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“Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so”

Language brainstorm

[PolyConf] -> [Lunch] -> [Crazy idea?]

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A lunch talk extrapolated to a brainstorm with Korneliusz Caputa

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Initial thoughts

• Much code has already been done - somewhere

• What a waste…

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Initial thoughts

• At least one company has already ingested ALL public data on GitHub for analysis

• and use it (only?) for recruitment

• … what a waste

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Language where sharing is built in

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thus open source is built in

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…the compiler …the runtime

…or something?To

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Discovery built into your vIDEmacs

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Premise:

We already (mostly) trust std. libs

And have them at our fingertips

Why not more?

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So… brainstorm time

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Pure functions might make it easier?

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Advanced type system (like Haskell but more readable)

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Expressive, searchable contracts

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Type providers like F# (for IDE magic)

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Distributed runtime?

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Maybe even P2P?

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JIT function “caching” or redistribution

• Like BitTorrent magic?

• Copy frequent functions to local runtime or at least closer?

• If 10 people in this room are calling map, it would be copied to one of us?

• If I use it a lot, I might get local version?

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Challenges?

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Performanceespecially if distributed runtime

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Security, obviously

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Naah, that shouldn’t stop a

good idea :-)

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