Oh hey, my #Minnebar17 talk is online! Is it good? Not sure, haven’t watched it! But here it is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aw7777DS58
“The idea that removing features can make programming languages better is both surprising and exciting. What programming language features that we consider essential today might be the next GOTO, withering and vanishing from high-level languages of the future?”
@inthehands Fantastic talk! I’d love to hear the null bit.
@paulhimes It’s basically “Swift optionals!”
The big insight from that section is that the thing optionals get right that null gets wrong is that null violates LSP: