Richard talks with distributed systems scientist Jonathen Magen about functional programming in distributed systems, including languages like Gleam, Elixir, Ballerina, and Jolie. They also talk about type inference, big data, and a few other topics. Jonathan Magen: https://yonkeltron.com or https://jawns.club/@yonkeltron Programming languages mentioned: https://ballerina.io https://www.jolie-lang.org https://gleam.run https://elixir-lang.org Richard's talk: Why Static Typing Came Back - https://youtu.be/Tml94je2edk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.