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Best Programming language design videos, as recommended on Hacker News

166 videos about programming language design that Hacker News commenters keep recommending, mentioned between 2007 and 2026. Mostly talk, demo, lecture. Channels that come up most: Strange Loop Conference, ClojureTV, Google TechTalks, Jonathan Blow. Sorted by how consistently HN recommended them over the years.

The most recommended is How Python was Shaped by leaky Internals, Armin Ronacher, Flask framework: It is HN's standard answer to why Python cannot easily get much faster, and is recommended by people who work on JITs and alternative runtimes.

• talkHow Python was Shaped by leaky Internals, Armin Ronacher, Flask frameworkВидео с мероприятий {speach! · 15 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
• talkWhy Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard FeldmanMetosin · 12 HN recommenders · 2019–2025
• talkMaybe Not - Rich HickeyClojureTV · 14 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
• demoConway's Game Of Life in APLDyalog · 11 HN recommenders · 2010–2024
• lectureLecture 1A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986MIT OpenCourseWare · 11 HN recommenders · 2012–2024
• lectureCrockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early YearsYUI Library · 10 HN recommenders · 2013–2022
• talkGrowing a Language, by Guy SteeleBill Pugh · 11 HN recommenders · 2014–2026
• talkEffective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich HickeyClojureTV · 10 HN recommenders · 2017–2026
• talkBrian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering PartsClojureTV · 10 HN recommenders · 2014–2025
• talkJavaScript: The Good PartsGoogle TechTalks · 11 HN recommenders · 2009–2020
• talkIdeas about a new programming language for games.Jonathan Blow · 7 HN recommenders · 2014–2025
• talk"Propositions as Types" by Philip WadlerStrange Loop Conference · 9 HN recommenders · 2015–2026
• commentaryObject-Oriented Programming is BadBrian Will · 13 HN recommenders · 2016–2025
• talkInvited Talk - Guy SteeleClojureTV · 7 HN recommenders · 2017–2023
• demo7 minutes of Pharo Smalltalk for RubyistsAvdi Grimm · 5 HN recommenders · 2017–2026
• talk"The Economics of Programming Languages" by Evan Czaplicki (Strange Loop 2023)Strange Loop Conference · 10 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
• talkJulia: to Lisp or not to Lisp?European Lisp Symposium · 4 HN recommenders · 2016–2022
• talk"Stop Writing Dead Programs" by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop 2022)Strange Loop Conference · 9 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
• talkZig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity –  Andrew KelleyRecurse Center · 6 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
• talk"Unison: a new distributed programming language" by Paul ChiusanoStrange Loop Conference · 7 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
• talkDomain Modeling Made Functional - Scott WlaschinNDC Conferences · 6 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
• talkThe Road to Zig 1.0 - Andrew KelleyChariotSolutions · 5 HN recommenders · 2019–2025
• talk"Production Prolog" by Michael HendricksStrange Loop Conference · 6 HN recommenders · 2015–2023
• talkCo-dfns Live Stream: Compiler Design and ArchitectureAaron Hsu (arcfide) · 3 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
• talkOOPSLA Conference: Growing a LanguageComputer History Museum · 6 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
• talkdotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicateddotconferences · 7 HN recommenders · 2016–2023
• interviewHewitt, Meijer and Szyperski: The Actor Model (everything you wanted to know...)jasonofthel33t · 5 HN recommenders · 2015–2025
• talk2016 - On The Shoulders Of Giants - Damian ConwayThe Perl and Raku Conference - Greenville, SC 2026 · 4 HN recommenders · 2016–2021
• lectureIn Search of TomorrowBerkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) · 9 HN recommenders · 2015–2018
• talkThe Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch | Stefan Karpinski | JuliaCon 2019The Julia Programming Language · 9 HN recommenders · 2019–2025
• talkEvan Czaplicki - Let's be mainstream! User focused design in Elm - Curry OnCurry On! · 7 HN recommenders · 2015–2023
• talkTaking Vector Transposes Seriously | Jiahao Chen | JuliaCon 2017The Julia Programming Language · 3 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
• talkCan C++ be 10x Simpler & Safer? - Herb Sutter - CppCon 2022CppCon · 6 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
• talk"I See What You Mean" by Peter AlvaroStrange Loop Conference · 6 HN recommenders · 2016–2019
• talkRailsConf 09: Robert Martin, "What Killed Smalltalk Could KO'Reilly · 5 HN recommenders · 2012–2026
• talkFactor: an extensible interactive languageGoogle TechTalks · 5 HN recommenders · 2014–2025
• talk"Shen: A Sufficiently Advanced Lisp" by Aditya SiramStrange Loop Conference · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2024
• talkScale By The Bay 2018: Bryan Cantrill, Rust and Other Interesting ThingsFunctionalTV · 5 HN recommenders · 2021–2024
