Elm Town 80 – Inspired: Roc with Richard Feldman

About this episode

Richard Feldman discusses the creation of Roc, its design choices, and the influence of teaching Elm on its development.

Elm pioneer Richard Feldman returns to explain why he made Roc, a direct descendant of Elm. He notes a distinct trade-off of choosing not to have persistent data structures. Later, he shares how his experience teaching Elm informed Roc's design. We even learn about the power of platforms.

People in this episode

Host: Jared M. Smith

Guest: Richard Feldman

Topics covered

• Elm
• Roc
• software design
• persistent data structures
• teaching
• technology

Keywords

• Roc
• Elm
• Richard Feldman
• software design
• persistent data structures
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Roc, Elm

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