Programming language design Videos Recommended on Hacker News (193)
Programming language design is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 193 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2007 and 2026 — 599 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Programming language design: language semantics, type systems, type theory, syntax, language features, Jai, Haskell type classes, Rust design, language history, why languages succeed or fail.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on How Python was Shaped by leaky Internals, Armin Ronacher, Flask framework: “This excellent talk describes how the semantics of the "add" operation are much more complex than generally described.” — an HN commenter, 2021.
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2 mo on HNKeynote. Professor Steven G. Johnson | JuliaCon 2019
2 mo on HNGuido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341
2 mo on HN"Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers" by Timothy Baldridge
2 mo on HNPsp collections: views and more by Paul Phillips
2 mo on HN"Eve" by Chris Granger
2 mo on HNImba is Underrated: Building a counter in 49 seconds
2 mo on HNThe Origins of APL - 1974
2 mo on HN"Code is the Easy Part" by Evan Czaplicki
2 mo on HN"Type-Driven Program Synthesis" by Nadia Polikarpova
2 mo on HNJonathan Blow - Jai Demo and Design Explanation (KEYNOTE) - Updated
2 mo on HNParallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 / Jonathan Worthington
2 mo on HN01 The History of Standard ML: Ideas, Principles, Culture
2 mo on HN"Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code" by Pokey Rule (Strange Loop 2023)
2 mo on HNMountain West Ruby 2012 Capability vs. Suitability by Gary Bernhardt
2 mo on HNGoing Native 2012 Keynote Stroustrup
2 mo on HNBeyond functional programming: a taste of Verse. Simon Peyton Jones & Tim Sweeney | Lambda Days 2023
2 mo on HNThe Forgotten Art of Structured Programming - Kevlin Henney [C++ on Sea 2019]
2 mo on HNWhat's Bad About Julia | Jeff Bezanson | JuliaCon 2019
2 mo on HN"A Little Taste of Dependent Types" by David Christiansen
2 mo on HN2017 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: “Implementing Swift Generics ”
2 mo on HN"Hedy: A Gradual programming language" by Felienne Hermans (Strange Loop 2022)
2 mo on HN"Datafun: a functional query language" by Michael Arntzenius
2 mo on HNSimon Peyton Jones - Haskell is useless
2 mo on HNGeo Carncross: How to program computers (kos)
2 mo on HNPerl 6 for Mere Mortals
2 mo on HNKeynote: The Last Hope for Scala's Infinity War - John A. De Goes
2 mo on HNGoogle I/O 2011: Java Puzzlers - Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel
2 mo on HNJonathan Blow on scripting languages
1 mo on HNData-Oriented Demo: SOA, composition
1 mo on HNTypeScript types can run DOOM
1 mo on HNAda, Past Present and Future
1 mo on HNCarbon Language Successor Strategy: From C++ Interop to Memory Safety - Chandler Carruth - CppNow 23
1 mo on HNNVIDIA — Securing the Future of Safety and Security of Embedded Software (Captioned)
1 mo on HN[#36] Zig Roadmap 2024 - Andrew Kelley
1 mo on HNBreaking Down Programming Paradigms: APL's Surprising Learning Curve // Aaron Hsu // Dyalog '17
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