• talkDconf 2014 Day 2 Keynote: The Last Thing D Needs -- Scott MeyersThe D Language Foundation · 4 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
• talkAlan Kay - Programming and ScalingColin McDonnell · 4 HN recommenders · 2016–2026
• talkThe Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages - SXSWVulk Coop · 6 HN recommenders · 2019–2025
• lectureSimon Peyton-Jones: Escape from the ivory tower: the Haskell journeyChurchill College, University of Cambridge · 5 HN recommenders · 2017–2024
• talkOn the Expressive Power of Programming Languages by Shriram Krishnamurthi [PWLConf 2019]PapersWeLove · 5 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
• lectureGreat Impractical Ideas in Computer Science: PowerPoint ProgrammingTom Wildenhain · 4 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
• talkDesign Patterns vs Anti pattern in APL by Aaron W Hsu at FnConf17ConfEngine · 4 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
• talkDomain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin - KanDDDinsky 2019KanDDDinsky · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
• interviewAnders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and DartDartlangTV · 4 HN recommenders · 2014–2024
• talkEdwin Brady - Idris 2 - Type-driven Development of IdrisCurry On! · 4 HN recommenders · 2019–2023
• demoStephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram LanguageWolfram · 4 HN recommenders · 2014–2015
• podcastBrendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160Lex Fridman · 5 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
• talkRust's Journey to Async/AwaitInfoQ · 5 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
• talkRustLatam 2019 - Without Boats: Zero-Cost Async IORust Programming Language · 5 HN recommenders · 2019–2020
• demoAlto System Project: Dan Ingalls demonstrates SmalltalkComputer History Museum · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
• talkSelf and Self: Whys and WhereforesStanford · 3 HN recommenders · 2010–2025
• talkRon Pressler - Pull Push: Please stop polluting our imperative languages with pure concepts-Curry OnCurry On! · 3 HN recommenders · 2015–2024
• talk2017 ACM PPoPP Keynote: It's Time for a New Old LanguageGuy Steele · 3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
• talkDe-fragmenting C++: Making Exceptions and RTTI More Affordable and Usable - Herb Sutter CppCon 2019CppCon · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
• lectureLecture 1 | Programming Paradigms (Stanford)Stanford · 3 HN recommenders · 2011–2024
• talk"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu LinvegaStrange Loop Conference · 4 HN recommenders · 2023–2024
• talkPractical Common LispGoogle TechTalks · 3 HN recommenders · 2011–2025
• demoAPL demonstration 1975Imperial College London · 5 HN recommenders · 2014–2021
• lectureBuilding Your Own Dynamic LanguageStanford · 3 HN recommenders · 2009–2014
• talkEdwin Brady - Idris 2: Type-driven development of Idris | Code Mesh LDN 18Code Sync · 5 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
• interviewExpert to Expert: Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside Clojurejasonofthel33t · 3 HN recommenders · 2014–2025
• talk"A (Not So Gentle) Introduction To Systems Programming In ATS" by Aditya SiramStrange Loop Conference · 4 HN recommenders · 2017–2022
• tutorialThe Why, What, and How of Pinning in RustJon Gjengset · 3 HN recommenders · 2021–2026
• talkArmin Ronacher - A Python for Future GenerationsEuroPython Conference · 4 HN recommenders · 2017–2020
• talkNordic.js 2014 • Douglas Crockford - The Better PartsNordic.js · 3 HN recommenders · 2014–2023
• documentaryBirth of BASICDartmouth · 3 HN recommenders · 2021–2024
• talkStanford Seminar - Concatenative Programming: From Ivory to MetalStanford Online · 2 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
• talkLambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya SiramLambda World · 2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
• talkLenses, Folds, and TraversalsEdward Kmett · 3 HN recommenders · 2013–2014
• talkMountainWest RubyConf 2014 - But Really, You Should Learn SmalltalkConfreaks · 3 HN recommenders · 2016–2024
• talkElixirConf 2023 - José Valim - The foundations of the Elixir type systemElixirConf · 3 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
• talkProcedural Programming: It Never Went Away — Kevlin Henney | Build StuffBuild Stuff - #1 Software Dev Conf · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2021
• talk#Gamelab2018 - Jon Blow's Design decisions on creating Jai a new language for game programmersGamelab Conference · 3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
• talkDoes APL Need a Type System? by Aaron W Hsu at #FnConf18ConfEngine · 3 HN recommenders · 2019–2025
• talkModeling Data Concurrency w/ Asynchronous I/O in Zig - RedisConf 2020Redis · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2021
• talkOrigins of Go Concurrency style by Rob Pikejasonofthel33t · 3 HN recommenders · 2013–2025
• talkCppCon 2017: Herb Sutter “Meta: Thoughts on generative C++”CppCon · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2020
