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[piano music]

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[applause]
What Ano didn't want to say

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is that programming languages are my
substitute girlfriend. [laughter]

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It's easier to get a relationship with a 
programming language than a, you know

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But you have to take her kind of dating 
course.

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Alright! Since I'm going to maybe insult
some people, you know, maybe I step on

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some toes, I just want to say kind of, you
know, this is just my personal opinion

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Also, I want you to think about this and 
then make your own decisions.

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All I want to do is make you think,
and ultimately you decide for yourself.

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Alright! Of course, you expect a talk
where I'm going to go and scream and

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curse and talk about how HR and Scrum
are cancer that needs to be eliminated

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from this industry, right? That's what you
all signed up for, you all kind of have

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your beers, your snacks ready. Um,
I have to say this talk is not going to be

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like that. And what I want to do is I want
to take you back to a little bit of some

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recent history. And in 2013 I left
Microsoft. This was when Vollmer was

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kind of in charge; now he's doing some
basketball team.

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Think that's way better for him. 
[laughter]

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But, you know, I left Microsoft with the
goal to make the world asynchronous

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and reactive. So I founded this small
company, Applied Duality, that was trying

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to do that. And then, in June, one of the
first customers I had was Facebook where

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I worked with them on a language called
Hack. Hack is a version of PHP that looks

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like a version of PHP that looks like 
PHP but under the covers it's really OCaml

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Facebook is all written in Hack but really
it's written in OCaml with Hack syntax,

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with PHP syntax.

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So funtional programming-- if you're not doing functional programming yet, you're already behind.

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So who here is not doing functional programming? OK, you can go home now [laughter]

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and maybe do a startup course but in a few years it will be obsolete. [laughter]

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And then slightly later that year I started to work with Netflix on RxJava

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and I guess there is this thing has been a runaway success I think a lot of people are using it that has gone beyond my wildest dreams.

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Let's look at 2013-- eh 2014. At Microsoft I did programming languages as a hobby but it turned out with my startup that it became a way to make money.

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So in April 2014 I worked with Google on Dart and there I helped Dart to get also support for asynchronous programming ASynch 08

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And Dart already had support for streams and now we put our API in API for streams and now we put that in the language as well.

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So Dart is one of the few languages that has gone up complete support for synchronous, iterators, ASynch 08

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and streams all build in the language.

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If you haven't looked at Dart yet, I would really say: give it a try just like you should give Hack a try.