The Future of Programming with Richard Eisenberg
Signals and Threads
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How to Generate Code for Multiple Types of Data
Camel is taking advantage of this rock stupid memory representation. What's a list? A collection of heap allocated values. And so you could just write one piece of code that kind of uniformly walks over it. But in the unbox types world, suddenly you want the system to contemplate multiple different possible shapes of the data. It's a hard thing. I'm not aware of another language that's really tackled the problem in the way we expect to tackle it over the next few months.
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