James Lu

How I'm learning Clojure

On these sorts of things, I like to [[Follow curiosity unconditionally]]. While I may not be progressing down a curriculum as fast as others, the fact that I'm trusting my curiosity means that I'm consuming more content overall. It's self-motivated, rather than obligated. [[There is no curriculu...

Programming languages are converging due to runtime

I recently sent [[James Lu]] this fascinating video by "Uncle Bob" and asked him for his thoughts. This is his response, discussing runtime and its innovation: Over a multi-decade horizon, programming languages ARE converging. They're converging not in language-level features, that's not impo...