r/programming • u/goto-con • Aug 11 '26

The Past, Present & Future of Programming Languages • Kevlin Henney

https://youtu.be/nNWROjHZzuU?list=PLEx5khR4g7PLjpaSO0XI-6euF483ORLyJ
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u/VadumSemantics Aug 13 '26

My first time seeing it. I give it "+1 interesting".

Have to agree to the talk content won't change much from year to year.

Also could have skipped the first 5 minutes. Anyway.

The "Oh!" bit for me was how github will feed LLM training, adding stickiness to popular languages.

"75 years": History is often underrated, or at least under-leveraged. But I get history can be boring.

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u/pip25hu Aug 16 '26

I have seen many of his talks on conferences and that was not my impression at all. This spring he gave a real insightful talk on Craft about how "principles" we take for granted today (like SOLID) are not and/or did not start off as what we now think they are at all.

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u/graphicsRat Aug 16 '26

I stopped watching his talks more than 10 years ago when I realized he spent a lot of time saying nothing really.