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Scale By The Bay 2018: Bryan Cantrill, Rust and Other Interesting Things

FunctionalTV · talk · Watch on YouTube

Programming language designC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages

What it is

Bryan Cantrill argues that programming languages and platforms reflect core values, and compares languages through that lens, with Rust as a main example. He draws on his experience with Solaris, DTrace and ZFS.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited again and again as the framework for discussing languages in terms of values, and how organizational values shape software quality.

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 5 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Bryan Cantrill has an excellent talk on this”

    Organizational values shape software correctness; hire for values

    freemint, 2022-05 · Strong recommendation · in “Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem”

  2. “Bryan Cantrill explains a very interesting thought about that here”

    Cantrill's thought on how backend developers view JavaScript

    btschaegg, 2021-05 · Recommendation · in “Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)”

  3. “This is a great chart / explanation of this kind of thinking from Bryan Cantrill”

    Chart and explanation of language values

    josephg, 2021-08 · Recommendation · in “Growing object-oriented software vs. what I would do”

  4. “Bryan Cantrill has an interesting talk that discusses various languages in terms of their values”

    Discusses programming languages in terms of their values

    jamincan, 2022-01 · Recommendation · in “Rust in 2022”

  5. “where he talks about software platform values, in the sense of what different programming languages and other things focus on”

    Cantrill on platform values and security-versus-performance tradeoffs, including CPU microcode.

    codetrotter, 2024-08 · Recommendation · in “CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: bryan cantrill, rust, platform values, language design, software culture

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