Language Design Deep Dive with Elixir Creator José Valim

Language Design Deep Dive with Elixir Creator José Valim

Author: Richard Feldman June 1, 2025 Duration: 2:26:12

Elixir creator José Valim goes into a very deep dive on language design with Richard, centered around some upcoming major design changes to the Roc programming language.


- https://elixir-lang.org

- https://roc-lang.org

- Unison's algebraic effects: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/fundamentals/abilities/

- Koka's algebraic effects: https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html#why-effects

- OCaml's algebraic effects: https://ocaml.org/manual/5.3/effects.html


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