Really nice post from Lee on the Ruby list about Unison, I thought might be of interest to other communities too :-) H
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Lee Hambley Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 at 08:59 Subject: [NWRUG] Re: LambdaLounge: 21st Sep, Exploring Unison in… er… unison To: North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG) <[email protected]> If you haven't been exposed to the unison language at all yet, two data points that might help you decide: - One of the authors (two?) are co-authors of the `FP in Scala` book which is amazing, and gets glowing reviews - Paul Chiusano. He's also a huge language nerd in the best possible way, and speaks excellently about it. - For me, as a Rubyist, knowing the background of smalltalk and some of the early "what OOP was supposed to be" and the smalltalk approach to running your code in a perennial environment where nothing ever starts or stops, Unison really, really speaks to me as awakening some long-lost ideas from the glory days of language design before everything was overtaken by variations on procedural OOP derived things with a C-like syntax. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWtkvDQ2ZI is an amazing video to maybe give you a taster of why Unison might be the most interesting programming language I've noticed in the last decade. On Sunday, 6 September 2020 at 11:33:32 UTC+2 osfameron wrote: > Get tickets on Skiddle <http://skiddle.com/e/13816499>! > > For our September online meetup (7pm UK time, Mon 21st Sep), we’ll do > something a little different, and explore Unison < > https://www.unisonweb.org/> together! > > ‘*Unison* is an open source functional programming language based on a > simple idea with big implications: code is content-addressed and immutable.’ > > Unison has been on our ‘That Looks Interesting’ list for a long time. At > this meeting, we’ll live stream our first steps with the programming > language, the environment, and see what we can learn. > > Join us and help shape the exploration by commenting on our YouTube stream > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDX8BexQa78&ab_channel=LambdaLounge> or > Discord <https://discord.gg/mQ9gGQN> page. > > Obviously in the strange times that we live in we can’t go to the pub > after the talks, however please do join us on our new discord server > <https://discord.gg/mQ9gGQN>. We are still getting setup with this, so > let us know if there is anything you would like to see on there. > > Get tickets on Skiddle <http://skiddle.com/e/13816499>! > > Hakim & the LambdaLounge crew > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nwrug-members/f5af49b5-b8e4-4ed5-b242-ed76fb755f70n%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nwrug-members/f5af49b5-b8e4-4ed5-b242-ed76fb755f70n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- -- To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python North-West" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python-north-west/CAM-P%2B0s%3DgAEDzGGzOq%3DqTWkeL6EasT7f_fd_iBwnvPqQ5i-6Tg%40mail.gmail.com.
