I didn’t plan on doing a 2015 retrospective of any sort, but then Swift was open sourced and I realized that this year was amazing for evolution of mainstream programming languages. Join Dion Almaer and me for a conversation about programming language evolution in 2015 as we talk about Swift, Rust, Go, JavaScript, ClojureScript, PHP, Perl 6, Java, Kotlin and more.

• Swift
  • Swift on GitHub
  • Swift Evolution
  • How Apps Are Built 3 with Andy Matushak talks about Khan Academy’s use of Swift. Almost certainly, Andy tried Swift before you did.
  • Under the Radar 2 with Marco Arment and _David Smith discussing their reluctance to dive into Swift
  • “Perfect” web framework.
• Rust
  • Rust 1.0 announcement
  • Rust 1.5 is the latest
• Electron (desktop web app framework)
• Go
  • Go 1.5 garbage collector performance
• JavaScript
  • ECMAScript 2015
  • Babel
  • Microsoft’s Chakra going open source
  • WebAssembly
  • asm.js
  • js-csp Go-like (or Clojure core.async) channels for JavaScript
• ClojureScript
  • Self-hosting
  • React
  • Om
• PHP
  • PHP 7
  • PHP 7 vs. HHVM benchmark
  • Hack
• Perl 6
  • Why Python 3 exists by Brett Cannon explains the Python 3 transition
• Gradual typing
  • Perl 6 gradual typing
  • Python 3.5 typing module
  • How Apps Are Built 2 about Elm
  • TypeScript
  • Flow
• .NET open source
  • Mono
  • Xamarin
  • RoboVM
• Java
  • Clojure
  • Scala
  • TIOBE puts Java at #1 with a bullet. Nearly 21% in December, up 6%.
• Kotlin
  • Now in beta!
• Books, talks, papers
  • Mindset: the new psychology of success by Carol Dweck
  • One World Schoolhouse by Salman Khan
  • Make It Stick by Peter Brown
  • Superintelligence by Nick Bostrum
• Follow Dion (@dalmaer) on Twitter

The music for this episode is Aitech by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com). Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0