A whirlwind tour of my favorite programming languages
summary
Maintains that exploring languages exposes independent design choices rather than a single best style and demonstrates them with concrete code patterns: Fibonacci as histomorphism (Haskell) versus loop and tail recursion (Go/C), error models from Java exceptions to C sentinels to Rust’s Result and Rust's ? operator, resource management via C manual free, C++ RAII, Go defer and Python’s with, and concurrency via Go routines, OS threads and async/await (Promise.all). Notes GitHub’s linguist catalogs 500+ languages, and shows working examples and trade-offs.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 6:11Fibonacci numbers
- 6:25Loops
- 10:28Recursion schemes
- 12:25Handling failure
- 12:38Digits
- 13:02Exceptions
- 15:38Error values
- 20:53Manual memory management
- 23:10Automatic memory management
- 24:52Managing other resources
- 31:13Goroutines
- 35:34Async / futures / promises / tasks
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