podcast – Mostly Erlang
Interview with Joe Armstrong
May 21, 2015
Zach interviews Joe Armstrong, co-inventor of Erlang at Erlang Factory San Francisco. They discuss their enthusiasm for Erlang, the Erlang Factory conference, endorsements on LinkedIn, an exciting new tool called Intelli, their experience with Emacs and Wrangler, and the challenges of discussing technical topics with non-programmer friends.
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- Intelli is a brilliant and slick tool for easy changes of function names throughout a program.
- Metaprogramming allows for converting string data into binaries, opening up new possibilities for manipulation and optimization.
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Exciting new things from the conference
The podcast episode discusses the exciting new things learned at the Erlang Factory San Francisco conference. One cool thing mentioned is a tool called Intelli, which seemed brilliant and slick. It allows for easy changes of function names throughout the program. Another interesting topic was metaprogramming, specifically the concept of metaprogramming string data and converting it into binaries.
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