• commentaryRant: Entity systems and the Rust borrow checker ... or something.Jonathan Blow · 3 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
• talkminiKanren - Dan Friedman and William ByrdClojureTV · 2 HN recommenders · 2013–2018
• talkOSCON 2010: Rob Pike, "Public Static Void"O'Reilly · 3 HN recommenders · 2012–2023
• talk"Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix" by Stephen KellStrange Loop Conference · 2 HN recommenders · 2016–2023
• talk"Programming Should Eat Itself" by Nada AminStrange Loop Conference · 3 HN recommenders · 2015–2024
• talkBadness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)suckerpinch · 4 HN recommenders · 2024–2026
• talk"Swift as C++ Successor in FoundationDB" by Konrad Malawski (Strange Loop 2023)Strange Loop Conference · 3 HN recommenders · 2023–2025
• talkHigh-performance Tree Wrangling, the APL Way // Aaron Hsu // Dyalog '18Dyalog User Meetings · 3 HN recommenders · 2019–2021
• tutorialThe Joy of Programming in Jai - Part 1: Hello WorldNuno Afonso · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2021
• talkIntroducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large C++ Code Bases - John McCall - CppNow 2023CppNow · 3 HN recommenders · 2023–2025
• podcastChris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #381Lex Fridman · 4 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
• tutorialCrust of Rust: Lifetime AnnotationsJon Gjengset · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
• talkSimon Peyton Jones - Linear Haskell: practical linearity in a higher-order polymorphic languageCurry On! · 3 HN recommenders · 2018–2020
• talk“What is Success?” by Evan CzaplickiElm Europe · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
• tutorialIntroduction to Julia - Part 1 | SciPy 2014 | David SandersEnthought · 3 HN recommenders · 2014–2015
• lectureEffective MLJane Street · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2021
• talkFour Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott WlaschinNDC Conferences · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022
• tutorialA Tour of PrologThe Power of Prolog · 2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
• demoLiving Computation: Robust-first programming in ULAMDave Ackley · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2025
• talkChuck Moore's Fireside Chat 2011GreenArraysInc · 2 HN recommenders · 2013–2017
• demoSelf: The Movie;Jecel Assumpção Jr · 2 HN recommenders · 2013–2024
• talk2023 LLVM Dev Mtg - Mojo 🔥: A system programming language for heterogenous computingLLVM · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
• lectureComputer Science - Brian Kernighan on successful language designUniversity of Nottingham · 3 HN recommenders · 2015–2022
• talkWhy Static Typing Came Back • Richard Feldman • GOTO 2022GOTO Conferences · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2024
• talkPhilip Wadler - Propositions as Types (Lambda Days 2016)Erlang Solutions · 2 HN recommenders · 2016–2021
• talkDynamic Languages Wizards Series - Panel on Language DesignEduardo Cavazos · 1 HN recommender · 2014–2025
• talk"How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!" - Guy L. Steele Jr. (Strange Loop 2010)Strange Loop Conference · 2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
• talkEdward Kmett - Type Classes vs. the WorldBoston Haskell · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2024
• talkKeynote. Professor Steven G. Johnson | JuliaCon 2019The Julia Programming Language · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022
• interviewGuido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341Lex Fridman · 2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
• talk"Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers" by Timothy BaldridgeStrange Loop Conference · 2 HN recommenders · 2016–2017
• talkPsp collections: views and more by Paul PhillipsAI Council · 2 HN recommenders · 2014–2018
• talk"Eve" by Chris GrangerStrange Loop Conference · 2 HN recommenders · 2016–2023
• demoImba is Underrated: Building a counter in 49 secondsWe Deserve Less · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
• interviewThe Origins of APL - 1974Catherine Lathwell · 2 HN recommenders · 2012–2026
• talk"Code is the Easy Part" by Evan Czaplickielm-conf · 2 HN recommenders · 2016–2020
• talk"Type-Driven Program Synthesis" by Nadia PolikarpovaStrange Loop Conference · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
• talkJonathan Blow - Jai Demo and Design Explanation (KEYNOTE) - UpdatedLambdaConf · 2 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
• talkParallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 / Jonathan Worthingtonyapcasia · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2016
• talk01 The History of Standard ML: Ideas, Principles, CultureICFP Video · 2 HN recommenders · 2016–2022
• talk"Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code" by Pokey Rule (Strange Loop 2023)Strange Loop Conference · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
• talkMountain West Ruby 2012 Capability vs. Suitability by Gary BernhardtConfreaks · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2023
