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Richard talks with distributed systems scientist Jonathen Magen about functional programming in distributed systems, including languages like Gleam, Elixir, Ballerina, and Jolie. They also talk about type inference, big data, and a few other topics.
Jonathan Magen: https://yonkeltron.com or https://jawns.club/@yonkeltron
Programming languages mentioned:
https://ballerina.io
https://www.jolie-lang.org
https://gleam.run
https://elixir-lang.org
Richard's talk: Why Static Typing Came Back - https://youtu.be/Tml94je2edk
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