[piano music]
[applause]
What Ano didn't want to say
is that programming languages are my
substitute girlfriend. [laughter]
It's easier to get a relationship with a
programming language than a, you know
But you have to take her kind of dating
course.
Alright! Since I'm going to maybe insult
some people, you know, maybe I step on
some toes, I just want to say kind of, you
know, this is just my personal opinion
Also, I want you to think about this and
then make your own decisions.
All I want to do is make you think,
and ultimately you decide for yourself.
Alright! Of course, you expect a talk
where I'm going to go and scream and
curse and talk about how HR and Scrum
are cancer that needs to be eliminated
from this industry, right? That's what you
all signed up for, you all kind of have
your beers, your snacks ready. Um,
I have to say this talk is not going to be
like that. And what I want to do is I want
to take you back to a little bit of some
recent history. And in 2013 I left
Microsoft. This was when Vollmer was
kind of in charge; now he's doing some
basketball team.
Think that's way better for him.
[laughter]
But, you know, I left Microsoft with the
goal to make the world asynchronous
and reactive. So I founded this small
company, Applied Duality, that was trying
to do that. And then, in June, one of the
first customers I had was Facebook where
I worked with them on a language called
Hack. Hack is a version of PHP that looks
like PHP but under the covers it's really
OCaml.