• talkGoing Native 2012 Keynote Stroustrupsavage309 · 2 HN recommenders · 2012–2025
• talkBeyond functional programming: a taste of Verse. Simon Peyton Jones & Tim Sweeney | Lambda Days 2023Code Sync · 3 HN recommenders · 2023–2024
• talkThe Forgotten Art of Structured Programming - Kevlin Henney [C++ on Sea 2019]cpponsea · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
• talkWhat's Bad About Julia | Jeff Bezanson | JuliaCon 2019The Julia Programming Language · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2026
• talk"A Little Taste of Dependent Types" by David ChristiansenStrange Loop Conference · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
• talk2017 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: “Implementing Swift Generics ”LLVM · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2026
• talk"Hedy: A Gradual programming language" by Felienne Hermans (Strange Loop 2022)Strange Loop Conference · 2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
• talk"Datafun: a functional query language" by Michael ArntzeniusStrange Loop Conference · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
• interviewSimon Peyton Jones - Haskell is uselessbunidanoable · 2 HN recommenders · 2012–2024
• talkGeo Carncross: How to program computers (kos)Justin Cormack · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2020
• talkPerl 6 for Mere MortalsCurtis “Ovid” Poe · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2015
• talkKeynote: The Last Hope for Scala's Infinity War - John A. De GoesScalapeño · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2021
• talkGoogle I/O 2011: Java Puzzlers - Scraping the Bottom of the BarrelGoogle for Developers · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2018
• commentaryJonathan Blow on scripting languagesJeru Sanders · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2022
• demoData-Oriented Demo: SOA, compositionJonathan Blow · 1 HN recommender · 2015–2020
• demoTypeScript types can run DOOMMichigan TypeScript · 1 HN recommender · 2025–2025
• talkAda, Past Present and FutureAdaCore · 1 HN recommender · 2018–2024
• talkCarbon Language Successor Strategy: From C++ Interop to Memory Safety - Chandler Carruth - CppNow 23CppNow · 1 HN recommender · 2023–2024
• talkNVIDIA — Securing the Future of Safety and Security of Embedded Software (Captioned)AdaCore · 1 HN recommender · 2022–2026
• talk[#36] Zig Roadmap 2024 - Andrew KelleyZig SHOWTIME · 1 HN recommender · 2024–2025
• talkBreaking Down Programming Paradigms: APL's Surprising Learning Curve // Aaron Hsu // Dyalog '17Dyalog User Meetings · 1 HN recommender · 2018–2019
• talk(ninth RacketCon): Andrew Blinn – Fructure: A Structured Editing Engine in RacketRacket · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2021
• talkReboot Develop 2017 - Jonathan Blow, Thekla Inc. / Making Game Programming Less TerribleReboot Develop · 1 HN recommender · 2019–2020
• interviewMojo Lang - Tomorrow's High Performance Python? (with Chris Lattner)Developer Voices · 1 HN recommender · 2024–2025
• talkLarry Wall Speaks at GoogleGoogle TechTalks · 1 HN recommender · 2009–2018
• demoYesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto │Smalltalk-76 DemoComputer History Museum · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2025
• talkSydney Golang Meetup - Rob Pike - Go 2 Draft SpecificationsMacquarie Group · 1 HN recommender · 2018–2024
• talkPacific Northwest Scala 2013 We're Doing It All Wrong by Paul PhillipsConfreaks · 2 HN recommenders · 2013–2020
• demoDemo: Base language, compile-time executionJonathan Blow · 1 HN recommender · 2015–2022
• talkGopherCon 2014 Opening Keynote by Rob PikeConfreaks · 1 HN recommender · 2014–2015
• talkType-Driven Development in Idris — Edwin BradyScala World · 1 HN recommender · 2019–2024
• talkTypes are like the Weather, Type Systems are like Weathermen - Matthias FelleisenClojureTV · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2021
• talkClojure for Lisp Programmers Part 1 - Rich HickeyClojureTV · 1 HN recommender · 2017–2019
• talkJames Gosling - Simula: a personal journeyUiO Realfagsbiblioteket · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2026
• demoDemo: Implicit ContextJonathan Blow · 1 HN recommender · 2022–2025
• talkdotJS 2012 - Brian Leroux - WTFJSdotconferences · 1 HN recommender · 2013–2024
• demoOver the Shoulder 1 - Text Preprocessing in ForthAndreas Wagner · 1 HN recommender · 2017–2025
• interviewChris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131Lex Fridman · 1 HN recommender · 2021–2025
• talkThe Go Programming LanguageGoogle TechTalks · 1 HN recommender · 2009–2026
• talkSwift for TensorFlow: The Next-Generation Machine Learning Framework (TF Dev Summit '19)TensorFlow · 1 HN recommender · 2019–2023
• talkGoogle I/O 2012 - Meet the Go TeamGoogle for Developers · 2 HN recommenders · 2012–2022
• demoIntentional Programming demo (Part 1) - Editordftube · 1 HN recommender · 2007–2024
• talkCoroutines and Loom behind the scenes by Roman ElizarovKotlin by JetBrains · 1 HN recommender · 2023–2023
• talkCondition Systems in an Exceptional Language - Chris HouserClojureTV · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2022