Curry On!: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Evan Czaplicki - Let's be mainstream! User focused design in Elm - Curry On", recommended as the clearest explanation of Elm's design thinking and of making functional languages mainstream, plus a popular monad explanation clip.
- 7 HN recommenders 6 months 2015–2023talkRecommended as the clearest explanation of Elm's design thinking and of making functional languages mainstream, plus a popular monad explanation clip.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2019–2023talkRecommended as the best demo of interactive, compiler-assisted dependently typed programming in action.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2017–2019talkRecommended as a jaw-dropping, must-see talk that gives an amazing intro to static analysis alongside Might's personal story.
- Ron Pressler - Pull Push: Please stop polluting our imperative languages with pure concepts-Curry On3 HN recommenders 4 months 2015–2024talkRecommended as the case for blocking code and virtual threads over monads and async/await.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2018–2020talkHN recommends it as a clear introduction to linear types in GHC from the language's lead designer.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2022–2024talkHN cites it as the clearest pitch for programmable, malleable development environments, especially in threads on Smalltalk, Emacs and user-programmable systems.
- cited 5× 0 months 2019–2020talkReferenced mainly for Bak's firsthand account of why the Dart VM never shipped in Chrome and for his IoT language design points.
Questions
Which Curry On! video does Hacker News recommend most?
Evan Czaplicki - Let's be mainstream! User focused design in Elm - Curry On: recommended in 6 different months by 7 HN users between 2015 and 2023.
Is this every Curry On! video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
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