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"Are We There Yet?" (w/ slides) - Rich Hickey (2009)

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  • Recommended by 2 people: 2 in engineering communities.
  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2020 to 2023.
  • Presented by Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure
  • An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.

Advanced. Deep dive for people who know the field.

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Software designProgramming languagesFunctional programmingConcurrency and parallelismLanguage design and type systems

Rich Hickey discusses the problems with traditional object-oriented state management and proposes an epochal time model.

This talk is from InfoQ but the video over there seems to be broken, so I made my own. We may now view the speaker as well as the slides.

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What people say. Highly recommended as a foundational talk on state, identity, and functional programming design.

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