Curry On!: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Evan Czaplicki - Let's be mainstream! User focused design in Elm - Curry On", recommended as the clearest explanation of Elm's design thinking and of making functional languages mainstream, plus a popular monad explanation clip.
- talk recommended in 6 different months by 7 HN users, 2015–2023Recommended as the clearest explanation of Elm's design thinking and of making functional languages mainstream, plus a popular monad explanation clip.
- talk recommended in 4 different months by 4 HN users, 2019–2023Recommended as the best demo of interactive, compiler-assisted dependently typed programming in action.
- talk recommended in 3 different months by 3 HN users, 2017–2019Recommended as a jaw-dropping, must-see talk that gives an amazing intro to static analysis alongside Might's personal story.
- Ron Pressler - Pull Push: Please stop polluting our imperative languages with pure concepts-Curry Ontalk recommended in 4 different months by 3 HN users, 2015–2024Recommended as the case for blocking code and virtual threads over monads and async/await.
- talk recommended in 3 different months by 3 HN users, 2018–2020HN recommends it as a clear introduction to linear types in GHC from the language's lead designer.
- talk recommended in 1 different month by 1 HN user, 2022–2024HN cites it as the clearest pitch for programmable, malleable development environments, especially in threads on Smalltalk, Emacs and user-programmable systems.
- talk cited on HN 5 times, 2019–2020Referenced mainly for Bak's firsthand account of why the Dart VM never shipped in Chrome and for his IoT language design points.
Questions
Which Curry On! video does Hacker News recommend most?
Evan Czaplicki - Let's be mainstream! User focused design in Elm - Curry On: recommended in 6 different months by 7 HN users between 2015 and 2023.
Is this every Curry On! video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.