The Ideal Programming Language • Richard Feldman & Erik Doernenburg • GOTO 2021

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2021 for GOTO Unscripted. #GOTOcon #GOTOunscripted #GOTOcph Read the full transcription of this interview here: Richard Feldman - Author of “Elm in Action“ & Head of Technology at NoRedInk Erik Doernenburg - Head of Technology at Thoughtworks & Passionate Technologist Lars Jensen - Lead Developer at GOTO DESCRIPTION What would your ideal programming language look like? Erik Doernenburg, head of technology at Thoughtworks, and Richard Feldman, author of “Elm in Action,” sat together at GOTO Copenhagen 2021 to chat about what theirs would look like. They also had a look into the future of up-and-coming languages. TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:11 Frontend or backend? 05:44 Programming languages in the field 10:37 Testability 13:11 Memory management 18:36 Concurrency model 23:53 Upcoming new languages 35:36 Outro RECOMMENDED BOOKS Richard Feldman • Elm in Action •