demo#1166

Alto System Project: Dan Ingalls demonstrates Smalltalk

Computer History Museum

“have really been enjoying this two hour long interview / demo with Dan Ingalls on Smalltalk and the Alto”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#1202

Self and Self: Whys and Wherefores

Stanford

“explains the history, philosophy, successes, and failures of the Self project”

3 HN recommenders · 2010–2025

talk#1206

Ron Pressler - Pull Push: Please stop polluting our imperative languages with pure concepts-Curry On

Curry On!

“one of my recent favorite videos generally on this topic has been from Curry On conference”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

talk#1216

2017 ACM PPoPP Keynote: It's Time for a New Old Language

Guy Steele

“an excellent talk by Guy Steele that goes over issue of notation and balkanization”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

talk#1230

De-fragmenting C++: Making Exceptions and RTTI More Affordable and Usable - Herb Sutter CppCon 2019

CppCon

“I can really recommend this talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

lecture#1300

Lecture 1 | Programming Paradigms (Stanford)

Stanford

“The presentation is clear and it simplifies in just the right places to give you the foundations.”

3 HN recommenders · 2011–2024

talk#1313

"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega

Strange Loop Conference

“Devine had a great talk about the "why" of Uxn at Strange Loop last year”

4 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

talk#1322

Practical Common Lisp

Google TechTalks

“I will forever think of this talk by Peter Siebel”

3 HN recommenders · 2011–2025

demo#1343

APL demonstration 1975

Imperial College London

“I think this is a good youtube video for someone starting from zero”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2021

lecture#1350

Building Your Own Dynamic Language

Stanford

“There's a talk by Ian Piumarta that tries to get to the core of what the VPRI guys feel is important.”

3 HN recommenders · 2009–2014

talk#1397

Edwin Brady - Idris 2: Type-driven development of Idris | Code Mesh LDN 18

Code Sync

“this looks like a good introduction”

5 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

interview#1444

Expert to Expert: Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside Clojure

jasonofthel33t

“It's probably the best technical video I've ever watched on YouTube.”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

talk#1457

"A (Not So Gentle) Introduction To Systems Programming In ATS" by Aditya Siram

Strange Loop Conference

“I recommend watching this presentation for a good idea of what ATS programming is like”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

tutorial#1566

The Why, What, and How of Pinning in Rust

Jon Gjengset

“Jon Gjengset's stream on pin/unpin is invaluable for understanding Pin semantics”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

talk#1596

Armin Ronacher - A Python for Future Generations

EuroPython Conference

“I highly recommend the two videos posted here”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

talk#1637

Nordic.js 2014 • Douglas Crockford - The Better Parts

Nordic.js

“It's possible to write javascript without `this`, a style preferred e.g. by Douglas Crockford, explained in the video below.”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

documentary#1679

Birth of BASIC

Dartmouth

“The Birth of BASIC documentary that Dartmouth did for the 50th anniversary is excellent and features him prominently”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

talk#1694

Stanford Seminar - Concatenative Programming: From Ivory to Metal

Stanford Online

“Jon Purdy has a great talk about this too”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

talk#1708

Lambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya Siram

Lambda World

“I think it is the most accessible explanation of the marvel of Smalltalk”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#1714

Lenses, Folds, and Traversals

Edward Kmett

“I found this talk by edward kmett incredibly helpful[0].”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2014

talk#1731

MountainWest RubyConf 2014 - But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk

Confreaks

“if you enjoy Ruby, watch this”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

talk#1750

ElixirConf 2023 - José Valim - The foundations of the Elixir type system

ElixirConf

“If you're into watching talks, this will be well worth your time.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

talk#1801

Procedural Programming: It Never Went Away — Kevlin Henney | Build Stuff

Build Stuff - #1 Software Dev Conf

“tour of how all the best discoveries of the past decade or two really date back to the 1960s”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

talk#1846

#Gamelab2018 - Jon Blow's Design decisions on creating Jai a new language for game programmers

Gamelab Conference

“I recently watched this talk by Johnathan Blow[0] where he talks about quality of life in programming languages and spends a fair amount of time talking about compile times and their effects.”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

talk#1873

Does APL Need a Type System? by Aaron W Hsu at #FnConf18

ConfEngine

“which argues that APL already provides the development ergonomics that are typically acribed to type systems.”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#1876

Modeling Data Concurrency w/ Asynchronous I/O in Zig - RedisConf 2020

Redis

“I highly recommend watching Andrew Kelley's video”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

talk#1908

Origins of Go Concurrency style by Rob Pike

jasonofthel33t

“Check out this video by Pike”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

talk#1913

CppCon 2017: Herb Sutter “Meta: Thoughts on generative C++”

CppCon

“Herb Sutter's talk about it is by far the best talk I've seen from from CppCon17.”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

commentary#1917

Rant: Entity systems and the Rust borrow checker ... or something.

Jonathan Blow

“A more detailed description of his opinions are laid out here where he goes into much more detail”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#1920

miniKanren - Dan Friedman and William Byrd

ClojureTV

“I highly recommend watching Dan Friedman and William Byrd give their miniKanren conference talk”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2018

talk#1924

OSCON 2010: Rob Pike, "Public Static Void"

O'Reilly

“gave this short speech at OSCON 2010 about what's wrong with programming languages, their thinking, and their recent direction”

3 HN recommenders · 2012–2023

talk#2039

"Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix" by Stephen Kell

Strange Loop Conference

“there's a great video of one of his talks”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

talk#2094

"Programming Should Eat Itself" by Nada Amin

Strange Loop Conference

“Here's a wonderful demonstration of the power of nestability”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

talk#2130

Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)

suckerpinch

“this fun experiment in Typesetting which starts off with the amazing TeX origin story”

4 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

talk#2143

"Swift as C++ Successor in FoundationDB" by Konrad Malawski (Strange Loop 2023)

Strange Loop Conference

“The fairly recent presentation about starting to move FoundationDB to Swift[0] was also very interesting.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

talk#2205

High-performance Tree Wrangling, the APL Way // Aaron Hsu // Dyalog '18

Dyalog User Meetings

“He has one talk (available on YouTube) about his approach to using arrays to working with tree structures in a high-performance way in APL”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

tutorial#2206

The Joy of Programming in Jai - Part 1: Hello World

Nuno Afonso

“One of the beta testers has published some more up to date videos with his language introduction and initial experience”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

talk#2231

Introducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large C++ Code Bases - John McCall - CppNow 2023

CppNow

“Finaly a recent gem from CppNow 2023”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

podcast#2264

Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #381

Lex Fridman

“further emboldened my stance that if Mojo can succeed, Lattner is one of the best-positioned engineers to see it through”

4 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

tutorial#2275

Crust of Rust: Lifetime Annotations

Jon Gjengset

“each one is actually writing carefully chosen code that runs and talking through what's going on”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#2291

Simon Peyton Jones - Linear Haskell: practical linearity in a higher-order polymorphic language

Curry On!

“Simon Peyton Jones has a great talk on YouTube [3]”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2020

talk#2302

“What is Success?” by Evan Czaplicki

Elm Europe

“he raises some interesting points about how measuring projects by Github activity is strongly biased”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

tutorial#2311

Introduction to Julia - Part 1 | SciPy 2014 | David Sanders

Enthought

“I've found these talks useful as a starting point”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2015

lecture#2346

Effective ML

Jane Street

“Richard Feldman dives deeper into the topic with a lot more examples in”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2021