EMx 012: Why Elixir matters with Osayame David Gaius-Obaseki
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English - August 01, 2018 20:36 - 49 minutes - 48.3 MBHow To Education Business Careers programming javascript web framework development front end developer programmer internet node Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Panel:
Charles Max Wood
Eric Berry
Josh Adams
Special Guests: Osayame David Gaius-Obaseki
In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Osayame David Gaius-Obaseki. Osa is a software engineer at a company called MailChimp, is originally from Nigeria, and has been writing Elixir for a couple years now. They talk about his talk, Why Elixir Matters, how he came about writing this talk, and lambda calculus. They also touch on how Elixir compares to other functional programming languages, the idea of the genealogy of a language, and more!
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
Osa intro
Software engineer at MailChimp
Elixir
His talk – Why Elixir Matters
His talk goes into the history of functional programming
The heritage that Elixir has
Clojure
Curious about how Elixir came to exist
Functional languages become popular for a year and then decline
Lambda calculus
His approach to functional programming
At some level, you don’t have to understand lambda calculus
The basis of lambda calculus
Jim Weirich Y-Not talk
How do we get to the high level stud we are doing with Elixir?
Lisp, Steam, and Erlang
Making ideas practical for use
Approachable languages
In your research, did you get a sense of organic growth?
Genealogies of languages
ML languages - Reason
Resiliency of programs applied to the front-end
And much, much more!
Links:
MailChimp
Elixir
His talk – Why Elixir Matters
Clojure
Jim Weirich Y-Not talk
Erlang
Reason
@osagaius
Osa’s Medium
Osa’s GitHub
Sponsors:
Picks:
Charles
Golf
[email protected] - For podcast planning program
Podcast Movement
Anti-Pick – Amazon Prime Day
Josh
Building the Google Photos Web UI
Eric
Osa