Keynote: Beautiful and Right - Hidden Features and Abstractions that Make Languages Work -Bruce Tate

✨This keynote talk was recorded at Code BEAM America 2024, a conference by Code Sync codebeamamerica.com ✨
Elixir embraces a fascinating mix of types, features, and libraries to build a surprising breadth of concurrent libraries and services with stunning reliability and concurrency. This talk allows a peek under the hood at how Nerves, LiveView, NX, LiveBook, and more push Elixir and yet provide a natural, coherent development experience.
Behaviours in OTP establish contracts for inversion of control. Phoenix and LiveView take advantage of the same behaviours and also use macros to provide a uniform, concise usage model and adds macros to hide ceremony while surfacing beautiful user experience that remains correct under pressure, from templates to infrastructure
Come find out how Elixir's most loved frameworks and tools got that way, and the Elixir tools that make those frameworks both beautiful and right.

[@emjones8092]

Bruce. I am *so* grateful for all that you have given the programming world. You, and your teachings, and your ideas are a gift in *so* many ways.
As well... do you have a version of this talk that doesn't require the audience to learn about water navigation/learn about it at this pace? I can't speak for anybody besides myself, so this is definitely worth taking with a grain of salt: I cannot focus on the substance of this topic that you and I care about because of the amount of exposition you do that I cannot relate to.
Metaphors are supposed to be a literary device to help create an accessible message. You appear to have come up with a really *good* metaphor at face value, but the time you spend on it is too distracting for me to truly appreciate.
This request is coming from a humble place of: "if you value your idea enough to share it, can it be put into a more consumable package?" and I hope it is heard as truly appreciative attempt at constructive feedback.
I cannot emphasize, enough, what a gift you are to your profession. Thank you.